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Create your own Icy Tower character

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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  1. allie

    Posted at 12:37 am on Feb 24th

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

  2. mav

    Posted at 2:36 am on Feb 25th

    that is insaneu got to do that more often

  3. mav

    Posted at 2:37 am on Feb 25th

    ya me 2

  4. barhum

    Posted at 7:41 pm on Feb 25th

    iwant to have a character

  5. James Thornton

    Posted at 5:58 pm on Feb 26th

    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

  6. Brandie

    Posted at 7:07 am on Mar 1st

    How do you erase Harolds outline?

  7. James Thornton

    Posted at 12:00 pm on Mar 1st

    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.

  8. hi

    Posted at 6:09 pm on Mar 7th

    How i can paint in that picture?

  9. Harolds ex wife

    Posted at 12:26 am on Mar 11th

    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

  10. Darian

    Posted at 8:48 pm on Mar 21st

    how do you download characters

  11. James Thornton

    Posted at 12:42 pm on Mar 23rd

    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.

  12. Lincoln

    Posted at 9:45 am on Mar 25th

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

  13. lanihohohsa

    Posted at 11:13 pm on Mar 30th

    what if i deleted the template?

  14. Prani

    Posted at 8:32 am on Apr 2nd

    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?

  15. william

    Posted at 1:53 am on May 16th

    cool

  16. jasmine jackson

    Posted at 7:21 pm on May 23rd

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

  17. ive got it

    Posted at 12:43 am on May 26th

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

  18. jahmal

    Posted at 11:53 pm on May 31st

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

  19. lavisco

    Posted at 11:16 am on Jun 6th

    icy toer rules

  20. lavisco

    Posted at 11:16 am on Jun 6th

    icy tower rules

  21. john doe

    Posted at 5:51 pm on Jun 8th

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

  22. Lanny Loo

    Posted at 10:32 am on Jun 11th

    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!

  23. rebecca

    Posted at 4:05 pm on Jun 25th

    how do i download the icy tower 1.2.1 version

  24. RONALD

    Posted at 8:56 pm on Jun 25th

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

  25. rebecca

    Posted at 11:53 am on Jun 26th

    yh how do u put characters on icy tower

  26. mike

    Posted at 4:09 pm on Jun 27th

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

  27. johnathan

    Posted at 9:27 am on Jul 7th

    i got 200 as my cobo is game is the best

  28. takunda

    Posted at 7:24 am on Jul 22nd

    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 =[

  29. takunda

    Posted at 7:29 am on Jul 22nd

    please can some1 just tell me how to put em on

  30. Ben

    Posted at 1:37 am on Aug 22nd

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

  31. Delila

    Posted at 8:37 am on Aug 23rd

    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!!! :)

  32. chloe

    Posted at 1:08 pm on Sep 6th

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

  33. Kisame

    Posted at 3:38 am on Nov 14th

    You people are hopeless. ~.~

  34. giher

    Posted at 1:05 am on Dec 3rd

    hi nlnlnkkknnnnkkkkkkklllllll;;;;;;;bbbbbbuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnngtffffeeeettuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

    i love icy tower

  35. Marissa

    Posted at 12:51 am on Dec 12th

    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.

  36. shirly

    Posted at 6:52 pm on Dec 16th

    is incredible

  37. UCP

    Posted at 10:41 am on Dec 22nd

    … 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

  38. need help

    Posted at 12:17 am on Jan 4th

    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!

  39. jency

    Posted at 7:27 pm on Jan 30th

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

  40. raphael

    Posted at 4:56 pm on Feb 15th

    gzidehbzsrt

  41. raphael

    Posted at 4:57 pm on Feb 15th

    il est mauve

  42. Cooper

    Posted at 10:28 pm on Feb 24th

    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.

