Heroes Line

This game was my entry for the "Game in a Week XI" competition. It is a puzzle game where you match classes that are effective against your opponent and try to achieve a high score by matching as many as possible per line.

Each stage or "Mission" follows a simple format of having 1 to 5 rows and 1 to 5 columns of "Heroes" and "Enemies". Aside from having to match the characters against your opponent each stage has 3 difficulities: Easy, Normal, and Hard. Also, each stage has a unique challenge in hard mode.


Controls:

- F5 Key:
The F5 key changes the screen from normal to full screen or vice versa.
(Please do not use the ALT + Enter combo to switch out of it while the screen
is full.)

- Arrow keys:
The arrow keys allow you to select Heroes while in a mission and move then when
selected.

- CTRL Key:
The CTRL key selects the currently highlighted Hero to move with the Arrow keys.
Pressing it again will unselect it.

- ALT Key:
The ALT key pauses the game while in a mission.

- SHIFT Key:
The Shift lets you use a bomb while in mission mode. Bombs are limited in
quantity and when used they kill all the enemies in the front row. Certain
enemies are not affected by bombs and others may take reduced damage.

- Confirm Key:
The Confirm key initiates battles while in a mission.

- Cancel Key:
The Cancel brings up the mission options menu while in a mission. The options
are "Retry", "Give Up", and "Return". Retry restarts the battle, Give up lets you
back to the mission select menu, and Return, returns you to the mission.

Gameplay:

Like I mentioned above the goal of the game is to defeat your opponent's troops by matching the classes that defeat them, but that is not all that there is to the game. Some stages will require you to defeat a single monster or "Leader" in order to end the battle and there are a few twists on the basics as you progress.

The game is meant to be played from Easy mode to remember the combinations then onto Normal to practice your skills and finally to Hard to challenge yourself. There is no real challenge in either Easy or Normal mode, since I did not have the time to set a unique challenge for each difficulty so I only did so for Hard mode. This however, does not mean that other modes are not fun, they're just not very challenging.

In missions you will see a status window showing the stats of your hero and opponents, the stars on these windows tell you how effective your hero is from the opponent across of it.

- The Gold star means that when this battler attacks it will instantly defeat its
opponent.
- The Silver star means that when this battler attacks it will do double damage.
- The Bronze star means that when this battler attacks it will be defeated no
matter how much HP it has.

Notes:
- I am aware of the issue with the music and the only way to fix it is to find a
musician to add the looping tags.

- The cursor and character movement is going to be bad at first, there is no way
around this. Just start on the first stage on Easy mode and you should get used
to it pretty fast.

- I hope you guys catch them all... Look hard!

Have a nice day!