Catculus puts your maths skills and memory to the test! In simplicity, it’s a game where you pick tiles that sum up to the shown target number. You get penalized if you go over the target and the game will end if you do that too many times. So it wouldn’t be too simple, these black cats keep on appearing and covering parts of the board meaning you also need to keep better track of what was where or just guess and live with the consequences. Every now and then you get to pick some bonus effects which can radically change the way to score big!
\n","source":"anttihaavikko/catculus","stars":2,"dc":"https://itch.io/embed-upload/14704737?color=000000","yt":"kjBiUiCPI24","comments":[{"at":410391670,"author":"LuoPeiran","login":"halfTree-dev","gh":49297000,"url":"https://half_tree.gitee.io/","text":"The core gameplay is well-designed. Despite its simplicity, it’s deeply engaging and really draws you in, making you actively strategize to reach the target value. The visuals are minimalist yet visually appealing, and the animation triggered upon hitting the target is fantastic. Great sound effects too!
\nHowever, the mechanic involving the black cat sleeping on numbers feels somewhat unfriendly. For players constantly focused on addition, it’s mentally taxing to calculate sums while simultaneously trying to remember which number the cat is on. In the later stages, I found myself actively avoiding any number the cat was sleeping on, which made it incredibly difficult to ever achieve multiplier bonuses.
\n","games":["Rin the Cat Sorceresses"]},{"at":410514512,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Great work on the graphics, animation and sound. The concept of making sums is probably a bit too simple and repetitive
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410582471,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"It’s a professional game. In my game I’ve used your code from your earlier games, but this one is on another level. Can’t wait to steal your ideas for next year as well.
\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"typ":1,"at":410671275,"re":410582471,"author":"Antti Haavikko","login":"anttihaavikko","gh":2298536,"url":"https://anttihaavikko.itch.io/","text":"Haha, nice! Glad you could find something of use there. 👍
\n"},{"at":410596680,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Really enjoy this game
\nTrying to remember what’s under the cats was tricky, but fun
\nI found myself clicking as many numbers as I could before new cats came in to cover them up, or when I was close to the total, but had one or more cats I’d clicked on, just going for low numbers nearby my selection
\nBut altogether a fun game I can play over and over
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":410627040,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"This is a fun game. I liked it at a lot. The black cat landing on the tile was difficult. I know its the memorization part but once there were too many for my little brain I failed. Great job.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410729776,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Easy to use controls, and smooth animations. I have a really bad memory, and couldn’t remember more than 1 tile occupied by a black cat.
\nAt first, I thought we had to follow the tiles sequentially, but it became a lot easier to play once I understood I could select any adjacent tile to the ones I had already selected.
\n","games":["Triska the Ninja Cat"]},{"at":410754629,"author":"Magnus Lindh","login":"MagnusLindh","gh":26601704,"text":"Increadibly polished! It is is fun to play for a while, but it is too much like a math. Perhaps the game would be even more fun if the hidden number under a cat was revealed when added?
\n","games":["Don't forget to feed the cat!"]},{"typ":1,"at":410758182,"re":410754629,"author":"Antti Haavikko","login":"anttihaavikko","gh":2298536,"url":"https://anttihaavikko.itch.io/","text":"Well they are revealed when you use the tile under them as they jump away from it. Of course they’ll take up another tile then and some other cat might even cover that same tile again. And the cats keep on piling on and eventually make you lose the game, otherwise you could go on forever.
\n"},{"at":410778708,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"The graphics are cute and the game is enjoyable, and overall I’d say this is a good game, good luck!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"at":410792437,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"Excellent presentation, all cute and juicy. The audio and animation are just top notch. Alas I couldn’t get very far due to my laughably bad memory.
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410907268,"author":"Francesco Bedussi","login":"fbedussi","gh":9413715,"url":"http://www.francescobedussi.it","text":"Very nice puzzle game. Can’t stop playing :-)
\n","games":["Superstition: The Black Cat Game"]},{"at":410918583,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"This is really well polished, looks and sounds great! I had good fun playing it. The cats jumping in on spots to block numbers really reminded me of those incredibly annoying (in a good gameplay way) bears in “Triple Town” by Spry Fox, argh!!!
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":411046471,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Super juicy effects ,really well done!✨\nThe mix of calculation and memory is challenging, but the animations and design make it very engaging.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"typ":2,"at":411436869,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"This is such a juicy, well done game! I quite like the little sitting cats and the sound effects are fantastic. What a great entry!
\n\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411694094,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"Great math puzzle game! Very polished with nice looking graphics, vfx, good music and excellent game play. Nothing to complain about.
\nI can really recommend that you continue working on this title. Perhaps look at publishing it with Cool Math Games since it seems like a good fit?
\n"},{"at":411722366,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Great concept is so fun, probably you can convert this in a real full game, congratz!
\n","games":["SHADOW'S ESCAPE"]},{"at":411857588,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"The game is really cute and the gameplay very innovative. I like the black cat theme. But the moment a cat covers a number, it’s absolutely gone from my memory. This together with my terribly mind math abilities, means this is definitely not the game for me.
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