Pieces of Cake (PICO-8 Advent Calendar)

You're baking cakes for the Winter holidays! You do this by putting ingredients into a tray and trying to score the most points by assembling the longest combos possible!

This is an entry in the 2018 PICO-8 Advent Calendar - day #10.

Controls

This game uses standard PICO-8 controls, so keyboard only for now (sorry!).

Arrows - select stuff, Z - confirm, X - cancel

How to play

The easiest way to learn is the "how to play" option in-game, but here is the gist:

• You make cakes by playing tiles into the tray. When the tray fills up, the cake is baked and scored.
• You get a recipe for each cake. The total score on tiles with a given ingredient has to at least match the number in the top-left corner.
• Tiles with the same ingredients fuse together when placed next to each other.
• Tiles with different ingredients interact through links. There are colored knobs on the sides of tiles. A red knob means that a tile will link with a red tile in this direction (the color of the score tag matters). Tiles earn bonus points when linked (equal to the lowest score already on them) and swap places.
• You can use all that swapping to make combos, which score extra points to all the tiles in your tray.
• Every link or fuse that you make earns you an extra tile to use.