Five Elements Windows game

The battlefield is the hero’s own mind, an energy-information structure composed of nodes of the five element energies and channels between them. The enemies are their sins, negative qualities, and negative energies.

Key Features:

1. Unique and fresh gameplay.
2. Carefully honed and balanced rules providing strategic variety.
3. Procedural and hand-crafted maps.

Meditate:

• Dive deeply into your mind!
• Face increasingly powerful enemies!
• Learn to use the elements’ strengths and weaknesses!
• Defeat your own vices!

Embrace Tao:

• Obtain 20 levels of power!
• Learn 8 spells able to turn the tide of even the most hopeless battle!
• Transform your imperfect physical body into a body made of pure energy!
• Unleash power of elements onto the Darkness of your mind!

And then…

Become Immortal.

Rules:

The five elements interact with each other by certain rules that are very similar to the classic Taoist energy cycles of empowerment, weakening, and control:

1. Creation: For example, one unit of wood energy directed into a fire node creates 1.5 units of fire energy. The fire element creates an earth element. The earth element creates a metal element. The metal element creates a water element, which creates a wood element. This is the creation cycle.
2. Destruction: For example, one unit of metal energy destroys 1.5 units of wood energy. In turn, one unity of wood energy destroys 1.5 units of earth energy. And so on.
3. Devouring: If you launch a ray from a wood node to a water node, first it drains the energy of water into the wood node with a 1.5 multiplier. Second, it will overtake the water node over time if it belongs to an enemy. This is the most effective attack type.
4. Like elements: Like elements destroy each other if they belong to different players. If they belong to the same side, like elements increase.

A player doesn't need to memorize all the relationships between elements. At any time, a player can peek at the element scheme. In addition, during the game, when a player drags a ray from one node to another, an icon of the relation type between the nodes is displayed.

After a set of Trials (a tutorial), the hero begins meditation, clearing their mind from bad energies. Each enemy (sin) has their own, unique abilities, for example:

Laziness has the super-ability of lying still. :)

Hatred burns everything around them with lightning.

Envy gets a copy of every spell the player uses.

And so on.

A player receives awareness, or experience points (XP), for capturing nodes, defeating sins, or breaking an energy seal. After a victory, a player can exit the meditation phase with earned XP or dive deeper into depths of their mind. A loss decreases XP earned in meditation by half.

When a player collects a critical mass of awareness (XP), they move up a level and obtain wisdom points. Wisdom points can be invested in willpower (how long the player can meditate) or various spells. At higher game levels, more dangerous foes awaken in the monk's mind. A victory over them is required on the way to Enlightenment.