The Alchemist's Apprentice

Story:

You were so close to reaching your magnum opus and then it happened... The curse of the ouroboros. And now you are trapped somewhere between the light and the darkness, not dead nor alive. The only way to break from this neverending cycle is to transmutate the elixir of  immortality, for which you have the recipe... If only you still had a presence in the physical realm...

Gameplay:

Working from the shadows all you can do is nudge the items that your minions are flinging around into the right cauldron to complete the recipes needed to craft the different ingredients needed to transmutate the elixir of immortality.

• You must recognize the appropriate items based on their shadow.
• Use your mouse to move the arm and nudge the items into the 3 cauldrons at the bottom of the screen.
• Fling your mouse kick and discard items that do not belong in any recipe away from the cauldrons.
• Some recipes can be crafted with items that your minions will fling at you. For example:
  • Lemonade: 3x Lemon
    
  • Veggie stew: Onion + Eggplant + Mushroom
• Some recipes require items that are crafted from another recipe. For example:
  • Wrench: 2x Bolt + Screw
  • Gold: 2x Wrench + Lemon
  • Philosopher's stone: Gold + Sapphire + Topaz

Scoring:

• Completing steps in a recipe awards points.
• Completing recipes faster and without wasting items awards bonus points.
• When items not appropriate for a recipe fall into the wrong cauldron you lose a percentage of energy.
• The game finalizes when you transmutate the elixir of immortality.
• The sequence of items that appear is deterministic and guaranteed to provide a consistend distribution of the items needed to craft the recipes at hand. Try to climb the ranks of the scoreboard.

Game design document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19dVwta4KwzfJX1nuROHEXvKA3Vcd7SA7Tmj2lqAdLk4/...

Credits:

• Music and SFX by Engirion: https://engirion.itch.io/
• Apprentice sprites by Kenny:
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/monster-builder-pack (CC0)
• Cauldrons by Nano:
  • https://nanokohi.itch.io/halloween-asset-pack (CC BY)
• Items by Kenny, Arjay Karat, GualtierisGG:
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/food-kit (CC0)
  • https://devilsworkshop.itch.io/low-poly-pixel-3d-mechanics-tool-set-asset-pack (CC0)
  • https://gualtierisgg.itch.io/low-poly-mini-rpg-bundle-gold-gems-etc (CC0)
  • https://gualtierisgg.itch.io/3d-low-poly-potions-and-flasks (CC0)
• Background by webtreats:
  • https://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/4740847847/in/album-72157625919510010... (CC BY)
• Fonts by GGFontNet
  • https://ggbot.itch.io/arrose-font (SIL OFL)
  • https://ggbot.itch.io/juliett-font (SIL OFL)
• VFX by Kenny:
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/particle-pack (CC0)
• Additional SFX from https://freesound.org/ (CC0)

Source code:

There is a preliminary (updated as of Sunday before the submission deadline) version of the source code available. I will make the final source code available once the voting period ends and I get some time to clean it up.