Wardstone Quartet

Earth, Water, Air and Fire towers hold a winding road, and each element hits one other for half again as much. Twenty waves, four bosses, thirteen lives.

Revived Revived from Elematter by Jack Rugile, MIT. Source: github.com/jackrugile/elematter-js13k (commit b7c4c0a9e064). Credits

Year: 2014
Era: One-Tap
Genre: Tower Defense

Play Wardstone Quartet

Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.

Revived Credits

Revived from Elematter by Jack Rugile, MIT. Source: github.com/jackrugile/elematter-js13k (commit b7c4c0a9e064).

This is not an Eracade original. It keeps its own licence, and the credit belongs to the people who made it. We adapted it to run on Eracade.

Original licence · Every revived game

How to play

Click or tap a grey tile, then pick a tower.
Arrow keys move the cursor, A builds or upgrades, B cycles the element, sells (press twice) or changes speed on a road tile, Enter starts or sends the next wave.
P to pause.

On touch

Tap a grey tile, then tap a tower in the panel.
Tap Send Next for an early bonus.

Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.

Workshop note

Revived from an open-source 2014 tower defence: the road, the tower and wave tables and the damage rules are the original. The map is turned to portrait for phones, taps snap to the nearest buildable tile, and the score adds kills, wave bonuses and what you have left at the end. Water towers pick targets from the run seed.

The Eracade workshop

Target scores

1800
22,000
33,500
45,000
56,500
68,000
79,500
811,000

Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.

The One-Tap era, 2012–2014

One thumb, big flat colours and endless runs built for the bus stop.

More One-Tap cabinets

High scores

The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.