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Mouse House

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Audio1463.71
Graphics1494.19
Mood2613.59
Humor3312.91
Fun3313.33
Overall3593.47
Theme4653.56
Innovation7922.25

Comments

tauka 2016-12-12 06:15

Excellent style, graphics and mood! It's simple, yet done incredibly good.

spacerelated 2016-12-12 06:15

Very cute and fun. Only complaint is that the camera pans very slowly.

zarkonnen 2016-12-12 09:44

Very stylish, fun despite simple gameplay. Cat is creepy and has a weirdly human face in some frames.

onyon 2016-12-12 10:15

Nice art and screen effect, what I didn't like was the camera following too slow if you fall down from somewhere and I think it would be nice to have some kind of indicator of where the cat is or how much of the room is left till the finish line.

Thumbs up though, nice job!

pietdagamer 2016-12-12 11:01

Great graphics style and mood!

Hint for the next time, please name your zips something like "MouseHouse-linux.zip" instead of "Linux.zip" :)

tuism 2016-12-12 11:43

Really neat little package that fares well enough on execution but not enough on game design.

> The camera follow is too slow. Sometimes you'd fall off the screen AND can't see the ground coming up and that's pretty bad in a game about anticipating what's ahead.
> Thematically speaking... Mouse traps would be pretty much a dead stop. When I didn't stop I pretty much assumed it was a bug. Maybe find something else to stop you with.
> Related to the above, obstacles didn't look like obstacles. I was never sure what I was going to hit and what I wasn't going to. More visual language and clarity would be good.
> Had no idea that the cat was going to hit me, and that took away a lot of the game's feeling. Not knowing your "progress" made it less interesting. Less tension.

gene-z 2016-12-12 11:43

very nice game, too furry

amras0000 2016-12-12 11:45

The Linux build doesn't seem to boot no matter what I do to it. I can't run the windows build on wine either, since it requires DirectX. I know in the past I've had issues with Unity because of a space in the filename, though I can't say if that's what's happening here. The screenshots look compelling, just wish I could play it.
https://gist.github.com/amras0000/b3e62b38901a0ff7a079b27b25b039d9

skywolf 2016-12-12 11:49

The first time around the camera went ballistic, but it is solid and the graphics are great.

conrad123 2016-12-12 22:42

I should probably rate a game that has the same name as mine, or at least view it. :P Yours puts mine to shame though.

tommarx69 2016-12-13 16:20

Graphics and music are awesome !

deathbysnail 2016-12-13 16:21

Camera smoothing made me feel quite nauseous (but I think i'm just extra sensitive to motion sickness). Would have preferred a static anchored camera. Also wasn't particularly challenging (unless i'm missing something?). Like the music!

minato4th 2016-12-13 16:24

Very cool art and design, it would be nice a little more to work with the camera

erichhl 2016-12-13 16:26

The graphics style and music fits really well with the mood. However, the cat catches me before the camera does.

digitaldude555 2016-12-13 16:29

Graphics are good, and that film grain effect I noticed. music was good and it was pretty fun although short, I think I beat the game in one minute after failing a few times. Like spacerelated said the camera pans slowly.

bubsypoochies 2016-12-13 17:30

Very nice presentation, the washed out brown colors and image grain gave it a very classy and vintage feeling. Gameplay works perfectly, was able to get much further with a few repetitions. Maybe it would be a good idea to put a cat distance indicator, so you get to know when it is getting near. Music works really well too. Congrats!

bonedaddy 2016-12-13 17:48

Great art and sound, camera needs work. The jump is also hard to control

topatisen 2016-12-13 18:22

I totally loved the style and the muted color palette. Really nice. I would suggest to make the jump tighter (use forcemode impulse in Unity) and fix the camera issues. All in all, very cute simple game!

thegunmaster 2016-12-13 20:54

Very nice simple game, fitting title too haha

bradur 2016-12-14 11:45

Nice music and visuals! The gameplay was a little confusing because at times it was hard to see where the ground was. I liked the cat!

drury 2016-12-14 23:27

Not bad, nice artstyle. I wish the controls were a bit less floaty, same for camera.

happysaila 2016-12-15 21:37

funny to look @

jk5000 2016-12-19 11:40

A super simple game mechanic made into a fun little game.

coauctor 2016-12-28 20:03

Simple but enjoyable, also cute name. :)

The camera followed the mouse too slow few times, but it's not the showstopper.

Nice!

kroute 2016-12-28 21:14

Really beautiful game. I liked the graphics and the music.