Hi there!
This was a nice cozy game, and I spent way too long trying to perfect the first recipe. I like the bit where the steps are initially an unknown and you have to explore (or get grandma to help you) in order to unlock them.
I also really like the knife motion and the page flip, good wwoork!
For improvements, I would do the following:
- Reduce the clicks between summoning ingredients, I feel that the extra motion of opening the book, then dragging the cursor to the ingredient becomes a chore if you are trying to experiment with a lot of ingredients.
- Personally i find the text is a hard to read, so either increasing the font size, or choosing a more legible pixel font
Minor suggestions
- Would be cool for the item on the board to remain where it was placed instead of snapping
- I would have a single pane instead of 2, the chopping board on the left and cookstove on the right. Then like the ingredient names/icons at the edges of the screen where I could just drag and drop them on the counter (yes, this is not an easy feature but would be really cool to have)
Overall I can see the effort that's gone into this game, so kudos to you!