Spaghetti Spell

Overview
Spaghetti Spell is a short farming game built in Unity in which players cultivate plants that are then used to cast spells. Not by harvesting them and using them as reagents, but by connecting the plants via roots and timing their growth so that they reach the final growth stage in sync. By stringing together different plants like this, different spells may be cast. 

Design
The goal of this game was to merge farming gameplay with an interesting magic system, deepening said gameplay and providing incentive to grow different plants that goes beyond monetary value and/or collecting.

I also wanted to explore translating visual scripting concepts into game mechanics. To do that, I structured the magic system so that the player connects nodes (crops) to each other via wires (roots), as is done in visual scripting. The fantasy and setting of farming games lend themselves surprisingly well to such a technical gameplay system and I think that's an interesting design space to be in.