Well congrats to everyone who has completed their projects again for another #LDJAM!. This year I went it alone and so as a programmer I really strained to get the art assets I needed. I'm not terribly happy with the level of art polish the end product had but I think it manages to meet the correct cute factor.

The game supports collecting up to 4096 different cats each with a distinct name and appearance so you can encounter the same one across multiple play sessions. Realistically a given play though likely will not have more than 100 cats though. A good portion of the total time on the project was spent fine tuning the cat AI.

Collect too many cats and things will eventually start going very wrong.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cat-lady-simulator-2020

I was keeping a couple friends up to date on my solo jam project so I ended up with a bunch of screen shots of the work as it progressed. I compiled them into a gif.

http://cubictimeline.com/jams/CatLady/demoGif.gif (less compression)

With the final product being

The cat system makes up the bulk of the work on the project. With each cat having an affection value and a hunger value. Each cat is distinct whith the game pre-generating a list of all distinct visual and name combinations of cats. If you see a cat in one play through you might just see him again. It very much is a game all about cats.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cat-lady-simulator-2020

Well first of all I want to say this has been my first time being more active in the community when doing this jam and I am having a great time checking out projects from people and receiving/giving feedback.

We have made a minor bug fix patch for Cat Lady Simulator 2020

Patch Notes * Mac users unable to interact without a CTRL key, left CMD now works * Freeze when resetting game * Issue where some info notices were not being hidden

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cat-lady-simulator-2020

We did it.

Cat Lady Simulator 2020 cleared 20 votes. Thanks to everyone who checked it out gave feedback and we hope more people still do so.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cat-lady-simulator-2020