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Cheese Stealing Mice by gatinmnsok

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made by gatinmnsok for LD 40 (JAM)

Play the game here

The more mice you have, the worse it is

Mice are coming to steal your cheese.

Grab them to prevent them stealing your cheese.

Or grab mice running away to recover your cheese.

Throw a grabbed mouse away and bowl incoming mice away.

But be careful, if you bowl away a cheese-carrying mouse, the cheese is lost forever.

Controls

Move paw: left/right arrowkeys or A/D

Grab/throw: up arrowkey or spacebar

Should also work om mobile, touch left and right to move paw and touch the cheese to grab/throw.

Source

Source code is available here

HTML5 (web) https://davidvollmar.github.io/ld40/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cheese-stealing-mice

Ratings

Overall 1010th 2.917⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 801th 3.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 883th 2.813⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 949th 2.875⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 556th 2.935⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

mess110
05. Dec 2017 · 18:35 UTC
They toook mah cheeezee! I like the mechanics that throws the mouse and you can hit the mouse-cheese-thieves with it. However, I decided to let 1 small mouse eat 1 small cheese. I am a generous god.
goxua
05. Dec 2017 · 18:49 UTC
Good job! I felt sorry for the mice, so i let them eat all the cheese at the end :)
Rixium
05. Dec 2017 · 18:54 UTC
Mice bowling, Ha ha. Didn't expect my arm to become 4 meters long.
GiraffeCat
05. Dec 2017 · 19:19 UTC
The mouse-grabbing and throwing mechanics are a pretty interesting addition, and when the numbers of mice ramp up it gets nicely frantic. I also thought the mice were cute!
smbe19
05. Dec 2017 · 19:40 UTC
Nice game. It's a bit annoying that you are not able to turn while the arm is moving. But I really liked the ability to bowl away mice.
Naefir
05. Dec 2017 · 22:04 UTC
Very neat game, I am surprised at how quickly I became overwhelmed by the mice. In the future adding some sounds would do wonders for the gameplay!
juliensnz
05. Dec 2017 · 22:26 UTC
Nice work! Easy to try and hard to master. I'm pretty bad at it though. Could be nice to have a better difficulty curve!
Swen
06. Dec 2017 · 21:44 UTC
Grabbed and threw mice as a cool guy. Then I gave my girlfriend control and she totally let the mice get away with the cheese. What a noob.

We had a laugh playing it. It was really fun to see the cat hand extend to grab the mice.
Maybe you could experiment with combos some more!
maRuda
06. Dec 2017 · 21:47 UTC
interesting idea for the game. I had a problem with the control ... not very intuitive.
Good job!
EnchaeC
06. Dec 2017 · 21:52 UTC
Having some visual data for the cheese would be a lot more satisfying and readable. Good job.
Jack Maxwell
06. Dec 2017 · 21:54 UTC
The theme isn't quite there. since the player doesn't really control how much mice they have it doesn't quite work because it isn't the more YOU HAVE, the worse it gets. Although it gets really hectic and its a fun little idea. The paw moved kind of slow and an acceleration might have been a better idea. Controls worked very well.
muumeroinen
06. Dec 2017 · 21:55 UTC
113 in first try. Kinda fun once I figured the controls. Throwing mices was nice touch
ponker
06. Dec 2017 · 21:56 UTC
Haha so simple but yet so fun and a bit addictive! Managed to get 406 score

I feel like with powerups or something it would of been more fun.
Dioinecail
06. Dec 2017 · 22:04 UTC
Had fun throwing some curse words on those cheesers. Idk i was able to understand the controls in 2 seconds :)
Dumivid
06. Dec 2017 · 22:21 UTC
Unexpectedly addictive and fun. I think this game deserve to be polished and released on Android and IOS. Continue your work and have fun.
SraBatata
11. Dec 2017 · 06:33 UTC
nice game, it was very fun! :smiley:
zenmumbler
16. Dec 2017 · 23:23 UTC
The disembodied cat paw in a cheese was a masterful design element. Cute and funny game.