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Everything about TowerFall
2013 action video game
TowerFall is an action indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through her company Maddy Makes Games, which would later become Canadian developer and publisher Extremely OK Games. In the game, players control up to four archers in a multiplayer platform fighter. It was released on the Ouya microconsole in June 2013 and was later ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, OS X, and Windows as TowerFall Ascension and to the Nintendo Switch under its original title of TowerFall. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: TowerFallA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The LoversThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Deciding who’s a n00b: Developing multimodal and gaming literacy skills with Towerfall AscensionCited 1 times
- Go sideways: Maddy ThorsonA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Sickhead GamesA closely related topic
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📚 Books worth reading
- 📕The LoversKristin Cast · 2025
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