Butterflies

Super creative use of the leaderboards. Art blew me away as well. Think I've mainly played your more action and shooting orientated games so seeing this flexibility in style and tone was really cool. Beautiful butterflies and the cat's expressions were great. I love the UI and the notebook.... visually just very beautiful with an awesome palette. Loved the idea of using the leaderboard in this way. Stealing will never not be fun. Only complaint is that I would have liked to see more in regards to the notebook and discovering butterflies. I liked finding new butterflies a lot so wouldn't mind more "discovery" mechancis geared towards the collection. But I think the "discvoery" portion already felt nailed with the cat 'discovering' the stealing. And that is already a creative use of theme imo.

Really enjoyed this one. The idea of using the leaderboard in this way is really creative and awesome choice for a jam game. Seeing the familiar names and allowing me to steal points from them is brilliant. I thought the stealing mini game was the best part - I tried to get more and more efficient with my stealing techniques and I got to the point that I could take 2 butterflies per head turn. The presentation and music were all top notch and I really liked the journal that showed all the butterfly types. The idea behind this one really brings it to life. The 'mmo' aspect definitely worked for me, even if the players aren't online at the same time. With normal leaderboards I do find myself being competitive but in this one you can directly steal from anyone ahead of you or people trying to catch up to you. This game is very unique and clean, excellent work!

So cute, the art was great and the concept was fun!

Incredible game! Not only is the idea very good, but the actual game itself is sooo clean!
I had a small idea for a while for a game that would use the leaderboards as a mechanic, and I was eagerly waiting for someone to do something like that, so I'm even more happy to see this :)
And I'm really sorry to everyone I've stolen, but I had to, the music for the stealing screen is too good 😳

My only complaint (and warning, it's a big one!) is that I wish the game didn't show the windows cursor 😬
Okay no, there's another thing: the game told me a couple times that I ran out of time for stealing even though I had time left when I stole the last butterfly (I checked with the nvidia replay thing to be sure). Happened at least twice, with different people, one time with 5 seconds left and one time with 8 :(

But yeah, that's all I've got. Great game.

Ok I lied, there's another thing: imo the theme is pretty weak here, but a loooot of games this jam have turned discovery as a "collect different things", so I think it'll be fine in the end. (and here you can get discovered by stealing but it's passive and... ok yeah ok fine I'll stop nitpicking)

In playing this game I have learned two things - one is that you are incredibly skilled at using the GM48 leaderboard in a unique way and in general using a multitude of skills to make a phenomenal game – the other is that I’d be a terrible thief! This is a brilliant game and I am very impressed! Great job!

This has to be one of my favorites. Not only the pixel art is pretty good, the idea of interaction between players through the leaderboard is simply too awesome! I think this is one of this jam's games I've spent the most time on! Once you start getting the hang of this game, you start developing strategies to place higher in the leaderboard, like targetting specific people (sorry Hokori) and other stuff. Evil... but effective lol. Now I'm top 2. Great game!

PS: Now I've realized a lot of the people I targetted the most were people which I already played their games! Now I feel even more evil!

Really nice!

It was so much fun to see all the names of the people of this community. I was thinking for a few seconds that it was an online game haha. The pickpocketing mechanic was hilarious and nice. Although some more feedback (visually or with audio) would have been nice when stealing. I sometimes didn't know I was still holding the butterfly instead of having already stolen it.

But that didn't make the game less fun and I loved the vibe of the whole thing because of the slightly moody music. Really nice work!

I liked the audio and whole vibe of the gam! Unfortunately, the journal never showed any of my collection and I didn't really get to experience the social aspect. But I thought it felt very complete otherwise, which is rare for a gamejam game.

Sad that the server broke when I played the game. but here a link to the vod if you want to rewatch it. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1181819117?t=00h17m28s

This is a neat project. Only visible issue is the leaderboards going off the page at the end. The whole thing just feels good quality.

Great idea! To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen a similar game. Nice, smooth animations, good colour scheme. When starting the game, for whatever reason, Internet Explorer and Edge kept popping up and I had a hard time getting access to the game, might be because I have a linked account so there's a compability issue. BGM seemed pretty ominous for a game about catching butterflies :D Cats are always a plus.

Lovely style and idea! i really enjoyed it. My 2 issues are that in the beginning of the game all of the butterflies are cornered in one small space and then they start spreading into the larger area which makes it easy to capture in the beginning. my second issue is the stealing, sometimes the cat is too fast when turning around which makes it impossible to predict and sometimes I get caught without even grabbing anything or moving my mouse. but overall I love cats and would love anything with cats and this game is amazing, good job!

Really impressive creation for the time limit. The art was gorgeous and the butterfly chasing was my favourite part. I hope I stay on the leaderboard!

What a clever use of the GM48 leaderboards! I like the stylized colors and graphics. Especially the score book thing looks great.

Sometimes the fake-players detected my stealing attempts even when I wasn't doing anything.

Ayy, this is really cool. I would never have thought to make a game like this.

I had a bug where i couldn't rejoin the game after looking at scores during the night.

Good Job

Very creative pseduo MMO! Managed to steal a few butterflies, and chase a few more. Excellent work of art, and sharp programming.

This is a very neat game. Cool use of the leaderboards and online capabilites. That stuff is out of my wheelhouse, so I'm always impressed when I see it.

I'm very sorry about that. I thought it was a virus. You do not suck, and neither does the game. I love the graphics of the game and that you can steal from other players. It really fits the theme! I also love the music.