Built during the last great age of magic, the pinnacle of the arcane arts. It was the tallest, the most beautiful of all the towers. A wonder in an age of wonders.
Within a year it was overshadowed. The first of the great portals was grander and more fair than all before it, and the second promised even more.
The tower was still beautiful, a shining gem of artifice and artistry. But from that moment on, it would only be ever known by one name
The Last Tower
The Last Tower is a short dungeon written as a double submission to the 2025 Zungeon Jam and “Gaming like it’s 1929” Public Domain Jam. The layout is based on a “as close as would be fun” re-creation of the Chrysler Building in New York. The first two floors were done for the zine version, but the tower has a total of 77 floors.
I would like to finish all 77 and put out a full mega dungeon version of the Last Tower. This series of articles (and to some extent this whole blog) is to help me get my thoughts in order and keep making progress through the year.
Why a year? Well with 75 floors left to do, I only have to make 6 and a half floors a month to have all the content done by year end. That’s the current goal, one or two floors a week. Noting the date that I’m releasing this, I should be closing in on twenty completed floors! How many are actually complete? Mneeeeeeeehhh none (technically!), however 68 floors have some basic scaffolding for their design and the factions are mostly complete in terms of goals and characters.
Since all the floors have a preset floor space, actually laying them out should be fairly easy, match the floor dimensions, and then fill out the space using regular dungeon design principles (Check out the Zungeon Manifesto for lots of links!) I don’t know when this will get finished, but I’m going to try my damndest to keep up with my self-inflicted schedule.
Next will be probably be a sketchy layout of the floors and discussion of the factions in The Last Tower
Thanks much!
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