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TowerFall: Companies, Development & Release

TowerFall is an action indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through her company Maddy Makes Games, which would later become Canadian developer and publisher Extremely OK Games. In the game, players control up to four archers in a multiplayer platform fighter. It was released on the Ouya microconsole in June 2013 and was later ported to PlayStation…

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TowerFall topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies, Development and Release as prominent areas in the source structure around TowerFall.

Related topics
89
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
94
Extracted relationships
185
Concept neighborhoods
41
Bridge connections
94

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Release · 23 topics
Development · 22 topics
Overview · 22 topics
Reception · 12 topics
Gameplay · 10 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genre
Action
Publisher
Maddy Makes Games
Artists
Pedro Medeiros · Amora Bettany
Composer
Alec Holowka
Designer
Maddy Thorson
Developer
Maddy Makes Games[a]

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Gameplay

Development

Release

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How TowerFall connects Entity context

The extracted context around TowerFall shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, TowerFall → Ars Technica, Ascension, At, Ben Kuchera, By April, Chris Plante, Critics, Design, Destructoid's Spencer Hayes, Eurogamer, Game, He, Independent Games Festival's Excellence, Jon Denton, Metacritic, Multiple, National Academy, NAVGTR, Original Fighting, Ouya Another extracted example is TowerFall → An, An Xbox One, Anita Sarkeesian, Ascension, August, Badeline, Blue Archer, Celeste, Dark World, December, GOG, Humble Store, In February, It, January, Linux, Maddy Makes Games, Madeline, May, Nintendo Switch. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

TowerFall

Top relations

related to Reception · 37
TowerFall → Ars Technica, Ascension, At, Ben Kuchera, By April, Chris Plante, Critics, Design, Destructoid's Spencer Hayes, Eurogamer, Game, He, Independent Games Festival's Excellence, Jon Denton, Metacritic, Multiple, National Academy, NAVGTR, Original Fighting, Ouya
related to Updates · 32
TowerFall → An, An Xbox One, Anita Sarkeesian, Ascension, August, Badeline, Blue Archer, Celeste, Dark World, December, GOG, Humble Store, In February, It, January, Linux, Maddy Makes Games, Madeline, May, Nintendo Switch
related to Development · 30
TowerFall → Adult Swim, Alec Holowka, Along, Critics, Flash, Game Developers Conference, Game Maker's, Holowka, Indie House, Jam, June, Legend, Maddy Thorson, MiniBoss, Ouya, Ouya's, Ouya's Kellee Santiago, PAX East, Planet Punch, PlayStation
related to Release · 27
TowerFall → Ascension, Ascension's, Dallas-based Sickhead Games, DualShock, Evolution Championship Series, George Broussard, Indie Showcase, July, June, Linux, May, Microsoft XNA, MonoGame, November, OS, Ouya, Ouya's, PlayStation, PlayStation Plus, Ports
related to Gameplay · 19
TowerFall → As, Ascension, Break, In, It, Kotaku's Chris Person, Nidhogg, Ouya, Players, Quest, Smash Bros, Spelunky, Super, Super Smash Bros, Targets, The, There, Treasure, Trials
Release · 12
TowerFall → Android, December 15, 2015 (2015-12-15), January 25, 2017 (2017-01-25), June 25, 2013 (2013-06-25), Linux, OS X, March 11, 2014 (2014-03-11), May 29, 2014 (2014-05-29), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, PlayStation Vita, September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27), Xbox One
related to Physical Editions · 9
TowerFall → DRM-free, In November, In September, IndieBox, Limited Run Games, Maddy Makes Games, Nintendo Switch, Steam, This
related to Sales · 6
TowerFall → Across, By April, In July, In March, Ouya, PlayStation
Artists · 2
TowerFall → Amora Bettany, Pedro Medeiros
Composer · 1
TowerFall → Alec Holowka

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

game ouya thorson multiplayer playstation single-player games mode ascension released release also players one new xbox windows switch super smash

TowerFall relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 185 structured relationships around TowerFall. Examples in this analysis include TowerFall → Artists → Pedro Medeiros and TowerFall → Artists → Amora Bettany. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TowerFallArtistsPedro Medeiros1.00infobox
TowerFallArtistsAmora Bettany1.00infobox
TowerFallComposerAlec Holowka1.00infobox
TowerFallDesignerMaddy Thorson1.00infobox
TowerFallDeveloperMaddy Makes Games[a]1.00infobox
TowerFallDirectorMaddy Thorson1.00infobox
TowerFallEngineMicrosoft XNA1.00infobox
TowerFallGenreAction1.00infobox
TowerFallModesSingle-player, multiplayer1.00infobox
TowerFallPlatformsPlayStation 4, Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Ouya1.00infobox
TowerFallProgrammerMaddy Thorson1.00infobox
TowerFallPublisherMaddy Makes Games1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseAndroid1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseJune 25, 2013 (2013-06-25)1.00infobox
TowerFallReleasePlayStation 4, Windows1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseMarch 11, 2014 (2014-03-11)1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseLinux, OS X1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseMay 29, 2014 (2014-05-29)1.00infobox
TowerFallReleasePlayStation Vita1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseDecember 15, 2015 (2015-12-15)1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseXbox One1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseJanuary 25, 2017 (2017-01-25)1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseNintendo Switch1.00infobox
TowerFallReleaseSeptember 27, 2018 (2018-09-27)1.00infobox
TowerFallis aaction indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through her company Maddy Makes Games0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around TowerFall bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Release, Switch and Windows. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • indie video game
    • Developer
    • Thorson
    • Games
    • Holowka
    • Towerfall
    • Multiplayer
    • Game
    • Indie
    • June
    • Thorson's
    • Maddy
    • Makes
  • maddy thorson
    • Makes
    • Games
    • Developer
    • Switch
    • Playstation
    • Holowka
    • Release
    • Towerfall
    • Also
    • Linux
    • Thorson
    • Gameplay
  • maddy makes games
    • Makes
    • Games
    • Maddy
    • Developer
    • Switch
    • Also
    • Release
    • Towerfall
    • Linux
    • Thorson
    • Series
    • Windows
  • xbox one
    • One
    • Xbox
    • Switch
    • Linux
    • Playstation
    • Release
    • Windows
    • Later
    • Released
    • Ascension
    • Players
    • Ouya
  • game jam
    • Thorson
    • Games
    • Towerfall
    • Multiplayer
    • Indie
    • Holowka
    • Thorson's
    • Playstation
    • Developer
    • Maddy
    • Series
    • Single-player
  • indie developer
    • Developer
    • Indie
    • Maddy
    • Makes
    • Holowka
    • Thorson
    • Game
    • Linux
    • Games
    • June
    • Series
    • Switch
  • party game
    • Thorson
    • Games
    • Towerfall
    • Multiplayer
    • Indie
    • Holowka
    • Thorson's
    • Playstation
    • Developer
    • Maddy
    • Series
    • Single-player
  • multiplayer
    • Mode
    • Players
    • Single-player
    • Holowka
    • Xbox
    • Linux
    • Thorson
    • Received
    • Switch
    • Windows
    • Arrow
    • Gameplay

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For TowerFall, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects TowerFall with Release. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
TowerFallRelease · splits 71 ⟂ 24
TowerFallOverview · splits 72 ⟂ 23
TowerFallDevelopment · splits 72 ⟂ 23
TowerFallReception · splits 82 ⟂ 13
TowerFallGameplay · splits 84 ⟂ 11

Map overview Semantic statistics

TowerFall

Nodes95
Edges94
Triples185
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021053
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around TowerFall to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies, Development & Release, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — TowerFall · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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