Towers of the Sun

#TowersOfTheSun is a lightweight, abstract, #strategygame for 2-4 players designed by #StefanBrakman and being published by @_QualityBeast.

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Development thread! 👇

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

I'll be sharing some dev notes as I work on @TowersOfTheSun this holiday season. I'll start with Mist Mode, a mini-expansion that increases the interactivity & complexity of the game's spatial puzzle. 🧵1/7

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Hey, Towers fans! We want to wish you a wonderful holiday season. We also want you to know that work towards the Towers campaign is underway. And lastly, there's a lot of pre-campaign development going on to polish the base game and the expansions. Stay tuned for more details!

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Speaking of score markers, we've heard a lot of feedback about making them more easy to handle. This is coming post-campaign, when we do a more final pass on the board.

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

If the Mist fills the board, the game ends & players lose. However, the player in last place wins in such a case. You have to be careful as a player can lean the game into another direction. I've really been enjoying my dev & can't wait to share it w/ the wider community!🧵7/7

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Preview of how Mist Mode looks. The cubes are just test pieces for now. We have still quite some work to design their final form. What do folks think... wood or acrylic?

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

Here you see the Sun is shining on the tall orange tower. This Tower blocks the center Tower and the one behind it. Each of these Towers is "in the shade" & thus generates 1 Mist Cloud on every path connecting to it. They stack in this way.🧵6/7

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Board art not final, but those who are avid fans of Towers will notice some subtle production changes to the board's layers. More info to come, but we're getting closer to the final product: a board that works well, looks good, fits in the box, and supports the expansion(s).

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

With player aids complete, & some placeholder cubes ordered to act as proxies for our yet-to-be-designed Mist Clouds, the game can be set up. (Note: I forgot to put Charity Crystals in before taking a photo, whoops!)🧵3/7

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Towers holiday season development begins... follow along for dev notes!

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

Half of my travel bag to go see the in-laws for the holidays. Hard to see but that's a @TowersOfTheSun prototype under the other items in the lower half.

Notable mentions: @dnlnwmn's EnemyAnemone and @yelmelnobrainer's Tall Tales hidden under @TaiwanBGdesign's Vegetable Stock.

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

You too! 🌞

[TBD: Free shipping to Japan🇯🇵! @TaiwanBGdesign]

@dilkROM @TowersOfTheSun @dnlnwmn @yelmelnobrainer Happy holidays!🎄

[Quality Beast @_QualityBeast]

Happy Holidays, everyone! With Philosophy nearly done delivering we're moving over to begin our pre-campaign work on @TowersOfTheSun. We can't wait to share more news with you about this upcoming game from us in 2024. Celebrate safely out there, where ever you are!

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Wooohooooo, let's go!🌞

[Quality Beast @_QualityBeast]

We're so excited to join the #Spellenspektakel fair in Utrecht this coming weekend. Come by booth 1107 if you're there to buy our EN & NL titles, including limited copies of @SeizeTheBean and #PhilosophyBoardGame, as well as demo @TowersOfTheSun with its designer, StefanBrakman.

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Yup, that's right! You can find #TowersOfTheSun this coming weekend in Utrecht at #Spellenspektakel!

[Het Lab @Lab_Monkey_2013]

En als je er dan toch bent, kom een potje @TowersOfTheSun spelen , zondagmiddag doe ik een demo, maar Stefan is zelf het hele weekend ook aanwezig…

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Curious what's going on with #TowersOfTheSun? Catch designer, Stefan Brakman, at Amsterdam Board Game Design XXL meetup this weekend!

https://t.co/Hx44wnLgIH

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Come stop by our booth 948 at @Spellenspektake to play the polished base game of #TowersOfTheSun! And if you can't make it, stay tuned: the crowdfunding campaign is right around the corner, rescheduled for Q1, 2023.

#Spellenspektakel

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

We made new #TowersOfTheSun boards to demo at #SPIEL22 @SPIEL_Messe. Come by Hall 5 Booth 5H130 if you'd like to play the latest prototype. We have the stable base game w/ us, plus both the Mist & Moon Mode (co-op) expansions. And the game's designer @stefanbrakman will be there!

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

@BigJackBrass @_QualityBeast @stefanbrakman @Kickstarter 🌞🌞🌞

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Experimental expansion prep continues. Give us a like if you wanna play, a comment if you've never played, or a retweet if you want us to start streaming playthroughs again!

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

Testing @TowersOfTheSun Mist Mode in the studio tonight!

#boardgame #boardgames #gamedev #gamedesign #TowersOfTheSun

[Quality Beast @_QualityBeast]

A great topic to QT:

If you're a content creator & you're interested in helping us push awareness around #PhilosophyBoardGame or @TowersOfTheSun, please reach out via email to our promotion team: [email protected].

Here's a thread about who we're looking for...

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[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

It was an amazing event. Thank you to everyone who came by and demoed #TowersOfTheSun at @berlin_con! See you on @Kickstarter in 2 months!

#BerlinCon #boardgames #abstractgames

[dilkROM @dilkROM]

Getting @TowersOfTheSun set up here at #BerlinCon!

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Big announcement for our long-awaited campaign! 🌞

[Quality Beast @_QualityBeast]

Our last English announcement is about the long-awaited @TowersOfTheSun from @StefanBrakman! We are at last far enough that it's time to bring it to life on @Kickstarter, September 19th, 2022.

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[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Great tip! @_QualityBeast, @QualityBeastDE, and @SeizeTheBean were already like this, but little old #TowersOfTheSun was still all lower case.😢

Fixed now, thanks to a nice reminder from @BoardGameGeek.✅

[BoardGameGeek @BoardGameGeek]

Publishers and designers, do yourself a favor and make sure your Twitter handle is in CamelCase to make it easier to read.

My previous tweet referenced @JoeHout & @TwinCityGames instead of @joehout & @twincitygames only because I took the effort to make it more readable. —WEM

[Towers of the Sun @TowersOfTheSun]

Come demo #TowersOfTheSun with us at #BerlinCon this weekend!🌞

[Quality Beast @_QualityBeast]

Come play with us at @berlin_con, booth 7-D-2!

This will be our first time selling @SeizeTheBean at an event. No better place for it than Berlin! We'll also be demoing our next original titles, Philosophy and @TowersOfTheSun, so come by and check them out.

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