Eye for Mischief by Vyolfers

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made by Vyolfers for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

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💢"OwO What's this..? Master is really stubborn, why does he need those other animals?? I'm the only familiar he needs!"💢

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In Eye for Mischief, you play as a cat belonging to a wizard. Determined to get his master's attention away from his keyb--er, ritual, our feline friend slinks his way through the mess in the house to make his presence known. The master's abode is always so messy, and these creatures he keeps conjuring are very unpleasant! Surely nothing is going to distract our kitty from reaching his hooman, right...?💦

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🎮Code @Skullpaca

🎨Art @Vyolfers @PanKeiki @Mizutan @Pepe @Hyan @NovaReeee @nymroot

🎵Sound @PanKeiki @nymroot @Skullpaca

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Ratings

Overall 77th 4.151⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Fun 175th 3.929⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 330th 3.651⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Theme 394th 3.919⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 22th 4.651⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Audio 90th 4.087⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Humor 51th 4.221⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Mood 62th 4.274⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Given 89🗳️ 133🗨️

Feedback

Alex4101
16. Apr 2024 · 01:04 UTC
Love the mechanics and animations! This game is so cute :)
NaPlz98
16. Apr 2024 · 01:06 UTC
Absolutely Cute! I love the cat!
kobutanori
16. Apr 2024 · 01:17 UTC
so cute!!!! the little touches make this game so charming~!
Xavier7
16. Apr 2024 · 01:22 UTC
That UI is sooooo cute! And the sounds Omg I just can't
MorePixels
16. Apr 2024 · 02:49 UTC
Very cute game! The cat is adorable and the art is unique, game is slightly repetitive
LDJam user 382819
16. Apr 2024 · 02:54 UTC
Ah, this game is insanely cute! How did you whip up such an adorable thing in no time? It's totally winning me over! I'd pay good money for your GIFs as reaction packs!
cirno
16. Apr 2024 · 05:27 UTC
The graphic is really cute and smooth just like the cat. The idea of the cat moving through the obstacle is great.
FYJ
16. Apr 2024 · 06:32 UTC
So cute !I love this style!
Ronn Fever
16. Apr 2024 · 06:33 UTC
Wow the menu and the custom title animation are so great. And I love the tutorial art. What a well polished game!
Blueanoli
16. Apr 2024 · 07:16 UTC
I'm usually not a fan of downloading jam games but seeing the art style I just HAD to. And I am not disappointed.
All 5 stars from me. And I WANT MERCH!!!!
FabiGhindaru
16. Apr 2024 · 13:21 UTC
Cuteness overload!
Outstanding visuals and aesthetics! The main menu and tutorial remined me a lot of the jackbox games graphic design.


Very fun and very cute with some of the best visuals! Amazing job!
SStyles93
16. Apr 2024 · 13:29 UTC
This game is sooooooooo cute!
The art is just Puuuuurfect :cat: And the features are so cool!

Great work
DarSor
16. Apr 2024 · 13:30 UTC
Very сute! i love it:3
LocksmithArmy
16. Apr 2024 · 14:29 UTC
Thats exactly how my magical cat acts... you nailed it ;)
LDJam user 384819
16. Apr 2024 · 14:32 UTC
Very cute art!
Pierre CILLUFFO
16. Apr 2024 · 15:03 UTC
Love the art !

