THE TOWER OF HEAVEN SPEEDRUN CONTEST WINNERS

UPDATE:For those who have been having problems with surface drawing (i.e. "black screen of death"), I have uploaded a surface-less version in the OP download link. Just go to the .txt file and change "quality=1" to "quality=0".

Background: A few weeks ago, askiisoft challenged indie gamers worldwide to beat Ben Greenman's record speedrun time of 3 minutes, 30 seconds by 12:00 August 29th, 2009. Many rose to the challenge, and the three top players are:

First Place
, 2:17

Second Place
, 2:18

Third Place
AnarchoElk, 2:18

Congratulations to our winners (please message me with your requests for your prizes), and great thanks to anyone and everyone who played our game. I know how frustrating it can be.

Prizes:
First Place: A full custom art from yours truly, at your request, with Game Boy colors. No size or subject matter limitations.
Second & Third Place: A custom sketch/lineart from yours truly. No size or subject matter limitations.


DOWNLOAD AND PLAY TOWER OF HEAVEN:

[link]

And if you like it, please donate a little to askiisoft at our WIP website([link]) via Paypal. We'd appreciate it.

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FANART: [link]
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KNOWN ERRORS & BUGS:

- For many players, transparent parts of the game screen have failed to render properly, with the screen turning completely black during the second stage, making gameplay impossible. Unfortunately, this is a problem with Game Maker itself, not the gamecode. According to xerus and AGuy, however, this problem can be fixed by either restarting the computer or (if the problem is with the nVidia driver) starting up Fraps, opening the game, and then closing Fraps (no need to record anything).

- There have been verified reports of memory leak within the game; every time the 'Q' key is pressed to restart, around 10 MB of memory is added to the game's total usage. We are working to fix this problem, but until then, please bear with us.