platyp 2020-04-17 15:52
game jam time lads
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Catnip Panic
By platyp, xenith, FrancoEvett and Glaceo
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1186 | 3.51 | 33 | |
| Fun | 1082 | 3.38 | 33 | |
| Innovation | 1885 | 2.93 | 33 | |
| Theme | 1113 | 3.71 | 33 | |
| Graphics | 728 | 3.95 | 34 | |
| Audio | 568 | 3.62 | 27 | |
| Humor | 692 | 3.31 | 32 | |
| Mood | 1326 | 3.33 | 33 |
game jam time lads
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Nice idea!
When I booted this up, I expected it to be a tower defense, but I'm so glad it's not. It plays like a frantic survival game, with you rushing from thing to thing desperately trying to keep your plant alive. It's a fun game.
It was fun , the character is cute too
Very cute game! I especially love the design and art for the main character. It took me a while to figure out how to use all the different tools and areas together but once I did it clicked together nicely. The control and collision feels REALLY wonky though, which for a game mostly about dodging enemies seems kind of important to be good. Good stuff.
Epic game, love the art style and attention to detail, nothing more to say!
@billehbawb thanks for the feedback, yeah as one of the programmers our hurtboxes were more than a little jank.
I should probably point out that this little jam is carried by the pixel art of @glaceo
Super cute! Reminds me of a GBA game. Good sounds too!
nice music and graphics!
That was very hard! At first is quite hard to understand what's goin. The path's textures looks a little confusing and I thougt it was water T_T funny game!
Dear Diary,
Today I experienced the hardships that catgirls face each day. While trying to keep my quickly deteriorating catnip plant alive I learnt that: - Ducks are scary - Farmers are scary - Fences are the worst - ...and so are trees. And nests. - Plants sure are thirsty - Oh god the ducks - I should not have put my plant so far from the water. And from the cows. And in the middle of duck heaven. - "Easy" is pretty hard
Even now the ducks are searching for me. I can hear their angry quacking all around me. They are out for catgirl blood. I know they will find me.
This was a mistake.
I might not write again.
Dear Diary,
Today I have learnt the key to success in this cruel and bloodthirsty world: Stay on the roads! I can run like the wind there, and since the ducks, bulls and farmers always return to their original spots, I can usually quickly sneak by while dodging any attacks.
I have relocated all equipment near the plant. The farmer is not looking for it anymore, which I can understand - he'd have to cross the duck lands to get it back, a journey I wouldn't wish on anyone. He keeps baiting me with fresh bread, but I have learnt to pick up and eat whole loaves of them in a matter of milliseconds; you would too, if you were chased by an angry farmer and three thousand ducks.
My catnip plant has grown into a magnificent flowering bush, earning me the rating C, which I can only assume is the best rating considering my stellar performance.
I will now search for more catgirl-friendly lands.
Yours, Tobias
April art is excellent! A very charming game completely aligned with the theme =D
The old man running after you was very funny.
After understanding how to play, I really enjoyed the fast paced dynamics of coming and going to keep the catnip alive. The game title is sell deserved!
My complaints would be the floor tiles, the mouse controls in a game that doesn't use a cursor, and the small resolution.
So adorable atmospheric game :3
Great art i like it goodjob
This game was good. I like the art and the sounds. The character was a bit too slippery to me and having some guidance on the screen to help the player out on what to do would help make the game more fun. Like arrows or text showing where to go or what to pick up.
@no-grapes-games I mean, there *are* the roads to lead you anywhere you need to go, but it took me a while to get that too. I assume a slightly improved texture would've helped there.
@no-grapes-games thanks, yeah it is a major flaw that the info to go left for the tools, down for water and right for fertiliser isn't communicated effectively in game. I found it really interesting that you found the movement slippery, out of curiosity was this all the time or on the roads (which in hindsight shouldn't have been so similar to the water haha)? I'm just wondering if that feeling was due to the (excessive) doubling of the players move speed on those tiles.
@tobiasw It goes without saying and I can't believe I haven't responded to it yet but the entire dev team loved your diary entries. My fellow devs claim to have achieved a rating higher than C, but I suspect they are masochists who enjoy playing on our harder difficulties when easy is hard enough.
Hi! Nice work! I want to make a video with the best games of LDJam46. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdTsWE7iIk . Can I find your game also on indiexpo website? The channel is linked with them.
Can put a bucket on my head 10/10
Hi There! I like your game! Nice graphic! Intresting idia for game! but I cant put on shovel and bucket, hehe ^__^
@torh Will you play all 6000 games? )))
Good game! I liked how you walked at different speeds on different surfaces. Graphics are good and it plays very smoothly. Well done all of you!
@platyp I'm glad to read that - I don't do that for many games, but yours just was a perfect candidate. The entries were a ton of fun to write too!
(And a piece of advice for difficulties: The "normal" setting should be too easy for the devs. Learnt that the hard way over many jams too. It was fun figuring out how to beat yours though!)
@torh Thank you for the high praise, our game is only hosted as a download on Itch.io at the moment. The only change we foresee to this in the short future is the uploading of a working webgl build to itch as we had to cut this due to the build having an issue with cutting out most of the sprites.
But we'd be delighted to formally give permission to anyone who wants to upload gameplay on youtube.
On another note in regards to youtube the music we used (http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_2.php?q=622) (the sfx were our own) was licensed from TeknoAXE under a creative commons attribution only license which should be find-able in our projects download zip files. I recall the uploaders site and video saying that the song is not listed on contendID so it should be safe to not recieve a copyright strike.
Nice game, i very like old style pixel graphics.
Really liked the style you went for here. Great job!