TinyWar by Iaroslavik

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made by Iaroslavik for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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Embark on a daring adventure to rescue the feline kingdom’s beloved King Cat, kidnapped by the vile dogs and imprisoned in their fortress! As the hero, you’ll sneak past canine guards, eliminate every last dog by unleashing the power of flea knights or feeding them irresistible cat poop, and face the fearsome Dog King in an epic showdown. Will you save the day and restore peace to the cat village? The kingdom is counting on you!

Controls

  • W A S D or Arrow keys: Move around the map.
  • E: Eat a mouse to restore health.
  • Space: Throw flea knights to attack nearby dogs.
  • Stay still for a few seconds: Poop, which can be used to distract or feed dogs.

Screenshots

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Ratings

Overall 527th 3.572⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Fun 663th 3.259⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 647th 3.169⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Theme 503th 3.729⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 288th 4.067⭐ 84🧑‍⚖️
Humor 183th 3.704⭐ 83🧑‍⚖️
Mood 434th 3.633⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Given 161🗳️ 217🗨️

Feedback

FrontiersEnd
07. Oct 2024 · 19:49 UTC
I don't think you like dogs lol, cute game though
Halgendy
07. Oct 2024 · 19:56 UTC
Love it! Cat walking up is very strange 🤨
Rita Shvets
08. Oct 2024 · 08:50 UTC
I like both the drawing and the mechanics! The girls did their best!
plasticsword
08. Oct 2024 · 09:39 UTC
Very nice art and music sounds familiar :^)
LDJam user 233347
08. Oct 2024 · 10:17 UTC
Love it! Especially the ending text after you defeat the bad boy.

I'd love some of it :wink:
Kitira
08. Oct 2024 · 11:10 UTC
What a funny idea :) Cute game.
Laywelin
08. Oct 2024 · 12:20 UTC
Very fun and cute idea <3 I loved it <3
Quality Tisel
08. Oct 2024 · 12:31 UTC
Interesting idea, but hoo boy, I spent so much time waiting around doing nothing, and wondering what I could do when the fleas ran out. Eventually I reset and figured out the best trick, but it was annoying running out of options.
UnagiV
08. Oct 2024 · 14:01 UTC
Great idea, love the graphics and the anim of cat and dogs
Kirass
08. Oct 2024 · 17:38 UTC
I really liked this game! It's awesome!
detectiveLosos
08. Oct 2024 · 22:10 UTC
Oh I just love the way that cat strolls around :D
Very cool art that really sets the silly mood of this game, I especially enjoyed those character portraits during dialogs - so full of emotion!
M1FEX
09. Oct 2024 · 08:05 UTC
W game idea 🗣️🔥
cutepurrr
09. Oct 2024 · 09:23 UTC
Loved the game :)
juju
09. Oct 2024 · 16:31 UTC
Love the art style! You should keep working on it!
chispaLBC
09. Oct 2024 · 18:59 UTC
I love seeing hand drawn art that isn't pixel art... It's harder to make it look right so congratulations! Also i love cats so hehe (i finished it!)
Iwant_Pizza
09. Oct 2024 · 21:28 UTC
Interesting idea but realization +-? But whatever game is good
Bizzybee
10. Oct 2024 · 02:12 UTC
Super cute and funny game. Solid mechanics. Fun to play. Wish there was more in the realm of sfx and music but overall very well done! Great job. :)
Yeouseong
10. Oct 2024 · 06:11 UTC
Amazing art style and unique gameplay!!! I enjoyed pretty much all aspects.
Jony
10. Oct 2024 · 08:29 UTC
that is a really nice cute game. Nice game play too
Chacawott
10. Oct 2024 · 09:39 UTC
I really loved the art style, well done!
kristirose88
10. Oct 2024 · 10:21 UTC
I liked the game, even though I didn't like that all the dogs had to die :(. That said, the graphics were great, the controls were pretty intuitive, and the overall game loop was pretty fun.
Alem26
10. Oct 2024 · 11:22 UTC
Incredible work in the art department especially!
Gameplay was a bit confusing at the start even with the explanations, but I somewhat figured it out.
Was an enjoyable experience overall!
zwartraider
10. Oct 2024 · 12:35 UTC
It's the music from Fable! What a nostalgia trip. The game is quite nice, love the stealth and poop eating!
Joshua_Reumann
10. Oct 2024 · 12:41 UTC
Nice work. Creative Game :)
FuTaiBu
10. Oct 2024 · 12:44 UTC
The kittens are very cute, and I like the ones in the bottom left corner the most, and it would be nice to have some interaction with them
Slippers
10. Oct 2024 · 14:27 UTC
The art is outstanding, nice little gameplay loop! Very brave on your part to have animals harmed in any way ;).

