gabrielgamedev 2019-04-30 03:05
Nice graphics and presentation. I didn't understand very well how the game works, what the lose and win condition, whether it is totally in luck or the position that we put the slider influences into something.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Cat Your Life on It
By ivan-garcia-filho and khofez
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 845 | 3.13 | 74 | |
| Fun | 957 | 2.77 | 73 | |
| Innovation | 521 | 3.14 | 74 | |
| Theme | 929 | 2.86 | 73 | |
| Graphics | 139 | 4.22 | 74 | |
| Humor | 186 | 3.51 | 72 | |
| Mood | 370 | 3.50 | 72 |
Nice graphics and presentation. I didn't understand very well how the game works, what the lose and win condition, whether it is totally in luck or the position that we put the slider influences into something.
I don't understand whether it's possible to 'win' the game, the skeleton just seems to keep firing until you're dead... Having said that the graphics are awesome and general presentation is very polished.
I... don't think that's how Russian Roulette works! Death is a dick!
Lol great game.
Great graphics, nice idea, but definitely has some bugs that need to be fixed (like that the cats don't always loose lives when they are shot). Other than that, nice job!
Wow, good graphics and sounds! Sometimes when the gun starts firing the slider dissapears so I kept firing my cat without knowing hot to stop it. However I loved the 3d art, animations and the camera. Good job.
@gabrielgamedev , @machinescreen , @alexfsmirnov , maybe we should explain more the rules, but it's a simple "single client multiplayer couch game" ... each opponent chose a cat (left one or right one) and then pull the trigger to start firing by luck, without precision or control over the machine gun....
there are 30 bullets, however, 14 lethal and 16 fake that do not remove lives from your cat, the first cat to dies loses the game while other wins ...
the game aims on the aesthetics of a gambling game and the anxiety of trying to handle a gruesome trigger to control the shooting flow ...
@eliphas Setting the trigger to the right may fire anytime (randomly) the machinegun and to stop it you should set the trigger to the left ...
Guys ... thanks!!! thanks for taking your time and feedback!!!
Very nice graphics! Although I launched the game from the itchio page where there isn't any explanation about how it's meant to be played (two players etc.), so in the game I just pulled the trigger for the two cats so I was like "Am I doing this right?" (also at the beginning I didn't understand why it's a "slider" and not just a button to pull the trigger, and then I understood the "trigger representation" and feeling and I found it pretty smart) When I went to the ludum page and read the comments and your explanation, all became clear :)
So maybe it would really really improve the player experience if you explain how you play the game (as you said in the comment) in the game description both in ludum and itchio pages. Otherwise, players may be lost and doesn't look at your game the way you wanted to, and that would be very unfortunate
Anyway, I love the mood and the graphics, it works very well :) And poor cats :'(
oh wow I am a big fan of these graphics! Awesome job :)
I really like the mood, but I'm not sure if you have a specific set of rule in order to make it gamey, it's more an experience than an actual playable game with win condition and rules, perhaps you could even add simple things like a slider that increases and decreases automatically and the player has to press space when it's hovering over the middle of the slider, this would be enough to make it feel more like a game.
Awesome job guys
Looks lovely, and it's a neat game :) I think you explained quite well that it's supposed to be played 2-player, and that not every shot is supposed to take a life off, don't worry! Gets big points for theme, humour and mood from me! The gameplay doesn't have much to it, it's more sort of a "graphic concept" with a bit of gameplay for good measure :)
Graphically, this looks really nice and the take on theme is unique, but I don't really see the "game" aspect of this execution, since there doesn't seem to be an end goal. Fun idea, but a bit more gameplay would be nice!
Okay, i haven't really figured out how to play the game. Although i read the explanations in the comment section. Feels more or less totally random. But i love the graphics and the music :D Cats are the devil!
I played with my friends and it was fun ! I like the "western" mood :)
Nice game !
The humor is amazing. Also I found that you can shoot in short sessions instead of killing cat by cat. And then the whole idea make sense. Which cat is more lucky wins.
Great job. Amazing polished game.
At first I emptied the 30 bullets on the first cat ! But then I figured out how to play the game by reading the comments. May be more explanations on the way the trigger operates would help.
Very nice graphics and mood !
The graphics on this are great, love the art style. Took a bit of figuring out but I like the idea, could just use a bit more of a game element to it, like a win state or something. Still, enjoyed it, good work!
I just love the low poly graphics 3D style, but I played this about 10 minutes and I still do not know concept of this game.. :(
Great graphics!
The graphics are really beautiful. I also think the concept works as a browser game like this.
como eu sei que é brasileiro, nem vou me dar ao trabalho de escrever em inglês! Parabéns pelo jogo! Os gráficos estão muito bons! A idéia também foi bastante original!
