Neat concept!
I like the idea of combining ghosts. Although as with any combination mechanic I would like to know what the particular combination does without needing to craft and use it.
Ghost abilities control smoothly, but I think the little guy’s movement is too sluggish and becomes a little annoying.
Controls themselves could use a little work:
- There is only one line of text in a tutorial (that you can miss) saying you need to press Space to cook ghosts. I would like to see it somewhere on the screen when cooking, and also it your descriptions. It isn’t even listed under your “Spacebar: Action(…)”.
- The ability to just click on the ghosts to add them to pot would also be good. And since you use mouse for anything but cooking with Space, why not also add a UI button for cooking. This way the player doesn’t need to go back and forth between mouth and keyboard.
- I’m not sure why you need both [R] and [C]. [C] already returns you to the start of the level and is more functional.
Also, it’s not immediately obvious that the grave sprite is your objective. It doesn’t help that the very first level has some sort of alternative path, which is just nothing.
Nevertheless, great job!