{"id":2433,"edition":13,"categories":1,"features":1,"size":13242,"name":"Cats Cargo","authors":[{"name":"Jude","url":"judemakes.com","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876}],"description":"

🎼 Hey! I’m Jude, a 16-year-old dev, and this is
 Cats Cargo! đŸŸ

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Step into the paws of a black cat (surprise!) and become the ultimate rooftop delivery hero
 for mice. Why mice? Who knows, but they need your help! Your mission: pick up as many mice and stack them on your back as you can and deliver them safely. But watch out the more mice you have the slower you are so you will have to balance that with the ticking clock—without plummeting into the deadly pits below.

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⏰ Time is ticking! Each level gets trickier, so you’ll need speed, precision, and nerves of steel. Stack your furry cargo and race to the ELEVATOR
 or the mice are doomed!

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đŸ’„ Controls That Feel Just Right:

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Move: A / D

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Jump: W or Space

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Drop mice: Q (either at the drop station
 or anywhere if you’re impatient)

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Reset: R (for when things go wrong)

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🎯 Optional Controls:

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Arrow keys to move, Space to jump, Q to drop, R to reset.

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☝ Pro Tip: Press SPACE three times to start and prepare for chaos!

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I hope Cats Cargo makes your day a little brighter—and your reflexes a lot sharper. Have fun! 😾

\n","source":"Hude06/JS13K2025","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410353978,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"

Really nice game, I loved the music! đŸŽ” One small suggestion for the controls: when you jump toward a wall, your movement in that direction stops completely, even if you’re already above it — which means you have to press the key again to keep moving.\nA couple of times I had to restart because of jumps that felt a bit too long, but in the end I managed to save 50 mice. 🐭🎉

\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410366094,"re":410353978,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

50 MICE! That’s insane I think that’s a new record! Thanks so much for playing. Yeah this was my first year using a game engine and it did the keyboard weird next year I will be back to writing my own so I will try to fix that!

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I saved 37 mice! This was fun.\nGreat music and gameplay! Nice graphics, too.

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I agree with the other comment from Jonathan Vallet that forward momentum could be tweaked. I found myself doing 100% vertical jumps on accident sometimes!

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One other thing is that I fell off the building in my first playthrough and ended up in an endless void :D Maybe you could implement insta-death and restart the level when that happens or something

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This was very fun, though. When the game timer starts showing milliseconds, you really feel the pressure! Good going!

\n","games":["VOID Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410366038,"re":410358328,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Thanks so much! 37 mice that’s crazy! You should be able to press R to reset but yeah I should have added that you reset when you fall off

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I really liked the music! And how the cat gets slower the more mice you pick up.

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I ran into a couple glitches: one time it looked like I landed on a roof but then I died, and another time I fell off the side of the map but didn’t die. I also had a bit of an issue with movement, if you hold left while running into a building, then jump (while still holding left) you don’t start moving left once you clear the building.

\n","games":["Mewnbeams Adventure"]},{"typ":1,"at":410422302,"re":410373589,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Yeah about the glitches, If you spawn to high up it thinks your falling so then you die. I should have fixed that. You should be able to press R to reload if you fall of the side but I should have added a catch. Yep that seems like the main issue I had was the controls it was manly because how the Engine was doing the collision. I will have to look into the code to really understand how to fix it. Thanks!

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Cute game with a nice idea. As others have mentioned the controls + collision detection cause problems that make the game frustrating, as hitting a wall disables the ability to move forward without pressing a button again. I’d also recommend a more readable font, and maybe having the timer turn red as it gets closer to 0, as it is I felt like I just died out of nowhere. More minor, but I’ve already heard this exact song on repeat lots of times this year, and many times over the last few years. Copy/pasting a song from the zzfxm website means you’re going to have the same song as a lot of people, and it can get old pretty fast. Its not that the song is bad by any means, just heard it a lot in a lot of games at this point.

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Still I like the ideas here, its a fun simple game that could just use a couple small tweaks. Especially for only being 16, this is a really nice accomplishment, I look forward to seeing the games you come up with in the future!

\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"typ":1,"at":410422301,"re":410400960,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

That’s a cool idea to turn it red! Thanks so much! Yeah totally I just ran out of time for the music lol!

