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Hey!!   Kudos on getting this complex game up and running!  I did 24 waves, so there is something grabby about your game for sure.  I really like the idea of the elemental currencies and combining them in different ways.  That's a cool unique idea! 

Tower defense games really depend on balancing and design.  BALANCE: Here the balance is a little too easy, so I don't really have to think about what I'm doing.  I just put towers down and upgrade them a lot, and I can play for a long long time without ever losing any life.  In a good tower defense game you should worry about dying in the first 5-10 waves.  You should be forced to make a specific plan to deal with specific enemy type.  Often there are suddenly a bunch of fast enemies that force you to slow them down.  Something like that.  DESIGN: There are a lot of things the player needs to understand in a tower defense game.  What do all the towers and enemies do?  What would strategic and non-strategic decisions look like?  Currently I can't really tell in this game.  I can't really tell what the different towers do, if they have different ranges, different effects, so I don't know why one would be better in one place or another.  I don't know how the different enemies are strong or weak.  In a game like this I need all that info so I can make a plan.   Currently the clearest tower is the magma tower, because I can see exactly which tiles it affects and when.  Its range and attack frequency are very clear, though I'm not exactly sure about its effect. Damage + Slow??

Another important issue here is that upgrading currently feels totally unrewarding.  Mostly I don't see anything different and I can't even see damage numbers go up.  I want to see those towers get bigger and badder!  Instead of having lots of cheap upgrade levels, you should consider having just a  few (3-10) , but upgrades that cost a lot more, so when I make an upgrade it feels big and meaningful.   I should be saving up, and hoping to upgrade a tower just in time to save the day. 

Have you played the Kingdom Rush tower defense games?  I think those are some of the best ever made and worth checking out. 

Nice work on this!  I hope you keep working on it!