exezin 2017-12-05 18:42
Cute little game, nice and relaxing :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Cat Clicker
By mr-madcat, Shito and Elanya
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 510 | 3.50 | 65 | |
| Fun | 663 | 3.21 | 65 | |
| Innovation | 724 | 3.00 | 65 | |
| Theme | 149 | 4.01 | 65 | |
| Graphics | 680 | 3.31 | 65 | |
| Audio | 387 | 3.31 | 65 | |
| Humor | 296 | 3.46 | 64 | |
| Mood | 587 | 3.25 | 63 |
Cute little game, nice and relaxing :)
Clever gameplay mechanics, I liked it! Relaxing music and nice art style.
Damn you got me, freakin' cats everywhere! Love it!
Well, after killing a few cats and making a bunch of money, I've gotta say that this is a fun jam game.
First off: thank you for including an in-game tutorial! It goes a long way, particularly when you've reviewed a bunch of games and you just want to PLAY a game.
Nice scope - there's enough here to do and not so much that things feel janky.
And the music is the calming kind of stuff you'd like to hear when you're being overrun by cats.
Overall, nice!
Oh my ! Those cats are killing me xD It can get out of hand so quickly, the difficulty is very nicely done! The musics, especially the one when things are going wrong, is fitting well with the APM you have to put out to get back to normal. Good job!
I like it a lot. Gets very frantic when you have 30+ cats on the go like I did!
Very cool music, and I love the setting (meow). It's basically a micromanagement game, so gameplay isn't very deep, but actually fun, and the scrolling is unnecessary (a single page would suffice). I never got any black ribbon cats until the end. Luck?
My first cat died during the tutorial...
@smbe19 Sorry to hear that. :/ In this case you have to restart the game via the menu. The tutorial was added in a cloack-and-dagger operation, shortly before the jam ended. So there is still this bug left. :(
@mshopf Thanks for your feedback! Yeah at first (before balancing all the numbers) we only had one screen with everything. But it felt a little too cramped so we added scrolling. However, after balancing I agree with you that one does not need such a large house. Maybe the cat lady just wanted to show off her house. ;)
First cat also died. After that I became pawesome
@mshopf Yeah, black ribbon cats have a rather low probability of appearing, so it is quite possible to play through the game without ever getting one.
Cute game! I like the mechanics. But I don't want to sell the cats, I want to keep them and make them happy forever. :( Aww... but great job, anyway! Heehee.
My cat went to sleep during the tutorial and never ate the food or used the litter box. I was never able to interact with it for the lovebox part and when I did click on her it completely vanished. Seems like a cool game otherwise.
"There are cats everywhere!!! Oh shit the music started, did something happen!? Do they need food!?" - My thoughts through the game.
I thought the game was really fun, feel like I was making money way too fast, within a minute 1 had over 50k and I didn't really have anything to spend it on. The house was a bit too big, and it was frustrating to move the camera (maybe a grab and pull system instead?). All and all it was really good.
I also got that issue where the cat died during the tutorial the 1st time, though I didn't understand at first what to do because the cat was sleeping, I clicked on it and it disappeared, but a ghost of it still wandered around in a constantly sleeping position ! haha
Then I restarted and played and bred cats and cats and got flooded with catscatscatscatscatscatscats (breathe) catscatscatscatscatscatscats aaaaaaaaaaaaa sooo many cats and poop and cats too aaaaaaaaaa cats and I can't click on the achievement buttons because gotta clean the poop and feed the cats aaaaaaaaaaaaa sell clean breed clean feed sell feed sellsellsellsellsellsellsellsell aahh finally some free time to click on achievements. Then I won by clicking on all the achievements.
This game deserves a note as high as my stress level mid-game ! was fun :)
- I couldn't read the remaining achievements because I got kicked out of the game when winning ^^' - Darn cats, always falling asleep the second you try to grab them !
Thanks for all the nice comments!
@OmnomGuy That sounds really strange, sorry for the bug. What browser are you using? We only extensively tested using Firefox. We expected it to work fine across most browser since it is HTML5.
