In Kitten Defense you use a laser pointer to guide your pet kittens around the living room. Little critters may try to steal your kitty food - DON'T LET THEM! Your kittens will kill nearby critters automatically, but they get distracted quite easily. Make sure the laser pointer is close enough for them to notice it.
Controls: Left-click to activate the laser pointer
HINT: The kittens won't attack enemies while focused on the laser pointer.
Also, keep in mind that the laser pointer must be near the kitten to attract it.
Unconventional Weapon: Laser pointer.... or Kittens... whichever you prefer
There's an option to turn off blood effects in the game menu
ENJOY!
Special thanks to everyone on Twitch who helped give feedback, test the game, and help me fix coding errors. You guys rock!
Great theme usage. It is difficult to figure out how to hit spiders, though. I basically click-spammed until the kitten hit it, which felt unsatisfying. I now am furious at squirrels, though, for hurting poor kittens with their nut bombs.
Surprisingly fun game. During the first few levels, I was thinking to myself "this would be awesome with more kittens", then next thing I know I'm controlling three.
One thing that I felt it needed was being able to "laser focus" some enemies with the laser. In many situations, I'd have a spider or rat eating the food, I'd lead my kittens there, then they'd go chase a squirrel or something. Cats, man.
Good game! Those pesky raccoons are making things hard. The cats are pretty self-sustained also - we just think we're influencing them, but they just do what they want, just like in real life!
Noooo! Out of food! This was really fun, and an EXCELLENT use of the theme. We're not firing kittens out of rocket launchers or anything, we're using them in a way that is logically conceivable (if not all that probably). Really great.
Pretty good game. Perhaps a little violent, but that's cats for you. Good level design/progression. My only qualm was sometimes when two kittens were close together they were a bit hard to separate. But everything from graphics to audio and controls were good.
Fun to play, challenging but it became that way because of harder enemies rather than just more of them, which is good. I really liked how each round had a different ideal strategy, so the player was forced to adapt. Good job.
Pretty fun! I did begin to feel like the laser pointer didn't really have much to do with the game, but was just an annoying way to control the cat because there was a distance limit on it. Sometimes my cat would run in the opposite direction from my pointer which was strange/frustrating.
One of best all around entries I've seen so far! The amount of polish and attention to detail is fantastic!
However, I think the kittens are slightly overpowered at times. There were times where I was just sitting, watching the kittens kill things rather than wrangling them with the laser pointer. Maybe they need to be slightly dumber?
Perfect. This is perfect! Super cute graphics and idea, nice satisfying sounds, great level progression and teaching the player, and I didn't see any bugs (aside from the spiders :P). The only thing I can even think of to criticize is the default UI button sprite (I think it looks better if you just use a 16x16 blank square sprite for a minimal look rather than the stretched Unity UI sprites), but obviously that's a really minor thing. Awesome work, 5 to the 6th power from me :)
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I enjoyed this, good job!
One thing that I felt it needed was being able to "laser focus" some enemies with the laser. In many situations, I'd have a spider or rat eating the food, I'd lead my kittens there, then they'd go chase a squirrel or something. Cats, man.
Overall a really nice game, well done! I especially like the animations.
Loved the theme and execution, great entry mate! Impressive!
However, I think the kittens are slightly overpowered at times. There were times where I was just sitting, watching the kittens kill things rather than wrangling them with the laser pointer. Maybe they need to be slightly dumber?
Nonetheless, great job!!
I love when the nut blows up and the little cat meows :)
Thanks for sharing.