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Tower Unite is a community-based virtual world party game with online games, entertainment, and activities. Powered by Unreal Engine 4.
Every aspect of Tower Unite allows for online multiplayer interaction. It's a living and evolving online game world, driven by the community. Play games online with your friends, or make new friends from around the world.
Tower Unite isn't just a single game. It's a union of games, united by the community. It's all about having fun with friends!
Tower Unite will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux - distributed via Steam.
Play multiplayer games of various genres online with friends.
Customize yourself with clothing and accessories.
Use lots of different movement items such as jetpacks, wings, and rollerblades.
Furnish and design the layout of your personal space (the Condo) with furniture and interactive toys.
Invite other players over to your Condo for parties and mini-games.
Watch synchronized YouTube™ videos in a virtual theater or your Condo.
Hang out at a nightclub and listen to music synchronized with the environment and every other player!
Join official servers or host your own server.
Hang out with your friends or find new friends!
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Steam Workshop support so players can add their own custom items to the game.
Receive free DLC for life and developer support.
Interact in new ways with gamepad support, and additional peripheral support in future updates.
We also plan to use every Steam feature available to us including: Steam Cloud, Inventory, Friends, VOIP, Achievements, Trading Cards, and Steam Workshop.
We'll be working towards proper VR intregration, starting with Oculus Rift and Vive!
Tower Unite isn’t just a walking around simulator. You can run, jump, crouch, use jetpacks, get drunk, dance, sit, stand, throw-up, lounge in pool tubes, give high fives, and much much more. You can of course also: voice chat, text chat, group up with friends, and party with your friends! The possibilities are endless!
Tower Unite comes equipped with a powerful multimedia system. Watch synchronized YouTube™ videos or listen to music from Soundcloud. We’ll be constantly adding support for more media services for you and your friends to share and enjoy from within the game.
Unlike other virtual world games, Tower Unite is hosted, managed, and powered by the players.
We will be hosting official servers, and you'll be able to host Tower Unite servers yourself!
There are two types of servers:
Ranked: Saves progress across all ranked servers and distributes Units (our in-game currency).
Free: Saves progress on its own server, doesn't distribute Units, but allows for complete customization of the gameplay.
You’ll also have a slew of moderation tools built in to handle players to enforce your own rules. With your own servers you can even create your own items and accessories, ranked or not!
Tower is made of up three main core sections of gameplay:
The Condo - your virtual home.
The Plaza - the gathering point that everything connects to.
The Game Worlds - games which let you earn units, to buy items with.
In Tower Unite everyone has their own personal space, which we call a Condo. This space is fully customizable, bottom to top. From the floor plan and the furnishings to the landscaping of the garden, you can tweak it however you like. It's a space that defines you, and acts as the gathering point for you and your friends.
Watch YouTube™ videos, listen to music on Soundcloud, or just chat with your friends.
From the Condo you can exit through your front door into a bigger online experience called the Plaza. The Plaza connects players from around the globe using an intuitive matchmaking system. If there is no Plaza to connect to - then you will automatically create one.
The Plaza acts as a gathering point, like a shopping mall. The Plaza has a casino, an arcade, theaters, stores, attractions, and Game World ports. You connect and meet new players at the Plaza.
Shops are available to further customize your look, condo, and more. You will be able to unlock clothing, furniture, toys, pets, and more.
On top of that you'll be able to customize your avatar in various ways, such as:
Changing clothing
Altering height, weight, and definition
Adjusting facial features, including eye color
Altering hair color and style
Adjusting skin tone
Wearing tons of different accessories like hats, glasses, earrings, necklaces, wrist bands, watches, rings, backpacks, belt items, and particles.
The Arcade features interactive 2D games and numerous indoor activities such as bowling, and skee ball.
The Boardwalk is a relaxing oceanfront with constantly expanding outside activities like a ferris wheel, boardwalk games, pool, and water slides.
The Casino lets you gamble virtual chips with your friends. It has Blackjack, Slots, Roulette, Poker (Texas Hold 'Em, 5 Card Draw), and video machines.
