Cabal Chemist

A shadowy cabal are bent on world domination through soft drinks with debilitating side-effects.

They've tasked you, a washed-up chemist, to design these drinks. Choose your ingredients, each with different effects, with the aim of making a drink that flies off the shelves but the customer regrets a day later, yet still comes back for more.

Pirate Software Game Jam July 2024 Entry. The theme was "Shadows and Alchemy".

View the game's design document here.

How to Play

Click and drag up to three of the ingredients into the slots at the centre of the screen. Each ingredient has its own effects, and an associated cost, shown on a tooltip when hovering over them. The combined effects of your drink, including any extra effects caused by the combination of ingredients, are shown below the slots. Your aim is to strike a balance between too many good effects (where the cabal's aim isn't met) and too many bad effects (which won't sell). You still want an overall negative effect, however.

Once you've chosen your ingredients, enter a name for your drink in the box at the bottom and click "Finished". You'll then be shown the result of your drink, and the number of points awarded.

You have twelve drinks to make, and are aiming to get a total of 1000 points (you can't make a drink with the same ingredients twice). You can check your previous drinks by clicking the "Show Notes" button.

Disclaimer

Many of the ingredients have harmful or even fatal side effects in real life. Do not attempt to eat them or use them in drinks.

Credits

Background image "Lab_bench.jpg" by Magnus Manske on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 1.0

Ingredient sprites "CC0 Potion Icons" by AntumDeluge on OpenGameArt.org. CC0

Fonts Caveat by Impallari Type and Bitter by Sol Matas. Both SIL