Thanks. I did consider something like that, bit I had enough new things I was learning this jam already and felt like it would fit the limitation sightly less well. Do you remember which other game was similar to mine? I'd love to play it.
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I think it was this https://itch.io/jam/mini-jam-94-baking/rate/1296665 In that case you build a path for a cake to move it to the oven.