RunicForce

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Shape the magical ingredients you have into minions and use them in turn-based combat. Consider it to be a proof of concept for a game I might end up making one day!

Made in 2 days from scratch during Ludum Dare 58.

HOW TO PLAY:

1. build units with ingredients, there is an in-game recipe book
2. you CAN select a unit to command during your turn, use a left click
3. after moving/attacking the unit will enter a recovery, skipping next turns
4. attacking requires movement points - check out unit stat

Hotkeys:

• ENTER or SPACE to end the turn ("wait")
• R or ESCAPE to restart the level
• ctrl+G to complete the current battle (if struggling)
• Numeric keys (1, 2...) to switch between the runes (ritual screen)
• Ctrl+numeric key swaps the runes (ritual screen)

The kind of a creature you get depends on the element types used (e.g. Fire), their order and count. Most units have a specific recipe, but sometimes there is an extra secret way to summon the unit. Use the in-game book to browse the base recipes.

The ingredients also provide passive bonuses, so there is more than one way a single unit archetype will perform after being summoned: it can be a tank, or it can be a very fast skirmisher.

The Arcane element can be used to boost units: Life+Death can become Life+Death+Arcane+Life+Death. While still giving you the base recipe archetype unit (Life+Death), it will allow more flat stat bonuses to be accumulated through the ingredients placed on the table. A tier1 unit can be repeated up to 4 times (e.g. Life+Arcane+Life+Arcane+Life+Arcane+Life), a tier2 unit can be repeated 3 times, and tier3 can be repeated only once. Any valid recipe can be repeated with Arcane.

Difficulties:

• Easy = enemies have no ingredient-based bonuses
• Normal = enemies have up to 1 ingredient bonus
• Hard = enemies have up to 2 ingredient bonuses

Note: even "easy" can be challenging, depending on your tactical gaming experience. Hard difficulty is recommended only if you have beaten the game on "normal".