I'm mostly just posting this as an easy way to share it with my interested friends who want to try it, but this started as an attempt to make a falling-block puzzle game with only one button controls.
Starting with the four basic elements: Earth, Fire, Water, and Air; you drop clusters of elemental tiles into the well. Matching 3 or more tiles horizontally or vertically clears those tiles, but leaves their essence behind. Tiles that land inside the essence may have a reaction, leading to them being cleared or changed into another, perhaps undiscovered by you, element.
I don't consider the current slate of elements to be complete, but depending on how the game feels to play, I might end up overhauling all of the elements and their reactions before I'm satisfied with it.
Now that only with three tiles are aligned horizontally could be possible to make elements, it's suggested to make the tile bunches drop tile by tile as what Tetris does(albeit it may break the intended concept of one-button controls, if that matters). Otherwise it's all too easy to break down the game flow.
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