Nice little game, too bad there no ambience music, something like elevator music.

Fun little sim game.

I don't really feel like I "am" the monster, I'm just making the monster arrive.

Nice building game! Was happy to make money! Pizza tower <3

A nice little building game. For a sim, I feel like it lacks of difficulty. I'd like to see taxes that gets more the wider your tower gets and caretaker / craftsman costs on a per-room base.

Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you liked the game.

GagaPete: Regarding difficulty, this is the hard part with these kind of games, balancing costs and adding challenges but still not making it too hard for casual players. And well, balancing takes time which is limited in Ludum Dare. That said I added some levels as response to comments on a previous game, and will try to get better at adding more depth to the simulation part that matters for players.

Belug: Regarding music, I made some for my previous LD game, but this weekend I didn't prepare by practicing music creation in advance so I felt it would take too long for me to get off the ground with that.

madameberry: Did you see the 'story' in the beginning? Basically, in the Netherlands there is a Town called Monster. While the player is not playing as Monster mayor, you build the tower for the mayor. So well you are right you 'am' not the monster, but if you look on my previous LD entries, you see that I'm not much found of making games with war or killing theme. Last two themes I had to be a bit creative to avoid doing that. I admit the Monster Tower game will probably not win the theme competition, but it was the best idea I got when looking in my English dictionary and on wikipedia for alternative interpretations of 'Monster.

its kinda like sim tower , like the game though

a sim tower game. but instead you build a huge monster tower
I like its :D

My kind of game. The start was a bit confusing — I think it needs to show the building block even when the mouse is in an illegal position (just make it semi transparent or red). Because for many long seconds I was confused about how to even build stuff.

Technology-wise — amazing to see something in pure HTML5, with no fancy game engine. Nice work.

Thanks for your feedback regarding visual feedback. It was not until quite late, I added visual feedback on where rooms/stairs can be placed.

As for showing visual feedback on illegal positions, I could probably do that. Though I need to add some mechanism to track cursor position without adding a Tab stop for those positions. Which is probably not to complicated, but needs doing as having to tab through all invalid locations would be annoying.

I loved SimTower as a kid, and its very well implemented.
Maybe the stairs graphics are too colorfull bot everything else fits perfectly.

Neat sim game! Fun and relaxing to play

Good, cute game. I finiched it and I lik games like this one. My advice is make a music in game. Well done. =)

Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.

A fun little tower simulator.

At first I thought it was a tower where monsters would live, but a tower in the town of Monster is cool too.

Since this LD, I have continued on this game a bit. I have reworked how rooms are built so it now shows a red rectangle on illegal places. The keyboard support for construction was also greatly improved (use arrow keys or hjkl instead of tab to move pointer around). Other highlights are save/load support, elevator shaft that can be resized and better screen reader support.

If you like to play the updated version, click the source link which takes you to Github where there is a play link for the latest version.