Of Kats and Carens by khaotom
A game about quarantining things.



Ratings
| Overall | 385th | 3.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 757th | 3.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 788th | 3.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 633th | 3.775⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 471th | 3.921⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 246th | 3.842⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 96th | 4.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 929th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
I beat it after about 15 minutes. The world is now safe from Carens.
The music was fantastic and had me bouncing, and if I'm picking up what you're laying down, the supermarket level had a version of the song that sounded like it was coming from the far-away store speakers. Nice touch!
The art looked great and was nicely animated. I also liked how the ... targets "popped" their size a bit when I snapped them in a circle.
The sound effects of the angry growls and huffs were great, and the buzzing of drawing a circle was also nice. I think a buzzing sound effect like that is risky because it can become grating, but this one avoided that problem and felt electric without becoming unpleasant.
Gameplay was simple fun that I think captured the spirit of the game. If you were hosting a high-stakes KnC tournament or something I guess you could tighten up a few details.. it seems you can kind of cheese things a bit by drawing huge fast circles. I am also still a little unclear on when/why the circle-draw action gets cancelled. It is when a Caren complains? Or when someone crosses a line? Or maybe they have an interrupting collider on their head? I went back and tested specifically this but was still a bit unclear, and on my initial playthrough I had a general feeling of "wait what just happened?" No big deal, it was still fun, but if I was supposed to understand a specific aspect there I missed it. It also felt like sometimes Carens didn't "pop" and I wasn't always 100% sure which were quarantined.
At first I assumed you had to circle each person alone, and was wondering why I had to wait for "game over" when I had 5 Carens, and wasted one of my 5 circles. But I figured out that I had to quarantine "Carnens vs the world". Makes sense!
Very nice entry with a ton of personality.