kuviman 2024-04-16 11:42
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Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Rise of the CatMancer
By daniel-c, Bananplyte, bjornstenlund, IsacB and emily-c
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 340 | 3.79 | 52 | |
| Fun | 171 | 3.93 | 53 | |
| Innovation | 745 | 3.19 | 53 | |
| Theme | 221 | 4.12 | 53 | |
| Graphics | 842 | 3.30 | 53 | |
| Audio | 341 | 3.62 | 52 | |
| Humor | 91 | 4.06 | 54 | |
| Mood | 412 | 3.75 | 53 |
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I LOVED IT! I really did!
The voice lines, art and gameplay were AMAZING (funny af)
The sound over all is a bit too much at times. If you haven't, you should add a limiter (using your program of choice) so that no sound goes over 0 db. You could also maybe BitCrush effect. Whatever it is, it's a bit too much especially later on when it gets more hectic. The main menu music should also be increased, its significantly more quiet than the rest of the game.
I don't know if this is intentional, but the character also moves faster diagonally. This is a very common problem when first starting to make games, because the two movement get combined (diagonal and horizontal). It's a pretty easy fix, you can find it everywhere online.
In the parts with the weird building it's kinda hard to see the bodies,
Lastly, after about a minute of playing the first time the game crashed. I couldn't replicate the crash so it probably doesn't matter :)
Don't let all my criticm here confuse you. This is probably one of the best games in this Jam I've played so far. Keep it up man, I'm sure you'll make even more amazing games in the future!
@ghostdev708 Everything is very much bitcrushed :)
And yes - the game is definitely extremely loud and chaotic I think the mainmenu being quiet in general is actually more of a case that I discovered a bug where our "mainlevel" just ignores all the volume options and "please don't be extremely loud" settings we had. At the end of the day we just went with it.
Thank you so much for your nice review!
Edit: I will strike my co-developer on the finger for not normalizing the diagonal movement ;)
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At first the game seemed odd, the graphics was a bit confusing, I didn't know what is background and what is not, the corpses were a bit hard too notice... BUT THEN!!! ... This is an awesome game! I had so much fun, I don't really like chaotic games, but due to the chaos being increased step by step, I enjoyed it and replayed it a few times! :smiley:
I can only recommend this game, even if at first it seems a bit odd. After a minute or so sou start to like its quirky and absurd atmosphere. :laughing: by the way, are those voice lines inspired by Half Life? They sounded oddly familiar, like the "Why won't you die???" one.
Nice entry, cheers!
@Tudvari Thank you so much for the nice words <3
What a ride that was
Your game had me laughing so hard, I've got the giggle abs! Great job, my friend β you've got the humor game on lock!
@potatofinch @drgcandle Hell yeah, thank you so much <3
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Started a little bit boring and slow. But a sudden increase of speed is a good drive. So the beginning was only a time to get along with the mechanics. Gameplay is really fun.
@pelmanable No way, I think you're the first one to reach S tier!
THE SCORE OF THE GOOOODS
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One of the best games I've played! Very amusing :D
@sargonius Thank you so much for letting us know :D !!
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at first I thought that is slow but then it get heated ..:D
I was already laughing at the audio, and then I noticed the progress bar twisting and turning. 10/10 entry.
My only complaint would be that it got a bit hectic and at some point it was hard to see dead bodies under all the particles and other enemies... but I feel like the chaos adds to the game's charm (yeah, let's call it charm ;D)
Haha, my sides! Really great humour in this game, title screen music is awesome too. Loved the rapture bar gag of extending in weird directions and all the voice lines. Really solid entry, 5 stars across the board, good luck!
Regardless of what others say, I absolutely adore cats. For me, this is a bonanza of cat games, hooray! Moreover, your game is so entertaining that I found myself laughing throughout the entire play experience. I wholeheartedly thank you for bringing such a fun game to us; it's bound to put me in a good mood for the whole day.
@janinna21 @orbitaldot @matthewdrake @drgcandle Thank you so much :D This is going to put me in a good mood for the whole day!
At one point the game became a complete craze! I loved it!
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Great entry! Found the overall experience very enjoyable, liked the hectic combat and loved the voice lines. I was blown away by all the different music you had for the different grades. Overall really fun game !
Today is not my day. It's an interesting concept and I like the game. Good job!
@artemy-zen Thank you so much for those nice words!
@theheheo THE SCOOORE OF THE GOOOODS You're the second documented person ever to reach that far! Well done!!
@baluj There's always tomorrow!! Thank you :D
I loved this game, slow start but I loved it when it ramped up afterwards.
@cainetinyarms Thanks for playing :D
So much fun in so little time, great work. The audio just killed me x'D !!!!!!
@cainetinyarms @sstyles93 Thank you so much :D
I love how silly this game is, the audio clips are great and just the whole theming of it is really enjoyable. Gameplay felt good although it can be hard to see the things you're supposed to click once it starts getting chaotic. The health bar timer thing made me chuckle, not sure if something was supposed to happen eventually but once it got to a certain point it just kept restarting the same section over and over and the gameplay didn't really change after a point. Wish there could have been some kind of increased spawns or something like that to keep it interesting.
