History VideoGame / GModTower

'''''[=GMod=] Tower''''' was a large addon for ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' of a social gaming lobby that has multiplayer games alongside a main lobby which is the titular tower itself. Players earn the currency, GMC, via the games to buy avatars, accessories, furniture for their suites and other items that are there for fun in the lobby or for use in some of the games, there is also a casino that players can gamble in, an arcade where players can play various flash games on arcade machines and a few other games, a pool that players can relax at and a cinema that players can request and view {{Website/YouTube}}. The website can be found [[http://www.gmtower.org/index.php here]] and can be downloaded via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop.

* AchievementSystem: The game has an internal, non-UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} award system for each player, that include achievements for both the lobby and the gamemodes. All reward a sum of 500 GMC when completed, some include a trophy that can be placed in your suite. There are also milestone achievements that reward special items that can be used in the lobby and relate to the game in question.

''[=GMod=] Tower'' was discontinued on April 8th, 2016 as the developers focused on their new game and successor to ''[=GMod=] Tower'', ''VideoGame/TowerUnite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow due to its limits (larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ funded]] on Indiegogo and is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $19. Only one official ''[=GMod=] Tower'' server remains in the form of ''[[https://www.gmtower.org/reunion/play/ GMTower: Reunion]]''. However, it is slated to only remain up while Tower Unite is in Early Access.

''[=GMod=] Tower'' was discontinued on April 8th, 2016 as the developers focused on their new game and successor to ''[=GMod=] Tower'', ''VideoGame/TowerUnite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow due to its limits (larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ funded]] on Indiegogo and is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $15.

''[=GMod=] Tower'' was discontinued on April 8th, 2016 as the developers focused on their new game and successor to ''[=GMod=] Tower'', ''VideoGame/TowerUnite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow due to it's limits (larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ funded]] on Indiegogo and is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $15.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the player model modifiers makes your right arm bigger than the left. Blatantly, this modifier is called "Internet Addict".

''[=GMod=] Tower'' has been discontinued so the developers can focus solely on their new game and successor to ''[=GMod=] Tower'', ''VideoGame/TowerUnite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow (Larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was funded on Indiegogo [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ here]]. ''Tower Unite'' is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $15.

* NiceHat: Not only can you buy hats and facial accessories for your character in the lobby, they even carry over to other games, up to and including your golf ball wearing the items in ''Minigolf''.

* BettingMiniGame: The Casino in which you can waste a lot of GMC on the slot machines, video poker, prize wheels and both five-card draw and Texas Hold 'Em variants of poker.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the player model modifiers makes your right arm bigger than the left. Blatantly, this modifier is called "Internet Addict".

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: You can buy furniture items for your suite and place them wherever you want and in any direction you wish, even on the walls (granted that's for placing posters but still...)

* TearJerker: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAUrW3deAKY "End Credits"]] is probably enough to get anyone who's played Tower for a long time on the verge of tears.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The plasma auto-rifle and sci-fi pistol in ''Virus'' fire lasers. It also shows up as a random power up in ''Source Karts''. The phaser in ''Zombie Massacre'' also shoots green lasers

''[=GMod=] Tower'' has been discontinued so the developers can focus solely on their new game, ''VideoGame/TowerUnite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow (Larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was funded on Indiegogo [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ here]]. ''Tower Unite'' is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $15.

!! Tropes that pertain to ''[=GMod=] Tower'' are:

* ZipMode: The maps in the newly revised lobby allow players to teleport to major locations

* StuffBlowingUp: The fate, InUniverse, of the first lobby map when it was shut down.

'''''[=GMod=] Tower''''' was a large addon for ''GarrysMod'' of a social gaming lobby that has multiplayer games alongside a main lobby which is the titular tower itself. Players earn the currency, GMC, via the games to buy avatars, accessories, furniture for their suites and other items that are there for fun in the lobby or for use in some of the games, there is also a casino that players can gamble in, an arcade where players can play various flash games on arcade machines and a few other games, a pool that players can relax at and a cinema that players can request and view {{Website/YouTube}}. The website can be found [[http://www.gmtower.org/index.php here]] and can be downloaded via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop.

* ''Virus'': Inspired by a similar gamemode in ''{{VideoGame/Timesplitters}} 2'', players start off with a random assortment of weapons and a player is chosen at random to be infected and has to infect other players, either infecting all players in the game or surviving until time runs out. A game lasts for ten rounds.

''[=GMod=] Tower'' has been discontinued so the developers can focus solely on their new game, ''Tower Unite'' which is built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow (Larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The game was funded on Indiegogo [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ here]]. ''Tower Unite'' is currently on Steam Early Access [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/394690#/ here]] for $15.

'''''[=GMod=] Tower''''' is a large addon for ''GarrysMod'' of a social gaming lobby that has multiplayer games alongside a main lobby which is the titular tower itself. Players earn the currency, GMC, via the games to buy avatars, accessories, furniture for their suites and other items that are there for fun in the lobby or for use in some of the games, there is also a casino that players can gamble in, an arcade where players can play various flash games on arcade machines and a few other games, a pool that players can relax at and a cinema that players can request and view {{Website/YouTube}}. The website can be found [[http://www.gmtower.org/index.php here]] and can be downloaded via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop.

