100 Marshmallow Cats and Snacks, Too

Well, this is just nuts.  I wanted a quick look at the art styles on some of these other games in the "100 Cozy Games" series.  Here's a tiny piece of "100 Marshmallow Cats".


Yes, the art in this one is easier on the eyes.  Lower contrast, not just staring at a full-bright white screen.  I suppose I could turn down the screen brightness on these.

The cats are not doing normal cat things in this series of games.  A cat sitting on a pillow would be too easy.  Instead, they take the place of leaves and petals and roof shingles or candles or whatever.  I added a white arrow to show one of them.  Heck, you can barely see the arrow at first, much less all the little eyeballs peering out from every surface.

I'm trying to mentally figure out whether games like these would be fun to build, or maddening.

The purist side of my brain will tell me these are not really games, but puzzles.  Right now, I'm just looking on Steam and Itch and finding a world on outrageous creativity and more variety of games than any reasonable person would ever think possible.

Oct 24 update: we finished this one together.  They are not world-class tactical challenges, and do cause a bit of eye strain, but we both enjoy hidden item games.


Oct 29 update: then we ran through 100 Snack Cats.  They're amusing, and we discovered that you can click the little palette icon to turn colors on and off.  Here's a shot of the game on my gaming machine, with a picture of me & Anne, and our cats on the wall -- as an odd twist, if you were to pass through the wall where the cat picture is, you would see the bed where the picture was taken.  We're no strangers to thinking in cross-dimensional ways.  ;-)



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