Alchemy
A game of alchemy where you advance on the Tree of Life.
As you advance, the movements get easier.
The game is written in Fennel Lisp. Includes some obscure complex mathematics and weird emanations of forms.
Symbology and philosophy
The sephiroth correspond to planets among other correspondances. The birds have symbolical meanings in alchemy.
Game objective
You collect things from a hexagonal map that are related to the ten holy sephiroth, and keep the tree in balance while doing so – otherwise you might slip back levels.
The objective is to collect the things on the game board in such a way, the you always have at least the same amount of things for the lower level as for higher levels – otherwise you slip down back to a lower level, and lose the things collected above that level.
You win, when you reach Kether – the topmost sephirah. This is a Lisp Game Jam submission done in 10 days, and I did not have time to do many things, like announce winning the game on reaching Keter.
Movement
The basic movements are UP and DOWN arrow keys, and the A, S, X, Z keys for diagonal movements.
On Yesod level you can wrap around the board edges, and on Tiphereth level you can move sideways with left and right arrow keys.
Links
Play the game on the web browser on the Tic-80 site:
https://tic80.com/play?cart=2302 or just the html game:
http://composed.nu/alchemy/
Source code is on Github :
https://github.com/peterhil/alchemy
Download
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love the look of the game, and the use of fennel. FYI you have left the cheats enabled.
Thanks. Yeah, I know the cheats were there – I’ll polish the game on next version. And anyway the cheats does not really help you much. :-)
The game is also available on the Tic-80 web site: https://tic80.com/play?cart=2302
Move the player hexagonally with keys: Up and down arrow, and A, S, Z, X for diagonal movements.
Yesod gives you the ability to wrap around the board. As a peacock, you can more easily move sideways.