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Ludum Dare 55: Summoning

Concept

• Turn based strategy/puzzle game.
• Units have a distance they can move each turn.
• All active units play each turn.
• Turns automatically progress after the last unit has acted.
• Player move units, they automatically engage in combat.
• Summoning circle requires any unit to be activated. They are used for different actions.
• Some actions may require more than one circle. This is the usual case for the level exit.

Unit types

• Archer: shoots arrow.

Unit states

• Active: can move and attack.
• Dormant: must be summoned with summoning circles.

Object types

• Summoning circle.
• Door.

Summoning circle actions

• Closing/opening doors.
• Spawning new units.
• Trigger level win.