Some levels in Hidden Cats can be played at different times of the day!
I might make the night effect stronger later, but first priority is to make sure you can still see everything clearly.
53 levels done so far.
Hidden Cats: Swamp
Kupo Games
Web and mobile games by Matt Roszak.
To give some feedback on my interaction with other people’s hidden object games:
I’ve played a couple of recently available Hidden Object games such as ‘Hidden City’ by G5 and one by Mytona which was being heavily advertised by Microsoft a few years back, and as far as the actual find-to-complete-level objects go I tend to find teeny tiny objects and camouflaged (by some combination of shape and coloration) objects extremely annoying.
I suppose some people may love absolutely-impossible-to-find, even-with-zoomed-in-screenshots, objects, but I find them annoyingly frustrating to the point of ‘Right: uninstall and not bother with that one again’.
Also not a fan of (from my point of view) ridiculously over-cluttered scenes such as the ‘Miracle Fair’ location in Hidden City (it should be possible for people without the game installed to see some screenshots of it in the Hidden City fan-wiki), where I can’t find objects because there are too many details to check before the clock runs out.
I’m a sucker for engaging quest storylines, but I’m only a very occasional visitor to your blog, and I don’t know if you’re planning for this to be a years long update-with-new-location-every-month project, or a one-off play-for-48-hours-and-complete project.
I’m hoping to address a lot of these issues:
My game’s got 3 difficulty modes with different stuff to find in each.
The hint system is pretty generous, and you can adjust how often you get hints to suit your pace.
A big portion of the items are found by interacting with objects rather than just looking around.
There are some tiny, hard-to-see items, but they’re mostly on hard mode and they don’t make up a big portion of the game.
The game won’t have updates, it will just launch with a LOT of content that you can play right away.
Translators need to be top-notch too, if items are supposed to be found based on descriptive words. I occasionally end up banging my head in frustration when someone with the English language version of a game produced by a foreign company tells me to look for a ‘pillow’ and they actually meant ‘cushion’ or send me looking for an ‘award’ when it’s unclear if they mean ‘award rosette’ or ‘award trophy’…
You’re given the items you need to find in a row along the bottom. In full color not like silhouettes like some games might use. As stated a good portion are hidden behind interactions like chopping down trees, opening chests, moving carts, blowing up walls, etc.
There’s a free demo that you can play to get a feel for how it is like.
So many familiar faces from past games:O
The stone statues look interesting and goofy at the same time.