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A jam submission

Rumba RodeoView game page

A robot vacuum vs. house cats. Clean 16 rooms, then Unlimited mode.
Submitted by aely — 1 hour, 13 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 11 people so far
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How did you use AI?
Claude for ideas and design; Claude Code and Codex wrote the code: the game, the cats' behaviour, a map-grid level editor, the Unlimited room generator, and QA bots (including a "smart" bot that lures cats with catnip) that played every room to tune the difficulty. AI image generation made the reference art (title illustration, rooms, characters), then pixel work in Aseprite. The music track Pixel Rumba was made with Suno. The cats inside the game run on fixed rules (no live AI).

List of Team Members (name or pseudonyms)
Solo: Aely (design, rooms, direction), working with the AI tools listed.

How does your game fit the restriction?
Every game input moves the Roomba: arrows/WASD drive and Space is a dash (a burst of movement). There are no clickable buttons: menus, level select, settings and the game-over choice are all made by driving onto a button or holding a direction. P (pause) and M (mute) are the only other keys.

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Submitted(+1)

fun stuff, great job

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, well done! I loved the movement smoothness, the art and the sounds, I had fun improving at avoiding/bait the cats and using the catnip and also rushing to get the limited extra items. Great polish and a good amount of challenge also, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Fun concept, could make the cleaning mechanic more satisfying and fun. 

Submitted(+1)

Nice entry, I love the music, and the game itself is fun to play. Animations are nice, everything is very friendly. Title art is great :)

Submitted(+2)

This was fun, kinda like Pacman, great job!

HostSubmitted(+1)

The gameplay reminded me of Pac Man.  I liked it.  Here is my playthrough of it, but I didn't finish: 

Developer

Thanks for playing! I was told it was too hard after certain levels, and that's something to learn from.  I can probably make levels available for game testing (including the endless mode).

Submitted(+1)

I really liked it - the animations were quite smooth! And loved the dialogues. 

Submitted(+1)

I really liked it, I thought the dialogues appearing at the bottom and the image of the robot in the dialogue were really cool, congrats