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Art Gallery of Cats - v0.1.17
by MarkOates (CLUBCATT)
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I found this to be a very charming game. I could imagine this to become an open world museum riddle solving game, I think there is value in that concept! Mittens the museum guide talks a lot, which added to the fun for me. My favorite line was about the color of the human furr.

The rules are followed very well,
All character are indeed animals

There are iridescent sculptures

Technically not ALL dialog is in the speech bubbles, but eh who cares. The speech bubbles look nice!

The chart was a piece of a puzzle in the last level, which unlike some others (including my own :D ) did not feel like a slapped-on chart just because chart.

For me this was the most fun game of jam. I just think it is so cute.

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 4 Technical 5 Genre 4

The Heron and the Fish
by awergh
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It's a very quick and short game, but it has some good ideas. I maybe would have changed the main mechanic a bit. I like the fact that you have a limited amount of eating, but combined with the time limit it makes going for high scores really random. Maybe it would have been fun to not end the game immediately when 4 fish are eaten, but have a timer on each fish you eat. So when you eat a fish, a certain amount of time passes before you can eat the next one. (and if you eat one while still full you lose) This would make the game more interesting and would play into avoiding some low scoring fish while eating high scoring ones.

I think this is one of the better genre implementations because it's tied to a fable quite well.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 3 Genre 5