I received a lot of excellent feedback from people (especially during a live play test) and was able to bring you some new game mode features!

Game Mode Changes

• (ADDED) Big Match Powerup: I wanted to reward longer match chains so now when you create a match that is 10 or greater it will spawn a monster with better stats. I think this will likely become a permanent addition to the game because it encourages and rewards taking risks to make big matches.
• (ADDED) Empowered Tiles: There is a 1 in 100 chance that a tile that summons monsters will be glowing. This tile gives you a bunch of resources to summon more monsters. This might be something that only appears on side columns that you've unlocked as a reward for expanding your play grid.
• (REMOVED) Match Cap: It wasn't fun and didn't bring dynamics into the game, just waiting for your move again. Lesson learned!

Other Changes

Lots of small things I likely forgot about here, but this is the highlights.

• When you click and drag, the pitch of the collection sound rises up
• Fixed the dirt tile so it looks less like a meatball 🍽️
• Fixed Z-fighting for the monsters on the battlefield

In the Next Update...

The next update will be where I start adding a bit more depth and visual polish to the game.  There is a lot I would like to do so it might take a few weeks since I'm bouncing between personal projects, a day job, and commissioned work. Here are my goals:

• Spend coins to unlock blood and skull tiles
  • Match flesh to evolve blood
  • Match bones to evolve skulls
• Collect mana by matching large groups
• Spend mana for temporary boosts
  
  • Increase damage of your monsters
  • Empower a random tile on the grid
• Blood and skull tiles summon stronger monster
• Better UI to display coins and mana
• A UI element to better show where the battle is so you can tell if you need a big summon without looking up
• Some animations or particle effects for collecting
• Better enemy AI that escalates their attack as time goes on