The Theater and Nightclub are places where everyone can share and discover new videos and media with their friends.
The Plaza is an infinitely expanding location- based on community feedback, we plan to constantly provide additions and new activities to this area.
And here’s the cool part: once you’ve gotten a group of people together in the Plaza you can then go to a Game World.
Game Worlds are large multiplayer games that you can enjoy with 6-18 players, depending on the world’s rules.
Each Game World has its own gameplay mechanics and genre. We have 10 Game Worlds planned - and the more funding we get, the more Game Worlds we can deliver for the initial launch.
As you play games in Tower Unite you collect points called Units. Units can be used to unlock furniture items, toys, clothing, and other neat in-game items. You can also gamble Units at the Casino, duel players for Units, and trade Units with other players.
Oh, and you have to earn Units. There will never be a way to purchase Units. Unlike most virtual world games, this isn't a pay-to-win game.
There will also be tons of achievements, in-game trophies, badges, and item-awards (milestones) to achieve. Tower Unite is very achievement heavy, allowing for strong replayability.
We want players to feel like they all have an equal chance at getting the items in the game. We care about our community and we strongly believe in the idea that a game should only incur a one-time cost (the purchase price) and that all of its content should be available at no extra charge.
Tower Unite is a spiritual successor of one of the most popular gamemodes on Garry’s Mod, GMod Tower. GMod Tower, which runs on the Source Engine, is where we invented the core ideas and concepts for Tower Unite. GMod Tower has been available for free to the public for over five years and has constantly evolved.
One of our strongest influence is our community. We have listened, discussed with, and implemented ideas that our players came up with. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for our community’s undying support for us. We’re proud to have 30 thousand active users on GMod Tower!
We’re keeping that same attitude for Tower Unite. That’s why everything that we implement will be made for the community or requested by the community. Just like we did with GMod Tower, we aim to have constant free feature updates for Tower Unite.
PixelTail Games is a small independent group of 9 talented people from all over the globe. Back in 2009, we bonded together over collective passion for GMod Tower, the very project that inspired Tower Unite. And just like that we realized quickly that we loved creating games and that we wanted to expand our efforts beyond the confines of a Source modification.
Over the years, we've passionately worked on free modifications for the Source engine. Specializing in online multiplayer games, such as GMod Tower, we enable players from around the world to connect with friends and have fun.
Projects such as:
GMTower, the massively multiplayer experience and Tower Unite’s predecessor.
Elevator: Source; a one of a kind coop elevator simulator.
Cinema, an online theater experience that allows you to watch movies and videos with your friends.
For over five years, we've been providing content to our community for free.
We love what we do, especially seeing the incredible amount of feedback from the community. Tower Unite is a large project that requires a decent budget to pull off. Without your help, it will never be possible for us to make this game.
For over a year, we have been iterating on concepts for Tower Unite as a standalone game and we are finally ready to make it happen. We shipped our last mod for the Garry’s Mod platform, GMod Tower: Lobby 2 and now we’re ready to make our own standalone title.
Tower Unite is more than a game-- it’s a social network. Meeting new people across the globe is a phenomenon that we love to contribute to. We believe that a standalone product which cultivates this is definitely worth making.
We believe strongly in our community and that's why we believe in crowd-funding. If you also believe in this project as much as we do, we urge you to help us. Crowd-funding gives us the ability to be personally connected to our community right from the beginning of development. You are the producers of our game.
This is a flex funding campaign, meaning every bit of the proceeds will go towards development of this game. Because Game Worlds are large projects in and of themselves, we have specific funding milestones (detailed in the funding rewards below) that will allow us to add more Game Worlds by early access release.
After the campaign is over, we will open voting on which Game Worlds should be developed first. We will always keep our backers and community up to date on all our plans going forward.
Our timeline for our project may change should we go over funding, as we will use the extra money to develop more Game Worlds.
We understand that this game is a huge undertaking. That's why we've spent the last half year working hard on developing a playable demo and alpha. And we have it. Everything you see in the video is within the game and represents a portion of what our game looks and feels like. It also shows how ambitious we are.
