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Rescue Meow-sion by Ninai

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made by Ninai for Ludum Dare 56 (EXTRA)

Oh oh, your lovely home is being invaded by waves and waves of pink little monsters. And you thought you lived in such a calm neighborhood.

towers.png But luckily some furry friends are out there for the rescue. In this charming defense game, you protect your home together with the help of a bunch of stray cats, you can adopt to your home.

Earn cat food, recruit more cats into your family and utilize their strategic abilities in gun handling, tower building and magic. menu.png

Can you survive all 12 waves of enemies and get the high score?

The game can be played in browser on itch.io

In case that doesn't work there is a zip below.

We would love to hear your top scores in the comments

Link https://github.com/sajochems/Ludum-dare-56
Link https://scottgamer28.itch.io/rescue-meow-sion
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/rescue-meow-sion

Ratings

Given 18🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

Jesse Martin
24. Oct 2024 · 21:54 UTC
Really liked the game, the later levels got a little crazy with all the towers and monsters, I feel like there needed to be more objectives during the early to mid game
JustMars
24. Oct 2024 · 21:59 UTC
A solid (tower) defense game with a unique combination of different gameplay and graphical elements. The pink (cat food?) blobs as enemies were quite random, same for the player's gun, but they served their purpose. The gameplay was fun and decently balanced. A few minor issues, like that the player's movement stuttered a bit, and the UI elements didn't seem to scale with the screen resolution which made them appear quite small on a higher resolution screen, but nothing game-breaking. Good job overall.
![Screenshot 2024-10-25 at 0.45.23.png](///raw/13d/9/z/6913f.png)
lindote
24. Oct 2024 · 22:02 UTC
I love cats..
That's all I must say. I was very Bias. HAahahhahaha
Very nice game.
WeirdBitGames
24. Oct 2024 · 22:08 UTC
You had me at the "meow" sound when clicking on the cat tbh! I'm sorry for didn't submit your game until just now and I hope you manage to get enough ratings in time!
LDJam user 262142
24. Oct 2024 · 22:14 UTC
I didn't know how to get the other currency at first but I learned its from killing the enemies. It's a cute survivors-tower defense game that definitely skews towards towers because the player guns will not be able to handle the spikes in waves later on. ALSO idk if its something I did but it eventually dropped so many frames lmao like way later when I started buying the end-tier towers. Overall well-thought out and solid gameplay : )

![score.png](///raw/eff/f3/z/69142.png)
shared
24. Oct 2024 · 22:26 UTC
Pretty fun tower defense, though it took me some time to realize that I needed to drag and drop to place towers. Nice art, cute cats!
JPatrick
24. Oct 2024 · 22:27 UTC
Nice game, with good graphics - As mentioned, a bit jarring how different the enemies look. I've done a couple of LD tower defenses so I know they can be hard to balance, which I think you've done a good job with - Too difficult is 1000% better than too easy.

Hope you manage to get enough ratings :)

(Fyi in the past I've found like 15 ratings was enough to get a score)
mrspeaker
24. Oct 2024 · 22:28 UTC
Nice work, i got sucked into this one and played it for ages. Like JustMars mentioned, the UI scaling was a problem: on my high-density display the icons and stats were extremely hard to read. But it didn't stop me killing a lot of pink blobs! Great job!

![meow.png](///raw/e95/3/z/69149.png)
Sockenpuppe
24. Oct 2024 · 22:37 UTC
Yessss, cats! <3


Took me a few tries till I got the hang of it. Somehow, I did not see realise at first that the option to get back some health exists haha

Sometimes, my gun would disappear and the build menu would open while there were still enemies on the field:

![Screenshot 2024-10-25 002711.png](///raw/bee/f3/z/6914a.png)

Fun thing that happened: My cat heard the "meow" sounds and decided to join in. Felt like there was meowing everywhere lol


Gameplay was really fun once I knew what I had to do and was able to get some of the better towers.

Well done!

![Screenshot 2024-10-25 002919.png](///raw/bee/f3/z/6914b.png)
Sean Osman
24. Oct 2024 · 22:55 UTC
Fun stuff, could be a great game to port to mobile!
Cliff Coffee
24. Oct 2024 · 23:06 UTC
Cute little game, I love how you can amass this wall of kitties so fast and the mechanics seem solid. Takes a while to get going on the upgrades but that is not really a problem, I wanted to keep playing. I couldn't speak to the sound because I was at a coffee shop and didn't have headphones. Keep up the good work!
Wraithind
24. Oct 2024 · 23:49 UTC
Solid tower defense game. Difficulty escalated quickly enough you definitely felt like you had to keep upgrading with new towers. Wish there was a way to move or remove existing towers, so you were stuck with your choices, but that's fine. Couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do with the cats you bought from the shops though. Overall, very well done.
KJa8a8
25. Oct 2024 · 01:46 UTC
Very exciting game! As the game progressed, I had many small animals, and such cooperation made me feel great. However, the player's movement sometimes lags when playing, but this did not affect my enjoyment of the kittens!
kanity
25. Oct 2024 · 05:53 UTC
Kitties! :3 Cute art. Pretty chill feeling of gameplay, I think thanks to relaxing music.
LDJam user 399892
25. Oct 2024 · 19:53 UTC
It's addicting 🤣 I like most of the art, the character doesn't seem to fit at all for my taste but that doesn't affect the fun, still loved it. I like that it wasn't the typical type of cat rescue!