Towerfall: Ascension’s upcoming expansion will add a #character based on critic Anita Sarkeesian.
Towerfall: #Darkworld is coming sometime in late spring, adding 10 new alternate archers to the mix.
The Towerfall developer blog has detailed four of these characters, following on from the reveal of the Red variant, Vainglorious Ghoul.
The Vigilante Mask (Green), Blind Prince (Pink) and Loyal Kingsguard (Orange) are all really cool and you should definitely read about them, but it’s the new Blue archer who’s really interesting.
“Her appearance is loosely based on feminist games critic Anita Sarkeesian. Anita’s work has been an inspiration to the TowerFall team,” the developer wrote.
“Her ‘Tropes vs Women in Games’ video series gave us a valuable new lens through which to assess our character designs. TowerFall is about bringing people together, so it’s vitally important that the cast of playable characters makes everyone feel invited to join in.
“Simply put, this wouldn’t have occurred to me if not for Anita, and feedback from players has reinforced how important it really is. We’re very excited to immortalize Anita in a small way, as the alternate Last of the Order.”
Towerfall launched on Ouya, and was later released as Towerfall: Ascension on Linux, Mac, PC and PS4. It’s crazy good fun in local multiplayer.
