Fat Cat by Charging Llama

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made by Charging Llama for LD34 (JAM)
You're a homeless and hungry cat, who has been down on their luck. However, things look up once you find a letter from an anonymous kitty benefactor in your paws. Within the letter you find a key to all the food you could ever desire! Eat to your heart's content, but be careful about drawing attention to yourself by letting trash pile up! Also, you are here to pig out, so avoid those fruits and vegetables, or else you may find yourself in a thinner, bad spot. How fat can you get? Eat, eat, and grow large!

GamePlay:
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1. Click the two buttons on the conveyor belt control to either discard the food, or feed it to the cat.
2. The longer you play the faster the food moves, and the quicker it spawns, be ready!
3. You can pause the game, or speed things up as well.
4. Both "Growing" and "Two button controls" themes used, have fun!

Team:
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Code, Sound - Leonard Burns
Art, Dialog, and Sound - Addy Taylor
Art - Peng Xu
Additional Design Ideas - Drew Walker
Music from Incompetech

Tools:
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Unity 5.2, Photoshop, Audacity, Tascam DR-100mkII w/Shure 58a mic

*NOTE TO CHROME USERS* You will need to use a different browser to play the web version, or just download a copy. Thanks!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.23 600
Audio(Jam) 3.08 481
Fun(Jam) 3.06 593
Graphics(Jam) 3.14 678
Humor(Jam) 3.86 62
Innovation(Jam) 2.63 840
Mood(Jam) 3.11 602
Theme(Jam) 4.10 150

Feedback

jcmonkey
15. Dec 2015 路 02:32 UTC
ok i made it to 178lbs. my cat was huge!!
zlaine
15. Dec 2015 路 02:34 UTC
Very cute. You might want to up the percentage of unhealthy items though -- simply spamming the green button allows you to slowly but steadily gain weight. Creative interpretation of the two-button theme. :)
馃帳 Charging Llama
15. Dec 2015 路 02:36 UTC
Yeah that's a good point Zlaine, thanks for the feedback!
Logicon
15. Dec 2015 路 02:38 UTC
Cool simple game, I wish it was a little more clear which foods he liked/disliked without having the play it. I also wished I had a hotkey for the speedup/slowdown. I felt when it was going normally it was too slow and sped up was too fast.
fergarram
15. Dec 2015 路 03:58 UTC
Full speed + green button spam = win
Too easy.
piper82
15. Dec 2015 路 06:38 UTC
rip skinny :) ate 8 tons of watermelon and bananas and died of starvation. nice take.
VideoDog
15. Dec 2015 路 06:44 UTC
Cute game!
Squid
15. Dec 2015 路 06:48 UTC
Made it to 60 by mash clicking eat.
馃帳 Charging Llama
15. Dec 2015 路 06:51 UTC
Sometimes the randomness can come up with all good food or bad food, so you get some weird runs sometimes. :)
LordKawaii
15. Dec 2015 路 09:23 UTC
Wonderful game, super silly. Now I know why my cat is so fat!
Neonlare
15. Dec 2015 路 11:12 UTC
Pretty damn funny and a really good style and presentation for LD! Gameplay is a bit simple but it's part of the charm, it's a really good micro-game and the music makes it chill and relaxed. Good work, looks like everyone pulled out the stops for this :D.
zenmumbler
15. Dec 2015 路 17:01 UTC
A glorious day for cat feeders. This was great. Who doesn't like fat cat?
MiggyGMan
15. Dec 2015 路 18:53 UTC
This was kind of like our game haha but I liked the concept of having different foods and being able to see your score! After my cat grew, the tail being in a different spot threw me off but overall, this was a great game.
XenosNS
16. Dec 2015 路 02:20 UTC
I love fat cats. Was a bit confused by the tail, thought I was swiping the food with it. Cute game.
oz2mura
16. Dec 2015 路 04:07 UTC
That was a lot of fun, got to 159 lbs! Enjoyed the music too. Good use of the two-button theme.
fluidvolt
16. Dec 2015 路 10:51 UTC
Does what it says on the tin! Holy hell does that conveyor belt start shoveling food at you fast after a while. All of the cat sprites getting fatter were great, and the cutesy uke/xylophone music was fitting in an odd way. Cute game!
logon13
16. Dec 2015 路 10:52 UTC
Fun little game. I love how the food pile builds up at the end for the pieces you miss
StMatn
16. Dec 2015 路 14:13 UTC
Nice came :)
I like the gfx and audio very much!
It would have been nice to have an indication of the area, where button presses will affect food, because sometimes you press a button before the food can be eaten/discarded, what may disturb the flow.
The other thing is, that keyboard input would have been nice. Especially on later levels you don't have the time to move your eyes all over the screen to aim for the buttons, click it and move your eye back to the front of the conveyor belt. It would help, it you wouldn't have to take your eyes off the conveyor belt at all ;)

All in all nice work!
nihilaleph
16. Dec 2015 路 23:43 UTC
Pro:
+ Very cute
+ Fun to see the cat growing fat
Con:
- Game seemed to spawn mostly unhealthy food, so it was rather easy
Obs:
o Got 329lb selecting the food
o I wished I could work in that factory... =(

Great job!
馃帳 Charging Llama
18. Dec 2015 路 08:20 UTC
@StMatn Agreed, we couldn't come up with a good indicator for where to feed/eject the food and didn't just want a "green" zone or whatever. Keyboard input is actually in, I just commented it out, I couldn't get it to fire off the Animations (Damn you Unity Mecanim!) so I just didn't include it in the build, wish I got it working I totally agree on the not wanting to watch the controller. :)

@nihilaleph Thanks for the comments, yeah the randomness does tend to spawn more unhealthy food, I think we needed more food in general, ahh well!
Didi
19. Dec 2015 路 01:08 UTC
lol! made 118 lbs, this was delicious fun!
Muel
24. Dec 2015 路 05:36 UTC
Funny game

But I'd never let my cat do this in real life haha
euske
24. Dec 2015 路 11:35 UTC
But, but... you can get fat with bananas too!
crucknuk
26. Dec 2015 路 21:49 UTC
Nice entry! I did not know that a cat could reach 420lbs :p This game is cute, good job ;)
LeReveur
27. Dec 2015 路 01:32 UTC
Ha ha, what a funny idea you get here ! Well done ! :D
馃帳 Charging Llama
30. Dec 2015 路 08:04 UTC
Thanks everyone, all this feedback means a lot to us. :)