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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #9 | 4.313 | 4.313 |
| Theme | #22 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Overall | #26 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Audio | #27 | 3.688 | 3.688 |
| Fun | #31 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Accessibility | #37 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Originality | #58 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Controls | #96 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.3
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Game Description
Meowntaineer is a cute 2D platforming game. Your goal is to climb a cat tower and reach the summit, all while learning new cat facts on your journey. You navigate puzzles to make a way forward, perform acrobatics with yarn, and meet friends along the way... you may even meet the legendary climber, Tomba.
How does your game tie into the theme?
You are a cat climbing a cat TOWER :)
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
rhetly, buhlien, catamariii, maaack, marina_
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1
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This was such a cute 2D platformer, and I loved that I was climbing a cat tower. Great interpretation of the theme. Meeting the kitties and having them give the fun cat facts was a great idea. The puzzles added a nice challenge, and the acrobatics with yarn made it even more entertaining. I really enjoyed the journey, but had some difficulty with the rope jumps. Overall, a delightful experience
Thanks for the game!
cool name for the game, sweet artwork and level design with fitting soundtrack.
really cool yarn climbing and swing feature, adorable cat character
would have loved to have a little bit more of a dynamic jump (holding space for longer, makes me jump higher or something in that direction).
plays probably better with gamepad than with keyboard. (Space + E is kinda hard, had to use the mouse too)
Well done!
Thank you for playing! 😊 I agree about E, unfortunately we didn't have much time for playtesting during development, but we're planning a little quality of life update post-jam, with more intuitive controls and default controller inputs, hopefully that will make the jumps to and from yarn less frustrating. 💜🧶
Cute cat game. Loved the yarn mechanic, especially the unpinning and pinning to get around certain areas.
Noir <3
a little rough around the edges, but a fantastic submission through-and-through. really cute art, mixed with some unique platforming ideas, most of which landed quite well. i really, really like the puzzles and gameplay ideas relating to the yarn. the whole act of disconnecting and reconnecting threads of yarn reminded me a lot of the kind of puzzles present in Webbed, which is an indie game i particularly enjoy. controls were a little unclear, and there's no real reason that climbing should be tied to mouse click or E. it could just be mapped to the jump button as well. the physics were wonky, making the cat often be flung into the air as it releases the yarn with little-to-no control, and also making subtle, small movements difficult, since movement speed is so rigid and high, with little-to-no acceleration or friction.
for some minor critiques: (1) the air blows so fast that it's hard to tell which direction it's blowing in, and (2) let's stick to the tradition of making thin platforms semi-solid. other than that though, i loved your submission, and with a little extra polish and stronger platforming fundamentals, this could legitimately be a full-ass game. great job!! consider trying my game as well!
Hi CookieJar, thank you for your detailed feedback, it's much appreciated! 🧶⭐
This is a great little game! I wasn't sure what the "free_yarn_from_nail" input was for until I used it accidentally and my mind was blown, haha. That's a neat little mechanic. The overall presentation is very polished too. Nice work :)
A fun little platformer. A couple of suggestion I have is to allow the player to jump to a platform directly from below. Another suggestion I have is to put the mouse into capture or container mode since I play in a smaller resolution window and every time I click on the mouse to hold on to the string I get tabbed out of the window because my mouse move outside of the window.
Very cute! Solid platforming with some nice swinging physics, though the mouse click grab didn't always catch the yarn. Got 2 level 2 where pinning a yarn then falling led to a progress blocker. Womp. But good game!!
Really cute game! I would have loved gamepad controls, as well as being able to jump up through thin platforms. The unpinning mechanic was cool, definitely wanted to see more of it.
Thank you for playing! 😊 We will definitely add default controller inputs post-jam! 🙏 At the moment you should be able to remap them from the settings screen, sorry for the inconvenience 🧡
What a great and cute game! I love the art style and sound design. I had quite a hard time getting used to the controls. At first I thought pressing F would detache the cat. Oops. The mechanic with the pins is really clever. Well done!
So cute! I love the idea and art style. I had a hard time with using the controls on my keyboard. I didn't like that I needed to keep holding "e" to stay on the rope. Is there a way you can make the play automatically stick to the yarn? It was hard trying to swing the yarn with the left and right button while holding "e" and then also using the space bar. The other thing I got frustrated with is that I couldn't jump from underneath the cat towers. Maybe you planned that to make the game harder but I personally didn't enjoy having to move around all the low cat towers so I could jump.
I loved the music and how polished the game seemed overall!
Your game is adorable :)
Y'all are crazy for being able to pull off so much polish.
I didn't finish this playthrough because some yarn tied itself to a pin and on falling down I got softlocked since the pin was out of reach, but the chunk I managed to play was incredible.
Oh one slightly annoying bug is that the skip dialogue button locks your cat in place until the next time you talk with the other cat, so every time you miss grabbing some yarn above a character you have to go through the entire dialogue again hehe.
Thank you so much! 🧶
In case you get stuck, you should be able to respawn from a previous checkpoint (default key R) 🧡
ohhhh, thanks
This is well made and really cute actually, verry interesting with the cat yarn, I love that! I had difficulty climbing that yarn to get to the second level of platforms, but I think that's just a skill issue on my part haha