Don't Let Your Cat Starve by TeamQuiet

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made by TeamQuiet for LD34 (JAM)
Press Z and a direction to eat things, X and a direction to spit them out.
Eat some grass seeds to spit out grass.
Grow grass to feed cows.
Grow cows to feed your cats.
Keep at least one cat alive or you lose the game.

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1427
Overall(Jam) 2.71 983
Fun(Jam) 2.67 879
Humor(Jam) 3.25 229
Innovation(Jam) 2.96 637
Mood(Jam) 2.45 934
Theme(Jam) 3.08 904

Feedback

benjammin1391
15. Dec 2015 · 03:10 UTC
Feed cats cows, makes perfect sense! Controsl take some getting used to, but overall pretty cool!
LavWa
15. Dec 2015 · 03:12 UTC
Interesting little game, love the minimalist angle. Nice idea :)
Fathom
15. Dec 2015 · 05:51 UTC
My cat does in fact enjoy eating entire cows, thank you for making a game that shares the truth of cats with the world.
muffty
15. Dec 2015 · 13:19 UTC
This is so much fun! I really try to figure out how to do best :D
Catblocker
15. Dec 2015 · 18:11 UTC
I'm very confused :I
Andy Gainey
15. Dec 2015 · 18:13 UTC
Tough. Very intriguing dynamics that I think could lead to interesting gameplay and player choices, but I didn't feel like I had enough time or effective control to really experiment much before I lost and had to start over. A gentler learning curve in the early stages could have had a dramatic effect on my experience.

Technical note that affected gameplay: I eventually got in the habit of jumping to the top of the hill when it was clear I was going to lose. Since the game doesn't reset the player's location when it restarts, that's a notable advantage, being able to grab the seeds immediately rather than laboriously hop up the hill.
CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD
15. Dec 2015 · 18:19 UTC
This game is pretty simple on first look. But it's really hard to keep harmony in this world of cats, cows and grass. I handled it building and removing a wall between cats and cows time to time. Unfortunately, on Linux under Wine game sometimes behaves unstable.
Dreyan
17. Dec 2015 · 11:28 UTC
Took me a few minutes, but the game finally stopped being confusing. Interesting idea, rather amusing.
wuppy29
21. Dec 2015 · 11:06 UTC
I managed to get stuck in the terrain within a minute :(
AdamsMcCall
25. Dec 2015 · 17:24 UTC
I didn't understand what I was supposed to do at first. And somehow my cats eat all the cows. I don't really know what to do when I don't have cows anymore.
kanatohodets
31. Dec 2015 · 22:28 UTC
Hmm, I must be missing something relative to the other reviewers, but I couldn't quite figure things out. I plant the seeds, and eventually they turn into more seeds...I plant those..and by the time they're heading to seed my cats have starved. I don't see any cows :(
Farelle
01. Jan 2016 · 09:00 UTC
hehe that was funny :) I don't really understand why they are starting out on a pyramid and why both are coming from eggs XD as mammals. I liked that they were bouncing so much though :)