Overall really good job guys!
@pegasys Thank you so much <3
WOW amazing game, very funny and right on point with the theme.
Where did you find the in game voice line ?
Amazing entry, everything is on point: short, esay to understand, fun to play and with cat !
Tha soundtrack is great to.
@alexis-brochec <3 Thank you so much We made our own voice lines!
I have to admit...I am not a fan of horror games. But this one was interesting :D Very funny idea for the ld55 and it has...CATS!!! :cat: :heartbeat:
Great fun game, the bulldozers gave me a small jump scare :D Soundtrack is amazing and suits the vibe. The cat images are pretty funny, would be nice to see them as digital art if you update the game in the future :thumbsup:
So fun to see when the game turns into complete chaos. The humour of it ridiculously good haha. It is difficult to click at all the corpses at the end, maybe an ability to activate a bunch would help, but it's still fun to unleash all this power! Great entry!
@nishikku Wooo cats!!! πΊπΊ makes any game better!!
@alxander Absolutely! The cat-screens were a last minute addition, and I would have loved for our artist to have as much time to make a pixel-art beautiful version like the menu - but we ran out of time
@risminator Yeah, it goes crazy at the end, thanks for playing!
Woah man ! thanks for this fun experience. I was kinda tired from my jam, this lightened up my day
The more you play, the more chaotic the game becomes, and the more fun it is. About the graphics, there are some odd mixes, but I have to admit that it's very funny! I liked the audio. I had a great time. Well done to the whole team!
@akusan Cheers man! Thanks for playing our stupid game!
@pattedecanaard Hahaha thank you! The graphics were often times the programmers throwing in random stuff and then our one artist trying to keep up replacing our placeholders with pixel art - in the end - he couldn't replace it all
This was hilarious! From the rapture progress bar to the holy killdozer, I kept wondering what whacky thing would happen next! My one critique is that I didn't realize the background art could be walked on. The spikes made me think I was confined to that area, or that I would take damage by touching them. Eventually I wanted to see what would happen, and sure enough you can just walk right over them. Overall, great job! I had a lot of fun playing this.
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Animated leaves on the background are a nice touch on the menu, the menu music evokes a sense of epic wonder for the adventure to come. When returning to the menu later, The music takes another turn entirely. Even though I'm not a huge fan of that specific genre, it brought a smile to my face.
Options menu seems to be a bit bugged. Accidentally turning down sound levels sometimes mutes it to zero and there's no way (in game) to pull it back to the right. Restarting the game brings those levels back to default though.
I was confused about the background art like @pres2300 but after figuring this out, I really enjoyed the free range of motion given. Though, you can walk into the black of the map too?
I had a lot of fun with this one.
"God forgive me for the smackdown I'm about to deliver to this f*%&ing cat" I'm dead. XD. Sorry if I misquoted this one, I was too busy fighting off priests - some altar boy probably
@pres2300 The holy killdozer!!!! I made that!!! I love you hahaha thank you so much for appreciating our dumb game! The spikes are absolutely unclear, that is valid criticism! Next time we will do over and do right!
@trevor-lentz I also did the leaaaves!! Sorry about the options, they only work in the menu haha, I didn't have time to bugfix it! The volumes are tied to the "max of master" and it's also unintuitive. Your quote is word for word perfect I believe from memory!
The best 2D game I've ever played! The voice lines are just on point, you've managed to include many memes, it feels so real, I mean the npcs lines don't sound like npc lines, if you know what im trying to say, I did managed to glitch myself trough the wall which is pretty interesting, I was clicking the body's and accidently switched of of the window so I alt tabed back into it and my controlls started automaticly going towards the top right corner of the screen, I love the game soo much An incredable job, guys keep it UP!Screenshot 2024-04-21 202041.png
@klemen thank you so much, glad you liked it! Yeah it's a bit buggy when switching to another window :P hah yeah the voices came out great, bananplyte made them and just kept adding more
Edit: I didn't even see the 100,000 damn that's really impressive! :O
@klemen Thank you so much!!!
@bjornstenlund The voices are always with me, I'm just introducing them to everyone else <3
So good! Had a big laugh while playing this!!! The corpse explosions were so satisfying as well. And this is all done in Unreal. Tell me, did you use Paper2D + PaperZD for this? :D
Hilariously chaotic with a fantastic voiceover and fun gameplay mechanics, though the audio balance needs work. A very strong entry that keeps players entertained and laughing throughout!
I got a B my first game, cool! I died as my mouse went out of window. (I have multiple screens.) I love this game, best one I've played yet. I love the theme so much I would give it a 10 out of 5.
@zablas Honestly we just threw the spritesheets together in photoshop and used the paper flipbook thingie, but we have a great artist leading the way in @isacb!
@hadik Thank you! Yeah the audio kind of goes too far, but I feel like that's almost part of the charm
@lancejz Sorry about the windowed shenanigans but then again you got to hear the B-theme which is one of my favorites - RISE OF THE CATMANCER HEYY, RISE OF THE CATMANCER HEYY
36k scores, lol I like this game, super relaxing and fun to play.
@utopia Thank you so much for playing :D
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@utopia @lixiao Thank you so much for playing our game!