Cat Lady by Jason Lothamer
In this game you play a cat lady who gets more and more cats dropped on her doorstep to take care of! Try to keep the house tidy is the object of the game. If the house becomes too untidy, you'll loose!


| HTML5 (web) | https://jlothamer.itch.io/cat-lady |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cat-lady |
Ratings
| Overall | 1104th | 2.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1105th | 2.417⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1065th | 2.444⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 413th | 3.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1036th | 2.25⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 605th | 2.75⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 403th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 989th | 2.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
With a shorter timer on when a cat makes a mess, this would get frantic quick.
Nice work!
Having quite some experience cleaning up cat puke myself, this was relatable. Was forced to turned the sound off since it grossed the person next to me out so much, but I think that means you did well at replicating the nastiness that is vomit!
I was a little too good at this, so eventually I just had to stop playing before getting stuck forever and hurting my hand, but it was neat! Since one is constantly sweeping anyway, it would've been nice not to have to hold the mouse button down. I think the difficulty could've increased faster and with bigger steps at a time tho, since it took a while for it to start getting hard.
A lot of humorous (in an icky way!) situations ensued as vomit ended up in the litter box, inside the walls, cats seemingly puking while sleeping, and some of them going to sleep in it. 🤓 Good job!
Adding different kinds of mess to clean would add diversity to the game. Also, some other responsibilities would make things more challenging. All in all good job :)
I really liked the tutorial and how you made player clean up a mess to proceed. Also the music was nice. At first I liked the sound effects, but after hearing them for a really long time they started to wear on me. Also, the game was really easy. I wish there was more vomit from the beginning so it could ramp up faster. I never felt overwhelmed, which I think was the feeling you were going for. At the end it just started getting a little harder when I won. I think it just needed a little tweaking of how often each cat threw up. Or another task that I had to balance with cleaning, like feeding the cats or something...
Over all, nice job!