John Whiskers - Catdective

Made for Jern Jam 2026 x SciAnts!

John Whiskers - Catdective is a Point&Click Adventure where you take the role of a cat detective solving the murder of your owner. The case is randomized but you will figure out soon furthermore we have 2 possible endings (with each success and fail state)!

CAUTION: It is not a very serious game and motives might seem very weak for murder. Decision making is very black and white in this regard.

🖱️ Controls

Literally the Mouse only! Click on things, combine things etc. 
I mean yeah Tab for open and close the menu but you can also just click to open it :)

🛠️ The Team

• 🎨 Kani: Art, Shaders, & Code
• 🎵 Temptic: Code, Music, SFX Implementation
• 💻 Cheese: Pure, unadulterated Code
• 🔪Ori-Cabinet Guy: Literally only the cabinet of the punks room :D

Assets

• Cat Model

• SFX sourced from Pixabay. All other content original.

• Disclosure: Part of the shader was conceptualized before the jam and finalized during this project.

• All other models, music and text was made during the Jam Time.

Addons

https://github.com/SproutyLabs/SproutyDialogs

Articles Sources - (The serios ones)

• Philo Farnsworth Invents the First All-Electronic Television
• Schrödinger's cat
• First cat in space
• St George's celebrates 40 years of CT scanning
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats
• Cat is latest animal to be cloned
• Oldest Known Pet Cat? 9,500-Year-Old Burial Found on Cyprus
• Larry the Cat marks 10 years' ruling Downing Street roost
• Catalonian Referendum: Democracy, Legality and the EU's Role
  
  

SPOILER ZONE

📦 Objects

• Casting Material - get a clue about the weapon from the victim
• Dusting Powder + Lift Tape - get a clue about the shoes from the floor
• Torchlight - Helps to see in the Dark
• Red Herring - What could it be?!
• Smartphone - Reading things

_{Small hints:}

• Remember red is sus / green is innocent
• Think outside of the box
• Even when you can't speak, there is someone that can speak to the police ;)