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Experience the challenge of navigating the streets at night as Shaurya, a young man guided by superstition. Black cats populate the environment, and excessive noise—caused by jumping, stomping, or moving too quickly—can alert them, increasing the difficulty of each level.

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Players must employ careful strategy and precise movements to progress, balancing risk and stealth to avoid detection. Only those with skill and patience can successfully maneuver through the challenges and complete the game.

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Cute, good idea but a lot of raw text at the beginning that’s not super appealing.

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410501683,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

I think I missed some parts of the intro, because they were cut at the lower end of my browser window.

\n","games":["Edgar's Mission"]},{"typ":1,"at":410550341,"re":410501683,"author":"Parinav Priyadarshi","login":"forcohal","gh":80162343,"text":"

Yeah i realised that a bit later, but if you play game without the full screen you would be able to see the story

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I really like the idea, reminds me of whenever I try to approach our own black cat at home haha\nIt also reminds me of Splinter Cell/Metal Gear Solid.

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Difficulty was a bit too much for me, I couldn’t get past the level with the lasers. Either I failed the jump, or the noise bar would be too much for the cat.

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Story was nice too, but I think it could be shortened a bit, and more visual (maybe a simple cutscene where you can see the characters and their speech bubbles?)

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Hello Andy, thanks for appreciating the idea.\nI made the levels lil difficult intentionally because i havent added much levels, just five. So if it comes out to be easy then it wont be that engaging. And yeah ig i made the third level little harder.\nBut i wish you will be able to catch your cat unlike in the game XD

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Nice idea, and I like the simplistic graphics style.

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The level with a red bar oscillating horizontally was too much for me, I gave up after like three dozen attempts. Maybe the bar should be shorter? It seemed like you need really precise timing to get over it at all.

\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410596158,"author":"Attila Horváth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"

I liked the story with the superstitious mom, if maybe a bit too wordy.

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Fun concept with the stealth game like noise meter but I kinda feel like it might have worked better with a top down view rather than a side view? Also, I think it takes way too long for the meter to reduce after every step. It gets very difficult with the later levels.

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Also, very cute simple black cat sprite!

\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"at":410720655,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"

Interesting take on a puzzle game. Reflects approaching a cat that wants nothing to do with you. It seems pretty difficult. maybe something to help the cooldown? Great job.

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410741149,"author":"Eoin McGrath","login":"eoinmcg","gh":96340,"url":"http://eoinmcgrath.com","twitter":"eoinmcg","text":"

Patience is key! There is the basis for a pretty cool game, here. Nice minimalist vibes.

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I seemed to spend too much time just waiting for the noise bar to reduce - maybe tweaking that would make for quicker gameplay. Also, how the heck do I get past those pesky lasers??

\n","games":["KleptoKitty"]},{"typ":1,"at":410806226,"re":410741149,"author":"Parinav Priyadarshi","login":"forcohal","gh":80162343,"text":"

Hey Eoin,\nThanx for your words.\nTo pass that laser you have to jump forward when it is coming from the right side, and jump straight when it comes from the left, i guess i made that level really tough, you need to be more patient, don’t rush even when you are near cat.\nand yeah you have to be precise too. To practice your precision you can stand at a point and jump straight over the laser. Try 5 or 6 times, after that you will get an idea of precision.

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The third level requires patience and a bit of gaming skill. Hope you will reach to the end story, all the best Eoin :).

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Cute looking game and an interesting concept

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I got to the level with the red moving bar but couldn’t land on it or avoid it well enough to be quiet

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There’s a lot of waiting around for the noise bar to go down, jumping seemed a relatively quit way to travel until you land with a thud. Perhaps making the cat more sensitive to sounds closer to it would alter the balance

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":2,"at":411802509,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"

Hey Parinav,

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Fantastic work with this, I really enjoyed the noise resource mechanic in black cats omen. It’s a fun mechanic and I found it to be enjoyable yet difficult enough to provide a challenge.

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For suggestions I’d recommend some UI updates - specifically in the introduction screen. The game itself looks and feels much better than the intro screen, and the transition is a little bit jarring. I’d suggest also doing some research into color schemes and fonts and layouts for better UX. There are some really small steps you could take to make a major improvement.

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The only other piece would be the audio - the audio itself is a little annoying for the landing (even if it is supposed to be a “bad” thing).

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Besides that, great work on this submission - it was afun game and I found myself playing a while.

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I 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

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Good luck in the competition and good job!

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hey Jedidiah Weller,\nthank you for your words, i have noted your points and will take care of them.\ni hope you caught all the cats and met Shaurya’s girlfriend at the end.

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Extremely Nice game. Nice!

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Innovative

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