GMod Tower was ambitious in itself and it's been available to the public for 5 years and from that you get an idea of how we handle ourselves. We've been taking care of a large online community consisting of over 280 thousand players from around the globe. On top of that, we've been supported by over 7,000 donors since before this campaign. We’re confident in what we’re doing and we can complete this project.
We estimate that this project will take us around 8 months to get feature complete - and once it’s ready we will launch an Early Access on Steam. It'll also help us get the feedback we need from the community as well as generate more interest and revenue to keep us going as a company.
Another risk that we take very seriously -- the Game Worlds. You might be worried that we have too many planned, but most of the Game Worlds are based on the gamemodes we made for GMod Tower. Most are enhanced versions of mini-games we have already released and know are fun. We urge anyone who is unsure to check out what we did in GMod Towerto get an idea of the Game Worlds we have planned.
We are completely devoted to this project. This is a project we’re passionate about and one that sits deeply in our hearts.
We've learned a lot from the previous projects we've worked on and developed our skill-sets to a point where we’re able to create amazing content independently.
Our biggest risk is not being funded. We absolutely need your support so we can deliver a game that everyone can enjoy.
What would crowd-funding be without goodies to help motivate you to contribute? Here’s a run-down all of the individual rewards we’re offering.
Keep in mind we have zero physical rewards. This is so we can focus on developing the game itself instead of shipping physical rewards.
And here's how all the rewards bundle.
This project is large, and we understand that you might still have a few questions to ask even after taking in all of this information.
Thank you for supporting us! Access to backer-only updates and polling, backer tag beside your name in the scoreboard of the game, your name on a backer plaque located in the Plaza, and desktop backgrounds.
72 claimed
Ships worldwide.
GAMER
$15 USD
Everything from SUPPORTER + Steam Early Access copy of the game AND an exclusive backer only digital item - a golden trophy. Includes a Steam Early Access key when the game launches.
305 claimed
Ships worldwide.
ENTHUSIAST
$20 USD
Everything from GAMER + digital copy of the soundtrack, closed alpha access key, AND an exclusive backer-only digital item - Power up your avatar by wearing these speed shoes! Closed alpha due to be out by July 20.
577 claimed
Ships worldwide.
AUDIOPHILE
$25 USD
Everything from ENTHUSIAST + an exclusive backer-only digital item - Headphones that beat to the music.
150 claimed
Ships worldwide.
PARTNER GAMER
$28 USD
Everything from ENTHUSIAST + another digital copy of the game for your friend! Includes two Steam keys and two closed beta access keys.
191 claimed
POWER GAMER
$30 USD
Everything from AUDIOPHILE + digital copy of the art book AND an exclusive backer-only digital item - Choose 1 of 3 special effects that can be applied to your avatar: fire, electricity, or sparkles!
419 claimed
FOUR PARTY GAMER
$50 USD
Everything from ENTHUSIAST + three additional digital copies of the game for your friends! Includes four Steam keys and four closed beta access keys. Save $10 off the retail price!
65 claimed
Ships worldwide.
GOLDEN GAMER
$60 USD
Everything from POWER GAMER + an exclusive backer only digital item - "King Midas' Golden Watch". Turns any furniture item into GOLD!
123 claimed
Ships worldwide.
DESIGNER
$200 USD
Everything from CUSTOM GAMER + work with our artists and create your own in-game furniture item OR apparel item (hat, shirt, shoes, pants). Your name will be engraved into the item. Subject to certain guidelines.
11 out of 25 of claimed
Ships to United States of America
BOARDWALK PRODUCER
$1,000 USD
Everything from EXTREME DIFFERENCE MAKER + you get direct access to developers and we will work with you to add a boardwalk attraction or game of your liking.
1 out of 5 of claimed
Ships to United States of America
PRODUCER
$3,000 USD
Everything from BOARDWALK PRODUCER + you will be credited as a co-producer of Tower Unite.