But the game lacks some audio feedback (appearance of obstacles for exemple)
Bollatix23500
16. Apr 2024 · 15:43 UTC
What a great game, Im in love with the art, the first try was a little chaotic but after that its was so fun to play.
Great great job!
bittripbrit
16. Apr 2024 · 16:00 UTC
Utterly adorable. I love the caw paw thwapping when you click, the best feature of any game I've ever seen. Really fun gameplay, love the PacMan rules with the sushi!
Greenstone00
16. Apr 2024 · 16:01 UTC
Clicked for the cat, stayed for the game. But Yeah cool game and awesome artstyle, like really awesome!
actualtian
16. Apr 2024 · 16:06 UTC
How did you do this in 3 days, this is insane. The animations are so fluid and lifelike.
Doonutsaur
16. Apr 2024 · 16:51 UTC
very cute game! I love it!
Niighty.nine
16. Apr 2024 · 17:29 UTC
The art and main menu scene are so nice and cute. I love that you use the cat laser to be the cursor to bait the cat to select the button. I think you can improve a bit more of the theme, and the control is a bit delayed. Overall is pretty good. Great job, team :D
tuh
16. Apr 2024 · 17:47 UTC
funny
Xivo
16. Apr 2024 · 18:30 UTC
purrfect.
Nomus
16. Apr 2024 · 21:33 UTC
Really cute execution, I loved all the cat details, the menu with the paw, the laser and stuff, very nice
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 22:34 UTC
Cool game, I liked it!
onqdll
17. Apr 2024 · 01:19 UTC
It was fun! Laser sold it for me. Adds a lot of personality to the character and a feeling that I'm controlling a cat with it's own desires.
Tess Winlock
17. Apr 2024 · 05:20 UTC
The personality of this game is on point, love the laser pointer.
Timidger
17. Apr 2024 · 05:38 UTC
Wow the main menu is so cute and interactive! Love the paw touching where your mouse clicks.

Even though I read the instructions twice I was a little confused when I ate the Salmon. Since it's also food I thought that I got health but I did notice the eyes were different. I see in the instructions that the cat's eyes are the same color, but when I saw that image what stood out to me was that his cat maw was wide open. Love that style, I can get behind a wizard cat devouring his other pets. But I was trained to expect to see that imagery when I was able to kill the enemies -- I never saw the cat's mouth open so it took me a while for it to click.

Love the slight delay where the countdown hits 0 but the wizard still has to summon. This gives the player a little bit of breathing room and leads to them feeling they "just got there" in the nick of time.

Another nit that may be just me -- the noise the cat makes when you hit the wizard sounds like he's taking damage. Combine this with the wizard progress bar on the right shaking and going down and my brain jumps to "oh that was my health". Something sort of calming like a purr (which is probably a LOT harder to get right in the sound) maybe would have not made me associated it like that?

Really nailed the cat aesthetic, from the enemies (love the laser pointer) to the menu option uwu style words.

The gameplay works as a cute little jam game and I think you had just the right amount of mechanics (the only nit for mechanics was confusion on when I could kill). Thinking about it as a fully fledged game there's a tension between making it more of a puzzler with defined levels vs this sort of arcady style. Not sure where the best direction is. Dunno if you plan to take this further, but it's a great game!
Nenseki
17. Apr 2024 · 06:36 UTC
Really enjoyed the graphics and the premise, the random nature lends to replay-ability but I would have honestly preferred more linear levels to complete with each getting harder, as it is I have nothing to strive for past the few initial winnings... overall I really enjoyed this game though, I did get stuck once but it was my own fault and restarting is easy so.
tapehead
17. Apr 2024 · 11:10 UTC
Overall great and well polished for such short time. Great work!
LDJam user 355344
17. Apr 2024 · 11:55 UTC
Cat? Cat. Cat??? Cat. CAT? Cat. CAT!!?!?!?!??!?!??!........
Cat.
Linus Lindberg
17. Apr 2024 · 13:17 UTC
Very cute! Graphics are obviously stunning. I love how cat-centric all aspects of the game are. Very nice jam game!
Borabee
17. Apr 2024 · 14:44 UTC
Absolutely the cutest :3
Spliddo
17. Apr 2024 · 16:17 UTC
For how restrictive a 2D game can be, the animations are so smooth, congrats on figuring out this part! Incredible gameplay
Kilian BAPTENDIER
17. Apr 2024 · 16:22 UTC
Stunning graphics & menu details and hats off to the only dev, no bugs for me!
The 2 different art styles kind of bother me, and I would have prefered a unique one, but that's just a personal opinion.
The gameplay, the UI and the retro music reminded me of Pac-man, but in a different cuter way.
The goal is simple, yet I had to establish strategies to annoy my hooman. Oh and the tutorial is on point!
A really really nice entry, good job to all ;D
Annie Owl
17. Apr 2024 · 19:46 UTC
This game is so adorable, I love it! :heart_eyes: The music, the graphics, the story and even the UI! Great job!
Ruslana
17. Apr 2024 · 21:11 UTC
Very cute art!
nomersol
17. Apr 2024 · 22:25 UTC
Love the detail with the menu and sound effects
LDJam user 233659
18. Apr 2024 · 03:06 UTC
I'm a simple person, I see a game with cats, I gotta take a bite.

