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Look North World today announced the latest UGC game released through its Creator Label: Tower of Heck: Super Only Up. Tower of Heck is a UEFN creation, accessible to all Fortnite players, and features a vertical obstacle course where sixteen players race to see who can reach the top — if any of them can. While climbing, players collect coins they can use to purchase upgrades for if (when, inevitably) they tumble back down to the bottom. The game launches today on Fortnite’s platform.
FarBridge developed Tower of Heck to be a playground for users to enjoy with their friends, though it’s not without serious challenges. The tower starts off relatively easy, with the difficulty ramping up the higher players go. There are no checkpoints, but the coins players collect and the upgrades they can buy at the bottom of the tower can quickly speed them back to their point of failure.
However, FarBridge executive producer Donald Harris told GamesBeat in an interview that it’s not that serious: “Part of the goal is to have those moments of seeing your friends misstep and just laugh as you watch them fall. The goal is to have a lot of fun and experience those goofy moments… It kind of brings us back to the olden days of game design: Design for fun first.”
Look North World raised $2.25 million earlier this year to help fund the Creator Label, which it uses to help publish and support original UGC titles. Tower of Heck is the latest UGC title to benefit from the Creator Label, which offers developers marketing support, technical advice and hands-on collaboration with the publisher, among other things.
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