Artusi: Cooking Time

Artusi: Cooking Time is a match-three mobile game. Every level is based on a recipe by the famous Italian gourmet Pellegrino Artusi.

Playing a level means going step by step through the recipe: every non-trivial action of the recipe is modeled as collecting some ingredients from the board and processing them with the appropriate kitchen tool. Up to three tools can be active at the same time, each one requiring different ingredients (raw or obtained from a previous action). Some actions are constrained to be completed in no more than a specific number of moves (which is a metaphor for performing real cooking actions with appropriate timing). Completing an action usually produces a new composite/processed ingredient: if the active tool "knife" asks for 10 tomatoes, when you finish collecting them you get on the board new elements ('cut tomato pieces') to be used in the next phase. This goes on until you lose (by exceeding the number of moves) or successfully complete all the steps in the recipe.

Collecting a certain amount of "cooking hat" elements from the board allows to perform a special moves referred as "cooking trick". Depending on where you apply the "cooking trick", you get a different kind of bonus (gaining extra moves on a tool, collecting ingredients from a 3x3 region of the board, increasing the collected count of a specific ingredient).

When completing all the steps of the recipe under an extra constraint (keeping the moves count timer in the "green" area), you can attempt the “Final Touch”: a single-move puzzle that, when solved, rewards the player with a "Golden Leave", which can be used to gain a "cooking trick" move without collecting hats from the board. Alternatively, "Golden Leaves" can be obtained through in-app purchases.