I'm afraid I'm one of those people who can't add ingredients, so I couldn't finish the game.
Nevertheless, the concept is good and everything visual seems to be properly implemented. There are some visual artifacts between the tiles when you move, but minor things.
I feel that the autumn theme is good, but the "things change when you look away" is missing. I thought it was something about growing outside screen, but a pumpkin advanced in grow state when I was in the same screen watching it.
Some comments about the gameplay:
- The diagonal move should be a must, since it feels bad not to be able to
- I would give it an second check to the UI. Would be good to be able to click with the LMB the item and also circle the items bar with the mouse scroll
- On the other hand, when you have an item selected it should pop up its name permanently or for a couple of seconds. Otherwise I don't know what I'm holding.
- The mission text in the corner makes it hard to read and that's rough since the game is hard to play without it. The goal should be to be able to play without text.
- Also, sometimes I already had an item a new mission asked me to collect, so I had to toss it and pick it back, instead of the system checking if I already had it.
- On the other hand, it is possible that the stack of items is bugged. I holded 5 items with a 2 leaves sprite, then tossed them and tried to pick them back and the game only allowed me to gather 1. While other items I can pick up to 10.
Anyways, good work and I hope you, the team, enjoyed developing it :)