People have been asking what's so special about our spell crafting system. This is our answer.

So, in the last two years, our small team has been making an indie action-adventure game called Mages of Mystralia, in which you can craft your own spells. People are asking how this spell system is different from others.

This is an orb. One of the 4 basic spell archetypes in the game. Right now it's some sort of mine.

Let's add the 'Move' behavior, one of 8 available behaviors for the orb archetype.

My orb spell is now a fireball.

More behaviors can be added. Their effects stack. Duplicate adds additional copies of the spell

'Duplicate' on 'Orb': http://imgur.com/vx2Zvaw

This other spell archetype is a self spell. By default it's a simple shield.

This one can also benefit from the 'Move' behavior.

'Move' on 'Self': http://imgur.com/ts6KOxF

'Duplicate' also has a different effect in this context.

'Duplicate' on 'Self': http://imgur.com/NBsRns1

Augments modify an existing behavior. See what 'Left' does if I connect it to the 'Duplicate' behavior.

Augments influence all runes they're connected to.
If I put it on 'Move': http://imgur.com/TrzhVe5

As a 'Periodic' event, my decoy spell now casts the orb spell I was working on.

If I wanted I could also make these fireballs have an 'Impact' event, doing something when they hit a wall or target.

Weeeeeeeeeee!

Oh... you can also change the element of your spells.

So, when people ask us how customizable the spells are.
We reply: customizable AF.

Edit: thanks for upvoting, every little bit of support helps :)