We have a much shorter “game news” style blog post this time, mainly aimed at catching everyone up on our plans with Tempest Tower.
We are excited to announce that Tempest Tower will be our first self-published game. We plan to launch the game into Steam Early Access during the first half of 2025 and work closely with our community to build a game we are all proud of.
Time for #PitchYaGame!
— 🟡 Half Past Yellow (@halfpastyellow) November 1, 2024
Tempest Tower is an action-packed Tower Defence game with Platforming elements.
Protect your tower from hordes of enemies using crazy contraptions, powerful upgrades, or by simply jumping on their heads.
Find out more via Steam: https://t.co/TgRWSv1lUZ pic.twitter.com/1Z5s1j6TZR
Why Early Access?
For Tempest Tower, we plan to fully embrace the open development style. We want to develop a strong community around the game, and we feel that the best way to do this is by getting players involved early and allowing them to shape the project with us.
We don’t yet know what the future holds, but we expect Tempest Tower to remain in Early Access for around 9 months. We will use that time to add content, quality of life features, and new game modes. The game will launch on Early Access as a tight experience with all core mechanics present, we aim to have 2-3 hours of base gameplay with endless extra hours of experimenting with loadouts and highscore hunting on top.
If you are interested in getting involved right now, I suggest joining our Discord server. It has been fairly quiet over the last 18 months, but that will be changing as we move into next year!
New Art, Who Dis?
We are making this announcement alongside a big face lift to our Steam page. We have updated our capsule art, logo, and screenshots as well as finalised our store text so it can be translated in the new year. We have worked alongside another game development studio called BitEgg to update our Capsule Art and we couldn't be happier with the results, they have perfectly captured the vibe of Tempest Tower and we think that the new art really stands out in the Steam store.
More news coming soon!
We will be properly showing Tempest Tower in motion for the first time when we reveal our first look trailer in early January. This will be our first big marketing push for the game and it will coincide with more news about what to expect from us in the run up to the games launch. Until then, we hope you have a relaxing holiday and a good new year!
That is all for now. If you want to learn more about Tempest Tower, you can check out the Steam Page or our previous two blog posts, and if you like the look of the game consider giving it a wishlist and following along with the community updates.