About Warding Towers
The arcade game Missile Command, on the wardens' wall of a fantasy city at night. A comet storm is falling on six districts of lit timber houses, and three mage towers stand on the wall with crystals at their crowns. Tap the sky: the nearest tower throws a ward-bolt there, and it bursts into a rune circle that burns every comet inside it.
A comet that burns out bursts into a smaller ward of its own, so one good throw can chain through a cluster. Each wave is faster and thicker: violet comets split on the way down, and wyverns cross the sky dropping more. Each tower has ten bolts a wave; unspent bolts and standing districts score at the end of it, times a multiplier that climbs to six.
The night ends when the last district burns. The endless night is a new sky every time; the daily night is the same sky for everyone. The Ten keep the best nights of each, and every night on them was re-played by the site before it was ranked.
How to play
- Goal
- Shield the six districts of the city: tap the sky to throw ward-bolts that burst and burn falling comets out.
- How it ends
- The night ends when the last district burns. Every wave you survive refills the towers.
- Record
- The ten best scores on the endless night and on the daily night, each re-played by the site before it is ranked.
- Tap or click the sky just ahead of a falling comet: a bolt flies there and bursts into a ward.
- Comets inside a ward burn out, and each bursts into a smaller ward that can take its neighbours.
- Spend bolts carefully: ten per tower per wave, and unspent ones score when the wave is held.
Controls
| Tap · Click | Throw a bolt from the nearest tower |
|---|---|
| Arrows | Move the aim (Shift for fine) |
| A · S · D | Throw from the left, centre or right tower |
| Space | Throw from the nearest tower |
| Escape | Pause |
The simulation uses only + − × ÷ and square roots and plans each wave's comets from the seed alone, so every browser re-plays a night to the same score and the daily sky is the same for everyone; the records worker re-plays every night before it enters the Ten. Your bests stay in this browser under morass.warding-towers.v1. No ads or analytics run inside the game.
