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A jam submission

Save your mum (and her cats)View game page

Hoarding game about love and cats
Submitted by alwaysawake — 4 minutes, 26 seconds before the deadline

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Save your mum (and her cats)'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#9713.5643.564
Overall#16363.0773.077
Presentation#21562.9742.974
Fun#22962.6922.692

Ranked from 39 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?
Your mum's hoarding has gotten out of control and a nearby bushfire is closing in on her property. She's trapped inside and her cats are missing. Get in there and save your mum (and her cats) before it's too late!

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing art

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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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The camera fov needs a little tuning (makes me ugh dizzy), otherwise great atmosphere with the frantic music and incessant mewing lol. Only managed to get 1 kitty as the hallway seems to be unpassable. 

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Lots to work on in this one. I think I will do some bug fixing and polish after the jam for sure. To pass the red room (after the toasters), check the windowsil out ;)

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I saved two cats and then clipped through some boxes and fell into the endless void. This game stressed me out in a good way.  I couldn't figure out what to do after the second cat. Well done. Maybe I'll revisit it later to see the rest of it.

Submitted(+1)

Hilarious game, each room made me laugh. Nice original concept and silly gameplay. Good work!

Submitted(+1)

I feel like there's awesome gameplay hidden behind hte  lags :( Managed to save 1 cat

Developer

For sure, makes me sad that I can't reupload an optimised version for the jam or even just the Windows version. Big mistake making a WebGL version we such a big 3D project. Hint: jump over the toasters. Check the windowsil in the red room.

Submitted(+1)

It was laggy as hell, but I still had lots of fun with this one, but still didn't came far. The toaster-room (which was hilarious) were fairly easy and fun to search through, but the tunnys in the next once are so small I chouldn't manage to find the cat.. My poor mum would probably die..

Hope you had much fun developing this game. Cheers

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! Indeed it starts out a little laggy especially on slower/older computers (perfect on my new desktop overkill build). Next time I'll use less toaster. Don't let your mum die! Have a look on the windowsil in the red room.

Submitted(+1)

5 out 6 cats
1 mum collected (are there more mums?)

That's a result I can live with. She wouldn't probably notice one is missing, would she? ;)

Developer(+1)

There's only one mum in this iteration. Definitely room in the house for a couple more. I hope you appreciated the top quality animation of her excitement and yellow demon eyes.

Submitted(+1)

I just took a small glipse on her, for I was panicing frankly. I could literally feel the heat of the bushfire coming closer, as well as the heat of my notebooks CPU... which is a funny thing from the design perspective, because as my time was getting less, the warmth under my finger grew which was a quite smart way to create of immersion. You did this intentionally, didn't you?

Submitted(+1)

Uff. Hard lacks so I couldn't play for real. But the concept and general implementation are really cool; I rated this rather than the gameplay ;)

Submitted(+1)

It was so laggy i could barely plsy it so im rating it based on my understanding of the concept cuz i gotta lol.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for trying anyway! A learn for my next jam. 3D games with lots of assets are not made to run on slow/old hardware or in WebGL. I might go for something a bit less power hungry next time or go for a downloadable executable.

Submitted

It was so laggy i could barely plsy it so im rating it based on my understanding of the concept cuz i gotta lol.

Submitted

Wow, my browser has never lagged a lot before, but I like it. A solid 5/5 for the originality. Bravo

Developer

Cheers! There are A LOT of triangles in this scene and zero optimisation. WebGL 3D is not as ready as I thought lol. Runs pretty smooth on an RTX2070. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

SO MANY TOASTERS! That was hilarious. Good job.

Submitted(+1)

Okay, now I want to see what the house-owner looks like ^^

Developer

She looks as crazy as you think.

Submitted(+1)

Good physics mayehem, though it made my pc lag a bit.

(+1)

I was honestly really worried that they wouldn't have anything to turn their bread into toast with in the morning at the beginning, but we relieved when I got to the kitchen,

Submitted(+1)

Crazy concept, the amount of objects spawned was making me lag like crazy though.

Developer

I did have a solution to this but with so little time it got put on the maybe later list. Thanks for having a play. Much appreciated.

(+1)

The meowing in the background made me want to finish it quicker. But it was a real puzzle. Also I played it with a controller which was better than the mouse of my lappy. Amazing music with an interesting game-play. Poor cats, save em!

Developer
The meowing in the background made me want to finish it quicker.

That's exactly what I wanted! The meowing is there to create a sense of urgency and it's not too bad after the blue and red room. Shame the yellow room puzzle broke on my final build.

Glad to hear it works with a controller, wasn't expecting that at all. Thank you so much for giving it a go. Cheers.
(+1)

No idea what was going on and it was great

Developer (1 edit)

Did you make it to the end?
Thank you so much for playing!

Submitted(+1)

The damn meowing xD. Sorry, I couldn't find the second cat >.< I just wanted to throw some of the junk out the window, why couldn't I burn some of the junk? Haha, a well presented little game, someone else can let me know how it ends. Nice work :)

Developer (2 edits)

It's not super duper obvious but have a look at what types of cans are in the room. You might find that there's more than just one ;)
I didn't realise how full on the cat meows sound was until replaying it just now. I guess I had just gotten used to it after 14 or so straight hours. Turning it off or down was one of the features I didn't get round to programming unfortunately.
Thanks for playing and the feedback!