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Cathtulhu：Paws Vs. Paws by Yucong

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made by Yucong for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

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Cathtulhu and Dogs are enemies. Unlike dogs that serve humans, Cathtulhu tries to dominate humans. Recently, the followers of Cathtulhu secretly infiltrated a town ruled by dogs.

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Hello, follower of Cathtulhu! It is a great pleasure to inform you that you're invited to work for Cathtulhu! Now, you should read the following to learn how to work. 二线.png

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As Cathtulhu's assistant, you should collect 4 offerings: dried fish, canned food, toys, and Fighting will. ex.png

*Therefore, please try to set the right buildings - Fish Shop (for dried fish), Altar (for canned food), Toy Factory (for toy), and Fitness equipment (for Fighting will). Each building can be upgraded to 4 different shapes. *

You can also create a Catnip Farm by consuming offerings. The Catnip Farm generates catnip, which can restore sanity points (SAN) and helps Cathtulhu fight dogs.

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Because the enemy is too strong, we will eventually be defeated, but constantly trying to develop our Cathtulhuthe in a limited space.

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Let's Make Cathtulhu Great Again!:smiley_cat:

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Always looking forward to pet the Cathtulhuthe, loyal artist and organizer - Yuhan@yucong（Artist）

The dedicated and silent faith builder -Chenglong@sun0837 （programer）

An extremely fanatical believer who tries to compel pagans with moving words and motifs -* Zhuojun @wei-zhuojun （Artist）*

Between L&D Multi handed Inquisitor-Yuchen @morna（Designer）

UPDATE

04.10 Modified text layout and added some tutorial images. 04.11 Modified text and added some tutorial images.

Link https://yuhand.itch.io/cathtulhupaws-vs-paws
Link https://yuhand.itch.io/cathtulhupaws-vs-paws
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/cathtulhupaws-vs-paws

Ratings

Overall 792th 3.333⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 922th 2.953⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 399th 3.552⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 479th 3.758⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 133th 4.313⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 197th 3.685⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 395th 3.732⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 44🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 300461
03. Oct 2023 · 18:08 UTC
It was a bit confusing to play and hard to control. I didnt really know what i was doing
foufoufou
03. Oct 2023 · 18:12 UTC
Cute factory for cat! let me serve you Cathtulhu ><
the rotation of map and blocks is kinda confusing though.
KewDev
03. Oct 2023 · 18:12 UTC
Was a bit confusing at first but quickly got the hang of it. The graphics were really pleasing to look at, the art style and the implementation of the theme is definitely a highlight. Great entry!
jrf
03. Oct 2023 · 18:17 UTC
Didn't really know what I was supposed to do :/ The art and music was really great, though!
Jadener
03. Oct 2023 · 18:21 UTC
I love the art style, the music and the concept ^^ But it took me quite a while to figure everything out to be honest :D
Fiora The Purple
04. Oct 2023 · 03:11 UTC
Adorable Cathtulhu! Lively music! I love this game. It feels perfect for a mini-game. Looking forward to seeing you complete it further. I've become a fanatical beliver of Cathtulhu, and it would be great if there were stickers and other merchandise.

Welcome to play our game and leave a comment!~o( =∩ω∩= )m
Yuio
04. Oct 2023 · 04:58 UTC
The art is amazing and the turn based strategy element is something that I did not see fitting the theme so well. I do agree that it was a bit confusing at first on what I needed to do but overall great job.
Branquelo
04. Oct 2023 · 05:02 UTC
It's a little confusing at first, but overall it's a pretty solid game. I loved the art too!
Nanamaki
04. Oct 2023 · 05:17 UTC
I love the adorable art! But I don't know what I was supposed to do at first. After some rounds the overlap and upgrade rules still seemed confusing to me. I don't know how to beat the dog or the cute Cathulhu is doomed to run out of san
rongon
04. Oct 2023 · 07:28 UTC
It was hard to understand at the beggining, then I found that how the building were placed, but even after couple of games, I didn't manage to make a Catnip Farm (how to consume offerings?). It's hard to see what is clickable and what is just decoration.
Nonetheless, the art is great, it's very consistent, and I like the vibe of demon cat fighting the holy dogs. Good job on setting up this fantasy world :D
🎤 Yucong
04. Oct 2023 · 12:48 UTC
Thanks for your suggestions and support, we have re-added some of the tutorial images. Many of our ideas were not fully presented due to time constraints. Hope you have fun and enjoy this game! @EvilMurlock @foufoufou @KewDev @jrf @Jadener @Yuio @Branquelo @Nanamaki @rongon
🎤 Yucong
04. Oct 2023 · 12:59 UTC
**Meow! You are such a loyal human! **

