A Game About Cats by Rytannic
What happens when last minute ideas, shoddy programmer art and terrible voice acting combine? 'A Game About Cats' is the grotesque lovechild of poor time management and a lack of creativity. Why not treat yourself to one of the various cat games that seemed to have popped up for this Ludum Dare? Why not make it my one?
The game may take a couple of attempts to get the hang of but it can be pretty intense and fast paced with 2 full shelves of kitties.

The game also features cat names selected from a random pool! However, the pool is quite small so some names might double up sometimes.
| Windows | https://rytannic.itch.io/agameaboutcats |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/a-game-about-cats |
Ratings
| Overall | 748th | 3.25⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 698th | 3.167⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 978th | 2.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 292th | 3.778⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 917th | 2.816⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 494th | 3.056⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 403th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 967th | 2.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 8🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
Great job ! Keep coding :)
@elfippo I'm glad it kept you on your toes. That was the intention :D
@corc0 I tried to make it so you could only get by if you really paid close attention to which cats havent been fed in a while. In answer to your question. Each cat starts with 100 of each stat. These stats decrease at different rates. Hunger goes down 2 each second. Dirtiness goes down 1 each second. From what I remember happiness goes down 0.7 each second.
Thanks to all for the feedback :)
I'll make sure to be clearer about things in future. Thank you for the feedback
Thanks for the feedback!
Survived twenty-something days.
@kbf123 glad you liked it :D
@samuli Not a bad score! :P It's a post apocalyptic world where cats rule and humans are enslaved...or something.
One minor balancing issue is that if you let two cats die, it is pretty easy to kepp the rest alive indefinetly. So after thirty something days I just sat there and watched them die a (not so) slow and horrible death.
(Am I a bad person?)
@fangzhangmnm Do you mean contrast? Like the colour scheme being all over the place?
@ciderwrath Glad you liked it! I thought about never ending but then i'd have to increase the money paid daily and stuff and it ended up being more work than i was cut out for. There was originally meant to be 10 cats but I went for 8 instead. That's a good point! I'm considering getting rid of the 'pet' button entirely now. :)
Adding alternate art for the cats that they can switch to when you pet them is a great idea.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you all enjoyed the game :D