Prismatic (Tim Mitcheson)

This was made for Yogscast Game Jam 2021

Prismatic is a strategic tower-defence game with a unique twist. Place Light Orbs to paint the world with colour. Overlapping colours merge into a new colour, effecting the enemy in a different way. Come up with the best way to align your orbs to survive as long as possible and protect the Light Crystal from the soldiers of Shadow.

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Controls

Controls tend to be specific to certain contexts, and there are tooltips available, but generally:

• Left click- confirm menu choice
• Right click - cancel/access menu of an orb
• Scroll wheel - rotate
• Shift + scroll - rotate faster
• Ctrl - snap to grid
• Space - pause game

Tutorial

This tutorial is also available in game:

• Drag orbs from the left onto the level.
• Buying/Upgrading costs photons - kill enemies to get them.
• Rotate/Move to angle their light. Right click orb to access their menu.
• You can pause any time with SPACE or the pause button.
• Different coloured areas do different things.
• White enemies are unharmed by anything but white areas!
• You lose score the more photons you spend, so spend wisely!
• Enemy health increases the longer you survive
• Colours are as follows:
  • Red: Fire, lingering damage
  • Green: Drain enemy health, produces photons
  • Blue: Slows enemies
  • Magenta: Multiplies damage done to affected enemy by 1.25x
  • Yellow: Lightning, damages all previous enemies
  • Cyan: Freezes enemies, then damages them
  • White: Instantly kills the white enemy
  • Stop the enemies of Light from destroying your crystal!