Cat Tactics 64x64

Assume the role of Sprinkles and Spyro, cats out for revenge in this Tactical Turn-Based Mini-RPG in 64x64! Jump fences, climb trees and scale rooftops as you adventure through the neighbourhood.

• Recruit special cats to your party, or even the enemy!
  
• 6 party members to obtain, each based on one of my cats in real life
• Permadeath! Don't let your beloved cats retreat from the fight
• Pet other cats to raise affinity, boosting attacks in battle
  
• Level up your units stats Turn-Based RPG style!
• Multiple classes with unique actions to perform each turn and cooldown effects

I hope you enjoy the game!

Controls

Currently only Keyboard is supported.

• Enter: Select, advance text
• Esc: Pause game
• WASD / Arrows: Move character, navigate menus
• Ctrl: Speed Run mode (only recommended for 2nd playthroughs!)

To access the restart/quit menu, select a unit and select Main Menu on your turn.

Known Issues

• I didn't have much time to refine the scripting engine, so scripts can sometimes soft-lock the game. However, there's built in saving on the start of each level to continue in the case of a crash.

Credits

Everything was done by me (art, design, programming) except for music and sound FX, which were obtained from a Humble Bundle asset pack.

Personal Note

This game is my entry to the 2 week lowrezjam 2023, and it's my second game jam game, and my 3rd game overall as a solo developer. My first game jam entry was Paint of Life for the Major Jam 6 which concluded 1 day before the start of lowrezjam. Cat Tactics was made from scratch in just 2 weeks after taking 1 day break from the Major Jam 6!

It's always been my dream to create RPGs, and that's the reason I became a solo indie developer. But with only tiny games under my belt the idea of making that "dream RPG" felt a long way off. Most people's advice for new indies is to "scope small", and down-scale your game idea significantly until it becomes manageable for a single person. This always rubbed against my idea of making a huge and impressive "dream game". And yet, deep down, I just wanted to find out if that's really the case. 

This game jam was the perfect chance to test my limits with an extreme challenge of making a Mini-RPG in just the 2 weeks time frame for the jam. It's a serious step up in scope and complexity compared to my previous entry Paint of Life. And yet against all odds I made it and achieved everything I set out to make with Cat Tactics, and more!