Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Of Kats and Carens
By khaotom, Amplitude Problem, makkurataichou, randi and joberman
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 385 | 3.80 | 22 | |
| Fun | 757 | 3.37 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 788 | 3.34 | 21 | |
| Theme | 633 | 3.77 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 471 | 3.92 | 21 | |
| Audio | 246 | 3.84 | 21 | |
| Humor | 96 | 4.02 | 21 | |
| Mood | 929 | 3.26 | 21 |
I appreciated the topicalness of it and thought the circle mechanic was neat, but on html5 it'd get interrupted if the mouse accidentally went outside the app border so that was a bit frustrating. Good music and nice spritework!
This game was really funny and an interesting take on the theme. Though I quickly found that the easiest way to cheese the game was to just quickly circle the entire screen, winning in less than a few seconds. This could possibly be fixed by having a limit or resource for drawing circles. Great game!
I was laughing all around! Neat game with awesome execution :smiley:
This is hilarious! I love the graphics, & the tutorial. Really polished excetution too! I beat it after about 15 minutes. The world is now safe from Carens.
I like the game concept of quarantining individual using the circle, but its really hard to get a circle around the character, either hit the end of the screen, or I hit their speech bubble. Is the "speech bubble" intended to be a collision?
why put a circle on individual things when you can put one circle on the entire screen xD.
I think being able to draw a circle over other circles would be a good added feature. When a person got too close to another circle I'd have to wait for them to move away so that I could get a loop around them. You might also slow down their move rate on earlier levels and have them get faster as you progress. Otherwise it was a ridiculous and cute game.
i liked the idea of the game but the circle mechanic was not very forgiving. and the karens moved way too much. still pretty good. thanks for making it.
Cute and funny concept! Let out your Karen frustrations in game form :laughing: I agree with some previous comments about the circle being a little difficult to deal with and level difficulty increasing with speed not just number of Karens and circles. Graphically very good with the character animation and speech bubbles making it a really dynamic game. The visual and audio feedback was really nice with the loops as well! Great job!
Surprisingly fun little game. Nice presentation and great sound effects. Needed more cats tho
I liked it! The music absolutely slaps, I was bopping the whole time I was playing it :) There was a good amount of difficulty, sometimes I didn't understand why the circle was breaking which was frustrating but overall it's a nice little game and I appreciate the topical humour :) Good job!
Really fun to play but getting circles to register can be very finicky. Also, Great music!
This game was a pleasure to interact with all around.
The music was fantastic and had me bouncing, and if I'm picking up what you're laying down, the supermarket level had a version of the song that sounded like it was coming from the far-away store speakers. Nice touch!
The art looked great and was nicely animated. I also liked how the ... targets "popped" their size a bit when I snapped them in a circle.
The sound effects of the angry growls and huffs were great, and the buzzing of drawing a circle was also nice. I think a buzzing sound effect like that is risky because it can become grating, but this one avoided that problem and felt electric without becoming unpleasant.
Gameplay was simple fun that I think captured the spirit of the game. If you were hosting a high-stakes KnC tournament or something I guess you could tighten up a few details.. it seems you can kind of cheese things a bit by drawing huge fast circles. I am also still a little unclear on when/why the circle-draw action gets cancelled. It is when a Caren complains? Or when someone crosses a line? Or maybe they have an interrupting collider on their head? I went back and tested specifically this but was still a bit unclear, and on my initial playthrough I had a general feeling of "wait what just happened?" No big deal, it was still fun, but if I was supposed to understand a specific aspect there I missed it. It also felt like sometimes Carens didn't "pop" and I wasn't always 100% sure which were quarantined.
At first I assumed you had to circle each person alone, and was wondering why I had to wait for "game over" when I had 5 Carens, and wasted one of my 5 circles. But I figured out that I had to quarantine "Carnens vs the world". Makes sense!
Very nice entry with a ton of personality.
Interesting game! I very like gameplay!