**This did not disappoint.** Super charming, love the concept, top-notch presentation and clean execution. It's cute, clever and wonderful and I absolutely love it!
MartenJ
18. Apr 2024 · 09:32 UTC
At one time I was stucked with the cute kitty, because I was out of milk and I was trapped in a 2x2 square where I needed milk to escape. But yeah maybe my own fault, If I dont think about it :D
Awsome Sound Design and Art Style!! Lovely Cat!
MegzNeko
18. Apr 2024 · 09:51 UTC
Honestly its so cute!!! I love it. The cat just instills such joy in me I cant even explain. The art is my favourite part! its execution is clean and clever. I do wish the wizard was a second or two slower through T-T
FunnyPumpkin
18. Apr 2024 · 09:59 UTC
Its so cute! :heart:
Sometimes wizards lock himself with bats tho (but I dont judge)
Ava Skoog
18. Apr 2024 · 13:15 UTC
Super cute and super polished! Did feel a bit easy. Maybe HP should've been a little less abundant. The way the buttons change after beating the game was fun. Nice to see so much work put into the menus, instructions, credits, all of that. Nice sounds and graphics in game too. Honestly difficult to add a lot when there isn't really much to criticise, very cool game :)
JoshAnthony1990
18. Apr 2024 · 14:18 UTC
Cute game! Gameplay was fun, enjoyed learning the game and strategizing around the powerups.
firellon
18. Apr 2024 · 18:00 UTC
Lovely :)
Pelmanable
19. Apr 2024 · 11:01 UTC
Awesome art design. This game looks awesome. Really cute main menu, where cat's paw put on the point your mouse clicked.

And gameplay is also very good. It's simple, but it's challenging enough in it's simplicity. Really like this one.
MaxguN
19. Apr 2024 · 12:24 UTC
Very fun and cute, loved playing your game. Congrats for your entry!
Norah
20. Apr 2024 · 13:55 UTC
Your game is really cute and has great visuals ! I got blocked once by the environment and I had to restart the game but nothing serious :cat:
detectiveLosos
20. Apr 2024 · 16:28 UTC
The game is just purrfect! Loved pretty much all aspects of it: the premise, the art, the adorable animations, fitting audio and nicely balanced and well paced game loop. The only tiny gripe I have is that something felt a bit weird and unwieldy about the movement/collisions in the beginning, but then I got used to it quite quickly.
I'm sure you won the hearts of all the catlovers with this one.
Btw, what game engine did you use for it?
Tetracold
21. Apr 2024 · 00:19 UTC
Omg!! this game is so adorable, I love the artstyle!!! both the art itself and the sprites are fantastic for this one! congrats to the artists who worked on this, they did an amazing job

The gameplay was also really enjoyable, it was the right amount of difficult and I found the game to be intuitive, I understood what to do even without looking over the tutorial. Short but sweet!

Greta entry! Good job on this one
Skullpaca
22. Apr 2024 · 03:26 UTC
@detectivelosos The game was made in GameMaker. Thanks for the feedback!
burchyn
26. Apr 2024 · 12:20 UTC
I might have had a streamer brain or very bad rng combos when we played it live but I tried the game offline as I promised. I did it in 3 attempts woot woot. Love the game. It's Purrrrrfect! ^^

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LDJam user 277851
28. Apr 2024 · 05:10 UTC
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## cute art ! master style!
Pepe
29. Apr 2024 · 04:38 UTC
@thyoi thanks for our first fanart 😭