  43. summer

    Posted at 7:45 pm on Feb 25th

    deblah deblah oh and deblahh

  44. Hannah Montana

    Posted at 12:01 am on Apr 2nd

    I think it is awesome

  45. skollie

    Posted at 8:58 pm on Apr 8th

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

  46. daniel

    Posted at 5:28 pm on Apr 18th

    dfdsdkfjkjs

  47. g

    Posted at 3:55 pm on Apr 21st

    how to make icy tower character

  48. abdelrahman

    Posted at 6:45 am on May 2nd

    5687

  49. mohammed

    Posted at 7:24 am on May 6th

    fse

  50. mohammed

    Posted at 7:25 am on May 6th

    i want to make a charecter

  51. mina

    Posted at 11:07 am on May 29th

    di mogu skinut icy tower

  52. bart

    Posted at 2:27 pm on Jun 7th

    rocks

  53. newnew

    Posted at 4:04 pm on Jun 7th

    i have 2 do this more often~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~

  54. Nei

    Posted at 12:47 am on Jun 21st

    Hey guys, to download some cool characters, all you have to do is google icy tower characters, open up computer in windows, press local disk c,press games,double ckick icy tower folder,double click characters,and drag the character you downloaded to the folder. I hope it helps, and if it does, say thank you Nei!!!!, lol

  55. jessica

    Posted at 4:08 am on Jun 30th

    wat the hell is ’sprite’?????

  56. anthony

    Posted at 2:33 am on Aug 9th

    bros i want new charcters man the 1s my friend showed me were rubbish

  57. h3llozz

    Posted at 2:35 am on Aug 9th

    how the hell do u make your own charcters man

  58. sam

    Posted at 11:48 pm on Aug 22nd

    i no how to create but im not telling u suckers

  59. roni_9

    Posted at 4:46 pm on Aug 23rd

    love this game

  60. adham

    Posted at 4:43 am on Sep 1st

    adsadad

  61. doron

    Posted at 11:05 pm on Sep 7th

    how do you icy tower character

  62. ithan

    Posted at 9:27 pm on Sep 10th

    im da pimp u aint

  63. Desiree

    Posted at 1:52 am on Sep 13th

    yo,yo,yo…wut iz up? i a am sooooo bored. And just am playing on my computer! hehe. so, how do you make a character?

  64. BIG- SHINE

    Posted at 6:03 pm on Oct 7th

    HEY. how the hell i get new characters for icy tower i tryed everything but nothing will f****in work. Please help a brother out.

  65. BIG- SHINE

    Posted at 6:07 pm on Oct 7th

    dude is someone in this piece of s**t

  66. lukas

    Posted at 5:05 pm on Oct 8th

    this is bull shit dont try it it not’s work!

  67. BIG- SHINE

    Posted at 5:35 pm on Oct 8th

    yo how do u change the homie to a better one

  68. Monte Robinson

    Posted at 6:49 pm on Nov 5th

    this game is alsome

  69. nick foster

    Posted at 7:18 am on Nov 6th

    nice

  70. haniebal

    Posted at 7:11 pm on Nov 28th

    if made my own charachter with…paint becaus its easy with that but now when i start icy tower its says failed loading >my charachter name< it wil be skipped ….can anyone help me please i dont know how to fix this!?!?! PLEAS IM A NOOB!!!

  71. Rathidevi

    Posted at 7:00 pm on Dec 13th

    I want to know how you desaign yopur own character. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

  72. Soccerstef

    Posted at 10:13 am on Dec 16th

    if ur really sick of harold but cant change his looks download more different characters from differenct sites like this one http://www.icytower.cz and press english on the right side to read the page download the character chosen press open and save the folder in characters in your icy tower folder

  73. Soccerstef

    Posted at 10:15 am on Dec 16th

    What is windows explorer??

