Whiskers in the Dark by SlaQr
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Listening to your cat get up to mischief in the middle of the night is a nearly universal human experience. But have you wondered what it must be like from the perspective of the cat?
Take on the role of Bob the tabby as he tries to make his owner jump with excitement when they see the gifts you've collected. (Although maybe not in the way Bob intended)
| Link | https://slaqr.itch.io/whiskers-in-the-dark |
| Link | https://slaqr.itch.io/whiskers-in-the-dark |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/whiskers-in-the-dark |
Ratings
| Overall | 54th | 4.111⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 18th | 4.212⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 110th | 3.788⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 76th | 4.212⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 285th | 3.904⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 30th | 4.25⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 94th | 4.12⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
Also bro's house is infested with rats wtf. They're so cute though.
Game felt a bit too hard, I got up to score 7 but then the human wakes up.
Also, I didn't like how you can clip into the cats arms when u look down.
I had so much fun playing this.
It was a little bit difficult to get used to the controls, but after that the hunt is on haha
You could maybe have a difficulty setting because I couldn't manage to get to open the second door after 3 attempts (but maybe that's just me being impatient).
Sound was also great, did you record it yourself?
Things to improve:
- balancing difficulty
Good effort!
@evil23 the music is not ours (and attributed in the credits) but funny enough bob isn't the voice actor. That would be another cat called Georgie.
I do think that after playing it so much that the cat could stand to be a little less floaty, but I am attached to the idea of cat behaviour of sliding past doors.
I would like to further balance the game post-jam but have some tips to try and match our scores in this version:
There's a bug where the rat spawn rate increase is ticking up during the tutorial, so just wait around for a bit.
The meta appears to be to open a door before keeping your owner timer on life support (doors increase rat spawn cap by 2)
Bunny Hop! Your air velocity is higher than your ground velocity and has only a small dropoff if you keep hopping. Your pounce is equally valuable as a velocity reset mid-air or on the ground.
Your mission: match my score of 31 or @matt-silvestri's score of 33
Good luck, soldier.
(Maybe we can even get in the karambit idle animation in the post-jam edition)

Fantastic choice of music, it matched the fast pace and reminded me of the good ol' Tom and Jerry cartoons. Thank you for the in-game tutorial taken at my own pace, those are so valuable. And I love the variety of mice patterns, plus the hilarious picture of way too many of them stacked on top of our poor, unsuspecting owner.
I liked the addition of other rooms. Some surprise upgrades hidden inside would've been the cherry on top of an otherwise excellent game. Great work here folks.