The Origin Story of Spell Tower

The original thing was inspired by Asher Volmer's puzzle juice at a party. I had heard our friend Sarah Bryn had seen Asher's game and described it to me as Tetris meets Scrabble, I think. And that's where all the rest of the stuff and spell tower came from. The tutorial just be instructions and lead you through sort of tower mode and then into puzzle mode. There are a lot of a lot of my game design sensibilities actually came out of the original spell tower construction.