madr 2022-10-03 22:30
Visually and appealing, very simple and relaxing!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → Catreams
By firellon
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 924 | 3.17 | 28 | |
| Fun | 1105 | 2.69 | 28 | |
| Innovation | 614 | 3.26 | 28 | |
| Theme | 884 | 3.32 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 210 | 4.17 | 28 | |
| Audio | 459 | 3.36 | 27 | |
| Humor | 523 | 2.94 | 28 | |
| Mood | 357 | 3.69 | 28 |
Visually and appealing, very simple and relaxing!
Cute graphics, its simple and relaxing, well done!
lovely art and story telling :)
Wholesome game
Hard to understand at first without the text, but cute graphism and animation
I think I played it for to long trying to "see everything" but I don't think I did at least I have a cozy house now :) Very cute cat anime tho !
Edit: I continued to play to see to the end (this music is nice it does not go into the head to fast ^^)
Really nice art here. Has a nice feel and I love how cosy the cat looks! I did find it a little difficult to figure out what did what but as a whole it was a very nice and chill experience. Very well done!
Really like the art and the music. Fits well together and fit a nice chilled out vibe. Unique idea with having to pick your sleeping location. Good Job!
Sound, music and art is nice vibe. It's great to play Kitty! =^.^=
Very cute! I could only find three things to click on, and couldn't figure out any patterns though. But... adorable kitty!
@saintchristopher777 @leonard-sg hey, thanks for honest feedback!
I've made a big spoiler guide that explains how the game mechanic works. See **Guide on the game mechanic** section of the game description, please.
While I'd be happy to make the game in a way that it would show, not tell the player how it works, but within LD's scope there's only so much I can get away with, right? :wink: Nevertheless, I hope that would clarify things up a bit.
Enjoy!
P.S. Thanks everyone else as well, I'm glad you like this experience :blush:
Very nice graphics and animations. interesting idea for the theme. The gameplay is a bit basic and it never seemed that I could get any coins. Had to restart the game and then there was a sword all of a sudden which allowed me to continue with the game, strange. It definitely took waaaay longer to finish the game than I thought. Very cute though.
Very cozy, though I never really understood what did what. I still had a good time watching the kitty dream about fish ♥
Nice mood and great effort on the graphics. It is indeed relaxing !
Very nice and cozy game. Also you play the cat, well done :)
ahhhh but its just so cute, this is something I could play for ages, I had to kind of pull myself away cus i just got carried away watching the little kitten jump around and snack. Great job super good game
Lovely game. As has been said already, the goal and icons seem to be some what unclear if you cannot connect them to something in the screen. I would say it's generally a bad idea to rely on huge amount of text to explain the mechanics to players. Especially in a jam game. That manual should be implemented into the game, somehow. But yeah, it's not always possible for a reason or another.
Otherwise the presentation is good. Graphics have slightly too much dithering for my taste, but the music is very relaxing and fits perfectly to the game.
Well done!
@coderaurus thank you so much for a very detailed feedback!
I totally agree, the wall of text in description isn't a good way to handle the unclarity of the game. It was not meant to be, initially.
My initial assumption was that there is no need for one since there are only 3 things you can do and no skill required to do them at all - rather, the game requires your deductive reasoning to figure out what are the consequences of each game action.
Turns out, that's not a mechanic that plays well for the general LD player - as we all strive to quickly appraise a given game and move on, we strive for some immediate feedback rather than a slow process of tinkering your way through the game process, stumbling and failing. It's just less fun this way, it seems :unamused:
My hopes were that the graphics, music and overall distinction from other LD games (which seems to be the case, as far as I've played) would help people out to keep their interest and spend some time on this little puzzle - but that's a bit too much to ask in general in our busy times :wink:
So, lesson'll be learned, I will go for something more straightforward, with an obvious player feedback loop next time. Thanks!
P.S. And maybe, maybe I can get the cat dreams to be displayed immediately and predict what Human's gonna do with the current Cat location **before** it's done - it should be clearer than getting the dreams **after** Human's activity.
P.P.S. I made that thing happen, actually. Perhaps, now the game is going smoother to play?
Nice, simple and charming game. Makes a difference from the other games where you have to rush to do everything within 10 seconds that's for sure.
Pretty deep for such a simple looking game. I still have not found out under what circumstances the human does those, "Yeah i just waste fish and money for nothing". Had a lot of fun!
Great pixel art graphics. Good music. Struggled with the gameplay a bit.
Played on my stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zedkraze