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Catastrophy

By peacememories, fis, Nivbeth and hirnsalat

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8643.4438
Fun9173.2638
Innovation9583.1138
Theme12602.9138
Graphics8723.4738
Audio7073.2037
Humor6763.0434
Mood9703.2038

Comments

miss-iiv 2021-10-05 04:58

Poor kitties! Great job. Took me a bit to understand the mechanics, but it doesn't matter, AM CAT.

adrian-guevara 2021-10-05 19:22

It was a bit tricky at the begining but I like it, it's fun, good work guys.

evgeniya-zapolnova 2021-10-05 19:24

Nooo!!!!, usually I am not suffering when I can't win. But not here 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I will train for two weeks to be able to save them 🤣

contro1990 2021-10-05 19:33

Ok, let's speedrun it! Now! Good job! :D

wakobu 2021-10-05 19:40

The game is so cute ! I love the cat animation. The game is quite hard and a bit frustrating. Good entry overall

achiru 2021-10-05 19:42

Nice game, took me a while to figure out that shift makes you run haha I bit frustrating when you hit your head on a shelf and you fall into the water, but otherwise nice execution.

yellowkamel 2021-10-05 20:22

Thanks for submitting to my stream :smile: Nice little game

spike-studio 2021-10-06 14:40

The kitten's walking animation is so cute, good entry!

julia-schwarzberg 2021-10-06 18:45

Good animation. But it's too cruel. [CRYING] And you can't make me not cry!

jon-nova 2021-10-06 22:40

Nice game! spent some time thinking the best route.

xwilarg 2021-10-06 23:21

Really cute game, took me a bit of time to get all kitten (especially the top left one, I kept hitting my head on the vent) The BGM goes really nicely with the game too!

mordrick 2021-10-07 09:58

I couldn't manage to get all kittens safe but it is definitely an experience ^^.

I'd love to have an indicator, showing me where I will land.

Besides that I liked the music, the sounds and the graphic style.

The take on the theme is fresh and the animations are really well done.

Good Job!

Keep it up!

holyblackcat 2021-10-08 06:37

The screenshots look interesting, but the game doesn't load for me. Tried waiting several minutes on the loading screen, to no avail. ;-;

A downloadable build would be nice.

fis 2021-10-08 18:23

Thank you so much for your feedback!!

@wakobu & @achiru & @xwilarg: You are definitely correct, the movement is a little bit frustrating for now - I'd target the mobile market for the game and simplify it as much as required to be easily controlled using touch input!

Also @mordrick: A jump indicator is a great idea. I will keep it in mind when polishing for mobile :cat:

@holyblackcat: Thank you for your feedback, another friend of mine contacted me with similar problems regarding playing on OSX. I added binary exports for windows, linux and mac right now. I would be glad if you give it another try :smile_cat:

holyblackcat 2021-10-08 19:48

Yup, works now. Nice game!

Got stuck trying to save the kitten on top of the black shelf. I can get the kitten, but can't run to the shelves on the right fast enough.

Would've been easier if I could jump onto something while being directly in front of it, rather than having to judge the distance. :P

kapricorn-media 2021-10-09 00:20

noooooooo I couldn't save them all :sob: :sob: very cute game! As some people pointed out, the controls are a bit unforgiving sometimes and hard to use consistently, though I think if I spent a bit more time figuring out the best exact jump spots, I could have won. Nice work on the graphics & audio side of things, though!

nyles 2021-10-09 03:46

Screw that cat on the gun safe.

osh-studio 2021-10-09 03:49

So good! Such an original little game, was kind of a puzzle in a way because you had to solve the room in the right order to get the little kittens out. Really liked it and it gave me a good laugh. GG

jackiex9527 2021-10-09 04:28

A very cute game!!! And I really want to save them all!!! I like the setting and the visual of the game, they really get me into the game. However, maybe you can change the jumping control a bit to allow adding velocity when the cat has a vertical jump, this will make the control a lot smooth a easier and reduce the chance of stucking in front of a wall. (but probably is not that realistic.)

haematite 2021-10-09 08:58

Such a cute little game, I really love the concept of it! I found the controls a bit hard though, perhaps some of the jumps could be a bit more forgiving and the countdown for the bigger jump could be a bit faster? Great game to just while away a few minutes though and I got surprisingly into saving the kittens. Animations and sound are great as well, think this could easily be expanded into a full game with a bit of refinement of the controls

real-flamingicecubegames 2021-10-09 14:25

Concept is fine, however, I found it really difficult to save kittens. I would walk through them and not collect them. The jump also doesn't seem to work all the time. Overall though, its not bad for a game jam title.

zachsbutt 2021-10-09 15:12

i've never felt so much accomplishment

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skleembof 2021-10-10 17:07

This is an awesome idea, but it's really hard. I think if you add a visual indicator of the jump trajectory, it would be a lot less frustrating to make the jumps. The physics might also need some work because the boxes felt way too light. Knocking them over made the whole game even more difficult.

I really liked the animations of the cat and the music/sfx worked really well.

Great job guys

ty-victorson 2021-10-15 17:28

Like others have said it was hard to judge jumps, but I loved the game unfortunately I wasn't ever able to get them all :(

andreman 2021-10-21 19:43

Yes! I win and this was pretty hard, so, nice balance and narration. Nice job overall)