It’s actually quite hard to automatically find the best path for the character (take an item, heal a bit, another item, heal more, take the exit).
We considered that taking the first available route was a decent alternative, since you can decide yourself which objective are available first with the order of the pieces.
yes, I think you’d need some kind of A* that allows to backtrack once you reached certain points of interest, taking into account that you cannot have over 3 hearts, that monsters disappear when killed with a sword, etc.
Some people can probably do this in a few minutes, but it’s not something I would tackle in a 48h game jam :p
