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A jam submission

Detective MeowView game page

Submitted by Kenny Yuen — 38 minutes, 15 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#5543.3003.300
Innovation#6562.8002.800
Theme#7122.8002.800
Overall#8042.7222.722
Audio#8322.5332.533
Game Design#9322.5332.533
Fun#9862.3672.367

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
The crime scene is not real. It is fabricated. Players need to find the truth.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes for all code and artwork, except the music.

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Submitted(+1)

Pretty cool game! The movement was a bit sluggish, but otherwise, great job!

I rated your game. If you have the time, maybe you could rate mine as well? Cheers :)

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback. Will checkout yours.

Submitted(+1)

Great game. Rated it. The graphics are good and it relates to the theme. Pls check out my game as well if you dont mind - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1418152

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for playing. Will checkout yours.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! Cool visuals :)

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback.

Submitted(+1)

The cat is adorable, the music was cool.
The cat was a teeny bit too slow, but this could turn into something cool like Sam and Max :D

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback. Never heard of Sam and Max but definitely will check it out, maybe I was too young lol.

Submitted(+1)

 I liked the pixel art. The movement of the cat was a little too slow though.

Developer

Thanks for playing. And yes, I heard a lot of people also experience that. Would update it next time.

Submitted(+1)

The art was very cute and well done, but I was confused about how to wake up the detective. Nice little game!

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback. You need to interact with the environment and draw your detective's attention.

Submitted(+1)

Very reminiscent of some classic 16-bit console adventure games, and I dig it. I've always enjoyed "guide the character to a thing" mechanics, and I think you could do a lot with this. Keep it up!

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback. I will try improving this game after the jam, so please feel free to watch for any updates in the future.

Submitted(+1)

short but cute.

Developer

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

This was very interesting! I love the pixel art and also the story!

I just rated your game, maybe you can do the same on mine ^_^

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback. Will checkout yours later.

Submitted(+1)

Interesting game with a cute idea, I liked that I get to play as a cat. I was not able to inspect objects with the dialogue on and at the same time pressing keyboard buttons did not advance the dialogue which confused me at first but then I realized I have to use the mouse.

Developer

Thanks for playing. And yes the dialogue control is kinda meh, thanks for your feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Funny concept. I enjoyed the dialog. The controls for the cat were a bit fiddly.

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback.

Submitted(+1)

that detective reminds of togomori hes useless 

i like the idea of the game but you have to improve the controls cz its a bit slow and make skip for the dialog  but overall great job

Developer

Thanks for playing and your comment. 

(+1)

Great Game!

Check my game too...

Developer

Thanks for playing. 

Submitted(+1)

You should improve on the controls...Nice effort.

Developer

Thanks for playing and your comment.

Submitted(+1)

I loved the idea of knocking shit off of tables to get a detective to do his job xD. I got stuck on that first level, was unsure what to do other than toss books around.

I'd recommend using a box-collider for the cat instead of a circle collider. That would make the platforms a bit easier to stay on, and you could adjust the box collider's width to be smaller if necessary.

Developer

Thanks for playing and really appreciate your comment. I tried using a box collider at first but it seems too easy to bump into the obstacles, maybe I am not doing it right.  Maybe I should adjust the ground friction.

Submitted(+1)

Some of the gameplay was a bit strange, and it was hard to know what triggered the detective. Also, it was a bit slow, and the platforming challenges were too hard

Developer

Thanks for playing. I should start a mini-tutorial alongside the level. Would definitely take your opinion and fine-tune the control and level design.

Submitted(+1)

I really liked the art style and music. You can tell a lot of effort was put into that. 

I would say to make the movement a bit faster and to let the player skip dialogue.

Developer

Thanks for playing. I will definitely take your comments into consideration.

Submitted(+1)

cool concept, but the gameplay is very slow and janky

Developer

Thanks for playing and your comments.

Submitted(+1)

Neat concept, Art is GREAT, Controls could be better

Developer

Thanks for playing. Will take a look at the control and definitely smoothen it.

Submitted(+1)

The pixel art graphics and the animations are vegy well made, however the character is very hard to control and even after I reached the knife, i couldn't figure out how to make the human get to it. 

Developer

Thanks for playing and your compliment. You need to draw the detective's attention and help him to the evidence. 

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