Canopy Curse Conundrum

Canopy Curse Conundrum is a turn-based strategy game where the player tries to turn all the hexagonal tiles on the board from neutral or hazard tiles to friendly tiles.

Activate spells by arranging plants in particular patterns to remove hostile tiles and achieve victory.

General mechanics:

To move Achahuitl 

•  On mouse and keyboard left click on the tile 
•   On the controller, first go to focus mode and change what tiles are selected using the left joystick, bottom action button 

To toggle freecam mode and focus mode for controller

•  Q for keyboard
•  left action button on controller 

 To move and rotate camera 

•  On mouse and Keyboard use WASD to move and right click and drag to move 
• On controller you must first be in freecam mode. Use the left joystick to control the camera and right joystick to rotate 

To zoom in or out 

• Mouse wheel for keyboard 
• Upper trigger on left and right 

 To pause 

•  Hit escape on keyboard 
•  Hit start on controller

 To end a turn 

• Hit Enter on the keyboard 
• hit top action button on a controller 

 To take mana from a plant tile 

• Scroll wheel on mouse 
• Hit the left action button on controller

Gameplay

• Achahuitl can move only 5 tiles per turn, when selecting movement make sure it’s within range
• To turn a badlands tile into a plant tile, Achahuitl must be standing on it. Select the tile and left click or hit A to use mana to turn into a plant tile
• Achahuitl only has 3 mana to use per turn 
• Grass tile uses 1 mana
• Bush tile uses 2 mana
• Sapling tile uses 3 mana
• You can take mana back from any plant tile using middle click or B, but it will only give 1 mana
• You cannot accumulate over 3 mana
• Achahuitl can only turn badlands tiles into plant tiles, the player cannot change toxic tiles with Achahuitl
• Toxic tiles will spread if they are adjacent to plant tiles one tier below their level

Tiles

• Grass tiles can only be used to cast spells or to get back mana
• Bush tiles can only be used to cast spells or get back mana
• Sapling tiles can’t do anything but will grow into trees or to get back mana
• Trees can remove toxic tiles with the use of spells
• Toxic tiles can melt down and convert any plant tile into a toxic tile one tier down from the initial toxic tile
  • Toxic level 2 can convert a tile into toxic level 1
  • Toxic level 3 can convert a tile into toxic level 2
• Toxic tiles cannot interact with badlands tiles
• Toxic tiles will only spread when in contact with plant tiles, they will not act by themselves

Grass Grow

3 grass tiles placed adjacent to each other in a C formation will spread an extra tile at the end of the turn

Tree Grow

3 bushes surrounding a sapling will make the sapling grow into a tree

The bushes cannot be touching

Tree Beam

3 trees adjacent to each other in a C formation will shoot out a wave that will knock out levels 1 and 2 of toxic tiles

Throw cannon

 2 sets of bushes placed adjacent to each other with a tree set at the end will throw a tree 5 tiles forward. The launch path of the tree will knock out all toxic tiles as well as the tile the tree lands on, and all adjacent tiles