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TOO MANY CATS! by ramza

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made by ramza for LD 40 (JAM)

TOO MANY CATS!

How much is too much?

Your cranky neighbor has been making life hard on you for years. He's always complaining and spying on the neighborhood. He'll call the cops if you make him angry, and that's hardly difficult. Its time get your revenge by putting as many cats on his lawn as you can. How many cats is too many cats? We'll find out Mr. Grouch!

Too Many Cats was created for Ludum Dare 40. Contributors include ramza from BrainJar, Brandon Goins of Windy Hill, and Gerald Burke.

ESC to Pause

WASD/Arrow Keys to Move

Click to make cats and annoy your neighbor. dog.png

Windows https://brainjar.itch.io/too-many-cats
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/too-many-cats

Ratings

Overall 999th 2.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 948th 2.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 989th 2.643⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 802th 3.119⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 989th 2.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 624th 2.69⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 412th 3.262⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 967th 2.667⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

alexpritc
04. Dec 2017 · 23:18 UTC
I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing, the game felt kind of pointless. But I actually really liked that it felt that way. I got to the end without being arrested, hooray! The art style was super cute but I think you should have put more grass as I could see the blue background at the edges and a lot of cats were wondering around in the abyss.
Great work!
Ham and Swiss
04. Dec 2017 · 23:20 UTC
Really no point to it, but it was still somewhat enjoyable.

I had a similar thing going with my game, but allowed the player to build dogs and more to try and control the population.
Asellio
06. Dec 2017 · 00:28 UTC
the game was very enjoyable. took me a little bit to realize that his dialogue was based on the goal in the upper left. though i wasnt clear how i was losing cats till i saw a dog run by. my only question is do you lose cats only by the dogs or are they able to disappear out of the scene?
GeraldFIngBurke
06. Dec 2017 · 00:36 UTC
@asellio You lose cats when they stray too far from the scene.
fluidvolt
06. Dec 2017 · 02:36 UTC
lol, I love this. Hearing the blaring sirens over hundreds of cats meowing, while an angry old man yells at me. "I'll have you arrested for making so many cats" made me laugh out loud. It's a super simple game but I had a big smile the whole time at the sheer absurdity of it. Good work.
Thy Duck
06. Dec 2017 · 02:53 UTC
Hey man not too bad.
Versatile Box
06. Dec 2017 · 04:27 UTC
Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau Miau <3
mollekake
06. Dec 2017 · 17:31 UTC
We had two very different takes on having too many cats! xD
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/you-cant-have-too-many-cats
finbobby123
06. Dec 2017 · 18:27 UTC
I liked the idea of it and found it fairly enjoyable to play. Maybe some more features would help. If it was anything like my game (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/life-is-a-balance), you had planned to add things but ran out of time.
Robert Newman
07. Dec 2017 · 11:12 UTC
all the meows!!! there are a few cat games i have played and this is one of the better ones

loved the dog clearing the cats!
Acr515
09. Dec 2017 · 17:30 UTC
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow times a thousand

The meowing got pretty annoying after a while but the game was still funny. There wasn’t much of a point to it, but regardless I found it pretty interesting. Good job!
Murilo
09. Dec 2017 · 18:13 UTC
That was funny even though kind of pointless. I was curious as to what would happen when the cops came but I was disappointed they never actually showed up! It was still funny though overall!! Also, the dogs and their magical touch-disappear power was funny! haha I enjoyed it. Good job guys!
Local Minimum
09. Dec 2017 · 22:43 UTC
I can answer the question. My cat was OK with the first 20. Then she got off from the sofa an required to sit in my lap to be sure that everything was fine and no cat-astrophy was upon her. I enjoyed the game, and she seemed to be fine with it too in the end. Nice humor and weird way to bully your neighbour.
CaylebLucas
16. Dec 2017 · 09:06 UTC
Really enjoyable game, interesting concept too.
Noble Robot
25. Dec 2017 · 13:55 UTC
Our team does a weekly indie gamedev podcast called Nice Games Club, and we just did a Let's Play episode where we played thirty-six (!!) Ludum Dare 40 games, including yours (which we thought was silly in all the right ways)!

[Check it out here!](http://nicegames.club/2017/12/nice-plays-ludum-dare-40-games-2017/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGt66ZnLME