December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
**About**
You are a cat. Born in a world full of cats.
These cats are a bit different from normal cats.
All of them have only one of everything.
One eye. One leg. One arm. One lung. One ear. One foot.
But you are different.
You have two.
As you can imagine, lots of people are jealous.
Lots of people HATE you just for being different.
In addition to this, you have cake.
And they don't have cake.
So they decided to steal your cake.
You must fight using your trusty cat beam to retrieve each of your 6 pieces of cake back from the one thinged monsters!
**Controls**
WASD or Arrow Keys to move
Mouse move to aim your cat beam
Mouse click and hold to fire it
The enemy cats will drop health, beam charge, and cake!
**Notes**
For my first ever game beyond the basic pong and tetris, I'm really happy with this! Especially since I made it in my first LD. The gameplay is very unoriginal, but I like the art, and the aim of the game has a certain aspect of cuteness. It has almost nothing to do with the theme though :P
This has been a very fun and inspiring experience which I hope to participate in more of. I have a multitude of game ideas I want to make now, and the much needed motivation.
Was this game worth the hours I put in to write it? Probably not. But this feeling I have probably isn't the game's fault - it was my lack of creative thinking and planning to see whether my original idea was going to turn out well. If I learned anything from this, it's that complete planning and rapid prototyping are so important when making a game. The experience and motivation gained from the competition was totally worth it though.
Best of luck to everyone in the results, and for the remaining 4 hours of the compo and 28 hours for the jam!
The sunrise outside my window is nice. I should go to sleep.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #34 | Graphics | 4.21 |
| #205 | Humor | 3.05 |
| #521 | Overall | 2.98 |
| #545 | Mood | 2.69 |
| #557 | Theme | 2.76 |
| #690 | Innovation | 2.60 |
| #739 | Fun | 2.50 |
| #766 | Audio | 1.38 |
Comments
Really amazing art style. Could have used better controls/feedback when doing things (particles, etc). Other than that good job!
Charming art style, and the whole intro and world gives a very nice polished feeling. With some audio, this would have been much more immerse, and perhaps some animations :).
The art and colours are where this one shines. Needs audio as well as animations!
Thanks for all the nice comments on the art! Since the end of the LD, I've done some searching on audio generation (since I can't compose game music at all) and found this really nice website for ambient sounds: http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php, but you're required to pay to download the sounds. This one is good for music in general: http://labs.dinahmoe.com/dynamicmusicengine/, but again, no download link. If anyone has any other free music generator websites, please post the link :). I should've just added some sfx with sfxr...
Dear sir, I found your game to be extremely oppressive towards the single-limbed feline folk. How dare you strut around on your two limbs while every other cat have to suffer through life with only one leg, one eye, one ear and one nostril. HOW DARE YOU.
Great game btw.
I like this simple cute isometric style. On the other hand gameplay is repetitive just after moment. The cake is a lie! :-D
Great iso graphic! Intro screens are very well made too. Gameplay is simple but well made. Good!
Graphics are gorgeous, gameplay, not quite as much sadly.
After I used up my laser to kill 3 cats I just had no laser anymore... I presume more was meant to be dropped so I could pick some up? Made it kind of impossible to play sadly. Best graphics I've seen in a LD game for a while though.
Art style is awesome, but the controls are weird and the gameplay isn't really interesting...
Cool graphics dude ! I found the controls kindda hard to deal with though.
I love isometric games! Unfortunately, the controls and collisions were a bit sticky, but it was quite fun all the same. Could have done with some animations though.
The art style is absolutely amazing! I really enjoyed it.
Constructively, some audio and some feedback when killing the horrible cat-freak monsters would lend to greater enjoyment.
Excellent work! :)
Amazing art style. More feedback to the player in the game would be ideal but otherwise great job!
I love the art style, however the first time I played the first cat I lasered didn't drop anything and i didn't have anymore charge. Is there some laying around somewhere?
Art style is super pretty, I was awful at lazering cats though.
Very funny game. It sometimes bugs out and wont let you move, but i dunno if thats just me being bad at these type of games :P. Anyway the graphics look awesome. Keep it up
Well, it's really nice! I like the graphics, the style, it's really a pretty cool game :)
If you are looking for procedurally generated music, http://www.abundant-music.com/ is one way to go. It does export midi however, so you need audacity and stereo mix to record it, or something similar to convert it to wav.
Great isometric style graphics. Simple gameplay but fun for a quick play. Very good job for a first LD. Well done!
I really like the art and the isometric style. Also cats for bonus marks! :)
Collision gets really gnarly around the houses, but nice concept and cool art.
I like these graphics so much :)
would be nice if the intro was skippable
I dig the art style and the story (all glory to the cake!).
Gamewise - it would be nice if the collisions worked a bit better, I was constantly losing the cake just because I bumped the house :/
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This is awesome! I love the art style and who doesn't like cake and cats?! Haha.
Great game though.