Abigail's Apothecary

Very nice idea! I included it in my compilation video series of all of the GM48 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/UEdGTFt7opw

It's a really cool idea, but I think maybe you should have limited ingredient to either color or shape, the complete randomness is kinda disorienting.
Apart from that, art and sound are pretty good :)

Definitely not my kind of game so I won't criticize the gameplay, but i can say that both art and sounds were done really really well.

I understand the concept (certain vials/ingredients make certain colours/bottles and you have to figure it out through experimentation) but I really found it hard to wrap my head around what was going on. I think the main issue it that it's hard to remember all the combinations you've already done. It would be nice for the game to keep track of the potions you've made or vials/ingredients you've used in some way to alleviate this.

The visual style is really nice and gives the game a nice magical sort of feel. The music and sound effects are also good and help to support the mood. The voices are okay but they can get a bit repetitive. Perhaps they would work better if there were more possible lines for each action? It could also help to accompany the lines when you do something wrong with an error noise to make it more clear that you messed up.

When I figured what did what, I was screwed the next game where the rules were reversed (ingredients for shapes instead of colors). The problem, aside that the components have a limit, is that it's difficilt to remember what does what. For an actual game, it's fine, but for a jam game, I'm not sure I necessarily want to go through that effort xD

Aside that the game was fun and the sounds were funny (Whoops, buttery fingers)

EDIT to further my feedback:

People always play at random at first because they don't know how the game works at first (only you do). So our first tries will never be scientific (unless the game really pushes you to). So I fiddled around first, then did the scientific approach. But I'm not fond of using my memory and really don't want to note it on a sheet of paper neither, like most players. So it felt a bit too effortful for me. Having an easy mode can ease this a lot, where each combination you tried is revealed to you. That helps people like me who's strength isn't memory.

I enjoyed solving the puzzles and understood what was going on right away, but maybe the first level could have each ingredient add an icon to the edge of the grid to help people who are struggling?

It sounds like you are aware of the level skip glitch, but I had a good time going through out of order nonetheless.

Nice sounds and art, well done, the problem is the gameplay, interesting idea but it's a little bit hard to understand and this affects negativly fun.

Sound effects were awesome!!!! Who ever did you voice over sounded very believable for the role of selling potions.

Everything did seem very random. I tried to catch patterns but found none. Are the potions all randomly generated or is their an actual pattern?

Nice work and concept!