As of this edit, ''[=GMod=] Tower'' will be discontinued soon for a new, similar game, ''Tower Unite'' which will built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow (Larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, easier content updates etc.). The kickstarter for it can be found [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ here]]. ''Tower Unite'' will cost $15 while donors of ''[=GMod Tower=]'' or backers to the kickstarter will receive early access to the game.

* ChainsawGood: The chainsaw in ''PVP Battle'' which can be thrown which then ''[[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]''. ''Zombie Massacre'' also features a chainsaw.

As of this edit, ''[=GMod=] Tower'' will be discontinued in December for a new, similar game, ''Tower Unite'' which will built in Unreal Engine 4, allowing for features and abilities that Source didn't allow (Larger maps, better CharacterCustomization, etc.). The kickstarter for this can be found [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tower-unite#/ here]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the player model modifiers makes your right arm bigger than the left. Suitably, this modifier is called "Internet Addict".

* AnachronismStew: The final boss of the Gasoline map in ''Zombie Masscare'' is a T-Rex.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Rather subverted, as there are donor bonuses but otherwise you can earn and buy the grand majority of items without spending a real penny.
* CameraPerspectiveSwitch: Players can switch between third and first person in the lobby while some gamemodes force third/first person.
* ChainsawGood: The chainsaw in ''PVP Battle'' which can be thrown which then ''[[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]''. There's also a chainsaw battle minigame in the original lobby.

* GridInventory: Of the one-space-fits-any-item category that holds one of any item.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Super Shotty in ''PVP Battle'', which can be swapped out for a SPAS-12 that has a tighter choke but has to be manually pumped every shot and reload. The shotguns in ''Zombie Massacre'' are also pretty practical against big groups. The Sonic Shotgun in ''Virus'' has an unrelated SecondaryFire that pushes the infected away and it's semi-automatic, only downside being it's ''{{VideoGame/Marathon}}''-style reload-on-empty, an alternative is the double barrel shotgun that works effectively.

'''''[=GMod=] Tower''''' is a large addon for ''GarrysMod'' of a social gaming lobby that has multiplayer games alongside a main lobby which is the titular tower itself. Players earn the currency, GMC, via the games to buy avatars, accessories, furniture for their suites and other items that are there for fun in the lobby or for use in some of the games, there is also a casino that players can gamble in, an arcade where players can play various flash games on arcade machines and a few other games, a pool that players can relax at and a cinema that players can request and view {{Website/YouTube}}. The website can be found [[http://www.gmtower.org/index.php here]] and can be downloaded via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop

** The Flak Gun in ''Virus'' fires six glowing flechettes that bounce around, making it great at taking down a group of infected [[TooAwesomeToUse but it only has three shots]].

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Super Shotty in ''PVP Battle'', which can be swapped out for a SPAS-12 that has a tighter spread but has to be manually pumped every shot and reload. The shotguns in ''Zombie Massacre'' are also pretty practical against big groups. The Sonic Shotgun in ''Virus'' has an unrelated SecondaryFire that pushes the infected away and it's semi-automatic, only downside being it's ''{{VideoGame/Marathon}}''-style reload-on-empty, an alternative is the double barrel shotgun that works effectively.

* WarpWhistle: The maps in the newly revised lobby allow players to teleport to major locations
* WeakTurretGun: Electricians can deploy these in ''Zombie Massacre''.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Super Shotty in ''PVP Battle'', which can be swapped out for a SPAS-12 that has a tighter spread but has to be manually pumped every shot and reload. The shotguns in ''Zombie Massacre'' are also pretty practical against big groups. The Sonic Shotgun and Double Barrel are also a good weapon against the infected in ''Virus''

* ChainsawGood: The chainsaw in ''PVP Battle'' which can be thrown which then ''[[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]''. There are also chainsaw battle minigames in the original lobby

* SoundEffectBleep: "Fuck" is always replaced by "hug" in any of the games, this can result in a rather amusing request of somebody requesting to be hugged when they mess up something.

'''''[=GMod=] Tower''''' is a large addon for ''GarrysMod'' of a social gaming lobby that has multiplayer games alongside a main lobby which is the titular tower itself. Players earn the currency, GMC, via the games to buy avatars, accessories, furniture for their suites and other items that are there for fun in the lobby or for use in some of the games, there is also a casino that players can play five-card draw Poker and slot machines, an arcade where players can play various flash games on arcade machines and a few other games, a pool that players can relax at and a cinema that players can request and view {{Website/YouTube}}. The website can be found [[http://www.gmtower.org/index.php here]] and can be downloaded via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Workshop

* ''Gourmet Race'': A work-in-progress, one can only assume it's like the one in ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''.
* ''Harvest'': Another work-in-progress if the gamemode area is any indication.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the player model modifiers makes your right arm bigger than the left. Suitably, this mod is called "Internet Addict".

* BlatantLies: The wandering merchant does not wander around.

* GreenHillZone: Various gamemodes typically have a friendly starting map. Lifeless Raceway for ''Source Karts'', Water Hole in ''Minigolf'', Skyworld in ''Ball Race'', etc.