Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡

@bordenary.bsky.social

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-Environment Artist, Pixel Artist and solo game dev. -Former env. artist on KSP2. -Play the demo for Towerbolt or buy the game now! https://tinyurl.com/drbcv8vj

A side by side breakdown of a 3D brick game material made in Substance Designer. 3D view of the material applied to a sphere on the left, with a split layered breakdown of the textures on the right (Albedo, Normal, Roughness, Height, AO)
Photo of me talking about Towerbolt's SGDQ 2025 demo leaderboard during the Towerbolt SGDQ main stage run this year!
A promo image showing Towerbolt is on sale for 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale for $9.59. The Speedrunning Update is featured on Towerbolt's title art.
A half and half image of Towerbolt promo art showing it's logo and the Games Done Quick logo, and on the other side, an image of the Summer Games Done Quick 2026 games schedule with Towerbolt's time slot highlighted (7/10 at 3:05 AM PST).
The video shows Towerbolt's launch trailer, showing snippets of gameplay from the game along with text cards that describe the gameplay experience. Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Race against lethal lasers on your climb to the top of a futuristic sci-fi prison! (Now on sale for 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale)
An image showing Towerbolt's discount during the Steam Summer Sale, which is happening now! Towerbolt is on sale for 20% off and is now $9.59. Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X.
A promo art image for Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. It shows The Bolter in a dynamic jumping pose, leaping up a sci-fi vertical shaft environment with multiple glowing lasers chasing her. The text at the bottom details The Speedrunning Update's release date and time, June 24th at 6PM PST.
A 3D render of a wooden plank material applied to a sphere (rendered in UE5). The planks are stylized and chunky with accentuated, curvy wood grain. Metal nails are placed at the end of various planks.
A short video describing the new Towerbolt update coming out late June 2026. Shows gameplay footage of Towerbolt while showing the new features for Global Leaderboards, Player Ghosts, and Repeat Level Mode. Open beta is available now for all of these features if you join the Towerbolt Discord and own the game already!
A half and half image of Towerbolt promo art showing it's logo and the Games Done Quick logo, and on the other side, an image of the Summer Games Done Quick 2026 games schedule with Towerbolt's time slot highlighted (7/10 at 3:05 AM PST).
Gameplay footage of Towerbolt showing work in progress work on Player Ghosts, which is based on your fastest playthrough of a level.
A zoomed out screenshot of Duna from Kerbal Space Program 2, which is the analogue of Mars in the Kerbal universe.
A video with a split screen view of gameplay footage from Towerbolt from two different levels on one side, with a screenshot of Towerbolt's speedrun.com leaderboard page on the right.
A screenshot of Towerbolt's steam page, showing that it has 9 Steam reviews currently.
A 4 way montage video of various Towerbolt gameplay clips, with text announcing that the latest patch is now out (v1.00.02). Towerbolt is also Steam Deck Verified!
A collage of various Steam reviews for Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Now available on Steam with a free demo as well!
A screenshot of the Towerbolt Speedrun.com leaderboard, showing the Any% category.
A pixel art image of a long haired blonde elf wearing a crown fitted with an emerald.
9 Games to Know me: Return of the Obra Dinn XCOM 2 Monster Hunter Rise Hades Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Final Fantasy VI Fire Emblem: Three Houses Mother 2 / Earthbound
A pixel art drawing of a ghost girl, ethereally glowing with white eyes, floating in the darkness with motes of ghostly light in the background. Her hair fizzles away at the ends.
A multi shot montage of clips from the Towerbolt demo. Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Play the demo now, and check out the full game that's also now available on Steam!
A pixel art illustration of the Master Sword from Zelda. The Master Sword sits in a pedestal surrounded by mossy trees and is lit with dappled sun shafts.
Towerbolt is out now and is on sale for its launch week! The short video shows a montage of various levels being played in Towerbolt.
A short video showing the final steps of me releasing Towerbolt on Steam.
Towerbolt is now available to purchase on Steam!!
A live action recreation of one of Towerbolt's early cutscenes using stuff around my apartment. Shoutout to my discord for the term "The Evil Dorito" to describe The Core. Check out Towerbolt on Steam when it releases TOMORROW!!
Towerbolt comes out TOMORROW, February 18th!!!
