Tower of Heaven

(天国の塔, Tengoku no Tōu) is a 2D action platformer video game developed and published by American studio Askiisoft. This game was originally built in GameMaker, and released for Windows on August 13, 2009, with a Flash version being released a year later in 2010.
Although Flash was discontinued on January 12 2021, Tower of Heaven is still playable through BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint.
== Gameplay==
In this game, the player controls Eid, a silent protagonist with a large, onion-like head, who scales the Tower of Heaven. During the journey, a voice assumed to be God talks to Eid, getting angrier the further he climbs. The voice imposes more and more laws, and the player dies instantly if any of them are broken.
Both versions of the game have a speedrun mode where the player is timed to complete the game, and the Flash version has a stage editor mode, which is not present in the Windows version.
==Development==
Tower of Heaven's soundtrack, composed by FlashyGoodness, and graphical style are heavily influenced by the Game Boy. The game lacks a lives system, and instead uses a timer on each floor to encourage players to continue. It has been said to "expose" the "arbitrariness" of long-standing platformer game design. The game's release was celebrated with a speedrun contest held by the developers at the TIGSource forums.
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