Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Catch The Mouse keep it alive
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1589 | 3.33 | 109 | |
| Fun | 716 | 3.57 | 109 | |
| Innovation | 1832 | 2.96 | 109 | |
| Theme | 1996 | 3.22 | 109 |
Well done! Some problems I had with the game was when I jumped in the air and there was nothing there I would die for no reason. Maybe if you could explain the mechanics to the player beforehand that would make for a more enjoyable experience.
That was really funny, i really loved the difficulty curve, nice job
ok great, very dificult but very cool ilustrations!!!
Buen juego, me encanto el ratón y la dificultad que tiene el juego, vale mucho la pena!!!!
Quite difficult, but fun little game. You should probably make collision a bit more in favor of the player. Since the game is a 'Die & Try' I'd probably remove lifes limit as it is a bit frustrating. Even if I understand its purpose ofcourse. Anyway I had fun with your funny characters, and sounds used.
Pretty fun!
difficult and nice mixed up take on the endless runner format. I liked how you were put straight back into the level, I would of liked some of the levels to restart as at some points seemed impossible to complete. Really liked the main character design and the amount of different controls allowed so much accessibility.
the number of lives lost, or cheese, seem weird... at times i lost two at a time, and sometimes just one. maybe you guys intended it this way, but it wasn't explained to the player. i think you should look into it!!
Interesting game and really fun yet really hard :D. I really liked that the game kinda pauses for 2/3 seconds before the mouse starts moving at the beginning of each level. Infinite lives (not just 10) would be a great addition :D
Neat game! The simple controls were a nice touch. It was a little odd that hitting the clouds would kill you so with some adjustments I think this would make an enjoyable mobile game.
Simple but actually kinda fun. But the randomness is too unforgiving, depending on how the nuts position themselves it can get impossible to progress. Pressing a key to reset a screen would have been good (even if it costs a life).
Interesting - the graphics felt a little out of place sometimes, and the difficulty curve is a bit odd like others have said, but it's playable and decently fun. Good work!
Fun game, I liked the sounds. I feel that it would be better if the levels reset after the player losses. Overall a fun game to play for a little while. Good Job!
thanks a lot to @thompson, @destin715, @mr-x, @anamile, @sleeping-panda-games , @yeti-kid , @doritolord , @zerohbeat , @mharring , @lakrits , @sciman101 , @nachodlv, Thank you very much for your comments, I will follow some of your advice to fix some details and possibly if I will give a little more life, and fix the collisions with some objects, and by the end of JAM I hope it will be more pleasant and complete more levels and battle with a final boss and a little story. post it on the playstore!!!
Apart from the invisible collisions and the deadly nuts (haha why they would kill you and the mushrooms wouldn't) - it's very fun to play! I like the simplicity, just jump! Some bits are mad impossible if you respawn at the wrong time (the worm bit), but reloads really quickly so isnt too annoying. Good job!
Really cool game. I like how collisions just blow up the mouse :laughing:. Some of the hitboxes could be improved but overall really nice game. Also, I think all the invisible collisions people are talking about are actually the clouds.
Fun but super hard! The fact that the clouds and other innocuous-seeming objects would kill you made me think this was like the "kaizo mario" equivalent of endless runners :P The difficulty was a bit inconsistent, either due to randomness (like the nuts falling down) or cycles of certain objects moving around - the spinning log screen seemed pretty much impossible to me. Still an interesting experience though, nice work!
Really fun game! loved the art style, great work
Great game! I had a lot of fun playing it. At first I though you needed to kill the mouse, but after I lost 1 time I understood how to play. The game is kinda hard.
Fun little casual game with an interesting gameplay which fits with the theme. Mouse is so cute. Well done - it runs efficiently under my browser. I had fun playing, but my score is not really good. Inoovative and addictive. A good entry. Thank you for your feedback ++
Fun game, but it seemed unfair at times. The patterns were a bit too random, and not being able to control the sideways motion makes some screens literally impossible to pass first time. With a bit of polish and playtesting it could be a very good runner. Nice job!
