Cheddar Chaser by magus77

Cheddar Chaser
This is Cheddar Chaser, our ludum dare JAM game for LD56. The theme was "Tiny Creatures" and you play as a mouse who is living in a wall together with a cockroach. Your job is to gather cheese. You can play this game with keyboard and mouse, or with a game controller.
How to play
Gather cheese for points.
Cats will attack you.
Fart for decoy at the cost of points with LMB or Right Trigger
WSAD+Mouse or Analogsticks for movement. Space/X/A to jump
When you have found all cheeses,
go into the mouse home to start a new day
Instructions
Download the ZIP, unzip and start CheddarChaser.exe
| Download trough itch.io | https://datadelft.itch.io/cheddar-chaser |
| Direct Download trough LDJAM | https://ldjam.com/uploads/$396506/20241007_CheddarChaser.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/cheddar-chaser |
Ratings
| Overall | 585th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 540th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 813th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 82th | 4.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 781th | 3.214⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 577th | 3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 265th | 3.548⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 441th | 3.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
Funny one!
The graphics are downright gorgeous and especially those random shadow casting or light falling. Cats do not take damage despite standing still.
For a game made in less than 72h I am full of admiration and appreciation because you can clearly see what time was spent on. All in all it's enjoyable to play and I guess that's the point. This is so far the only game in which I spent more than 15 minutes. Well done and good luck.
~ Socio
great idea!
I wished there were more ramps and placed to run. Getting on the couch, table or climbing the cords of the TV to reach higher places. But I understand well time constraints.
The Roach is a scumbag :(
I laughed at the eating cheese sound effect.
The extra touches around the map such as the TV and pictures and the home sweet home sign were a nice addition, though I would have liked more things to climb to explore the map further.
The cats were quite incompetent and not even remotely a threat.