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Kitty Glacier Surfing

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor1663.41
Fun2243.54
Overall6083.22
Mood6473.05
Graphics7982.86
Innovation8282.65
Theme9502.95

Comments

mitya1234 2015-12-15 13:25

The game is very fun, just try it.

floatingghost 2015-12-15 13:41

I'm not quite sure what I just played
I mean

there was a cat
on a plank of wood
surfing
what

ogniok 2015-12-15 13:42

It did not work for me, i could only see the sky and falling snow with the score counter. I tried it few times :c

ahmedrage 2015-12-15 13:45

Loved it, the leaderboard was a nice touch, all it needed was more sound.

ss64games 2015-12-15 13:48

Game crashed when I tried to open it. Looks pretty funny though!

x92rwzb 2015-12-15 14:02

What did I just play?

deathbysnail 2015-12-15 14:03

I'm also having issues running this unfortunately, but it looks great!

Here's the most suspicious error in the output:

15/12/2015 14:01:45.358 ERROR ..\..\..\Humangine\src\ShaderManager.cpp:90: Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:70: error(#160) Cannot convert from: "4-component vector of vec4" to: "highp float"

saymon 2015-12-15 14:11

Good fun game !

wan 2015-12-15 14:17

Nice job! The infinite map generation works well. The controls are a bit wonky but it's still playable - plus with some skill there's some mad jumps to be made :D Also the powerups work fine and seem to be well balanced.

My main suggestion would be to tweak the physics/controls a bit and use more consistent art style (graphics+sound) ; other than that it's a pretty good entry.

skysthelimit 2015-12-15 14:37

Most ammount of fun Ive ever had with a taxidermy cat. perfectly mounted on its mahogany base too.

Wasnt exagerating with the fun bit either. Give me this over SSX anyday ;)

mistakoo 2015-12-15 15:25

Didn't work for me either, I can only see the falling snow (and that I'm getting score/losing lives).

move127 2015-12-15 15:45

It's an interesting game. It would be nice if the controls were a little tighter. Also, it seems like the hit boxes for the trees won't let you go under the branches.

azureaspect 2015-12-15 15:48

I am also having problems playing the game. First I see some snow falling, then white textureless cat (I assume its the surfing cat).
Then theres count down...afterwards lot of garbage appear and I cant figure out whats going anymore. Wanted to try this game badly :/

farelle 2015-12-15 15:52

I need to beat this Highscore somehow....>.>....<.< and it has cats!

nuclearcellar 2015-12-15 15:55

Did not work for me, camera is stuck in white cloud at the beginning doing nothing :/

peterthehe 2015-12-15 16:02

Very silly game. Well done on the leaderboard.

retraffic 2015-12-15 16:52

not working. just snow and weird white shapes. i'm on windows.

maerzhase3000 2015-12-15 17:23

i like cat's and the game is fun :)

humanics 2015-12-15 18:04

@DeathBySnail: That particular bug should be fixed.

@others: You need at least OpenGL 3.2, or it just won't work. Maybe you can find solace in the YouTube video ;)

memoryleek 2015-12-15 18:30

Yay, made it onto the high score... for a while at least :D
Fun game. Big kudos for going with your own engine, that's really awesome.
I had to link my librtmp.so.1 to librtmp.so.0 for the game to start, as that version of the lib was not bundled and I had a later version installed.
Otherwise the game ran great, launched in fullscreen on my 34" monitor, was a very immersive experience.
Now I truly feel like a cat going downhill on a plank of wood :P
Also really cool with online high scores, gives the game a lot of replayability.
Only thing I can complain about is that the camera was a bit jumpy at times.

coomzy 2015-12-15 18:55

10/10 Has Cat

blobo 2015-12-15 19:41

Although i too was having issues, after clicking the screen i was sent into what i can only assume was the game. my "cat" was a giant garbled sphere, and so was everything else. i couldn't see the floor.

simonaiso 2015-12-15 19:47

Why would a kitty go down a slope? because it is fun! nice game! The lowtech graphics are just perfect, maybe the steering needs more balancing.

owt 2015-12-15 19:54

I have one word for it: CATS.
Seriously tho, it was a snowboarding cat. What's not to like?

refreshcreations 2015-12-15 20:40

Aww, it locked the cursor, black screened and then crashed over here, nuts, still, the youtube video looked pretty nice :)

In-case it helps with debugging, On a dual monitor set-up on Win7 Pro 64-bit.

soka 2015-12-15 23:32

I love sliding games. good job with this one, I could spend hours playing if I had the time <3

alexiseshford 2015-12-15 23:36

I can't stop laughing! One of the best entry!

bwatanabe 2015-12-16 00:59

Oddly soothing...

si1ver 2015-12-16 05:11

Winter sports entry! Nice! =)

nirabazgames 2015-12-16 14:20

Cat on the snowboard is the great idea! :)

tribrain 2015-12-16 20:14

Fun game and nice 3d graphics, weird theme though xD. The controls are a bit non-responsive.