It took me a couple of tries to realised that kiting the dogs around to group them together and then aoeing them down with fleas was the way to go, but I like that this was a viable and perhaps the correct way to do it.

The dialogue was funny too, overall it's a super polished, concise game. Nice one.
LangiT
11. Oct 2024 · 04:24 UTC
Great work! I loved this game.
Sviborg
11. Oct 2024 · 14:54 UTC
Very nice game, but very short. I wanna more levels!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Sutt00
11. Oct 2024 · 19:07 UTC
I really, really want to love this game. The description had me hyped for a funny game and the art is charming. In practice the game fell short. It's a really frustrating game to play with the limited resources and the TTP (time to poop). The dogs also seemed to be a little inconsistent when it came to the fecal attraction. Hope you guys can flesh this idea out further.
Dabuliaoyidianer
12. Oct 2024 · 08:32 UTC
cat is so cute!
Ausstein
12. Oct 2024 · 17:41 UTC
![Screenshot 2024-10-12 193845.png](///raw/7a3/22/z/68b37.png)

Very Nice game! I never even used the poop just got all the dogs on the map in range and then used the fleas as a powerfull AOE.
WhiteFox
12. Oct 2024 · 21:54 UTC
Great artwork, really liked the cat and flea knights. Flea AOE was too op for the Chihuahua King 💪
Skel3ton
13. Oct 2024 · 11:20 UTC
Great game. I like your art. There is maybe little much objects in fisrt scene and it looks messy. But I enjoued your game :)
LDJam user 399845
13. Oct 2024 · 17:16 UTC
Nice game,I like the art style very much.
Tastical
13. Oct 2024 · 18:16 UTC
Short and sweet game. The art was very nice, and very detailed, plus the small animation on trees and the kittens added a lot to the overall feel of the game. Very nice entry, keep up the good work!
Yorsh
14. Oct 2024 · 19:53 UTC
Sweet game! Art is pretty good, tho I think it would look much better if drawn at the right size (the line art is scale up/down here and not consistent in between objects). Gameplay is simple but works. I agree with a comment above, first level is a bit too full of stuff, it's better balanced in later levels. That's time you could save to work on particle effects next time for example. 3levels feels right for a jam. Congrats on making a complete game!
Cliff Coffee
14. Oct 2024 · 22:19 UTC
Love the art and theme. The flea mechanic was tough because you'd get stuck with barely enough knights to give you enough flea time to take the dogs out, so took me a few tries. Took me a little while to figure out pickup the knights gave you fleas, I thought from description you'd throw the knight at them - but then it clicked.
daria-toni
15. Oct 2024 · 19:09 UTC
So this is a game about dogs eating cat poop to death? I don't even know if that's funny or sad lol. The visuals are cute and the music sounds very familiar. Is this Fable? Mechanically the game doesn't always work well, I think it's something with the sprite sizes. But I appreciate that you made it have a logical ending and it feels complete.
Volkolak
20. Oct 2024 · 12:10 UTC
I loved this little adventure! The graphics are cool, especially the hero's walking up and down :)
Conor Wilson
21. Oct 2024 · 14:30 UTC
My cat was fixated on my computer screen while I played this. That's the highest praise.

(Good game, you should all be proud :) )
Vablik
22. Oct 2024 · 19:33 UTC
The visuals are really nice)) the art style is well done
BabyGirl2005
22. Oct 2024 · 19:51 UTC
I absolutely love the game, good job!
stmate03
23. Oct 2024 · 11:22 UTC
the visuals are nice, the story is great and funny, clean mechanics, I had a lot of fun playing this game!
Tetracold
24. Oct 2024 · 06:01 UTC
funny premise, the artsyle is nice too, I dig some of the rougher look of some of the sprites and the backgrounds are good and nicely detailed.

I wish the enemy detection range was handled a bit better as I tried to lure enemies to spots in order to deal damage but I was not able to. I figured some strats but that would have been nice, also the hitboxes were a bit wonky, I would sometimes take damage even if the enemy wasn't visually close to me

still enjoyable tho, solid entry!
LDJam user 279046
24. Oct 2024 · 20:49 UTC
That sure was a lot of cute art, just to have it be a game doing aweful things to dog. 😅