Elematter Unblocked

Elematter asks one question again and again: what is coming next, and what kills it best? Every enemy belongs to Earth, Water, Air or Fire, and so does every tower you build. Each element hits one other element 50 percent harder, so a tower in the wrong spot is merely weak, but the wrong tower anywhere is wasted money. Jack Rugile made this compact game for js13kGames 2014. You can play Elematter unblocked here, with sound effects that are generated in code rather than loaded from files.

Fragments, Towers and Twenty Waves

Your money is called fragments, and you begin with 500. Click any empty gray square next to the road and a menu offers four towers:

Tower	Cost	Strong against
Earth	200	Air
Air	250	Water
Fire	250	Earth
Water	300	Fire

Hover a choice to compare damage, range and fire rate before buying. Each tower takes two upgrades, and a small white marker lights up when you can afford the next one. Reclaiming a tower refunds 75 percent of everything you put into it.

Hit Play and enemies enter from the left. Each one that reaches the far end costs one of your thirteen lives. Waves get faster and tougher as they go. Waves 5, 10, 15 and 20 each bring a single huge boss of one element that has far more health but crawls at half speed.

Clear wave 20 and your score is the fragments still in your bank plus 100 for every life you kept. Run out of lives and the board resets.

Elematter controls

To do this	Mouse	Touch
Open the tower menu on a free square	Click any empty gray square beside the path	Tap an empty square
Place a tower	Click Earth, Water, Air or Fire in the menu (hover to see its stats)	Tap the element
Improve or refund a tower	Click the tower, then the upgrade or reclaim button	Tap the tower, then the button
Start or pause the waves	Click Play at the top	Tap Play
Set the speed	Click x1, x2 or x3	Tap x1, x2 or x3
Bring the next wave early for extra fragments	Click Send Next at the bottom right	Tap Send Next

Building to Counter

The bottom bar shows a Next counter with how many of each element are in the coming wave. Use it every single time. A few concrete pointers:

• Fire first. The opening wave is eleven Earth enemies and the second is mostly Earth too, so two Fire towers early pay for themselves.
• Prepare each boss ahead of time. They arrive as Earth, then Water, then Air, then Fire. That means you want strong Fire, Air, Earth and Water towers ready, in that order.
• Water on the straights. It slows what it hits and picks random targets, so on a long straight it spreads the slow across a crowd.
• Air in the curves. It has the longest reach, and from inside a bend it can cover several sections of road.
• Send early only when stable. The early-call bonus fades fast, so decide right away or not at all.

Speed controls at x1, x2 and x3 let you breeze through easy waves and slow down when a boss is near.

Where It Fits

Elematter has a clear finish line, which sets it apart from endless defense games. Its twenty waves feel like a puzzle you can solve over a few attempts. For a run that never ends, Canvas Tower Defense is the opposite approach. More planning games live under strategy games.