Pieces of Cake

EDIT: Updated version now supports mouse controls (and touch controls, but it won't work too well on the BBS - try the itch.io version to play on your phone!) 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. 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.