Meow Moves by wolfybytes
Artwork by Val, Code by Emerson. Featuring fantastic tunes by Tenkitsune!
Meow Moves is a musical puzzle game in which you play a dancing cat witch. Combine cards to build up magical moves as you dance on stage, playing specific elements to match the audiences interests.
Each level deals you a deck and a number of turns. Looking at the top of the screen from left to right shows what element you want to play. Looking at your hand of 5 cards, you play your hand. Putting two cards of the same color on top of one another adds them, putting two of different colors subtracts them.
Lay your cards out on the far right cards to adjust their values. Clicking End Turn submits the right most card and moves your score up. Watch out though, playing the wrong card cuts your score in half!
| HTML5 (web) | https://wolfybytes.itch.io/meow-moves |
| Windows | https://wolfybytes.itch.io/meow-moves |
| macOS | https://wolfybytes.itch.io/meow-moves |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/meow-moves |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
Maybe a different approach to this game would be to draw on classic puzzles like the [Simon Tatham collection](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/) and create a variation on one of them that adapts all the "stage performance" elements. e.g. instead of scoring, when a puzzle is complete, a new trick is performed.
I do wanna call out, that removing the original card bank you had made some hands impossible for me to work myself out of. I would have to turn my card red, and be dealt no red cards at all. I know you were trying to plan out how to make the UI more intuitive by removing the bank, but it helped add a sense of strategy when you save a card for yourself, then get to a hand where it was absolutely worth saving that card.
Feels like it should have been a rhythm tapper or something.
Gameplaywise however it seems really weird. I didn't exactly understand, what the rules were. Seems like you can simply stack the highes point cards and play them, generating a maximum number of points.
(=^･ω･^=)
We also have an entry if you want to play it and rate it