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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #340 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Overall | #495 | 3.632 | 3.632 |
| Originality | #599 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Fun | #770 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
Ranked from 68 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Herding cats is a famously difficult thing, even more so when the aliens are trying to get them.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
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Nooo my cats ^^ the alien pushed me out of the screen and I couldn't come back ^^ but it is a nice game ^^ good job ^^
great work on this game! quite spooky and intense trying to keep my cats safe! the atmosphere was fantastic! good job! :D
I was a little confused if is there any strategy to save the cats most of the time, because I really wanted so badly, but aliens were so persistent ;(
One thing that I didn't like is that there wasn't a way to save the cat from the alien who took one (or was it, and I'm just small brained?)
But overall, the sound design was on point, the visuals establish the atmosphere well, and the idea is original but sad (in a good way). Surely, adding much more elements can turn the game into something much less repetitive, but for a game in 48 hours, your submission is great!
It definitely seems like we should have had some way to counter the aliens for a bit: either stealing a cat back from them, shooing them away, or maybe throwing some light to scare them temporarily? Unfortunately, it was one of those things we just didn't have time to playtest+figure out a good solution for.
Glad you enjoyed the atmosphere of the game, our artists did some super good work!
Yeah, I figured it was the time limit. But it just made the game so much sad, the feeling of hopelessness when you can't even save your cat... XD
Best of luck to your team!
It took me a while to understand how exactly do I operate the game, but once I got an idea, the game-play was pretty smooth. The UI was very cool looking! nice sound and graphics too. Awesome job submitting a challenging game to this jam and If you have time, please check out my game :D
Fun concept and nice visuals and audio.
Though it's rather a one-shot game. It gets tedious after a while, especially the second (and probably next) time around.
Hard game, and sad. :(
But well done! My only complaint is that the character sprite goes under the cats even when not carrying them, which looks a bit odd.
this is a really cool game. I loved the are and the movement was pretty solid. Great work!
Original take on the theme, allthough felt a bit tidious (for me at least). Overall presentation is good, the pixel art is of good quality, the music fit the ambiance and the sfx are well done and use. Didn't encounter any bug, so yeah good job !
Really cute idea! I liked the pixel art style and the general look of the game was very polished :) Was not a fan of how you could collide with the cats (as you had to avoid those, the monsters and had to pick them up at the same time). Excellent job overall :)
Cool concept but I did not like that the cats had colliders I had to avoid. Fantastic visuals and theme, it felt super creepy in a good way. Good job, and I hope to see this expanded upon!
Really fun and iteresting game. Mom the devil whats to eat my cats!
Fun game ! it wasn’t too hard and the movements of the aliens was speedy but predictable enough to still be manageable. I just don’t know if it was intended that the cats have a hitbox ? Good job !
wow, this one is really awesome and cute, totally worth the time
My cats were all murdered, so that's probably a good place to call it a night. The mechanics feel solid, my only complaint was that an alien was able to push me into the trees on my first playthrough so I wasn't able to protect my poor children. I don't know what I was expecting, but the aliens scared the livin daylights out of me, the sound design and creature design there is terrifying. Good work! Loved the atmosphere, loved the game.
such a cute game! i am apparently very bad at it but that did not stop me from having a lot of fun! the artstyle and color scheme came out great! i love it!
I loved this!!! Super super cute and super fun to corral a bunch of little sweetos who don't know what's good for them (very true to real life with cats). Also I'm super curious about the enemy AI! The way they just wait in the darkness and then RUN was so creepy.
Glad you enjoyed it! The enemy AI didn't quite get where I wanted it to, but it's a pretty simple state machine.
Hopefully I haven't just rambled, and that actually conveyed something useful.
Ahhhh, makes sense! Wow I hadn't even considered that the cats and enemies might share AI mechanics, but in retrospect, duh why not reuse it. It always amazes me how a little bit of logic can feel so complex.
Really fun game! It's also very hard, I couldn't keep more than 3 cats at the same time.
i love playing anything as a scraggly old wizard. super cute game, as someone who uses the phrase "it's like herding cats" often i think this is a perfect digital representation of it. love the art, easy to play. well done!
Very addicting, I got to a score of 50! 5/5 for the originality!
fun little game but its hard to keep the cats in the light and not sure how scoring works.