Kat Kicker

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.18
You have been hired by some quarreling neighbors to help them deal with some troublesome tiny creatures. No cats were harmed in the making of this game as they are immortal and feel no pain.

Gameplay:

Grab, throw, and kick cats into the neighbors yard to score points! Obstacles can hurt or help your score, mess around with them! (Accumulated points are scored when the cat lands in the correct yard.)

Write your final scores in the comments!

Controls:

WASD - Move

Shift - Sprint

L-Click - Grab

L-Click(hold) - Charge and throw

R-Click - Kick

R - Unstuck

Note: The HTML version has a few minor errors, especially on Mac. We recommend playing the game through the downloaded versions if possible.

Credits:

Programming - Ophelia Tree, Paul Nuffer, David Lewis, and Adrian Von Braunbehrens

Art - David Lewis, Lilith Tucker

3D Models - Ava Shervanick, Adrian Von Braunbehrens

Writing - Lilith Tucker

Sound Design - David Lewis

Comments12

Shiiro 10psi9 Oct 2024, 00:10
This was an interesting tale of entrepreneurship and escalation. Wasn't entirely clear what some of the items were doing.
Cliff Coffee
Cliff Coffee14 Oct 2024, 20:11
I never want to kick a kitty. I tried to throw them as gently as possible. Just the name was kind of a turn off for me because I love animals, made me want to kick the client and destroy his stuff.
ejmejm14 Oct 2024, 22:23
A funny concept and great 2D artwork. Ran into a bug where I froze after jumping on the trampoline.
Phyrocast
Phyrocast15 Oct 2024, 00:01
Fun game! I think it wasn't always clear how things were supposed to be interacted with, or if there was like an optimal way to shoot for points, or what counted towards the actual score, but still a lot of fun a very nice humor! I'd love to see this game upgraded post-jam into something with more interactions!
DareDevinBegins15 Oct 2024, 00:59
Fun game and great artwork! I see a few bugs when playing the game but with that aside the idea is very cohesive! Really loved the animation and I think interactivity could be an issue within the game.
GreenPig15 Oct 2024, 15:49
Interesting concept with great artwork and humor! Some interactions were a bit unclear, but overall it was fun to play.
annoyed_galaxy15 Oct 2024, 19:51
@ejmejm We weren't able to fix that bug in time before the game jam ended so that's why the unstuck button was there. Simple temporary fix we had
Yaen
Yaen17 Oct 2024, 20:42
What a fun premise. I liked the moment of realization the characters had in the end. Beautiful work on those character portraits too. Really enjoyed those.

The art in the game is sadly a lot less pretty than those portraits, mostly due to some less than ideal colour choices. The cats are cute but I wish they were more alive. It felt a little like I'm just throwing cat statues.

While I like what the game is going for, I think that in the end, all those little assets you're adding over time don't seem to amount to much because they basically didn't really do anything discernable and it felt like the game is just repeating the exact same non-challenge over and over until the story ran out of new text boxes.

I wish that I could have actually used the leafblower to blow cats over the fence or something. Or that I'd have to actually catch cats that are running around and trying to avoid being caught.

I liked the music. It was nice :)
Halgendy22 Oct 2024, 00:56
help I am stuck between two worlds and I don't know who's right
Jcourt22 Oct 2024, 08:00
This felt a little unfinished at times, but I enjoyed playing it.

I agree with some other people that it wasn't always clear how/if you could use some of the objects in any way (like the leafblower and the drone).

I did feel like this was a much greater mix of 2d and 3d art visuals than you see for a lot of jam games. I'm not any good at art so I don't really know how hard this is, but it seems very impressive to me how good grabbing the cats felt - it doesn't feel like you're just clicking the mouse and the sprite is changing while the 3d object disappears, it feels like you are actually grabbing the cat and now it's in your hand.
plasticsword25 Oct 2024, 10:23
Pretty fun game and I alway love the 2d characters in a 3d world. Though I did think increasing the number of cats felt more tedious than fun.
voodinator25 Oct 2024, 12:18
Never imagined myself doing dropkicks with cats, lmao. The humor in this game is on point, good job!

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