Herding Cats: The 400th South Winchester Jr. Semi-Finals with Fiona Pennywhistle by Cercle
My first game jam ever! It was such a blast!
Play as Fiona Pennywhistle in this 2d Physics Puzzle game and try to take Jane Cavendish's place as Semi-Finalist Cat Herding Champion. If only the little buggers would go where you told them. Keep playing to unlock more narration!
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Ratings
| Overall | 30th | 4.179⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 20th | 4.179⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 138th | 3.768⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 228th | 3.875⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 584th | 3.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 25th | 4.241⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 4th | 4.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
Get in the box kitteh!
Also, the 7 cats I ate? They were delicious.
The puzzles were great too, though they didn't feel like they were going from least challenging to most challenging. I had a lot of trouble on the first 2-3 puzzles, then the rest felt much easier. Really good stuff!
Anyway, a good game with funny audio :thumbsup:
Well done.
Also very challenging game.
p.s.Why do kitties never go into the box when you want them too...
The puzzles themselves had a cool mechanic, but I feel like you could have done a lot more with it. There were a few interesting levels (like the one with 4 cats in each of 3 corners and each corner having a different color of cat), but most of the puzzles got pretty repetitive after getting the hang of the rules. However, I will say that I never got bored and played through to the end, probably because you only had two levels in between scoreboard commentaries.
One small suggestion: I agree with @draperdanman that some indication of which color corresponded to which directions would have been nice. Even by the end of the game I was screwing it up.
Overall, this was a lot of fun to play, even though the puzzles themselves were kind of unremarkable. The graphics and audio were very polished, and I never would have guessed that this is your first game jam. Great job!