deaymon 2018-08-15 00:18
What a cute game! So upbeat and giving happy vibes all over. :scream_cat: The music was a good choice, imo. Also, I'm a laptop user, so using the mouse to plow the snow got really hard in the end.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Snow Day
By chispalbc
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 567 | 3.40 | 34 | |
| Fun | 516 | 3.30 | 33 | |
| Innovation | 379 | 3.39 | 34 | |
| Theme | 108 | 4.09 | 33 | |
| Graphics | 318 | 3.84 | 34 | |
| Humor | 160 | 3.51 | 31 | |
| Mood | 337 | 3.41 | 30 |
What a cute game! So upbeat and giving happy vibes all over. :scream_cat: The music was a good choice, imo. Also, I'm a laptop user, so using the mouse to plow the snow got really hard in the end.
Fun game! I really enjoy the pixel work you did. The music suits the game well. Also the concept of having to shovel snow to earn money to buy food for your cat is both original and funny lol. There seems to be a bug with earning money though. You can stand in one spot and keep clicking and earn money even if there is no snow around. That's a quick fix though. Good job!
Nice game. I wish it had a win condition of some kind so the cat didn't have to starve :(
The concept was pretty cool and I enjoyed the artstyle. It was kind of annoying that the snow became impossible to move; I eventually felt like I had no options. Maybe you could make it take more clicks to remove instead.
Really cute idea. Streets full of snow and a shovel. Like in my childhood. Cool graphics and sprites.
I'd add some indication in the game that having more spaces clear gives you more money per second. Also, it'd be nice to have some indication when a space is about to get its second layer of snow.
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1 star out of 5, you cat killer!
More seriously, I really enjoyed your game. It has great controls, but sometime it's hard to remove snow while moving at the same time, forcing you to get back on your track. Also, it was a bit unclear for me to know when I had to buy food for the cat as I could just brought food and he wouldn't stop meowing faster. (Just like a real life cat I guess???) Overall good entry, nice job.
Really cute art style. I quite liked the Game Over screen message. Keep at it!
@balance686 actually you earn money per second, but you earn less money the more snow there is. At first it was going to be that way but it made the game too hard to balance.
@ectucker1 i wanted to do that! but didn't have time unfortunatelly.
@swift i said it in "how ti play" it was the best, i didnt have time for more :s
@mrsylar59 ACTUALLY i didn't kill the cat, you did :angry: (my first idea was to make the cat explode (but he was going to survive, the explosion wasn't going to hurt him) but didnt have time to make a good gameOver xD
Really enjoyed this entry, all of the aspect of the game are well developed and designed, Maybe the background music could be less loud, so the meows are heard easierly.
I'm curious, how did you came with the feeding the cat idea? It was super cool.
Awesome job!
@chispaLBC ah my mistake! Literally says that in the how to play lol :P
I really loved the music and the graphics are nice. It felt a little clumsy to control though. Mostly shoveling the snow (I often missed it), and getting and using the catfood (having to move my mouse up to the windows to do it, maybe just have it happen when the mouse is clicked while in the rooms instead of shoveling, since it's the only thing that happens when you're in there.
Your movement velocity isn't normalized, so you move a lot faster diagonally. Pretty minor, but if you wanted to fix it Unity vectors should have a Normalize() method for their vectors. I don't use Unity, so I'm not sure exactly how they have it.
Good job on the game.
Woow... my cat is so fat!
Very good game.. I like the idea and that simple but attractive graphics.
My only complaint is that sometimes I had to click a lot to remove the snow. I'm not sure if it's some sort of strange bug or just a design choice, but I think changing that would make the gameplay feel less interrupted. Other than that, I really enjoyed this peculiar game!
Nice entry. If you would add some UI which show cat's status it would be more understandable =)
@rk3omega yes, about the movement, i wanted to normalize it but i couldn't do it because of the way i did the movement system :s
@hunter-towe it should remove the snow with the first click hmmm (maybe you are no in range?)
Snowdrift blocked pet food store. Cat starved to death. :(
I killed the cat several times before I understood what to do (my fault, I didn't pay attention to the description). I liked this game! Great job :)
Super fun and original idea. One thing though, I thought I couldn't buy cat food because when I clicked on it the tins would not disappear.
The game fits the theme very nicely, with cute graphics and fairly simple mechanics.
Awesome pixel art! very good concept, I thought I could trick the system by just keeping th road between the 2 doors clean but then you dont earn enough to buy food for the cat XD. The setting is quite hilarious and the music is well chosen. Very good job!
Great game! Very cool and interesting! :D