Genomancer

You’re a Genomancer, whose abilities are controlled by your unstable genome. Your genome is composed of codons - the four elements, and a stop codon. You can have up to 4 abilities, and passive effects. The abilities are encoded by unique codon combinations, and any “excess” codons improve the ability.

Kill endless waves of enemies, and every few levels, mutate - voluntarily or not!

Controls:

• Move: WSAD
• Ability 1: Left Mouse Button
• Ability 2: Right Mouse Button
• Ability 3: Q
• Ability 4: E

Effects on player:

• Earth: max health
• Water: max mana
• Fire: bonus damage
• Air: movement speed

Effects on abilitites:

• Earth: splash damage
• Water: lower mana cost
• Fire: bonus damage
• Air: lower cooldown

Here’s the list of abilities, if you don’t want to figure them out yourself (F: Fire, W: Water, E: Earth, A: Air, S: Stop):

• F - Fireball
• FF - Fireblast
• FA - Firestorm
• FFF - Chaosbolt
• W - Water Cannon
• WW - Bubbles
• WWA - Snowball
• WA - Frostbolt
• E - Earth Spike
• EE - “Earthquake”
• A - Wind Strike
• AA - Hurricane
• AF - Lightning Bolt

So, for example, if your genome is the following:

FFW S WAA S EEEEEWW

This means you have 2 abilities, and character passives:

• Fireblast with lowered mana cost
• Frostbolt with lowered cooldown
• 50 health and 20 mana from the rightmost gene. Be careful, there is no base health or base mana. If you lose all earth codons from your passives, you’ll have 0 max health and die.

So, how do mutations work? Every 3 levels (later on, every 2 levels) you can select a mutation:

• adding a codon - a new codon is inserted before your selection - probably the one you’re going to choose the most,
• substituting a codon - the selected codon is replaced by a new one,
• removing a codon - the selected codon is removed,
• inverting part of your genome - the entire part of genome between your first and second selected codon is inverted,
• swapping 2 codons - two codons swap their places.

You also mutate randomly every 3 (later on, 2) levels.

Play now!

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Attributions:

• https://soundbible.com/653-Catapult.html
• https://soundbible.com/1356-Flame-Arrow.html
• https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/26012/ The Great Battle by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The abilities and codons icons and the missiles images are not ours either, but we’ve made the wizard and the knight images and the floor.