@BUNN1E5 Yeah, the camera scroll was in retrospective unecessary. At the time we thought a bigger room would be a good idea. But a grab and pull system would probably have worked better. Thanks for the tip.
@Chronodrax Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, sorry about that sudden kick out, we had planned on letting the player continue to play, but didn't have the time to implement that in the end.
I couldn't end the tutorial either (On firefox). First I had an issue with dialogue boxes scaling on fullscreen. Second time, I wasn't able to scroll back to the top of the map, it scrolled only to the bottom or the sides. And third time, I was stuck after the Love box part. I like the concept and I would like to see the end! Identify me if you repost a debugged version =)
I couldn't play the game correctly as well. It seems like there are UI panel poping up over the buttons that make it impossible to click them. This happened both on the buttons on the right side and the ok button on the dialogs. Going fullscreen made the issue worse. I tried running it on both chrome and firefox.
Seems like a nice game thought.
Nice game! Really fits the theme
Great use of theme, well rounded jam!
Good graphics and music, nice idea. I had the same issues mentioned by @thijs-tak, but just leaving the screen in its default size seemed to help a lot. I had some difficulty to understand what was going on. The ghosts for example? I suppose these are the ghosts of dead cats, but I couldn't understand why my cats were dying (in fact, I saw many more ghosts than I ever had cats, so perhaps they are not the ghosts of my ex-cats). I also believe there is a bug: often, when when I click in a cat, it seems to gets sold (I thought I had to drag them to the "sell box").
The tutorial was a nice addition, as were the quests. They help to give the game a "real game" feel.
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Well, that went about as well as expected. I do like me some "cookie clickers" sometimes, this was a unique spin on the concept. Felt like everything spiraled out of control a bit too fast, that could be the player partly to blame though...
That was a nice game! I was set on playing all through it and really had fun. 1. The kittens are super cute. I like the sounds and animations. Also the "realistic" details (e.g. first eat, then poop, then sleep) 2. Great use of music, I especiallly liked the dramatic tension and the death music. 3. The quest system is a nice touch and keeps you active and thinking
I found a few things: 1. Map scrolling is annoying. I only used a small part, because even that was hard to keep track of, but I would constantly accidentally scroll off and it took me some time to figure out, how to get back. That's how my first cats died. 2. The game seems not to be sure about which sprite goes in front of which. I sometimes didn't see cats at all or got blinking issues. 3. The button collect reward is super unintuitive! I made 30 000 bucks before realising, I would have long won. If a quest is fulfilled, reward needs to come automatically 4. I didn't understand the incest part. I always bred with storebought cats and still got lots of genetic defects. Does it work by color? Or random?
I would have also wished for an endscreen, to make it feel less sudden.
Overall a great game! keep it going :)
Wicked, fun and mad litle game- experience. Loved the graphics andthe concept
My playthrough:
https://youtu.be/wkyj--0vEAo
This is awesome. How the game was pulled off felt very professional. That dramatic music REALLY made me panic haha.
It got intense pretty quickly though, so I didn't have enough time to think through the mechanics, like what coloured cats will come out with each mating combination, what is that black ribbon thingy and so on.
As for suggestions, maybe make it so that we can move things after buying them.
Edit: Yea I also got the problem where the cat died during tutorial, probably because I didn't fill the food bowl. Maybe you can look at my video and accurately pin-point why that happened. I think it's because I was too busy trying to understand the mechanics that I didn't realise I need to feed that cat again.
@DjeyCreations That is really strange, that scrolling bug never happended to us. We will take a look at it and see if we can fix it somehow.
@Thijs-Tak The game is meant to be played at the fixed resolution, not fullscreen. We tested quite abit. In the beginning some buttons should be deactivatet to make the player follow the tutorial, but those should become usable when needed. Hm, maybe with a screenshot of the elemnts blocking the dialouge buttons I could find out what was going on there.
@LMB the green ghosts are from the dead cats, yeah. Cats die either because there is no clean litter box available or because there is no bowl with food. You need to click on the bowls to refill them. If a cat doesn't get food within a certain amount of time it will starve.
