Create your own Icy Tower character

By James Thornton on 7 February, 2007

Harold the Homeboy has become something of a cult hero in gaming circles now following the success of Icy Tower. However, due to the addictive nature of the game you end up spending so much time with the little dude that it’s possible to become sick of the sight of him (especially if you want to be as good as the player in this video).

The good news is it’s possible to give Harold a makeover using the built-in templates files. Enter the "\icy tower\characters\template" folder in Windows Explorer and click on the paintbrush icon to open a sprite version of the character. Press Ctrl + E to open up the sprites for editing Use the editor to tweak the character’s design, ensuring that every part of every sprite is the same colour. Make sure you don’t go out of Harold’s green outline (though you can change the colour of this outline). Now save the image and play the game with the template character selected.

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  • allie allie

    how do you do the windows exploer, whats windows exploer. I really need help. Im board of harold.

    • Sent on 24 Feb 2007
  • mav mav

    that is insaneu got to do that more often

    • Sent on 25 Feb 2007
  • mav mav

    ya me 2

    • Sent on 25 Feb 2007
  • barhum barhum

    iwant to have a character

    • Sent on 25 Feb 2007
  • James Thornton James Thornto<br />n

    To access the Windows Explorer you need to double-click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop. Then double-click on your hard drive icon (usually marked 'C://') and find the 'Program Files' folder. Now double click on the 'Icy Tower' folder and you should see a folder titled 'characters'. Then double click this folder icon to access the 'templates' file. Open this in your favourite image editor and you can start making a whole new Harold. Hope this helps

    • Sent on 26 Feb 2007
  • Brandie Brandie

    How do you erase Harolds outline?

    • Sent on 01 Mar 2007
  • James Thornton James Thornto<br />n

    You shouldn't change Harold's neon green outline, but you can change the colour of the outline using your graphic editor. Let me know if yer still having problems.

    • Sent on 01 Mar 2007
  • hi hi

    How i can paint in that picture?

    • Sent on 07 Mar 2007
  • Harolds ex wife Harolds ex wi<br />fe

    i am so tired of playing as that little flatulant dwarf every time. im even tired of disco dave i mean i want something new someting cool something fresh thats all a girl wants

    • Sent on 11 Mar 2007
  • Darian Darian

    how do you download characters

    • Sent on 21 Mar 2007
  • James Thornton James Thornto<br />n

    I've found a couple of cool sites for downloading Harold replacements. Try http://hem.passagen.se/peitz/it/ or http://www.icytower.cz/?lang=en&page=characters. All the instructions for downloading and installing the characters are on there. Right, i'm off to play as Homer Simpson.

    • Sent on 23 Mar 2007
  • Lincoln Lincoln

    Im trying to put the haunter dude on to icy tower game but it won't work.How do you put it on???????

    • Sent on 25 Mar 2007
  • lanihohohsa lanihohohsa

    what if i deleted the template?

    • Sent on 30 Mar 2007
  • Prani Prani

    ive made my custom characters but when i start up icy tower it says custom character failed to load, it will be skipped. can anyone tell me what i might have done wrong?

    • Sent on 02 Apr 2007
  • william william

    cool

    • Sent on 16 May 2007
  • jasmine jackson jasmine jacks<br />on

    my name is jasmine and i would love to have spme new characters for icy tower please and thank you ?>:"_^$@#))

    • Sent on 23 May 2007
  • ive got it ive got it

    yo u want characters i have like 60 give me ur email ill sendthemto u

    • Sent on 26 May 2007
  • jahmal jahmal

    gosh he was a big fan to bad my friend's friend got to 2300 something

    • Sent on 31 May 2007
  • lavisco lavisco

    icy toer rules

    • Sent on 06 Jun 2007
  • lavisco lavisco

    icy tower rules

    • Sent on 06 Jun 2007
  • john doe john doe

    when i go to program files it doesn't have an icy towers folder tell me if i'm doing anything wrong please

    • Sent on 08 Jun 2007
  • Lanny Loo Lanny Loo

    this is a great fun game i always play it when i have nuthin else 2 do or if i just want 2! It annoys me cos i want to get hjgher and beta combos but i just cant...if u dont hav it download it!

    • Sent on 11 Jun 2007
  • rebecca rebecca

    how do i download the icy tower 1.2.1 version

    • Sent on 25 Jun 2007
  • RONALD RONALD

    HOW DO I DOWLOAD CHARACTERS WHICH I DID BUT HOW DO I PUT DEM IN ICY TOWER???

