Glymph

I love Auralux and Osmos as two of the best real time strategy games. I've combined inspiration from these two masterpieces into something that I hope is original and absorbing.

• Strategy and action: ambient, physics-based game-play
• Rich variety of different tactics
• Light on ads: 26 ad-free levels. Then 1 ad every 10-20 minutes
• For a good cause: half our revenue goes to World Land Trust
• No tricks: no pay to win or money traps

If you like games that make you think, and sometimes get your pulse racing, then hopefully you'll like Glymph .

The backstory:

A virus is infecting your host's glymphs. Rogue glymphs are absorbing the body's energy, using it to overrun all the glymphs in the system. Fortunately, you retain control of a few glymphs: harvest energy, build up supply lines, and manoeuvre strategically to regain control.

(how was that for a backstory?)

The money part: for a good cause

Glymph has no pay-to-win or money traps. The first 26 levels have unlimited play. If you want more, you can buy more levels, or watch ads.

If you choose to do that, we would love to use the money to raise $15,000 to help our natural world. World Land Trust is an international conservation charity, which protects the world's most biologically important and threatened habitats. They create permanently protected wildlife reserves, and have saved hundreds of thousands of acres. Our promise from the Glymph game is to donate half our net revenues to World Land Trust, to reach our target of $US 15k. Details in-game and on our website.

Features:
-• 100 individually crafted levels. Each one unique.
-• You choose whether to watch ads, and when to watch them
• Preview any level for free
• It works offline
• Play in portrait or landscape. So what? Apparently some people quite like that
• Accessibility adjustments, if you are colour blind, or have restricted mobility

A bit more about the game

The first few levels are quite a lot like Auralux. You direct energy against enemies to conquer them. When there are several enemy players, you have to be careful about the balance of power: don't let any of them get too strong.

It is when movement comes into play that Glymph becomes distinctive. Like Osmos, you can eject energy to propel glymphs into different positions. You can evade enemy fire, take cover, or occupy strategic positions. Your enemy has limited use of movement, so you can prevail even when heavily outnumbered.

Proximity to energy sources is important. Energy dissipates rapidly away from it's centre. Small changes in how energy sources are positioned can substantially alter the dynamics of a level.

Obstacles and barriers are the other key factors. Some of the levels are maze-like: you will establish complex supply lines, and be caught off-guard by surprising angles of fire.

I hope you'll find there is a lot of variety in Glymph. Some of my favourites:
• the 'Phaligocyte' level is about carefully managing the balance of power; knowing when to take the centre ground, and what to do with it.
• 'Exosteric' needs a succession of daring raids right through to the end.
• 'Amyldase' makes me sweat: hold your nerve, and pick them off one by one.
• 'Archoseme' is frustratingly like trench warfare. The enemy's core seems impregnable, but patiently gain ground until you're positioned for a final assault.
• '51st State' was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but it's rather epic to play. It took me nearly an hour to complete the first time.