Just watch out for the sawblade on Level 4. It’s a killer. Have you forked the tower? Share your best mod or death screenshot in the comments below.
If you have spent even a cursory amount of time on programming social media—specifically the chaotic corners of Twitter (X) or the front page of Hacker News—you have likely seen it. A single, impossibly tall tower. A minuscule, pixel-perfect square. And a challenge so deceptively simple that it has broken the spirits of veteran developers and delighted beginners in equal measure. big tower tiny square github
The original game has a "bug" where if you jump at a specific frame rate, you clip through a corner. Ethan didn't fix it for months. Why? Because it felt like a "technique." In open source, a quirky feature is better than a perfect, non-existent patch. Just watch out for the sawblade on Level 4