The game is catchy, but parts of it felt really unfair and stacked against the player: - with the random generation and slow movement of certain parts of the environment (clouds, moon, flying pigs) and the auto-running, it is impossible to not lose a bunch of lives. - the bounding boxes seem to extend well beyond the objects, and it felt like in many cases, the mouse died even if it seemed like it would make the jump. - you might want to fine-tune the controls, to make it easier to control the height of the jumps. Currently, the dynamic range of the jumps seems too small, and it is very hard to avoid low-flying obstacles.
Otherwise, the graphics is OK (though seems a bit inconsistent), and the music and sound are fine and fit the game nicely. Despite all the issues mentioned above, I still had fine trying the game out and retried a couple of times before finally giving up.
@eldogg @convg thank you very much for playing it and enjoying it!
@adhesion I really appreciate that you played it and gave reference to "Kaizo Mario" and they also told me that "I wanna be the guy", I hope to continue improving it to get to make a game like that, thanks a lot
@miggyg @slimbun thank you very much for playing
@linx @OndraSej I will check it to fix it
Way more fun than what I anticipated! Thank you so much :D
@trexxak thak you very much for playing
so. this is the 2nd time playing your game. the game is very very cool! the game intro is wow! the game itself is very funny and enjoyable. the graphics you chose are very cool and the game over dubbing is awesome. 2 problems. 1. when the game starts the photo is pixelated and only after few sec it becoming like it needs to be. 2. in level 3 (i think ), there are like Logs falling from the sky. when i die, they are not falling again. except it, the game was wow!
@noamraz thanks for playing!!! 1 I check the intro pixelated, I think Its the effect, 2 Its normal the random for the nuts trolling
well to be honest I did not expect this to be this fun. this is really fun. however the RNG is just unfair sometime. and you can lose a lot of mouses with no way not to do so. but the controls are solid and the art is unique.
@abdurrahman-khallouf thanks for playing!!! still working on it
The most polished intro I have ever seen :o Other than that, the game was quite difficult, but fast-paced and fun for me also. I died after the 5th or 6th stage xD Cheers to that level design. For me the only point I felt you can improve on is the particle effects (the 'dead' animation is a bit dull). Other than that, great soundtrack, great gameplay and humor <3
Really fun game!
I died pretty quickly tho. I thought I can kill the monsters by jumping on their heads like in Super Mario so I kept dying in that part. Such a hard game :|
@valeth2124 I working on it to the particles, thanks for playing!!! @sandra-martinez sorry about the monsters its I little bit diferent Super Mario to Kaizo Mario but I really enjoy to try to plaing!!!
@cobear25 thanks for playing!!!
JAJAJA, Está chistoso el juego. Me gustaron los gráficos y el hecho que TODO lo que tocas te mata. En algunas pantallas, sobretodo hacia el final, uno tiene pocas oportunidades para pasar ya que si caen todos los obstáculos se vuelve imposible pasar a menos que uno reinicie el juego. Muy entretenido. Buen trabajo!
@macdoom Genial que bueno que te gusto, creo que logro el objetivo que es divertirse!
the gameplay is straightforward yet intriguing. The upscale of the difficulty makes it pretty frustrating to finish all the level, but it's fun nonetheless. A way to save progress so I wont have to start over would be a nice touch. Good job!
Was so confused when I got killed by the cloud lol. Also not sure if it was intended, but the flying pig got turned around and wreaked havoc on the rest of the game for me, ended up on on part with him and my little autospawning mouse just thrown into an impossible blender D: I think what might help with dealing with the randomization, is rather than autospawning, have the option to click to spawn or another button to spawn, that way the player can wait as long or as little as they need.
No está mal, hay partes que es puro azar pero es divertido, que es lo importante.
@adrian-guevara gracias por jugarlo y divertirte un rato que es lo que importa.
@spookyfish @aaron-taube Im working on it with the magical button reset,I know its Hard, thanks for playing!!!
fun (but also frustrating) little game. I think the randomisation is hurting the game; on one level there were some nuts that fell from the tree and I'm convinced they were in different locations on different playthroughs. If you could reset the scene completely on each level (including moving enemies, etc) then this would feel more like a test of skill rather than having luck influencing it.