Good Job :)

volatiledove 2015-12-16 21:06

It did not work for me, I had a kind of bugged sphere in the middle of nowhere, not really anything looking like a cat.

evergreen-games-ludum-dare 2015-12-16 23:08

This was actually really fun! Good job on the engine, runs really smoothly. I got 2nd place on the board!

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-17 01:46

This games give me a nice mood.. It does not fit on any theme though.

crawler-studios 2015-12-17 05:15

What did i just... k this is a weird but hella fun looking game please make a post-jam version of this :p
Gameplay actually seemed pretty solid for how simple the game is, graphics were good too, and the concept was wacky and different but in a good way. Good entry!!

nirabazgames 2015-12-17 21:09

nice game) beutiful art. all the peoplle love cats!

bradur 2015-12-18 13:23

Great game! Very simple controls but difficult to stay alive for long. It is very satisfying once you start gaining speed. My friend made Top 1 on the board! Loved it.

2015-12-18 13:49

Reminds me of old Nokia games. Nice, i guess.

wakeofluna 2015-12-18 20:03

*surfs down the hill* *hits a tree* "Au!" Girlfriend in the back: "no, meow!" And she was right!
Reminds me a lot of Tux Racer.

yinyin 2015-12-19 21:43

Aww, got the white unshaded objects as well. No way to play like that.

kualitygames 2015-12-19 22:45

Really nice game, needs a bit more polish and visual feedback but it's pretty fun to play. And it has kittens.

decentsauce 2015-12-19 22:57

Idea is fun! But still needs quite some polish. Didn't jump much because it didn't feel all that useful. A menu would and a way to reset the game without quitting would be nice. Still, overall pretty good entry. (And first place on the leader board baby! :p)

dx0ne 2015-12-21 13:57

There is something nice in steering controls. Personally I would like to sly as dolphin.
And there could be bouns for killing snowman mid air.

omaha 2015-12-22 03:47

This is very funny.

I wish the cat was animated. I so badly wanted to see him/her doing tricks while in the air. Maybe I just played too many snowboarding games growing up?

darkgrisen 2015-12-23 18:51

The game would be more fun it you wasn't driving a cat :P

terryg 2015-12-26 17:14

Couldn't get it to run on my i7. Just a black screen. Looks like a great concept.

warboys 2015-12-28 08:53

Kitty Glacier Surfing... OKAY! Overall I liked the feel of surfing once I got used to the controls, although I didn't feel the need to jump much. I think I was trying to avoid everything and only just realized you could kill snowmen. I just flew into them and died :D

It would be wonderful to have a bit more feedback when you get hit and lose a life. Sometimes I was hitting rocks and taking no damage, whereas if I was even 1 meter away from a tree it felt like I got damaged by it.

zenmumbler 2015-12-31 16:56

Nice (infinite) snow-slope runner sub-theme co-competitor entry. The randomness can cause the track to be essentially completely blocked but with the 9 lives it's not so bad. Nicely done.

taro 2016-01-01 22:26

Sometimes, colliding into a boulder at full speed causes the cat to bounce off of it, moving up hill, and through the slope's walls. To be fair, after successfully clipping out of the level, I was able to sled back in, so yay?

Simple game with oddly slippery controls. I wasn't sure I was in control, moving the mouse left and right, after sliding down at higher speeds. Random level design generation could be more forgiving, as there were points where I couldn't go through any further. Then again, I did get a high score of 700+.

brightstar 2016-01-03 04:32

Let's go surfing now, everyone is learning how come on a safari with me.

scorched 2016-01-03 16:37

Crashed on me on right-clicking executable. Windows 7 64-bit

scorched 2016-01-03 16:38

Sorry, left-clicking, of course! :-)