A game of skill, luck, and lots of sugar.
\nYour goal is simple: get the candy. The problem? A black cat stands in your way, and the universe is ready to unleash comical chaos upon you.
\nCan you beat bad luck itself?
\n","source":"ingSlonik/cat-astrophe","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410370762,"author":"John Stimac","login":"jcubed111","gh":14258407,"url":"jstimac.com","text":"I like the geometric approach to the memorization game. Remembering which path the cats took was a fun challenge. The failure lines are funny.
\nI wish the movement controls went faster. It’s nice that you can queue up movement before the animation finishes, but often I’d forget the correct path while waiting for the character to move.
\n","games":["Mewnbeams Adventure"]},{"at":410403067,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"I was being detected all the time, I couldnt understand why.
\nThe idea was interesting but the controls were a little frustrating.
\n","games":["Pacific Black Cats"]},{"at":410421328,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"The concept is interesting and the game is dynamic.\nLevel 4 scared me and I was not able to pass it :(. According to me the voice over was too present, but I had a lot of fun to play
\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"at":410430268,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Very nice idea for the gameplay, memorizing the paths of the black cats!\nThe queuing of controls made me often run into cells i did not want to. And the speech output is cool at first, but gets a bit annoying soon. The texts themselves are great by the way :-)\nGood entry for the gamejam!
\n","games":["Miami Mice"]},{"at":410446941,"author":"Camilo Ramírez","login":"jucarave","gh":8118259,"url":"https://camiloramirez.dev/","twitter":"jucarave","text":"I like the concept, although the TTS gets a bit annoying after a while. As someone else mentioned, the queueing of the keys makes me go into the wrong spaces more often than not. Still, enjoyed quit a bit the game, great job
\n","games":["Guardian Cat"]},{"at":410514387,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Love the graphics, audio, dialogs and level design. Yay we both have games seen from above.
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410590253,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"🧩 Very nice game, I enjoyed the puzzles! One thing that could help: being able to replay the cats’ animation before failing, to better memorize the sequence. Controls sometimes feel unresponsive (up to 1s delay), which can trigger extra moves you didn’t intend.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":410741877,"author":"Eoin McGrath","login":"eoinmcg","gh":96340,"url":"http://eoinmcgrath.com","twitter":"eoinmcg","text":"That dialogue! Felt like I was being taunted by the ghost of Stephen Hawking ;)
\nIt’s a really cool idea and has a nice light touch. I got stuck on level 4 - how the heck do I get past it!?
\n","games":["KleptoKitty"]},{"at":410792040,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"This is a cool concept, but it was frustrating to play due to the inputs. I wanted to hold a key down and have him continue walking that direction. And there was a substantial lag between pressing the key and the start of motion, makes it feel a bit disjoint.
\nI’d have left out the text-to-speech, but maybe that’s just me. Thanks for providing an Off switch for the speech!
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410805226,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"I had trouble figuring out the gameplay but seems like a good concept.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410820273,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"I really liked the idea of this, as well as the humour and the visual style but it was definitely difficult. It’s possible you put these things in to add to a level of distraction and make it harder to pay attention to the cats as they walked around but at times there was still a message with a red background on screen while the cat was walking its path so I couldn’t see for certain where it had walked as it was partially or completely covered by the message and background, and the TTS was quite distracting and I turned it off after the 2nd level.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410836898,"author":"LawftyGoals","login":"LawftyGoals","gh":42514030,"text":"Game is fair enough, the movement queue doesnt add too much to the gameplay and I would say that ky even gets annoying if you have the sound on because the vocals are relentless. While I appreciate them being there, it’s too much after a short while. Music is fine if a bit somber. The puzzles are interesting though as they add in complexity it seems you are expected to die as you can’t really be expected to keep your eyes on all the cats. Which is fine, if a bit frustrating when you have to redo the level multiple times. All in all, fair play.
\n","games":["Blackhat's Black Cats"]},{"at":410943122,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The top-down graphics were simple but ok
\nI liked the music
\nA few times I apparently crossed the path when near the box, but others not, even though I went round the back compared to where the cat entered the box
\nThe movements felt a bit slow, and it felt like the talking slowed it down
\nWay, way, too much talking
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":2,"at":411050803,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Great GitHub README; love that you have all the licensing and everything there.
\nI loved your explanation at the start “Easy to learn, hard to master!” You were definitely right there. Such an interesting concept. Super frustrating (in a good way, made me want to keep playing!).
\nI enjoyed all the sound effects (the little cat meows), and the voice over was very cool. Music fits in nicely with the theme.
\nAt first I thought it would be good to have slightly smoother movement, but with the aim of the game, it makes sense to have the character move block by block. I might have glitched it too by clicking too many times. Not sure what the exact solution is here, but making it a little less jerky is a great idea.
\nGreat job!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411109485,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"I like how the superstition around black cats became the obstacle. I was not expecting that and thought it was very creative! Well done!
\nI also enjoyed how more black cats obstructed the players path in further levels.
\nHaving the player as game commentator was also very entertaining and a unique feature I would not have thought to add.
\nOverall a very creative entry - nice one!
\n"},{"at":411204972,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"This is a really good game! I loved the little eyes in the background, the smooth animation, the color palette, and it’s great that there’s voice acting.\nThe controls felt a bit unintuitive at times - it was easy to misclick, and the sun glare on the map was occasionally distracting since I already had to keep a close watch on the kittens.\nThanks for such an engaging game - it really hooks you in! 😺🎮
\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":411257745,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"Really epitomises the daily grind of going to get cake.\nGood luck with the hilarious dialog, no one gets it usually.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411803389,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"Filip - this was a truly fun game!
\nYou did a great job with this - I enjoyed the gameplay, the controls, AND the humor. The controls having language like “Up again?” made me chuckle.
\nAlso the subtle animations both inside the gameplay and outside (such as cat eyes) made it constantly engaging.
\nI really don’t have much feedback for this game. You get a 5/5 star for my vote!
\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!
\n"},{"at":411947999,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Clean graphics, great take on the theme, and well-written instructions. I made it up to level 4 after that, it became difficult to memorize the cat’s path.
\nI wish there was a fading trail left behind by the cat that disappears gradually as time speeds up with each level. That would make it easier for players to follow along without getting lost.
\nReally well made and executed, I had fun playing!