The flying pig was very cute :smiley: and the mouse too, of course. Nice, not easy though - the jumps are hard to calculate and often lives are spent trying to get the length of a jump right. But fun! Good work! :thumbsup:
@jupiter-hadley I would love for you to do a gameplay of my game, if you like it. :thumbsup:
@zondarg thanks for playing!
@amkingtrp Im working on a switch button to fix that random thinks, but thanks for playing!
Argh. A rage game! xD it's an interesting concept...enemies which travel from scene to scene. and falling nuts were random too. pretty inconvenient of my spawning inside the enemy at one point though (flying pig) so iframes after respawn should definitely help there.
AHHHHH :) i hate it! and i love it!
Nice entry! Great music and art and a good feel to the controls.
It is definitely rage inducing! If one more cloud takes me out i think I might cry...
Awesome to see it on multiple platforms and extra points for making such an enjoyable game with just one button! That is not easy!
Great job :)
Very nicely chosen art and audio, go well together. Everything can kill you in this game! Even nuts lying on the ground are deadly (which I discovered to my sorrow ;)). It is a very hard platforming experience and I am pretty sure I suck too much to see the end ;). But it's a well-made game and a great jam job.
Controller didn't work though (I have Xbox 360 Wireless), keyboard worked just fine.
@fabula-rasa thanks for playing!!! Im check the problem with :video_game:
This was awesome! I like how when he dies, he explodes lol. Cool art and sound effects too! Great job! :smile:
Hey man. Thanks for posting the game for my stream! I like it for sure, though the map sometimes trolls me indeed ;)
I just uploaded a quick-video actually beating it, since I didn't get to that on-stream!
https://youtu.be/aX3xHKNbwrU
Thanks for submiting to our stream!
The game was quite challenging! It looks nice and the sounds are so far off the visuals that its amazingly cool!
:thumbsup: for the game! Good work!
Cool one button game! :) I enjoyed playing, and also I like the funny audio and the graphics, even though the art style is not very cohesive. :wink: Because the enemies don't reset when the player dies, some levels get harder or just different (and sometimes impossible) to win on the next try, for example the first level with the nuts. I would have like more control over the jump height, but it is also funny that as a player we have so little control. ;)
I died to a cloud. A CLOUD! Nice job, transitions really add an extra bit of polish to it Nice entry. Also... clouds!
rat mode activate!
Lovely game! Loved the graphics and audio. But... why did the mouse die to A CLOUD and THE MOON. If Mice have the will to got to the moon they can go to the moon. Also, why does my mouse explode when he dies(is he a robot mouse sent to do some spywork??). Anyways, the gameplay and idea was really amazing!
Really funny and challenging game XD My only problem was that sometimes i had nothing that I could do to pass the level... Congratulations on your game!
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Here is my Playthrough of the game:
I managed a perfect Speedrun in the end (41s)
https://youtu.be/I5ZKTWmKp-8
Edit: Unfortunately the video did not record my microphone so here are the main points I made:
1. I liked the feel of the Movement, it is well implemented
2. The graphics and audio are nice
3. Overall a good implementation of a classic platformer Good Job!
That was really challenging. I liked the way the progression was just smooth horizontal transitions. It was immediately easy to understand. What I didn't get was why I couldn't step on the nuts that fell to the ground. It seemed like logically I should've been able to stand on them. Maybe if they used a different graphic, like spikes or something it'd be more obvious?
Anyways, nice job! I had fun even though I wasn't able to reach the end because it was too hard lol
Omg that was HARD. Especially that I don't really play this kind of games xD But well, it was a great one overall, I won't allow my personal inexperience to affect my judging uwu A good one!
Your game is pretty fun but also pretty damn difficult XD At first I thought I was getting shot at but then realised even the clouds were against me! I really liked the menu animation and gameplay in general but I think some balancing could be done here and there with the level design. Overall though, good job!
