Joyful Cute Pals

Ow! They're so cuuuute!
Let's pet them!
I have no arms, but with some suitable toys laying here and then, I may play innocent games with them…

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Hi!

I hate this theme since the very first time I saw it in the slaughter. I felt it as a pain in the a… assertion.
But, hey, dealing with themes we don't like is part of the LD.
I was stuck with complicated or unreachable ideas, so I asked for some help. A friend suggested this simple idea, and I thought I could make it very fast, and, for once, have time to make some arts, sound, and funny stuff. But in a LD, things are rarely going as well as we think, or want. So at some point, a choice came up : whether give up, or restart everything from scratch. I choosed the second, and even if I don't have a quarter of what I had in mind, at least the result is playable.
I don't know if I will find enough willness to make a post-jam version with a little more of the first ideas in it, but it would be a good start adding some "toys", and mainly some "friends" - at least one who "pet" the player back, giving that there is a life bar but actually it never go down.

About the gameplay, there is no much to say, it speaks for itself. Just a little thing : the faster you "pet", the more you gain score doing it. Very more.
Oh, and if you use down the last usable "toy", the level ends (because you can't "pet" without a "toy").