Tutorial:

Use the up and down arrow keys to move you truck.

Stop for shadows on the ground to get customers.

Make all the symbols the customer requests and put them in the pot to gain money.

Once you fulfill the order pull the gold cord to complete it.

If you can't fulfill the customer's order pull the red cord to get an easier one for less money.

Of course you can always drive off and skip the customer entirely but that isn't very profitable.

Symbols can be combined with others to make more symbols, use your book on the left to keep track of your transmutations.

You'll perish in the sunlight so make sure you have enough gold to sleep at the inn.

Try to go as long as you can without dying :)

(or play peaceful and don't worry about the time)

Every run starts with random ingredients to make each run unique.


Transmutation Rules:

Transmutations will happen for 1 of 3 reasons

Color: All different symbols of the same color

Symbol: All different colors of the same symbol

Combination: Some symbols will combine despite the first two rules. These are entirely dependent on their symbols. So if you see more symbols like that in the future it will also make a successful transmutation. 


Keep in mind the results of transmutations may be unexpected, make sure to try as many as you can.


(Thanks for reading this, I wanted to put it in the game but ran out of time :)

Design Doc

Comments

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Very Engaging but I would definately spend more time putting together a sheet just for the different combinations of ingrients so we can just have a lookup table on a seperate screen. I would also revamp time remaining so players can make it to day 20 on normal without too much trouble.  I would say that normal is hard right now.  Hats off to you for making a game in pico-8 for this jam. Its really well done and I know that mouse control in pico-8 is a pain as well.

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I really like the design! The game looks very smooth!