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A jam submission

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GB gamecreated for the Game Boy Showdown 2023

Submitted by Selbryn (@selbrynsucks) — 2 hours, 51 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Game Design	#26	3.452	3.520
Theme	#29	3.687	3.760
Gameplay / Fun	#34	3.334	3.400
Overall	#35	3.347	3.413
Innovation / Originality	#39	3.256	3.320
Sound / Music	#44	3.216	3.280
Graphics	#48	3.138	3.200

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You play as a little kid that has to help his grandpa during the weekend. Cleaning cat litter boxes. You have to be nice to the cats as they do not have an easy life, pet them and be friendly with them to give them love

Did you use any assets?
I have used some of the default assets that come with GBStudio. I have also used one song from this package (https://beatscribe.itch.io/gameboy-adventure-rpg-music-assets-uge). I took this package (https://reakain.itch.io/gb-studio-7-11-tileset) as a initial reference to create the backgrounds

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birdsofafeatherSubmitted3 years ago

The demo is really broken progress-wise, but it seems like a good start to actually redo it as a deluxe version for the cartridge release (with 999 NFT cats).

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Cuppa Joe

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ncon_evJam Judge3 years ago

The labyrinth is very good designed and challenges the player's spacial awareness. The puzzles build up in complexity quite nicely. But you have multiple ways of progression once you find out that the litters you push the dookie boxes into are also ladders to a level below. I only discovered it by chance because once you have pushed the boxes into it they are blocked until you re-enter the screen. Could have been done a bit more elegantly, but it is not impossible to find out. Charming conversation with the woman in the end. I think I just got a weird bug in the end, where the man at the counter said i have to pet 2 more cats and there was one cat not permanently switching to "happy" after petting it. I was able to pet it 2 more times and got the ending this way. There was also a yarn that seemed not to do anything and a mouse which path i was able to block and then interact with, but it seemed not to do anything (left over ideas?). Only one song was used but it was really enjoyable and not annoying. Movement was clean and the speed felt appropiate. I enjoyed playing it, only the ending with the bugged cat dragged it a bit out.

- Vashetrockner from ncon_ev

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RubenretroSubmitted3 years ago

I like the concept

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Retro Quiz Tower (JAM Edition)

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:>Submitted3 years ago

A very well done puzzle! I was surprised by the number of rooms found, it ended up confusing me several times. But it's good, with a beautiful attention to detail.

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You are my New friend

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visifaceSubmitted3 years ago

VERY cute game: grandpa has a big maze for a shelter LOL - i love that you clean the litter boxes and all of the cat sprites have their own personality! i am quite bad at puzzle games, but that is not the game's fault: i still had a lot of fun and very nice game!! thank you so much for sharing!!

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Bork Paw Kisses

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Johndo StudioSubmitted3 years ago

A fun game concept, on the concept of animal respect, I can only applaud :D