🐾 Deep Meowgotiations

Stack your cash, push your luck, and out-negotiate your rivals in this corporate cat showdown!

Deep Meowgotiations is a card-based negotiation game where you play as corporate cats fighting for budget supremacy. Draw cards, collect cash, but beware - the deeper you go, the more the CEO watches! The cat with the deepest stack of cash wins.

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Full Description

The Corporate Cat-astrophe

Welcome to WHISKR, the most PAW-some social media company in the world! Your team's MEOW-velous new project, SnapCat, is the next big thing in feline social media. But there's a problem - six department teams are fighting over the budget!

The Game

* Draw cards to collect cash for your department
* Each decision takes you deeper into corporate intrigue
* The deeper you go, the more the C-Suite Chiefs watch
* Play as 10 different unique cat characters with special powers
* Risk it all for a kitty bank that overflows, or play it safe with a small pile of coins
* The cat with the deepest stack of cash wins!

Features

* Push Your Luck: Go deeper for bigger rewards, but risk losing it all
* Unique Cat Characters: Each with special powers that change how you play
* Risk vs Reward: Push your luck or play it safe - the choice is yours
* Corporate Cat Theme: A fresh take on corporate life with feline flair
* Card-Based Mechanics: Simple to learn, challenging to master

Theme Connection

The "Depth" theme is reflected in multiple layers of gameplay:

* Negotiation Depth: Each decision takes you deeper into corporate intrigue
* Risk Depth: The deeper you push your luck, the higher the stakes
* Cash Depth: The cat with the deepest stack of cash wins
* Strategic Depth: Multiple layers of decision-making in each turn

How deep are you willing to go for that budget? Will you stay in the shallows of safety and inch ahead of your rival, or dive deep for a massive payoff?

Controls

* Use your Mouse to click on the Game Interface Buttons

Development Notes

Created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 57, DEEP MEOWGOTIATIONS combines strategic depth with feline corporate chaos. The game was inspired by the tension of corporate budget meetings and my love for cats who think they own the world.

Creative Notes: I'm a game jam veteran and recently turned AI Maximalist. This was my first AI Maximalist jam game, and also my first solo LDJam. I used AI for literally everything I possibly could, except for creative direction, creative vision, and seed concepts. Later I will be publishing a YouTube video with my learnings from this experiment. Follow me if you are interested to watch it. TL:DR insight... AI isn't going to take our game dev jobs, definitely not yet and probably not ever.

AIs used:
- o1 Pro - Initial Brainstorming & Basic Design
- Sonnet 3.7 - Asset Prompt Engineering & Coding
- Cursor - C# Coding
- Optimizer XYZ - Sound
- MidJourney - In-Game Art
- Flux Pro - Logo
- Suno - Music

Credits

* Everything: Silas Reinagel

* Game Engine: Unity
* Audacity - Sound Editing
* Photoshop - Image Editing
* Font: Candy Beans - https://www.dafont.com/candy-beans.font

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