  74. usman

    Posted at 5:58 pm on Dec 19th

    I don’t care about any thing, all I KNOW IS HOW TO GET NEW CHARACTERS IN ICY TOWER BY DOWNLOWDING THEM FROM http://WWW.ICYTOWER.CZ. ITS EASY

  75. Arnaud

    Posted at 7:20 pm on Dec 20th

    I would like to know HOWW do we download the characters

  76. koran

    Posted at 5:19 pm on Dec 21st

    wat up

  77. jeremy

    Posted at 2:59 am on Dec 28th

    hey waz up every boday lol

  78. Cinthia

    Posted at 2:43 am on Jan 11th

    THEY THIS IS KOOL AND WANTED TO SAY HI AND HEY TO EVERYBODY

  79. Omar

    Posted at 11:00 am on Jan 16th

    am goooooooooooood

  80. Oxorb

    Posted at 11:25 am on Jan 28th

    I have downloaded new characters but they wont work on the game plz help!!!

  81. jack

    Posted at 8:28 am on Jan 31st

    the game is awsome

  82. jhon

    Posted at 9:58 am on Jan 31st

    how can i delete harolds outline it is stupid mate
    dont download it mate you cant do anything it just like a .u.i.ng asss mate !

  83. jhon

    Posted at 9:59 am on Jan 31st

    telling u again mate

  84. jhon

    Posted at 9:59 am on Jan 31st

    i download it and it was great my character was flying it was me lol hahahaha

  85. ben hicks

    Posted at 7:11 pm on Feb 12th

    I want the “make your own characters thing” on icy tower.

  86. Master B.

    Posted at 8:57 pm on Feb 20th

    i had download characters but how do i put em on icy tower???????????
    PlEASE TELL ME!

  87. loves

    Posted at 3:15 am on Feb 21st

    that how i do me don’t hate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  88. Master B.

    Posted at 6:58 pm on Feb 21st

    please some tell me how do i put characters on icytower?

  89. baba

    Posted at 12:57 pm on Feb 23rd

    cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo kid on its way

  90. pulkit

    Posted at 10:31 am on Mar 2nd

    how do you do it?

  91. Fellynelly

    Posted at 1:40 am on Mar 3rd

    its So ANNOYING not bieng able to change character

  92. Fellynelly

    Posted at 1:41 am on Mar 3rd

    like gay shit it aint

  93. mechi

    Posted at 12:19 am on Mar 10th

    wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  94. keishawn

    Posted at 5:57 pm on Mar 20th

    wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

  95. adrienne

    Posted at 3:36 am on Apr 3rd

    how will i make my own character like i want to design it on my own

  96. Kahlil

    Posted at 9:29 pm on Apr 3rd

    How do you get the characters you downloaded into Icy Tower?

  97. chris

    Posted at 3:03 am on Apr 11th

    ke hijo de puta mas bueno!!!!! :)

  98. waleed

    Posted at 1:00 am on Apr 17th

    hi

  99. waleed

    Posted at 1:00 am on Apr 17th

    wats up

  100. marty hallow

    Posted at 11:30 am on May 2nd

    Wazoo Guys

  101. POMPOM

    Posted at 1:06 am on May 11th

    that guy is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo goood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  102. hallvard

    Posted at 8:14 pm on May 12th

    this is so good

  103. Ivène

    Posted at 11:33 pm on May 13th

    I have cool game!!!

  104. Ivène

    Posted at 11:34 pm on May 13th

    I have super,super,super game!!!Extra game!!!

  105. Abdullahi

    Posted at 12:51 am on May 15th

    whats up

  106. ELIOTT

    Posted at 5:29 pm on May 30th

    oh gosh how can i put characteres on icy toer every time i do it it comes as a “zip folder” so gis pleas help out ill liv u my email eliottkoskas@gmail.com pleas pleas do it

  107. odary

    Posted at 12:45 am on Jun 7th

    how i but the picture on the character

  108. Farus

    Posted at 8:21 am on Jul 1st

    that guy rocks

  109. kedem

    Posted at 8:19 am on Jul 3rd

    bhjk

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