Who would care for the Philosopher's Stone when selling potions can get a hardworking alchemist all the riches their heart desires? As it is claimed in your advertisements, potions brewed by you are worth their weight in gold.

In Potions Worth Their Weight in Gold, your goal is to mix up colorful potions to fulfill as many customer orders as possible in a single day of work.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Hold or click the right mouse button to grab ingredients flying by, and drop them into a cauldron.
• Click a cauldron to brew a potion matching the color of the liquid currently in the cauldron.
• Drag potions to the correct order, throw faulty ones to the ground, or let them float towards the customer on their own and hope for the best.
• Completing an order rewards gold coins and extra time. Delivering a wrong potion, or clicking the customer's order, makes the customer leave without paying.

ABOUT

Potions Worth Their Weight in Gold was made for ScoreSpace Jam #12, the first game jam I've participated.

Theme: Combining
Requirements: Highscore system
Time limit: 72 hours
Dates: 19th March 2021 to 22th March 2021

DESCRIPTION

Who would care for the Philosopher's Stone when selling potions can get a hardworking alchemist all the riches their heart desires?

You are the most famous alchemist in the city and business is going strong. Every day you are visited by both commoners and nobles with more orders than you could fulfill in a week. You have your apprentices helping you, of course, but sometimes you feel like they bring you more harm than good. In the end, you alone are responsible for mixing the right potions. And preferably as fast as possible. There is only a certain amount of customers you can help in a day. Even though today looks like no different than your average business day, you have a strong feeling that it is going to be highly profitable. After all, hard work always pays off when it comes to alchemy, and as it is claimed in your advertisements, potions brewed by you are worth their weight in gold.

In Potions Worth Their Weight in Gold, the player takes the role of an alchemist brewing colorful potions by combining the four basic ingredients: flower (yellow), mushroom (red), butterfly (blue), and egg (white). The goal of the game is to gain as many gold coins as possible by fulfilling orders made by the customers. Success in the game needs quick thinking and fast reflexes as potion ingredients are flying all over the screen and it is the player's job to catch the right ones. It is also important to watch for the ingredients you do not want to end up in the cauldron. Sometimes they tend to fall to the wrong place just at the wrong time... For additional challenges, the timer is constantly running down. How much gold can you gain in a single day?

PROJECT TEAM

lrdazrl: Game Design & Programming & Background music
4Apila: Visual Art & Sound effects & Background music

VIDEOS

Playthrough and review by Vykri:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/972554314