The game is difficult as it should be, great audio and good graphics! And I must say that I liked the "game over" sound. hahah It’s a great game, addictive and fun. Solid, Good job!
Fun game! Appropriately difficulty and cute graphics and audio. I enjoyed playing it, and there was a great quantity of levels for a jam especially! I liked how the mouse would go back and forth and how the mushrooms acted. There were often multiple ways to complete each level. One thing I noticed was that you could wait for the big flying piggy bank to leave, and the level would be easier, but that is one tiny thing. I think this game is a really good entry! Well done and keep up the great work!
Edit: Well done on making this game so compatible with your porting and controls!
Simple, but fun! I especially like that you respawn right away since it keeps the momentum going. Some obstacle placements could be better though :)
Great job!
I love the simplicity of this one. The fact that the level does not reset is kind of a double edged sword. It can make it easier sometimes and then you feel lucky, but most of the time it feels more frustrating than anything else. The fast respawn with music continuing is well done. The dumble jump mechanic is nicely explained through level design.
Thanks for the game.
Omg this sun is so stressfull. Quite hard to jump, i think i'm bad. Love the concept ;P
Nice game!
I feel like the game would need a bit of work before it really hits the theme, right now it is like any other game where the goal is to stay alive (so most games). I like the concept tho, and it was definetly a world where everything was out to kill you! (even the clouds, thats EVIL!)
Though you opted out of being rated in graphics, I will say that they fit the game perfectly.
Most importantly, the game was FUN!
Good job!
Felt like the levels was pretty random sometimes and that you could get completely stuck if you didn't make one in the first try (those chestnuts falling down blocked my path completely, perhaps I missed something?). Played it through to the end. Short and enjoyable, but frustrating. :P
Yeah, I won \o/ Pretty good game, I love the Sun with its troll face xD Controls are good and there are enough different obstacles to make it not repetitive. You should just work on the cycles of some enemies and obstacles. There are sometime unsolvable situations.
Well done ^^
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Uhul! Hahahahah.
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Análise...
1 - Mecânicas, Aprendizado e Fluxo: O jogo é de plataforma ao mesmo tempo que o personagem do jogador (PdJ) permanece correndo o tempo todo. Os estágios possuem desenho vivo, cada tentativa de jogar pode levar a uma diferente experiência (por conta da movimentação de algumas entidades e do sorteio da queda de alguns desafios). Infelizmente você já começa correndo em cada estágio (o que pode levar a mortes certas). Isso talvez possa ser mudado em uma versão pós evento do jogo, para a possibilidade de esperar o melhor momento para ir (apesar de ter um desafio embutido em já começar correndo). Aprender a jogar foi fácil, o jogo favorece dado que há apenas o comando de pulo a ser utilizado (o resto depende da percepção). O fluxo de jogo me deixou um pouco frustrado em diversas vezes, mas não perdi o interesse no jogo. Apenas me senti levemente injustiçado ao mesmo tempo que eu me senti bastante desafiado a prosseguir.
2 - Gráficos, Áudio e Narrativa: Os gráficos são bem simples, especialmente do PdJ (que deu bastante trabalho (em cena) para eu entender do que se tratava). De resto os gráficos ficaram muito bons e me deram uma experiência confortável, nostálgica e imersiva. O áudio cumpriu o papel dele (ao meu ver). A narrativa não parece ter sido o foco, não há muito que falar sobre isso. Corra loucamente de um lado para o outro até chegar no final (vivo).
3 - Cultura: O jogo me faz lembrar de runners e de jogos de plataforma antigos, com desafios exagerados (tamanho de alguns objetos bem diferente da escala imaginada). Senti falta e concorrerem por humor, porque achei bem engraçado.
4 - Monetização: Creio que o jogo possa ser muito polido e ser construído em diversos "mundos", cada qual com uma pequena variação temática, de forma que cada mundo deveria ser passado com uma quantidade inicial de vidas. Nesse sentido, o jogo (em caso de interesse na continuidade por parte dos criadores) poderia ser vendido em stores como itch.io ou até mesmo Steam.
