aaranos 2016-04-18 19:03
A bit hectic on a few of the levels but it's an interesting game.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → GattoMagico
By tanis
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 68 | ||
| Humor | 209 | 2.94 | ||
| Audio | 227 | 3.24 | ||
| Theme | 493 | 3.32 | ||
| Mood | 570 | 2.76 | ||
| Fun | 592 | 2.94 | ||
| Graphics | 593 | 2.77 | ||
| Overall | 636 | 3.00 | ||
| Innovation | 780 | 2.56 |
A bit hectic on a few of the levels but it's an interesting game.
I enjoyed the intensity of the game the most. The only down side is after five minutes the mouth noises get really annoying, but are still funny! Nice game!
Tanis, thanks for the tip modified the game(Pong) to only allow 16:9 and 16:10 displays
Great and fun game! I really like the music and sounds. But x/z controls are a bit uncomfortable for non-QWERTY users. Sadly I couldn't get past fourth level.
Surprisingly addictive considering how basic it is.
The rats seem to be unstoppable in level 4, but that could just be me not using the Freeze as often as I should?
Controls are well responsive, but the hitbox of the obstacles is unforgiving - trying to make those quick dashes for snacks can end you very quickly. I feel it may be better that the obstacles reduce your distance from the rats rather than instand death? But that's just me.
A nice and entertaining game. 3 thumbs up.
My favourite game so far! Beat level 04 a couple of times, tried 5 a few times and couldn't get past :P have kept GattoMagico on my harddrive though (unlike rest of the LD games I've tried so far!) so maybe that will change!
This definitely has that flappy-bird-factor haha, extremely frustrating but really addictive. Getting your swaps down perfectly is incredibly satisfying. Doing it consistenly is extremely challenging.
Honestly my only criticism would be to streamline the menu. 'Continue' should be the first option (the number of times I went back to level01 because my downarrow wasn't registered in the menu...) in fact you really should be able to retry a level with one buttonpress - a game like this definitely needs that to counter frustration!
Anyway thanks for a great game! Played for a solid hour and I'll probably go back to it in future! Can I ask how many levels there are in total?
Thanks for all the comments so far guys! :D
@shadowforce768 I know the rats can become annoying after a while. And I even toned them down a lot compared to the first versions :-P
@ziege I completely forgot about non-qwerty users! So sorry! I'll add more key variations in an upcoming post-compo version!
@Ibzy the first 3 levels are pretty basic, then the net 3 ramp up with difficulty. Freeze is key to get over level 4. I don't know if getting away from the insta-death mechaninc would add to gameplay or rather tone it down. Thanks for the idea anyway!
@ajhc thank you soooo much for the comment! I really like that you enjoyed the game that much!
I should definitely move that "continue" button in the first place and let it be the default selection! I'll do that in the next post-compo release.
That music is awesome! Nice game.
Nice. Really fun
Welcome to "Z and X button" world... XD
Nice game.
Nice game! love the idea you have to stop enemies, makes for a good strategic variant on the classic runner game.
Interesting game, kept me on my toes. Not for the faint of heart, though :D
Cheers,
Matei (BananaHammers Team)
Nice game for a compo.
Nicely done. I would prefer it if you didn't insta-die with every mistake though.
Very nice little project. Very challenging, but it a good way. I liked the interaction of the 3 cats. It would have been good to have some indicator of what cat was next, because keeping track of which cat you are about to become is hard during twitch gameplay. Sound was very good.
Nice, the only thing that bothered me was that the first selection after death was new game instead of continue.
It's definitely my fault but I misselected new game quite a lot of times, while i think the most commonly selected option would be continue and it should be on top.
This is a good implementation of a decent idea and it was fun to play it. Although it would've been better if I had the option to begin from the same level that I got killed instead of the first one.
I like the sound effects for the animals (cat and mice).
The game was a little hectic at first but I got a hang of the controls later on.
Interesting mechanics, I think that if you continue developing this it will be a great game!
Hi, nice game but please don't name your download files "LD35". Why not name it your game's name or username?
Took a few tries to understand what's going on. After that it started to go smoothly. A fun game! :)
The title screen music is great! Also loved the sound effects. It took me a bit to figure out how the enemy-freezing worked but the game was fairly enjoyable to play. I kinda wish it ramped up the difficulty a bit faster, though! Good work.
This was cute! Hard to keep track of all shapes and what they do, but the game works well!