Really really interesting idea, and some really cool puzzles that result from it. The art is really nice, there's a lot of polish there for sure. The controls and handling of the character could definitely use some tuning, it's a bit floaty. I'd love to be able to press a button to switch back to the main character, since aiming the little floaty thing got annoying when I was constantly switching back to the cat. Overall, a really cool idea with a lot of potential.

VERY NEAT GAME if you were rolling with the adorable Mario aesthetic to cause bigger shock when the main mechanic was introduced, it worked! A lot of potential for puzzles. Although some aspects of animistic possession may have not been completely demonstrated, it is easy to imagine how the fully completed game might play. The puzzle with the lever + lift was by far the trickiest, and borderline annoying because the solution itself was obvious. I was sad when the game ended.

Really great style and the concept is really cool. Switching into the flags was my favorite part. Sometimes I would figure out the solution to a puzzle but pulling it off would feel like the controls were the real puzzle and i got a little bummed. I got to the puzzle where you have to bump the blue guy up to the switch and then come back down again and I couldn't do it. But really awesome game and i'll come back one day and beat it.

It just need a bit of tuning on the controls and the game is great. I enjoyed the "ghost trick"-like concept in a platform game to solve puzzles. Even if I just got stuck after the huge brick wall with a enemy beside (the one on the second screenshot).

Interesting idea! I got stuck early on, but there's a lot of potential there!

No idea why, but I had major framerate issues on the web build.

A cool game about a soul-shifting cat. Agree with others that the control is a little floaty, and the graphics are very generic for what the game ends up being. But I think this is worth continuing to work on.

Behind this cute and fluffy game hides an ingenious and challenging game mechanic! While the graphics and the music are a bit too childish for my taste, they are of high quality. The puzzles are really cool and well though out, as they border on "Did the developer make a mistake here or am I just not smart enough?". Controls could be a bit less mushy, but that's a minor point. Very well done!

@swinestudios yeah, the whole "Mario aesthetic for shock w/ the mechanics" twist was exactly what I was going for! There's so many puzzles I could make with the concept, but I had to cut lots of ideas I had for possess-able objects due to time. The puzzle with the lever & lift should have been the final one cause it's so hard.

@Wefiends At one point I was considering mouse controls for moving the floaty thing with more precision, which is why you can jump with left click. but to be honest I completely forgot about it until now, oops. Also, I couldn't add an option to return to the cat, since you're not the cat, you're actually the floaty thing controlling the cat!

I thought the floaty thing mechanic was great. Especially how the music slows down when you use it.

Great idea! I was shocked to see that mechanic, awesome puzzles in this.

Hitboxes seemed quite off. Also when I first took control of the lever, I was unable to switch control back to the character.

At first I thought "well this is a pretty neat platformer, it certainly looks great, especially for a jam game. Once you figure out how it fits the theme, it becomes very clever! Some of the puzzles were very well thought out. The timing-based puzzles can be challenging, but in a good way, and the art/sound is very charming. Great job!

Jumping is very floaty. Graphics are beautiful.

what a great little game! the first thing that drew me in was the graphics, they're really lovely and so cute... they did look kind of familiar, and then i saw your description, and i follow rev on twitter/tumblr and stuff and i love his art. what a neat coincidence i stumbled upon this game :O

the mechanic in this was really cool, though i feel like the controls could use a little more work. i really liked the puzzle solving aspect of this, all in all, great job!!

cool mechanic!

I ended stucked just after the treadmill/button/box puzzle, not founding how to pass a fat wall with just this (cute) blue rabbit, but I saw enough to say that it is an interesting use of the theme, and a good game (oh, and I like the way the music slow down when in possessing mode). Well done !

nice graph and idea. It could have a been faster and easier to come back to control player, but its good

Clever twist on the theme and gameplay, and really cute graphics. As others have said, jumps and movement feel a bit floaty, and I got stuck on the fat wall, but the idea already demonstrates a huge potential. Well done!! :D

Got a bit confused by the shift ability the first time and got stuck instantly. But after I understood the mechanic, it was a really fun game.
Love the graphics, and the music gives this game a very friendly feeling.

Nice! I like the theme interpretation a lot. I love the cute/dark thing going on. It's very easy to break the game by shifting when jumping, perhaps not being able to shift whilst jumping would fix it... but I'm sure there are puzzles later on where you need to do both simultaneously. Alternatively, always having a block or something within range of certain points so you can work your way back to the cat? I would love to see a post-mortem of the puzzle in the second screenshot. It seems like a common sticking point for many people, and it would be interesting to see why it's causing issues from a level design point of view.

Great game and really liked the graphics. Nice entry.

Hey cool game, I liked the mood and the switching bodies mechanic was neat. The platforming felt a bit slow and floaty to me but maybe that was just the web version.

Wow that was genius. At times it seemed like some of the puzzles were impossible but then I figured it out. Very satisfying.

@Klass - Part of the game's design is making sure you have a path to return to the player. The first puzzle that uses the shapeshifting mechanic should have made this concept more obvious - I try to make it so you have to be near the wall in order to activate the switch AND be able to return to the player, but still give you the option to close the gate and return to the player if you opened it from too far away. If you jumped and opened the gate, and land out of range of the lever, the player should still be within range from the closed gate.
Yea, at the time of submission, pausing midair had this problem where it wouldn't remember the player's velocity, so you can only solve the "wall" puzzle when falling, not rising... So that might have made it so some players who figured it out couldn't solve it! It's fixed in the new patch, but I won't be uploading that til after judging is over! Design-wise, I figured it was the best way to introduce players to the concept - There's nothing else you can do there besides jump on the slime, possess it, and reset, so I figured the answer should come eventually?
Check the links above for my complete postmortem, btw!

This took some perseverance to figure out what was going on but it was worth it in the end. I gave up on the 'revive the enemy' jumping puzzle which was a really nice idea but I was finding it frustrating to execute it.

Loved the jazzy music too.

I love this game, and I can't wait to see the post-compo version you end up with!