    • Sent on 25 Jun 2007
  • rebecca rebecca

    yh how do u put characters on icy tower

    • Sent on 26 Jun 2007
  • mike mike

    just drag them into the charecter folder (with template + co)but i wanna no how to cr8 charecters

    • Sent on 27 Jun 2007
  • johnathan johnathan

    i got 200 as my cobo is game is the best

    • Sent on 07 Jul 2007
  • takunda takunda

    it wont work wen i drag em on to the templ8 folder i did it once on bart simpson but it still wont work any more im so sad =[

    • Sent on 22 Jul 2007
  • takunda takunda

    please can some1 just tell me how to put em on

    • Sent on 22 Jul 2007
  • Ben Ben

    i cant even get into a folder to get the icy tower\charecters\ template.

    • Sent on 22 Aug 2007
  • Delila Delila

    Hey, how do you create your OWN characters? Email me with the answer @ rainie_dayz_2000@yahoo.com I REALLY need help. Thanx in advance ot those you do!!! :)

    • Sent on 23 Aug 2007
  • chloe chloe

    help!!! i dont have the bloddy ice tower folder in my c: drive!!!!

    • Sent on 06 Sep 2007
  • Kisame Kisame

    You people are hopeless. ~.~

    • Sent on 14 Nov 2007
  • giher giher

    hi nlnlnkkknnnnkkkkkkklllllll;;;;;;;bbbbbbuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnngtffffeeeettuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj i love icy tower

    • Sent on 03 Dec 2007
  • Marissa Marissa

    If you click on c: or computer then you should have a lot of folders in it. If one of them is games, double click. in that folder you should c an icy tower folder. inside tht folder is a characters folder. Double click that folder. if you download a character you paste the folder of that character in the character folder of icy tower, not in the template folder.

    • Sent on 12 Dec 2007
  • shirly shirly

    is incredible

    • Sent on 16 Dec 2007
  • UCP UCP

    ... omfg.. do you people evern KNOW what a computer is? haha lol.. The Icy tower folder (or any other program).. is placed on the place were you installed it on !!.. like do you people have a Folder called Program?.. maby its in there! NOT PROGRAM FILES!, or you COULD Create a Folder that is named GAMES or I AM STUPID LIKE HELL or something like that, any way i got a folder on my second harddrive,(300 giggabytes hard drive)..named SPEL (means Games in Swedish), Re'install your icy tower, and wen you come to were it says choose location of the (icy tower folder), press Browse.. look up your folder called Games that you have created,click on it, press OK, then press Next Next Next Next and so on until it says Finish! and klick on the finish!, and go look up your GAME folder and OPEN it and ABRA KADABRA SIMSALABIM ALAKASAM! POFF! THERE IT IS!!!! EVEN A 2 year old kid knows that, Exept you people that dosent know what a computer is! ok bye bye add me to msn if u got any questions how to click around on your computer or if u need help whit nintendo games, p_syanthe@hotmail.com

    • Sent on 22 Dec 2007
  • need help need help

    this is nuthin to doo with make caracter but plz help me! i need help with how to make the jumpy dude go up with the cheat thing. it says to make a copy of "tower.cfg" i have found that. but i dont know wich folder is the game folder plz help i will be in your debt if you can help to get it working cause i am soooo stuck!

    • Sent on 04 Jan 2008
  • jency jency

    wats your secret to playin icy tower!!!!!!

    • Sent on 30 Jan 2008
  • raphael raphael

    gzidehbzsrt

    • Sent on 15 Feb 2008
  • raphael raphael

    il est mauve

    • Sent on 15 Feb 2008
  • Cooper Cooper

    I have downloaded characters to were the menu has different colored lettering and floors and I would like to know how to do that for my own characters.

    • Sent on 24 Feb 2008
  • summer summer

    deblah deblah oh and deblahh

    • Sent on 25 Feb 2008
  • Hannah Montana Hannah Montan<br />a

    I think it is awesome

    • Sent on 02 Apr 2008
  • skollie skollie

    holy sh*t that guy on the clip is AMAZING!!!!!

    • Sent on 08 Apr 2008
  • daniel daniel

    dfdsdkfjkjs

    • Sent on 18 Apr 2008
  • g g

    how to make icy tower character

    • Sent on 21 Apr 2008
  • abdelrahman abdelrahman

    5687

    • Sent on 02 May 2008
  • mohammed mohammed

    fse

    • Sent on 06 May 2008
  • mohammed mohammed

    i want to make a charecter

    • Sent on 06 May 2008
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