Unstable mage by Trizalio
Unce upon a time there was a disaster in the world, that caused all creatures to rush to Astle Castle for salvation. However, castle is too small to save everyone, only one kin can be saved. You are Unstable mage, which tries to supress chaos and decide who survive.
Races
There are three factions: - undeads; - daemons; - greenskins.
Which's yours?
Spells
Stop other creatures with fire, frost and lightning. Choose carefully: it could kills your guys!

The goal
Just keep most of the creatures of choosen faction to save them in castle.
Controls
Drag spells to the battlefield (via left mouse click or touch).
Credits
Music used from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com
| Link | https://github.com/Trizalio/LD49 |
| Link | https://trizalio.itch.io/unstable-mage |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/unstable-mage |
Ratings
| Overall | 874th | 3.435⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 543th | 3.604⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 511th | 3.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1188th | 3.021⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 923th | 3.417⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 392th | 3.625⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 547th | 3.261⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 879th | 3.292⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Pretty solid entry.
the concept seems nice, but the execution is a bit chaotic, due to usually missing hints.
I did manage on third attempt to get the demons to occupy the castle.
Note - play and rate some games, guys, don't be surprised you have only few rates - you still have some time to move up in the list for people doing last attempt to save games from the danger zone
Element stuff is insane and I wish there were more space to experiment with these spells and combinations, but I know that jams are hard. Hope you will continue developing this mechanic.
Music gives strong tetris vibes, I like it.
Overall - interesting ideas, fun game. Good luck!
The only issue is the **lack of unicity** in the monsters: _with the only exception being the vampire_, the monsters type or race don't really matter at all, they're pretty much the same; the vampire instead makes you think twice, his """"""passive"""""" makes him unique
Maybe some post-jam updates with **skill trees**, different **maps** which change the grid and add permanent objects ( for example an hell map with volcanos that erupt and burn near enemies ) and some sort of **campaign gamemode** to make the game much longer
The game is really good and ,with some polishing and a huge update, could become a great commercial game
Keep the good work up!
Fairly well done, I had fun playing it even though I lost horribly to the monsters haha
There's an issue with displaying text as others have noted, and I also saw this rare bug where an undead moved onto another character's space (upper left corner):

Not a real big deal, but I thought you might want to know in case you do a post-jam version with bug fixes.
Overall great job, and I hope you can get enough ratings before the deadline!
Also the SFX are pretty good.
I first though no enemy should reach the castle but after a while I tried to figure out what party will have what effect. I enjoyed it a lot :D
the spell available!
Excellent graphics and sounds.
Great entry!
(please help us to get 20 rating too :D)
Keep it up ! ;)