Scratching By by rsheepdv
Serve drinks and pastries to a lovable cast of cats! Make sure to always have pastries on hand, and be careful not to take too long with the drinks. Someone new comes through the door every ten seconds. Good luck!!
How-To-Play:
To make tea: Drag a cup to your workspace, add a tea base, and then add mixtures and toppings accordingly. Drag the finished order to the customer to complete, or to the trash in the corner to start over!
To make coffee: Drag a mug to the coffee machine, and select your roast. Grab ice to make the drink cold and/or add creamer or caramel as requested by your kitty customer.
To make a pastry: Grab pastry mix from the drawer, drag it to the oven, and voila! Pastries will be available to serve to customers. Remember, it takes longer to bake pastries than the customer is willing to wait, so be sure to have some on hand!
| Itch.io Page | https://jomeimei.itch.io/scratching-by |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/scratching-by |
Ratings
| Overall | 450th | 3.642⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 493th | 3.481⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 990th | 2.843⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 447th | 3.796⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 76th | 4.435⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 321th | 3.59⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 281th | 3.412⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 248th | 3.814⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 49🗨️ |
A few things though. It took me a few playthroughs to figure out that I had to do the components in a certain order. It would help if there was an instruction screen or something.
I was a bit confused at first, a little tutorial screen or something would have been nice.
I only got orders for bubble teas over and over, idk if that's normal, I was curious to see other type of orders but maybe I didn't play long enough. The cats are quite impatient I was really stressed by the time even when doing my best ^^' Anyway I liked the game, wanted to see more!
BUT, in general, this was a lot of fun! I'll say it again: the kitties are gorgeous! Thank you kindly!

Game itself is not intuitive to learn.... it's 2:30am and i gave up lol
The aesthetic was awesome and it was fun to see the faces on the cats at the got more impatient. There was a minor bug where I would put ingredients in a certain order and they wouldn't appear until I added the rest. It was a bit confusing but it didnt make the game any less fun. Great job, really enjoyed this game
Luckily, all of everyone's complaints about the game are solved easily with a little more time! It is an incredible submission for the time frame with very fixable problems. More polish on the mechanics, sound, and a smidgen on the UI can make this game an actual marketable product!
Had a bit of trouble figuring out the controls at the start, but then I realized that the tutorial's written on the page description.
Overall very cute and overwhelmingly pawsitive.
1. There is no way of figuring out if a drink I made is correct. Even giving an empty cup gives 100 points. :confused:
2. Also if I return a cup between two cats, both of them will leave satisfied.
I feel that this game has great potential, keep up the good work! :smiley:
However, I ran into some weird issue. On my first playthrough, I totally screwed up, but for some reason, never got the "Too slow" game over screen. But as soon as I started to play better, I got this game over super often. To the point I couldn't play for more than about ~1-2 minutes. I probably messed up somewhere, but to me, it feels like the game over condition is inconsistent in some weird way. Is it adapting to the player skills or something?