wogabi 2022-04-04 05:13
What an incredibly unique game idea. Amazing work! I remember defragmenting way back when I was a kid. Haven't done that in a long time.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Cat Fragmentator
By recher
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 499 | 3.07 | 23 | |
| Fun | 410 | 3.11 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 72 | 3.92 | 23 | |
| Theme | 198 | 3.83 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 571 | 2.53 | 16 | |
| Humor | 141 | 3.44 | 21 | |
| Mood | 520 | 2.71 | 21 |
What an incredibly unique game idea. Amazing work! I remember defragmenting way back when I was a kid. Haven't done that in a long time.
I love the cat pictures, hahaha. Game is fairly basic but it really works with the theme. Also wish there was a bit more sound.
Thank you for your feedbacks. Sorry about the lack of sound. For the moment, Squarity can not play any sound. But I will try to improve this as soon as I can (I make games with Squarity and I develop the engine too).
Every time a cat image or a cat fragment image is laid down in the area, your get the following points :
(number of square of the images) * 10 - (number of borders)
For example, an uncut image of 3x3 gives you : 3x3x10 -3 -3 -3 -3 = 78 points.
If you cut this image in two, you get an 1x3 image and a 2x3 image. The score will be : 1x3x10 -1 -3 -1 -3 + 2x3x10 -2 -3 -2 -3 = 72 points.
So, it is better not to cut image when you do not need to. In particular, the first images should not be cut, because they will be put on the ground in every cases.
You get a bonus of 100 points if the game ends because the hard drive is full. Try not to be bumped by falling cat images !
Your score is decreased by one each time you fire. Do not shot at random.
Happy fragmenting !
I like your idea, of defragmenting the images. So simple, but so satisfying, when you cut the images exactly in the way there should be. This is very unique, i judge. Well done! :-) I also appreciate you for the use of cat images. <3
Really fun concept and good execution. The cat images were hilarious and the game idea was very novel. I like how satisfying it was to cut the images with the laser
An interesting twist on falling block games. Full of cat pictures, what's not to like :smile: I was checking out the code and your engine, really cool stuff! Keep on making games \o/
Thank you all for your feedbacks.
Happy to know the cat pictures are enjoying most of the players.
@frozenfire92 : thank you for the interest you have in Squarity. There are many other games listed here : [https://mstdn.io/@recher](https://mstdn.io/@recher) .
There is also a documentation explaining how to create yours, but it's only in French for the moment : https://github.com/darkrecher/squarity-doc/blob/master/user_manual/main_page.md
I plan to participate to all the upcoming Ludum Dares, by using Squarity. I also have to improve the engine itself, but it takes time :-)
Original idea! Fit with the theme. Cat pictures will always unploadedd on internet ever and ever.
You make your own engine :thumbsup:
A bizarrely fun idea! :laughing:
Gameplay is simple and works quite well. Nice job!
PS: You may want to opt-out from the graphics category, since you are not the author of the cats photos.
More "thank you"s, for more of your feedback.
@fifut : yep, that's my engine, and I'm trying to improve it months by months, but it's hard to find time.
@lmb : I thought about it. I would have chosen to keep the graphics category if I had other images made by me. But I realized the background image (the hard disk) is not by me either. The uss-fragmentor is made from the logo of "Defrag" (the old windows app). And I'm not expecting a great rating from graphics, so I just opted-out. Thank you for the advice.
Who, opting-out totally changes the calculation of my "ratings received". It looks like a bug.
At this current moment, I should have : (17*5+16) / 6 = 16.83 ratings received.
I opted-out from the category "graphics", which had 16 ratings. But the calculation still keep these ratings.
So, I currently have (17*5 +16 +16) / 6 = 19.5 ratings received.
Well, looks like I will have to test some more games to be sure to have a score at the end.
Nice game! It was simple, but it was pretty fun cutting the cat images (which I loved, by the way). Maybe you could try to add some more mechanics, like maybe dashing horizontally, to allow more gameplay and ways to evade the cats. The idea is very good, and as I said, the images were perfect. Some audio would have made it a lot better but I understand it may be hard. Overall, really neat entry, so congratulations!
That was actually super fun! A real interesting idea that made for some really fun gameplay. Lining up cats and FIRIN' MAH LAZER was very *cat*hartic. I know the theme was delay the inevitable and so it was probably good that it was over so quickly, but it would have been awesome to extend the game somehow - maybe by rows disappearing a la Tetris, or by some other way of removing cats from your hard drive.
Really good work though, one of the most innovative ideas I've seen this jam!
cats.png
Thank you for your feedbacks.
@theinkskeleton : I thought about a sort of "special power" that woul grant you invulnerability and wall-pass-through during a few movements, so that you could evade from hard situations. But I had not time to implement it.
Having sound would be really great, I need to implement sound functions in the game engine Squarity. It's on my gargantuan task list.
@natpat : Congratulation for this great score ! And also for the word "cat-hartic". Ha ha ha.
Row disappearing would have been a good idea, but I could not decide the precise game mechanic of it. If I just remove full rows, it would be quite unfair because all the uncomplete rows would stay forever. Maybe removing quickly the full rows, and less quickly the uncomplete rows, but I did not know how I could clearly show this mechanic. So nothing is removed and each game is quite short. I'll do better next time !
Fun unique game! I would have liked a "fast-forward" button, like the quick drop in tetris, since for the first few images i'm just waiting