Usual platformer in 3D world (okay, in 2.5D world). Game controls are WASD with SPACE as jump button. Protagonist is black cat (obviously), and task is to collect as much paws as possible. There is jump platforms (two arrows with yellow background) where cat can jump much higher, and magenta swirls where user can teleport to other dimension.
\n","source":"juhani-o/blackcatin25Dworld","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410352091,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Really cool concept, I can’t remember seeing the foreground/background swapping used outside of the Wario game on virtual boy long ago. It’s an effective idea, especially with seeing the transparent paws and wondering how to get to them
\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"at":410631837,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"I like the 2.5D world, makes it a challenging platformer. Controls were easy to figure out. Good job!
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410663958,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Looks and sounds very good but plays at ~2 frames per second for some reason? (Windows + Chrome, i7, 16GB RAM). Are you redrawing thousands of cubes at each frame?
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410742412,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A fun platform game, with the Z depth mechanic for extra layers
\nThe cat sprite was pretty neat, and it’s animations worked well
\nI liked the layer transition and the fact I need to plan the route through the platforms to get all the paws
\nThe audio feedback was good to have, but maybe a little coarse on the ears after the first few jumps
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":410906027,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Sorry, this game was unplayable in slideshow mode.
\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410940948,"author":"Stanisław Małolepszy","login":"stasm","gh":265818,"url":"https://piesku.com","twitter":"stas","text":"Great use of the third dimension. I like how this turned out to be a phase-switching puzzle game. Levels feel somewhat empty, but the cat’s animation is great!
\n","games":["Lucky Charm"]},{"at":410961693,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"🐾 A paw-collecting game!! Very fun switching between layers to reach them. Graphics and 3D (2.5D? ^^) is really nice, there’s just a small inconsistency between the pixel art cat and the vector visuals. Also, some jumps looked possible but the hitboxes didn’t allow them.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":410986820,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"Interesting puzzle platformer, good use of swapping in and out of the background and foreground like that. The sound effects help to give some good feedback too.
\nI noticed during several play throughs that after I had swapped dimensions several times the animation/frame rate got a little choppy particularly on the longer walking section at the bottom of the level. There’d be a brief but noticeable pause (or paws :-P) in the walking and then it would jump forward a little.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":411438601,"author":"Surma","login":"surma","gh":234957,"url":"https://surma.dev","text":"The concept is really solid. I love the idea of two layers that you can see at all times, but only interact with one of them. There’s some really interesting puzzles to be had. The controls and the visual language were very strong, also great job on the animation! I immediately knew what to do and how to do it.
\nThe level design was a bit too unconstrained for my taste and a bit punishing. Music would have been a great addition. I will also say that the cat looks a bit like a black wolf to me :3
\n","games":["Swing A Cat"]},{"at":411530558,"author":"Attila Horváth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"Great idea with the 2 layers, good job implementing the 2.5D graphics, audio and nice animations within the size limit!
\nThe gameplay is pretty simplistic but I had fun trying to reach all the paws. The sprites, especially the cat animation, are all very pleasing to look at. Great choice with the colour palette here.
\nI haven’t notice any performance issues like some others had, everything was nice and smooth, even though I’m just using an older non-gaming laptop with an integrated Intel HD 620 GPU.
\nGood work and good luck with the compo!
\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"at":411793423,"author":"Magnus Lindh","login":"MagnusLindh","gh":26601704,"text":"It was fun for a while to jump around and collect paws, but then time was up. The first level is big and there is little motivation to explore it. Maybe if you add a story and some more mechanics the game would be more interesting? I also noted a lot of lagging.
\n","games":["Don't forget to feed the cat!"]},{"typ":2,"at":411795094,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"Hey Juhani,
\nThanks for the submission and you did a great job! I loved the 2.5 D mechanic - it really ads a cool effect to a traditional platformer and makes the player think about their next steps carefully.
\nThe graphics were good and the controls were solid. My only piece of feedback is that the audio landing sound is a little rough on the ears and is a bit distracting from the gameplay. Besides that the game was great.
\nI recorded a video review for all the games here so that you can see my initial reaction while playing, which is often quite helpful from a user experience perspective. https://www.youtube.com/live/jl6pC4OnVJA?si=hadQmN9JZB93hDUM
\nGood luck in the competition and good job!
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