Spell Beats is a spellcaster with rhythm. Parry and dash melee attacks while rhythmically casting magical spells.

## About This Game
Spell Beats is a spell casting rhythm game. A spell’s power is tied to how
well you can play its beat. You can punch stronger, heal quicker, and throw
harder while sustaining a rhythm. Mastery will be the result of perfecting
simultaneously playing spell beats while strategically responding to enemy
attacks, positioning, and elemental states.

Every spell has an expected input key sequence and each input key is
associated with an interval and a sound cue. If you play the right input
timing, then the associated sound cue for each input key is emitted revealing
a unique spell beat.

You can cast a variety of spells such as punches, hammer throws, a heal, and
elemental spells. The punches and hammer throws have their own version of
fire, water, and ice elements. You can decide to throw an ice hammer or a fire
hammer, maybe you want to change your elemental defense type to water or to
fire, or perhaps you want to fire punch or ice punch a target.

Enemies can cast a variety of ranged, melee, and special spells too. They can
heal themselves, change their elemental status, throw elemental hammers, and
execute various punches and ground attacks. You can dodge these attacks by
dashing or you can parry specific punches. Dashing and parrying drain your
stamina and you must be careful to manage it properly. If you lose all your
stamina, then you will enter into an exhausted state that limits your ability
to do anything for four seconds.

Elements add a tactical component to the game. Some enemies can change their
elemental status to none, water, ice, or fire. Fire is strong against ice but
weak against water, ice is strong water but weak against fire, and water is
strong against fire but weak against ice. There is an implicit rule that
enemies will always cast elemental spells that match their elemental defence.
It allows you to know which elemental attack is best to use and which
elemental defense is best to change to.

Apart from the gameplay, there is a small story foundation surrounding the
levels of the game. It takes place in a realm where malevolent beings have
imprisoned your soul. You must fight in their coliseum to earn your freedom.
The coliseum consists of malevolent embodied statues surrounding an enclosed
battleground. Currently, there are ten levels with a mixture of tutorials and
boss battles where the ninth and tenth levels allow you to make use of all
available spells.

Spell Beats