@DaniE Yeah, the incest part wasn't really implemented. We had planned on it, but in the end there simply is a very low probability (5%) that newly breeded cats will have a genetic defect.
@miaw Thanks a lot for making a let's play of our game. Yeah, I had originally planned to make the cats like immortal during the tutorial, but time ran out. I guess that is what happened to a lot of players.
Thank you to everyone for your comments. I have updated the description with some clarifications that will (hopefully) prevent some of the bugs for other players.
Btw, if you rate our game and are not the member of your team who owns your game's page on this website, make sure to write the link to your game in your profile or in your comment, so that we can play and rate it (if you want us to ;) ). It appears that it is very difficult to find your game otherwise. Writing it in your profile is probably best because it then everyone can find it and you don't have to write it in every comment :)
@mr-madcat I had some bug reports with the WebGL version of our game, and I haven't been able to replicate the issue. I suspect it is only due to the WebGL on certains versions of browsers.
@Khorm @mr-madcat Ops, so I was indeed responsible for the fate of all these kittens :-(
Who knew herding cats could be so much fun! :)
Kittens, kittens everywhere.
SO MANY CATS! This was a great game! I really like the music and art, and it was fun to buy and place things in your catroom. Great job all!
Gets harder and harder to manage. Fits the theme!
Cute little entry, i'd say that the theme is definitively well implemented, the more cats you have the worst it definitively gets O_o still it's a nice game, there's a typo left though :p when the games tells you about about food during the tutorial it says "foot" just so you know.
Other than that good job guys :)
Amazing game and great take on the theme! Loved the humor and especially all the cat related puns. The childish giggling actually made me laugh :D
The quest rewards were maybe a bit too generous. Made it quite easy to get to 75k. Selling cats wasn't really a source of income and more for getting rid of the cats. Great use of the music for indicating that you need to take care of something!
Thanks everyone for your comments and feedback. Glad that you liked it. :)
@Sibi Yeah, we increased the quest rewards heavily during playtesting. Maybe a little bit too much. ^^ On the other hand we wanted to make sure that one can finish the game in a reasonable time between 5-10 min.
Even with a tutorial I didn't really understand everything that happened, but I made it to the end with no dead cats, and I had fun getting there. The kitties are cute and the sound is great.
Those cats are really cute, and I love how out of hand everything gets. I also appreciate some of the stranger aspects of it, like how the dead cats make ghosts that you have to get rid of.Very frantic, very enjoyable game!
This is relaxing -- until it's not! Those cat spirits were scary at first, I had no idea what was going on :). Very complete little game here. The thorough tutorial, the cute graphics and music, the cheeky dialog. Very nice job, all of you.
Great cats. Very kawaii.
Nice game! i really feel the theme hehehe, i missed "auto things" like auto cleaner or auto feeder but i think it make me feel more the theme. Also, nice musics, the change in dynamics related with what happens in the game was very good! Keep up the good work!
Nice complete game! First play through my cat died during the tutorial, but I kept it alive the second time and got a bunch of cats!
Found somewhat of a bug - when I placed the food bowl and the litter box at the opposite ends of the screen the cat was marching back and forth, pooping and eating like there was no tomorrow, but never became happy and I couldn't get thru the tutorial until I tried to put both close together (ew!). Took me about 3 retries and 2 browsers to realise that...
Other than that, it was a cool and quite frantic experience. The intense music when cats were hungry was nice, but sometimes the tracks felt like they were clashing. Also, I got thru without a single dead/ghost cat so I must a cat god. Got a few inbreeds though...
This was so addictive!! Haha. This is a very well put together game, I found it so much fun. I think a couple of my cats were a bit *too* into each other...:wink: (a bug where one of my love boxes was permanently in use) and I sometimes had a bit of trouble clicking on a cat when it had a heart but other than that, such a fantastic submission!
Fun fact: While playing this game my real life cat decided to cough up a hairball and while I was cleaning it up almost all of my cats in the game died :joy: