Who would have thought we'd get early access to the Undead Nightmare Stray game? This is a fun little game, albeit too easy. I found myself just running around looking for the guy with the top hat. I played a couple of times and he was always in the same spot. Currently I think you have a lot of good mechanics, the possession and the form changing. They just need a reason to be used. Maybe make some areas off limits unless you possess a guard? Also the combat is too easy, I just hit them once with my tail and they are dead, which could be fine if they had guns and were pressuring me to move quickly. Maybe have an enemy with a bat that takes 2/3 hits? The blocks are there but if feels like it was just plopped in to be there, which could work if the top hat guy had alternate spawn locations. On the ending screen the buttons didn't work so I had to close it down and reopen it to play again. Also just wanted to add that the idea of a Purr Reaper is adorable, good job guys!
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Undead Nightmare Stray Game is such a great description, thank you for that!
I definitely plan on adding some difficulty. There was going to be a feature where the cat cannot go in certain areas and would just be carried out of the building. IE no cats in a construction zone or an office building, however this had some bugs due to some spaghetti code as I was more focused on output vs etiquette so it had to be removed for the end result. And the same would apply to possessing a regular civilian vs an office worker. a civilian wouldn't be able to get in the office or the construction zone.
I did play with the idea of giving an armed guard that could sustain a few hits but it is being attacked by a dangerous cat with a sharp as heck blade. Definitely something to experiment with post game jam as I like the idea a lot and wanted more time with it. A lot needs to be done with this project to give it more life and more challenge and that is certainly something I plan on doing as I had a blast working on the AI of the NPCs.
And thank you! My friend was bored and drew the cat for me after I described the concept to him and he did all the 2D designs and I loved them so I modelled them!