A short video with Owl, the support character from Towerbolt, checking in on the developer of Towerbolt to see how the launch is going! (It's going great, but it's a lot of work and tiring!) Wishlist Towerbolt on Steam!
A montage of various gameplay clips of Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Wishlist on Steam now! Releases on 2/18!
Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. The game comes out in THREE DAYS on Steam!
Towerbolt comes out in 4 days! Wishlist the game and check out its playable demo on Steam!
Towerbolt comes out in 5 days! Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X.
Gameplay video from Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X.
7 Days left until Towerbolt comes out on Steam! Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Race and escape to the top of an impossibly tall cyberpunk tower prison, while outrunning deadly rising lasers on every floor!
My game Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X, is coming out in 8 days on February 18th, 2026!
My game Towerbolt releases in 9 Days on Steam! Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Race and escape to the top of an impossibly tall cyberpunk tower prison, while outrunning deadly rising lasers on every floor! Wishlist the game and check out the demo on Steam!
Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X, and it releases in 10 days on Steam!
The announce date trailer for my game Towerbolt: A fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X! The game comes out on February 18th, 2026!
A short video showing the progress from one of the very early builds of Towerbolt vs how it looks now! Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Race to the top of a futuristic megatower prison while outpacing deadly rising lasers on every floor!
A quick video showing the level drawing process for Towerbolt's levels. These drawings are made within 5-10 minutes and are drawn mostly in a small notebook I own. The drawing serves a loose starting blueprint for making the game in GameMaker, and works great for figuring out where walls, obstacles, hazards and stage mechanics are in the level to create a fun level movement flow for the player. Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Wishlist and demo on Steam!
A trailer video showing Towerbolt's release date, February 18th. The trailer shows the main gameplay of Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Outrace deadly lasers on every floor while climbing an impossibly tall sci-fi tower prison. Charge your jumping power by chaining multiple jumps together in a combo. Break free!
A short video talking about how Towerbolt's levels are bite sized, micro platforming challenges. Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Each level is short to lessen the sting of death so that you never lose too much progress, and also keeps the gameplay loop very snappy and fast as you're completing each floor like popcorn. 8 levels are climbed in the duration of this 1 minute video.
A short video showing the level building process for Towerbolt. In short, I start with a level drawing done on paper as the initial blueprint, and then loosely build the level according to the drawing. Frequent playtesting of the level as I'm building it helps to make sure the movement flow feels good. A tileset layer is applied on top of the wall tiles to finalize the art look for the level. The rest of the background art is applied per "biome" of the Tower, which is constant and doesn't require specific edits per level. Check out Towerbolt on Steam!
A video covering "Owl", a character from Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Owl is a support hacker who helps out the main character of Towerbolt, who is known as The Bolter. Owl hacks the way open for The Bolter, gives them tips, and provides moral support.
A short video talking about what "Being Recklessly Fast" in Towerbolt is all about. In Towerbolt its more important to be fast than precise or careful. Hitting stage hazards (alarm panels in the game's lore) is okay and does not hurt or kill the player, but brings the rising kill laser ever closer. It's okay to make mistakes, as long as you're fast!
A Zbrush render of the Dres Fin Rock from Kerbal Space Program 2. (Little green Kerbal astronaut on the bottom right for scale!)
A short video covering Bolter Charge, the most important and most unique mechanic to Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. The video covers how chaining wall jumps and midair jumps together without touching the ground builds the Bolter Charge meter and makes your jumps stronger and higher.
A short video showing what the game Towerbolt is about!
A short video talking about Towerbolt's simple to pick up/high skill ceiling controls.
My Art vs. Artist for 2025, showing a summary of my favorite artwork I made in 2025. A lot of pixel art portraits of women along with some D&D character art are included in this year's summary.