Cursed relics

Cursed relics

Trijam #243

Gameplay

This is a match-3 puzzle game, with some special rules. Play with mouse.

• you can make a move even if it doesn't trigger match
• you lose HP at each move
• you have to align 4 elements to trigger a match
• when a match is created, it inflicts damages to the monster according to the sum of points on the different squares of the match sequence
• if the match sequence includes relics, the effects are altered
• directly creating a match with a relic wont't work. You have to create it by moving a "common" element

Design notes

I've been looking for making a match-3 games for a long time. That was the opportunity.

It took me more time than I though, especially because a raw match 3 game is savorless. It needed some different relics for the combo, then abetter GUI for giving more info about what happened on the game, and also a bit of polish.

All in all it took me much more than 3 hours, but I wanted the game to be at least a bit fun to play. 

In particular, I'm absolutly not satisfied with the messages system, and it's difficult to really play with the relics. And for my second go for such a game I will make a very different technical design. We learn with errors :)

Credits

• Made with Godot 3.5.2 + Aseprite
• Dusk's Fantasy Icons (24x24) https://dusk-games.itch.io/dusk-fantasy-icons
• Music : Fantasy_Ambience by David_Fesliyan https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/
• Sounds : https://freesound.org/
• Font : tex-gyre-chorus.regular.otf