AetherForged

Welcome to Hello World Studios' AetherForged, a game about fighting your way through randomly generated dungeons and killing anything that stands in your way with fully customizable magic, but be wary, as magic is just as dangerous to its wielder as to their foes.

Controls:

WASD: Moment

Mouse: Camera movement

Left Click: Cast spell/Select spell/Select (when in menus)

I: Open spell inventory/Close spell inventory

1-5 Number Row: Select hot bar slot/Assign hot bar slot

9 Number Row: reset scene (brings you back to the starting room, wipes your spells and resets enemies)

Spell Creation:

to create a spell first open your inventory (i) then use the drop down menu to the left to select components and spell type. then name your spell and hit the create spell button. the spell will then appear in you inventory, the spell you created will be the most recent one in the inventory, but if you create multiple or just want to go back to an old spell, hovering over any spell in the inventory will display the name of the spell. to add a spell to you hot bar, left click the spell in your inventory, then click 1-5 on the number row, this will assign is to spot 1-5 in your hot bar depending on what number you select, or any other input to cancel selection. then close the inventory with I and use your spells

Spell Design:

spells are similar to simple piece of block code, no component can execute until the component before it has executed, after this condition has been met certain components (explode) trigger immediately, and other wait until the spell hits something to trigger (split and bounce). basically, put the components you want to trigger first in the first slot, second in the second slot and so on and so fourth. a few tips from the devs, use bounce and split to control when explode triggers, and experiment, also there's not a cooldown so spamming a simple spell is a valid strategy, but as mentioned in the description, your spells can damage you, this mean be very carful with your spam or you'll end up killing yourself.

PS: If you actually end up downloading this, thank you for taking the time to check out our dumb little game, we made it as a project for our high school game design class and poured our heart and souls into... the mechanics, we hope you like them, we hope you like the rest of it to, but the mechanics are our pride and joy.