The Alchemist's Way

Final Project Game Jam (not really a game jam, but I did it in a short time with a game-jam-only quality)

You are an alchemist.  You operate a magical orb to create new elements from basic ones. However, the magical orb consumes the mana of each cell it visits, so you may not revisit a cell that you visited before. You aim to acquire the most precious ($) material in the world - the gem. 

Operations:

• W A S D: move
• R: restart the same level
• Y: generate a new game
• Z: undo (you can also undo by walking backwards)
• Mouse click on map: fast teleporting

Hint: after acquiring a new recipe, you need to "undo" or "restart" before you go to other exits.

The game experience with the idea of "hierarchical puzzle generation," where a large puzzle map is procedurally generated, and the map guides the generation of each small puzzle. Each small puzzle, in turn, influences the generation of the whole map. Unlike What The Witness, this game does not use an SAT-based solver for validation. A brute force search is used instead.