Tambéms fizemos um jogo! Experimente, avialie a faça seus comentários! Por favor!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/junkebox-panic
A simple game that is both demented and fun. The low poly art looks great.
I like how I haven't played a game like this before. It's an interesting idea, but I don't see much fun in a game that doesn't have much interaction to play with. Decent game. Would definitely be fun to play with someone else.
I found the best way to play wasn't to slowly drag to the right but to quickly go 100% to the right and then quickly back to the left. Was able to get a single bullet every time. I'm not a huge fan of luck based games but I like that some semblance of skill was added.
Nice art! Top marks for theme and humor as well but it's not my kind of game to play and have fun with :P
Still, I believe it was a good decision going for a small and polished game since you're a small team. Well done!
Really nice idea for a game!!! and amazing graphics!!!
Nice idea, simplistic but effective. Pretty moody graphics. GJ, guys.
Great graphics and audio. I'd like that intro text to be fast-forwardable. ~~Is there a strategy to the game, or just straight luck?~~ On first playthrough I felt like I didn't have much agency.
On second playthrough, I see that it's a speed game, how fast you can pull and push the bar.
Graphics are great, took me quite a while to understand how to play it, wish i had friend to play with, seems quite a fun experience as a versus game.
Graphics are very cool! Like the overall style and music too. Not quite sure that the plot is suitable for a given theme (it would be very suitable for last year!). It seems to me that it would be cool to play this game on an dare with a friend (making some bets, of course).
really awesome idea - i love the graphic. :hearts:
Really cool graphics and music. I found the game a bit hard not to die at the first attempt but overall really cool idea and execution!. Great job!
Great idea, the graphics on this game are just amazing, and the sounds are pretty good as well, But the cat kinda looks like a giant rat...
I would change the way the shooting happens, I think it should be more intuitive and not a draging mechanic
But overall? The game is excelent!!!
I really like the idea of the game and a new view on Russian roulette. But there are some problems:
1. The very beginning is too long. 2. Controls of the game arent simple, it would have been better, if wou had made 2 buttons 'Shoot' and 'Pass'.
It doesn't want to work in my browser (Firefox), although I've had issues with other Unity based games so probably my set up rather than your game!I just get the music and this black screen with a slider. [Screenshot at 2019-05-12 17-09-39.png](///raw/9bd/22/z/24d56.png)
Not very fan of the gameplay but was very fun and humour is marvelous. Keep it up guys !
Interesting looking game. The art is gorgeous and the 3d-models look really fine and polished. Nice job! Music and Sound are on point as well. Very fitting.
I didn't really get the gameplay though. Even after reading some of the comments and your answers, I still don't get how this is supposed to be played with two people. Death aims at a cat, a player pulls the slider to the right and death shoots until the aimed at cat dies... I don't get, how any meaningful gameplay fits in there. That's something you really should've exlplained better, because the presentation is really cool and it would've been suh a great game, if the gameplay was good as well.
Thanks @duke!!! That's our fault, we still working and developing a better way of clearly explain the rules...
That's a 2 players, competitive, "strategic" gambling game...
Each cat has 7 lives, the gun has 30 bullets (14 lethal, 16 non lethal, shuffled within the machine gun's magazine).
The user will pull the trigger (drag the slider to the right) until the machine gun start shooting and once the player moves the slider to the left, the machine gun will stop firing and the turn passes to the next cat.
There's a strategy/dynamics of the users trying to fire as much bullets as possible to consume most of the non lethal bullets on It's cat before passing the chance to the other cat (just while the magazine is almost full and their cats lifes are almost full)...
And once the bullets on the magazine gets lower and lower, the players starts to precisely pull the trigger, trying to fire just a single bullet and let the opponent die by their misfortune...
The graphics, music, and audio are all really well done. The trigger was a bit hard to understand at first. I think a simplified shoot button would have done the game more justice. For the purposes of the LD, having an AI opponent option would have been nice too. When I played, I didn't happen to have anyone with me I could share the experience with.
Still though, this is a fantastic little game to settle and argument with. I'll probably give it a revisit the next time I have an irreconcilable difference with someone.
Pretty neat! Good job!
This is a really entertaining idea! :) I love the atmosphere of this one, and I especially appreciate that the premise and mechanics are unique and interesting.
It would have been nice to see a little more juice in the action department (the heartbeat and camera shakes were a great touch, though), but overall I think visually this looks fantastic! I had to play it by myself unfortunately, but maybe I'll whip this out when a few more of my teammates stop by for a visit. :)
Awesome job!
The visuals are awesome! Love the music too
Amazing! This game is super crazy. The best russian rulete I've ever seen. Better than exploding kittens hehe
Very nice! The only thing I didn't really like is that if you quickly go to the right then the left with your mouse, it's basically becaming a normal roulette. Great entry nonetheless!
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