I have no idea how you came up with this idea, built it and polished it to this extent in 48 hours. My hat is off to you.

The game’s relaxing and has a nice vibe to it, the concept is really cool and the visual style is top notch– but I think there are some issues with the user experience.

Basically, it’s quite difficult to predict what will come out of the factory, and it’s slow to iterate experiments, and the combinatoric nature of the problem means that you have to do a LOT of trial and error to figure out what the combinations are, and even once you do it’s possible to forget what they are. I almost gave up on the OX level because I couldn’t figure out how to make an X for quite a while, but I did eventually get it. (side note, why does this make Z’s instead of X’s? https://i.imgur.com/MRiUBAF.png)

I think the problem is that we all draw letters differently, and there’s a lot of potential ways one could combine letters to form other ones, and yet from that set of possibilities only one specific sequence of actions is accepted as the “correct” one, kind of arbitrarily. What I would suggest is some kind of way to signal what a given action will produce to the player in advance to at least speed up the trial and error process, or find some other means of reducing that barrier. Another thing that would be nice was if there was something to aid in remembering the combinations (maybe the ones you figure out would get saved somewhere or something like that).

Overall I’m in awe with how well this is put together in such a short time period. You must have your workflows down to a science.

one of the best games in this jam, can't wait to see this one in the top 20 video

5 stars all around. This game is really good! Really creative mechanic that gives you a lot of possibilities! I've beaten the main levels but haven't tried optimizing for score yet, the score calculation seems to make optimization a fun challenge as well.

Also super cool that you guys added a build your own word and share feature. I remember you did something similar for last year's jam and I think having some sort of sharing aspect for a jam game is incredible.

I don't have any constructive criticism besides things you've mentioned on stream like a being able to drag and rearrange + a recipe book.

There were a couple bugs I encountered though you might already be aware of them!

I got this error message as I disconnected a node I think (or it might have been deleting a factory type):

Rotating a Z should really count as an N :p

Y'all did a great job of coming up with this mechanic and cleanly implementing it in such a short amount of time. The first level feels like a pretty big leap for the player to make, but totally within the scope of the project. Perhaps I'm just bad at this, but once I figured out how to do a T, the rest of the game really clicked. Maybe adding one more complex letter to the tutorial might help unlock brains? 

Looks really nice. Good job :)

BUG: You can actually delete the word combiners in the levels. Love the game!

Hey, after the stream we submitted the GMTK level :) Hope you enjoy it! It was really fun to create!

This was literally mind-blowing, I and my friends spent like 2 hours just playing this... WOAH, I'm speechless, the creativity behind this is beyond words. Great job!

Really cool concept, so original. I got stuck trying to make a T, because I couldn't reflect the upside down L. Not sure how I was supposed to do it. Still, fantastic job in such a short time. 

Very nice game but I wish the letters that came out stacked on top of each other like blocks instead of layering