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pretend this is a classic instruction manual:
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the witch Sophia has recently moved into a town to take up the role of apothecary. the problem is, she wants "efficient" solutions to problems, so she wants to craft incantations that will add ingredients to her cauldron for her through the use of advanced recursive magic.

assemble an incantation by selecting parts in the INCANTATION menu. if you make a mistake, simply reset your Game Boy handheld console!

an incantation can consist of many phrases! Sophia can remember up to 32, but she won't need that many.

a PHRASE in an incantation may be one of TEMPORALITY or IMPELLING...
TEMPORAL magic governs looping and branching.
IMPELLING magic governs manipulating matter.

PHRASES will be executed in sequence, at least once looping phrases have concluded.

the words in Sophia's spellbook at this time are:
* DUM - "while"
* DUM NI - "while not"/"until"
* VIDES - "see" (that's the only predicate right now, so it's inserted for you when you select DUM or DUM NI!)
* GRADIE - "step"/"advance"
* CAPE - "capture"/"take"

an example phrase, taking words from the included recipe, is:

Dum vides Hollyhock,
Gradie.

or, in plain English:
While you see hollyhock, advance.

all of Sophia's herbs and mushrooms are laying out in a row on her shelf. a condition like "Dum vides Hollyhock" will examine the currently "focused" item on the shelf, starting from the far left. if the condition is TRUE, then the linked action will take place.

GRADIE moves the "focus" of the incantation one step to the right.

CAPE take the "focused" item and immediately deposits it into the cauldron, moving focus back to the far left.

if the incantation is completed and the correct items are put in the cauldron in the correct order, you win!

if something goes wrong or the wrong items end up in the cauldron, then you lose..

controls:

left and right: switch columns in the menu
up and down: if viewing an incantation part, toggle which is selected. if previewing your incantation, move forward or backward in the incantation.
A: make a selection if a spell "word" is focused in the menu
B: doesn't do anything :) every action is committal :)
SELECT: view the recipe
START: confirm the incantation and cast it

n.b.: this is extremely a demo! things will go wrong in unexpected ways, things will be obtuse, undefined behavior will occur, and this will be expanded on in the future with more recipes and more complex and long incantations!

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