Project Hail Meowy

by strega

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🚀 Summary

Help Meowy take the last tuna back from the Fat Cat! Every modern ship is grounded, so you'll fly the only fighter left: an old ship that runs on punch cards. Punch out your moves and shots one row at a time, hit RUN, and blast your way to the Fat Cat's mothership.

* Punch-card combat: plan every move and shot on the card, then watch your program play out.
* Read their plans: every enemy shows what it will do next. Outsmart them before you hit RUN.
* Build your ship: salvage and trade for new modules and upgrades across three acts and three bosses.

🎮 Controls

* Mouse, or WASD / Arrow keys - navigate menus/options
* Click / Space / Enter - confirm (punch a hole, press RUN)
* X - discard a mis-punched card
* Esc - menu / back
* 0 (Zero) - full reset

Note: You can change your key bindings in the pause menu!

💡 Credits

Developed by Cosmic Adventure Squad
* Vu Ha - Development

This game was mainly developed by Vu using mostly assets from our previous games.

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Comments11

ThanatosIsANoob19 Oct 2026, 23:17

The combat is so cool. I really like this game. Though the enemy actions aren't super clear at first.

Slyz19 Oct 2026, 23:21

Veeery nice and polished, I wonder how you even did that in only 3 days. I got hooked it was very fun

Shikaka2919 Oct 2026, 23:24

A very engaging mini-game.
It may be small, but it offers plenty of food for thought.
It evokes a sense of childhood nostalgia—I suspect that was the intention.
It’s a bit tricky to figure out how everything works at first.

KediKat19 Oct 2026, 23:24

Really clever UI!

EKLSN20 Oct 2026, 10:34

THIS IS SO COOL!!! THE ASCII TRANSITIONS, THE ANIMATIONS, THEY ALL ARE AWESOME!!!!

Kultuk20 Oct 2026, 15:09

Cool idea!
Love the music!

Brusi20 Oct 2026, 20:31

Punch-card controls are a really great use of the theme! I enjoyed punching cards to strategize and punch some spaceships!

EOShadows21 Oct 2026, 06:20

Might be my favorite game I've played so far in the jam. Graphics are great, and everything feels so polished. Really like the game mechanics and I think it's a neat and unique idea to make each decision costly since you can't undo a hole you punch - cool that it also doubles as a implementation of the jam theme which is really cool by the way, love the punch card system combined with space ships. I had a lot of fun, I think I played for like an hour (died around 30 minutes in before I could reach the boss, then beat the boss on attempt two but didn't have time to keep playing, definitely gonna continue again at another time, thanks for the save feature). Also liked the music and the humor, great interactions between the characters. Felt like something that should already be on steam making money lol incredible you made it in under 72 hours. At one point I thought about how maybe it could use an ammo system to create a reason to choose between the heavy and not heavy weapons, but then I found out (after stupidly shooting at nothing thinking I would always shoot from the center of my ship lol) that there is the thought process of where you put the gun. Everything about this game was just great, well done!

Eugenik21 Oct 2026, 06:27

The concept of flying a ship powered by punch cards is so unique and really ties into the retro theme. There is a fantastic satisfaction in planning out the movements on the card before hitting RUN. Seriously cool execution!

strangernate21 Oct 2026, 09:45

i’m not into pixel art but it’s an another level! love ur job!!

woltsu21 Oct 2026, 18:06

Love it, what a fun and innovative puzzle game!!! Had a blast playing it :)