Cats by Turquoise Moon

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made by Turquoise Moon for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

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The park is being overrun with kittens, more pop up every 10 seconds! You have to catch them and find them new homes.

The game should work on mobile. There is a tutorial that gives all the controls.

Unfortunately, I ran out of time to add music and sound effects.

Ratings

Overall 428th 3.659⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 393th 3.591⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 274th 3.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 146th 4.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 277th 4.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 131th 3.818⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 50🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

benskca
03. Oct 2022 · 16:32 UTC
I love the cat sprites, they're so cute! Fun stressful management game, it was pretty tough to stay on top of everything. When I won the park was pretty close to being overrun so I think I got pretty lucky. Nice entry!
StesProject
03. Oct 2022 · 21:09 UTC
Fun game! I love the cat sprites 💗
Patata
04. Oct 2022 · 00:55 UTC
Love the cats and the idea of the game!!
chemicalcrux
04. Oct 2022 · 01:41 UTC
Progression was a bit wonky -- I never needed more than one of each of the upgrades -- but it's a fun little game! Figuring out what the different blurbs meant was neat.
ElephantLung
05. Oct 2022 · 02:40 UTC
Challenging game! Fun and I like the idea of rescuing the cats. Managed to win but had to work for it!
vivyhasadream
05. Oct 2022 · 03:28 UTC
The concept is very interesting. The reading is a little too much for 10 seconds.

I was thinking of, would it be possible to use a phone interface instead of a tablet, and it will only take half of the screen. Thus, you can dual tasking.

Anyway, good job!
🎤 Turquoise Moon
05. Oct 2022 · 19:01 UTC
@vivyhasadream A phone is a good idea, I bet that would work better. Thank you!
Faust_Mi
06. Oct 2022 · 08:09 UTC
Love the cats!!! Very interesting concept! Good game and good job!
LDJam user 257946
06. Oct 2022 · 21:39 UTC
I guess you could say, these cats multiply like Rabbits?? Very nice job!
Akkara
08. Oct 2022 · 17:36 UTC
Fun game, many things to do at once, but it's quite entertaining to go from one thing to the next. Well done!
Jekyllina
09. Oct 2022 · 22:18 UTC
i love the cat sprites and the idea, but i had negative requests more often and i lose because i refuse to give the kittens to that people XD
gord10ahmet
09. Oct 2022 · 22:24 UTC
Fun game, I loved the idea! The lines were funny, too.
natpat
09. Oct 2022 · 23:52 UTC
So many cats! They just kept on coming. The tutorial was impressive, it's always nice to see an in game explanation of the game in a Jam game. The premise was fun too, working out which traits were positive and negative and what you could get away with whilst still getting positive reputation. I did feel like I got a lot more negative people than positive, but that's a small balancing thing.

Maybe more interaction when trapping a cat could have been nice. I'm also not sure that the ten second timer really meant anything, just that there were always more cats than I could deal with.
Kerdelos
10. Oct 2022 · 11:53 UTC
It's a nice game, love all the different cats and applicants. Altought I felt like I loosed in part because there wasn't enough good applicant for the poor cats :/
Good job !
Lizzie_Th
10. Oct 2022 · 21:13 UTC
Am a cat lover, loved the fact that you tried to filter the future cat owners depending on the criteria, however there might be too much text to read and too many cats spawning all at once. I didn't know that "I hate cats" could also lead to a +1 reputation.
Sheol
15. Oct 2022 · 03:36 UTC
I love the game idea! I felt like I had more negative applications than positive ones though which made it really difficult haha.
iCalm
16. Oct 2022 · 11:49 UTC
SO CUTE
quadtree
18. Oct 2022 · 08:03 UTC
Interesting idea! It did never seem like I could get enough applications, though, so my shelter was always full. If I could change one thing, it would probably be to add an upgrade that increased the number of applications.