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Nine Tails

By dualtagh

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Innovation1193.77
Humor1203.27
Fun2103.42
Mood3863.11
Overall4063.31
Audio5652.69
Graphics7752.74
Theme10872.91

Comments

ryank 2013-04-29 11:30

Great idea.

linuus 2013-04-29 12:32

Amazing idea!

The game was a little buggy though:

*If you hold an arrowkey and jump and keep holding it as you land the walking animation stops.

*By holding down an arrowkey towards a wall and repeatedly jumping you can climb

dualtagh 2013-04-29 12:38

Thanks, Yeah I know about those bugs, I'll try fix them after work!

8bitpimp 2013-04-29 12:42

Nice idea of using your deaths to your advantage.
I agree that it can be a little buggy in places, for instance climbing using just your chin feels like cheating.

nakato 2013-04-29 12:45

Pleasant game.
Level design is ok.
Like already said, some bugs, but no one very important

raincole 2013-04-29 12:45

Great idea. btw I have finished it but still can't understand why it's named 'Nine Tails' o.o

dualtagh 2013-04-29 12:47

Cats are said to have 9 lives, and Nine Tails sounded better :P

terrivellmann 2013-04-29 13:13

Cool, nice idea.

arnaudmolle 2013-04-29 15:56

Some tiny bugs but nothing really important. Your game is fun, I like the idea.

goulding57 2013-04-29 19:53

Fun! Liked the whole idea. Good job. A little bug, but nothing ruined the experience.

sfernald 2013-04-29 19:54

Very fun take on a popular genre of game. Clever use of cat's nine lives, lol. This is one of the best games I've played this competition. Fantastic job! Simple yet fun and challenging.

ignifluous 2013-04-29 19:56

Nifty. "Over my dead body" now carries a whole new meaning ...

neight 2013-04-29 19:57

Really clever idea. Had fun!

bluebutton 2013-04-29 19:57

Cool game, but wasn't this one of the other potential LD themes? Death is good?

diamonde 2013-04-29 19:57

This...so...cute! :):):)
Also really solid and interesting gameplay, if only a bit too short for such a fun game!

psychomonster 2013-04-29 19:57

This idea is so fantastic... use your life :D GREAT GAME

khananaphone 2013-04-29 19:58

Music was weird, but neat idea.

maumagau 2013-04-29 19:59

Absolutely loved the idea, had me chuckling all the way through. The level design was great; a lot of these games don't introduce the gameplay as well as this. Was totally ready to spend half an hour playing through the rest of levels, but I can't blame you for running out of time.
Nice one =D

d_durham 2013-04-29 19:59

I really like 'self cooperation' games like this, and this one is pretty nicely done. There is something darkly brilliant about jumping up onto a pile of dead cats. Good job!

bumpkinrich 2013-04-29 20:00

Great idea. Was sad it was a bit short but feels like a lot of experimentation went on in creating it. A bit buggy and felt sluggish but there's a great game in there waiting to get out.

jolle 2013-04-29 20:01

I like this. Can't currently think of anything that works quite like it, although a certain movie comes to mind (not saying which to not spoil anything).

It's a bit buggy. You can climb walls, and sometimes when I died I became two corpses. Still fun!

arrowthefighter 2013-04-29 20:02

nice game it was really fun
i found a bug when your on a moving platform and you hit a spike you can sometimes stay alive and it makes lots of dead yous
but still awesome

graytest 2013-04-29 20:04

Great!

cyboot 2013-04-29 20:06

A game where dieing is good? You have my vote ;)

Great game, like I said very nice concept and solid graphics (fitting to the theme).
small side note: Sometimes you spawn in the wrong position but its not a big problem, just another live to loose :D

dualtagh 2013-04-29 20:08

Thanks for the comments guys, Yeah there is a few bugs and it's a pretty short game! just ran out of time, thanks :)

brassawiking 2013-04-29 20:11

Good use of the physics. Nice variation achieved within 48 hours.

phnxphire 2013-04-29 21:45

Cool game. Although there were some bug such as being able to scale walls if you keep pushing space bar against the wall but it was still cool. Best of luck.

ludipe 2013-04-29 21:58

I played this game and the first time I killed the cat I was like:"No way he did this" xD

Really fun but I feel sorry for the kittens :(

john_conder9 2013-04-30 01:54

I absolutely loved this game. You could go flying-cat and fly out of the level and have to restart, but, the concept was so funny I found myself killing the cat as much as I could. Uh.. yeah .. and this happened: http://i.imgur.com/Lb13RMA.png

But, all joking aside it's a great game! I love it. I wish there were more levels!

john_conder9 2013-04-30 01:57

Also, I wanted to say, I was kind of disappointed that I had more than 9 lives, but whatever, minor point :P

chrstphrschulte 2013-04-30 06:56

That was really cool. I love the mechanic that when you die you add a corpse to the level while removing a live from the world.

dualtagh 2013-04-30 08:14

@john_conder9, haha nice! Yeah there are some issues, and if I had time there would me alot more levels! thanks!

jtzp4 2013-04-30 09:10

The wall-climbing issue makes it very easy to clear some levels ...
But anyway the idea is cool!

kunzbe 2013-05-01 18:10

neat game mechanics! really innovative.
The music tracks kept going faster to the end, awesome

jim3wg 2013-05-01 19:58

Nice remember a popular flash game that i forgoted the name

dustystylus 2013-05-02 10:32

Smart little game, great concept! A wee bit glitchy but not a problem as it helped me beat one of the levels quite quickly. :D

nicosaraintaris 2013-05-02 11:55

Like the idea and enjoyed playing it. Congrats!

georgebroussard 2013-05-03 06:12

Neat idea using dead cat lives to trigger things or allow access. Character movement needs polish, etc, but there's promise here. Keep polishing and working on it.

dualtagh 2013-05-03 07:59

thanks all!

jan-m 2013-05-03 18:01

Haha, pretty amazing one. Lets try if my cat likes it as well. (Don't think so)

zyxer 2013-05-05 12:37

Really like the concept. Fix the bugs and you will have an awesome game.

minionstudios 2013-05-05 16:56

WHAT? omg that is effed up. BUT I like it.

exclamation_mark 2013-05-09 11:03

Hahaha :D Love it. Absolutely. It's dark, it's funny, it's absurd and it's great. And the jump animation is just perfect. If you spent half the weekend on this animation, it was worth it. Forget about the little bugs, this is one of my favourite entries, good job!

matthias_zarzecki 2013-05-09 12:29

Nice work with the level-design! I like how the levels keep getting more complex.

jonapulse 2013-05-11 23:02

Kickass idea. Bugs were a bit of a distraction. HA! DEAD BODIES!

turbodindon 2013-05-12 12:51

Mwaahahahah, you're a genius. The concept is just great. x'D
I laugh during all the game. The cat is huge.
You made my day.

- SEPHY (@sephyka)

intripoon 2013-05-19 12:09

As others have commented, I think it's possibly to cheat easily. You can jump into a wall and keep jumping to climb it. You can do some maps that way without dying.
Apart from that a great game concept. I would have loved to play more challenging maps.