This is very ambitious for a first "complete" game, especially for a game jam. It's very impressive what you managed to put together with the limited time.

As feedback; try to use transitions when changing scenes, it helps a lot with the presentation of a game. Also, it was probably not included due to time constraints but, I would suggest having animations when a cat is defeated. Just a simple dragging off of the screen would help the player visualize what the actual outcome of the battle was, like in the old pokemon games.

Anyways, nice job on delivering this!

It definitely has the feel of a pokemon game, with the random battle and catch system.

Unfortunately, I think I lost out on the game because I stayed on the path until the path just stopped, and at that point, the cats were too high level.

Otherwise, it's a competent piece you put together. Learn from this and shoot higher in December!

Cute art and music. The cat designs are fun. The game froze but I managed to catch the tentacle cat (but the he died 😭)