Tower of Light

Gameplay

From Chaos	To Light

Narrative of the Game

The incentive of the game is to convert all castle levels from chaos to light. This is accomplished a level at a time. To convert a level from chaos to light the player needs to create three beacons of light. Then, a portal on the north-east of the map opens that teleports the player to the next level.

However, the battle to the top castle level is not that smooth. The player needs to encounter and defeat enemies that spawn at different map positions, outside of player's view. The player might be able to get away, but not for long. All the enemies follow closely the player till the find him and kill him. In addition, they get stronger and more ferocious with a beacon creation. On the other hand, if the player kills the enemies they drop their weapon and other usable items (health and mana potions).

It is of benefit to the player to kill enemies and equip their weapon in his main- and off- hand, or even his trinket. Simultaneously, gathering potions on his inventory assists in difficult times; when hit and mana points run low. Of course, if there are no potions on the inventory, the player can rest to regain his missing stats. But the rate of recovering is slow... Enemies might find him easier this way.

How to Control the Player

Move

• W : move up.
• S : move down.
• A : move left.
• D : move right.

Resting

• R : rest.

Creation

• L : create beacon of light.

Attack

• space : attack with weapon.
• X : attack with spell.

Usable Items

• H : replenish health.
• M : replenish mana.

Equipable Items

• T : change main hand.
• Y : change off hand.
• U : change trinket.

Technicalities for the Nit Pickers

Some details that were not mentioned on the previous paragraph are listed on the following Subsections.

Levels

The player gains levels based on his experience points. The experience points can be gained by creating beacons of light and killing enemies.

The rule that dictates the advancement of the player's levels is the following:

Level	Experience Points
1	0 - 299
2	300 - 899
3	900 - 2699
4	2700 - 6499
5	6500 - 13999
6	14000+

Race

The player's race is responsible for the initialization of player's statistics, and it is the first argument to launch the program. The race statistics are given in the following arrays.

ORC

Strength	Intellect	Swing Defense	Thrust Defense	Magic Defense	Hit Points	Mana Points
10	8	1	1	0	0	0

Tauren

Strength	Intellect	Swing Defense	Thrust Defense	Magic Defense	Hit Points	Mana Points
12	6	1	2	0	0	0

Human

Strength	Intellect	Swing Defense	Thrust Defense	Magic Defense	Hit Points	Mana Points
9	9	1	1	1	0	0

Elf

Strength	Intellect	Swing Defense	Thrust Defense	Magic Defense	Hit Points	Mana Points
6	12	0	1	2	0	0

Warrior Class

The player's warrior class is responsible for the updating of player's statistics, and it is the second argument to launch the program. The warrior class updating schemes are given in the following arrays.

Knight

Level	Bonus Hit Points	Bonus Mana Points	Bonus Strength	Bonus Intellect
1	10	0	2	0
2	15	0	4	0
3	20	0	6	0
4	25	0	8	0
5	30	0	10	0
6	40	0	12	0

Mage

Level	Bonus Hit Points	Bonus Mana Points	Bonus Strength	Bonus Intellect
1	8	20	2	8
2	12	40	3	16
3	16	60	4	24
4	20	80	5	32
5	24	100	6	40
6	30	120	7	48

Paladin

Level	Bonus Hit Points	Bonus Mana Points	Bonus Strength	Bonus Intellect
1	10	10	5	5
2	13	20	7	9
3	16	30	9	13
4	20	40	11	17
5	28	50	13	21
6	40	700	15	25

Enemies

There are plenty of enemies that appear on different levels. As the castle levels grow, the abilities of the enemies become more enhanced. The following array aggregates their stats to be prepared of what you will cope with.

Name	Hit Points	Weapon	Swing Defense	Thrust Defense	Magic Defense	Experience Points	Level
Priest	20	Mace	0	0	Infinity	30	1,2
Vampire	20	Dagger	0	0	Infinity	30	1,2
Knight	30	Blade of Light	3	3	1	50	2,3,4
Chaos Knight	30	Sword of Chaos	3	3	1	50	2,3,4
Bishop	40	Staff	0	0	5	60	2,3,4
Summoner	40	Summoning Staff	0	0	5	60	2,3,4
Paladin	100	Hammer of Wrath	5	3	2	80	3,4,5
Fallen Hero	100	Ebon Blade	5	3	2	80	3,4,5
Archangel	130	Divine Hammer	6	6	2	120	4,5,6
Friend	130	Demon Claws	6	6	2	200	5,6
Herald of Light	160	Lightbringer	Reduce to half	Reduce to half	Reduce to half	400	6
Herald of Chaos	160	Edge of Chaos	Reduce to half	Reduce to half	Reduce to half	400	6

The weapons of the enemies have the following stats. They are not boosted by any of the stats, they just use them to attack the player.

Name	Swing Damage	Thrust Damage	Magical Damage	Hit Points Bonus	Mana Points Bonus	Strength Bonus	Intellect Bonus
Mace	1d6 + 1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dagger	0	1d6 + 1	0	0	0	0	0
Blade of Light	0	2d6 + 1	1d3 + 1	0	0	0	0
Sword of Chaos	0	2d6 + 1	1d3 + 1	0	0	0	0
Staff	2d6 + 2	0	1d6 + 1	0	0	0	0
Summoning Staff	2d6 + 2	0	1d6 + 1	0	0	0	0
Hammer of Wrath	2d6 + 1	0	2d6 + 1	0	0	0	0
Ebon Blade	2d6 + 2	0	2d6 + 2	0	0	0	0
Devinne Hammer	0	2d6 + 4	2d6 + 2	0	0	0	0
Demon Claws	2d6 + 4	0	2d6 + 2	0	0	0	0
Lightbringer	1d6 + 2	3d6 + 2	0	0	10	10	10
Edge of Chaos	1d6 + 2	3d6 + 2	0	0	10	10	10

The meaning of <num1>d<num2> + <num3> is literally the results of a rolling dice. The <num1> specifies the number of dices, the <num2> the sides of each dice and the <num3> the constant quantity that will be added to the final result. This is the way that critical hits are modeled in the game.

Miscellaneous

• The player starts with a random weapon that does not belong to enemies weapons.
• The time in the game is discrete and depends on the player's actions. First the player executes its logic and then the game continues.
• Weapons change in a circular manner; meaning that if three weapons are on the same tile the player can change between them by just pressing the changing button multiple times. This is based on "conservation of items principal".
• At each beacon creation enemies are incremented by 2 and are becoming stronger and healthier.