Analysis...
1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow: The game is a platform game at the same time that the player's character (PC) remains running all the time. The stages have a lively design, each attempt to play can lead to a different experience (due to the movement of some entities and the draw of the fall of some challenges). Unfortunately, you already start running at each stage (which can lead to certain deaths). This could perhaps be changed in a post-event version of the game, for the possibility of waiting for the best time to go (despite having a built-in challenge to already start running). Learning to play was easy, the game favors given that there is only the jump command to be used (the rest depends on perception). The game flow left me a little frustrated on several occasions, but I didn't lose interest in the game. I just felt slightly wronged at the same time that I felt quite challenged to proceed.
2 - Graphics, Audio and Narrative: The graphics are very simple, especially from the PC (which took a lot of work (on the scene) for me to understand what it was about). Besides, the graphics were very good and gave me a comfortable, nostalgic and immersive experience. The audio fulfilled his role (as I see it). The narrative does not seem to have been the focus, there is not much to talk about. Run wildly from side to side until you reach the end (alive).
3 - Culture: The game reminds me of old runners and platform games, with exaggerated challenges (size of some objects quite different from the scale envisioned). I missed it and competed for humor, because I found it very funny.
4 - Monetization: I believe that the game can be very polished and built in different "worlds", each with a small thematic variation, so that each world should be spent with an initial amount of lives. In this sense, the game (in case of interest in continuity on the part of the creators) could be sold in stores like itch.io or even Steam.
Nice game! Little cruel that you collide with even the freaking clouds xD Here's my playthrough of it: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617105087
@mateusboga Nice Thanks for playing broo!
@gustavo-christino muchas gracias por el análisis, si planeo subir más contenido y tomando en cuenta los comentarios y análisis.
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Really cool game! I loved the one button controls! Its a little frustrating to play at times, but there's only so much you can do in a jam, great job!
The levels sometimes screwed me over, which was pretty irritating, and not in a fun way. It had it's moments, though. Nice work.
very cool game!loved it!
Now there's a face I've not seen in a long time... There's a lot early on that really does a good job of setting the tone of "this is meant to be this difficult". Good job!
This is a really fun game and I couldn't help but laugh when I exploded into a cloud. Gave me Cat Mario vibes. Some of the RNG aspect felt a tad bit unfair, but other than that I enjoyed it.
A Cat Mario game, but it is more consistent in its rules and infinite runner. For that of game it is good, but this type of game is not for everyone
Interesting but hard. Really enjoyed
Quite cool entry with fun controls! :) I liked the graphics you chose and the sun made me laugh, lol I also liked that you didn't just chose obstacles that will kill you on hit, but rather different ones and some you can even jump on although the kill you pretty much all the other times. (Walnuts) I would have enjoyed it more if you didn't die and had to start all over, as I feel like this would fit your game better, as it's not really a "learn it by heart" level like for example Geometry dash, but maybe that's just personal preference. The music was nice, the game over sound a bit odd, I would choose a different one :) All in all cool game and because of the simple controls this would also make a cool mobile game I think!
Comment based on @SYRAPTOR gameplay. Amazing job, you did a twist on a classic type of game. This has lot of potential. Keep working and doing more levels. Congrats!
Nice game. I like the meme aspect and the art, good job.
Good stuff! Lots of gameplay and addicting!
Here is the VOD of me playing your game on stream: (Timecode 1:36:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckMlQhB4kk
Awesome game, really enjoyed the sun taunting me as I went passed. The one think that confused me for a while was how some mushrooms bounced you up but some didn't. I think a change in colour as well as size would help players realise that they perform different mechanics when collided with.
Nice game! A bit hard for me, though. Sometimes the levels & controls are a bit confusing or even frustrating. But overall, nice entry :)
Game seems well done, but way too hard for me. I was able to get through about 4 or maybe 5 screens. Way not my kind of game. Still, I can appreciate the effort that went into it.
Great game, actually had me laughing as I failed to keep the mouse alive. :joy:
jaja nice game