Merge The Cultures

You start with raw ingredients and merge upward through components into finished dishes from different cuisines. The recipe tree is the level design here: each dish has to teach the ingredients the next one needs, so the player is always one merge away from recognising something.

I built the merge rules, the recipe progression and the scoring, and implemented the game in Unity. My partner drew the ingredient set, which had to stay readable at the size a merge grid gives you.