Towerfall is the Best Game
A dim basement somewhere with shag carpeting. Staying up late for the third night in a row with no chance of stopping. Playing till your thumbs twitch, anticipating moves you haven't thought of yet. Words fail to capture the love I have for game nights as a kid. Memories of spilled sodas and playing till the mythical hour of 2am; of arguing strategies and dodging controllers thrown by sore losers. I hope you have at least one of these memories to draw upon. For me Towerfall is the freshest entry in a dusty drawer marked FUN. As I played Towerfall for the first time I felt nostalgia. And I hated it. Not hate for the game, but hate that nostalgia is the best word for an experience I crave daily. Towerfall is a game made with distilled retro love and childlike glee. To understand it you have to go to the beginning. It takes a Village We start with Matt Thorson...