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Really awesome mechanics and puzzle design! 

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks for playing! If you're at all interested in going back to see what the solution is, you can click the lightbulb icon at the top :)

Interesting story, and the art is amazing! Super great work and really impressive for a game jam. It reminds me of doki doki literature club--I really enjoy that style of games where the dark themes contrast with the cutesy art.

This was fun to play! There's definitely a learning curve, and I struggled a bit to make any progress at first, but the mechanics are very interesting. The art and sound are great, and overall this is really polished. Great work!

Thanks Helen!!

Thanks for the feedback and for playing! There is sort of an unofficial end to the game when you reach the end of the terrain and your flock transforms for a second time, but it's admittedly pretty hidden and was just quickly thrown together near the end. 

I really enjoyed this puzzle book! This was the perfect game to share with my currently long-distance partner over video call. We love doing puzzles together, and we had so much fun solving this last night.

We started off solving the word searches naively (though we definitely noticed some pieces of information that had yet to make sense) up until puzzle 7 when we started finding other words that matched the theme. By the time we had hit the rules page, we had already more or less figured them out and had started applying them to the later puzzles, but then we realized we had to fully redo the first two once the rules were fully internalized. I really like how you could play all of the searches naively but then realize you had done them completely wrong and then find new orientations for words you already found while re-doing them.

I thought the mechanic of alternating which text was read forward and backwards was very fun. We noticed some of the text flips very quickly, though it didn't all fully click until the very end. Super satisfying!

I thought it was awesome that we really had to use every detail to solve every last bit of the book. Noticing the little green highlight at the bottom of the puzzle 11 page really changed everything - previously, we weren't sure what those letters and numbers at the bottom meant. For a couple of the puzzles, we even had to start counting letters to figure out the missing blobs. We realized we had missed marking off just the single 'A' a couple times, which tripped us up, but all was figured out by the very end. :))

Overall, great mechanics, and it felt like there was a lot of cohesion across the puzzles despite the different themes. I liked how everything worked out with 12 words per puzzle (+ meta clue/puzzle 12 word). I think the blobs that were covering letters were used in interesting and creative ways, and I especially love how they were used in puzzle 1. 

Thank you so much for making and sharing this! 

such a cute and fun game! the premise is sad, but the little pieces of dialogue you get when interacting with each cat are so sweet :')

Just added downloads for Mac and Windows :)

There is also the WebGL build at the top of the page, which you can play directly in the browser!

Thanks for checking out the game and taking the time to write feedback! 

I’m aware of all the issues you brought up, especially the walls of text and how they can interfere with gameplay. These problems haven't been ironed out because this game was created in just a couple of weeks as a class project, and the tutorials and dialogue were pretty last-minute additions. But I’m sorry about any negative experience you had and will definitely take your comments to heart and work to create better projects in the future. 

At the moment, I don’t really intend to do anything more with this game, and I uploaded it here primarily to just have a portfolio site displaying a lot of the projects I’ve worked on. I’ll let you know if I change my mind in the future and decide to go back and make improvements to the game.