**--from cathtulhu ** @foufoufou

![meo.png](///raw/eb4/f3/z/5f91c.png)
Moebius
04. Oct 2023 · 17:54 UTC
The art style is really nice and so is the idea. But unfortunately the most I was able to do in this game is put some feeding bowls on the floor (**drag & drop the Tetris looking thing to the central game area**, in case you were wondering) and get poor Cathtulhu killed by clicking on their avatar multiple times. Maybe I'm not a worthy assistant for Cathtulhu :scream_cat: ...
Ynnon
04. Oct 2023 · 18:42 UTC
was a bit hard to get the mechanics, but i loved graphics and following the theme
LDJam user 372374
04. Oct 2023 · 23:26 UTC
I love the art here, and after several play-throughs I enjoyed the building level systems. Unfortunately I could never figure out how to convert a dog tile, or fight back. The catnip farm option never became available, and I'm not sure the strategy here?

Even at level 4 the buildings were taken by the dog wave.

Overall great concept and it's on theme - all I can assume is a broken mechanic or something. Keep going, this is a good concept!
Violet Dykhoff
05. Oct 2023 · 01:51 UTC
I think this would be really cool with a little more tutorializing. As is its very difficult to know how many of the systems work with them just explained here and on your itch page without in game examples. I didn't really know how to build and maintain sanity throughout the time I was playing. Loved the art and vibes and I thought a lot of the gameplay ideas were interesting once I got a grasp on them.
Sozey
05. Oct 2023 · 09:40 UTC
I loved the style of this game, the aesthetics are very consistent and pleasing to look at! The asudio is very cute too. Though as others have said, it takes a bit of time and effort to undestand what's going on, but once you do it's a very fun game!
🎤 Yucong
05. Oct 2023 · 13:10 UTC
Hahahaha,The time we four believers had to prepare the plan for this battle was too short...so cathtulhu will eventually melt. You already know the easiest way, thank you for enjoying our game! @moebius
LDJam user 285972
06. Oct 2023 · 07:43 UTC
I feel like this game struggles from not having an interactive in-game tutorial especially a lot. This game has a whole bunch of information and text-written tutorial, but no matter how I look in it, a barely could make up of what I was really doing. So I couldn't really tell how good this game really is, since I couldn't even pass the entry barrier of how to play it. So maybe it's something you could work on?...

Other than that game feels nice. Art is very cute, as well it has a very nice sound design.

I hope you well and that if you'll keep working on it, it would turn out even greater than it's already is, so even more people could finally fully experience it :) Good luck!!
JoshuaRabbit
09. Oct 2023 · 19:25 UTC
The interaction is a bit confusing and it may help if adding a 'turn end' mark on the head of the cat.

The art is cute!
DSK
11. Oct 2023 · 13:02 UTC
Really like the game's art,and the gameplay of Tetris is also very impressive,nice job:)

（喵星人立大功hhhhh）
AdrianGray
14. Oct 2023 · 13:51 UTC
Interesting game, the art is also gorgeous! It's a bit confusing at first but get's clear as you try more
Le Don
14. Oct 2023 · 19:33 UTC
The art of this game is really amazing! As other people mentioned, the gameplay is quite confusing and it's hard to know what to do. And honestly I am not a big fan of the smartphone format, which makes it harder to see when playing in the browser.