\n"},{"at":410506098,"author":"Sami Heikkinen","login":"sz1521","gh":38181301,"text":"

Nice small game. Controls are bit off, jumping sideways does not work as it should. Plus for the music.

\n","games":["Midnight Paws"]},{"at":410550779,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"

Really nice game, very fun to play ! The concept is simple but it works perfectly. Congrats!

\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"at":410627493,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"

Really love the chip-music on this one. I had some issues jumping sideways. Seems like the controls could be improved, but good job!

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410654336,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

Congrats for this release. Cute graphics and audio. Fun gameplay. I could swear I already heard that music elsewhere
 did you recycle it from a previous game?

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410666858,"author":"Jan KrupiƄski","login":"krupinskij","gh":50505013,"url":"https://github.com/krupinskij","text":"

Good game. It was fun to play.\nAnother glitch is that if you drop mouse on the right side of the building you’re not able to pick it again. But maybe it’s a feature :DDDD

\n","games":["Fishing"]},{"typ":1,"at":411638767,"re":410666858,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Totally a feature ;D just wanted to make the game a little harder lol

\n"},{"at":410671049,"author":"Antti Haavikko","login":"anttihaavikko","gh":2298536,"url":"https://anttihaavikko.itch.io/","text":"

Nice to see new young devs tackle a challenge like this were you can’t rely on engines and all the fancy modern stuff and need to actually be able to do some programming!

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Not sure what happened on my “good run” where I was like on level 5+ and it just suddenly ended with 35 mice even though I had like 15 seconds left on the timer. Now that I think about it, it must have been 7th level due to 5 per level.

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The controls were a bit clunky. Biggest annoyance was how jumping next to a wall compeltely ate your horizontal speed. I also felt that manually unloading the mice was a bit unnecessary (and had to retort to reading the description of the game because didn’t figure out the weird key for it on my first try). There wasn’t really any scenarios where you’d want to drop the mice elsewhere especially with the ability to drop them inside walls hence soft locking yourself and manually needing to mash Q on there felt pointless.

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The randomness of the levels can also really be a nuisance sometimes too. There can be a big gap between the elevator and majority of mice meaning you need to do several trips or you can’t make the jump with all the weight. And other times you immediately can grab all the mice and roll to the nearby elevator without any issues. It’d be nicer if the difficulty on the randomness relied a bit more on how far on the levels you were.

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Really enjoyed the music! It had a nice chipper mood that really reminded me of NES days. All while playing it kept reminding me of some specific song/game and now while writing this I think it was a NES “classic” Cheetahmen from Action 52, a garbage game with a banging theme tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZlYGN5W2Yg). And now that I listen to it, it’s not even that similar but it did somehow seem familiar.

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Sound effects did their job but could have used a bit more of them to go with the tunes. It still felt a bit barren and quiet. And of course some slight variation to the sound effects always helps.

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Anyways, good job on the game! 👍

\n","games":["Catculus"]},{"typ":1,"at":411638724,"re":410671049,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Awesome! Thank you so much felt like you really cared and gave me a real review meant a lot!

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Fun game. I like the building graphics. Made me laugh when i saw the mice on the back of the cat. Fun music.

\n","games":["The Giver"]},{"at":410899432,"author":"Francesco Bedussi","login":"fbedussi","gh":9413715,"url":"http://www.francescobedussi.it","text":"

The music and sound effects are really well done. I appreciated the randomly generated levels. The gameplay is a bit basic and the jump control is awkward because you cannot jump and move at the same time

\n","games":["Superstition: The Black Cat Game"]},{"at":410938196,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I liked the pixel graphics, and the game idea

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The first few plays I didn’t work out where I was meant to go, I tried interacting with the doors but it did nothing, jumping off the edge with loads of mice just said no mice ?!?

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The platformer mechanics were a bit off, like jumps and gravity

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The music was just cut and pasted from somewhere, and although good, was not original

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411075930,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"

Good entry. The music and sound effects work well too. The font was a little hard to read at times but that’s a minor issue.

\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"typ":1,"at":411638672,"re":411075930,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Thanks, Next year Ill try to have a bigger pixel art font

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411112503,"author":"Ania KubĂłw","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"

What a fun game! I really appreciate how the theme was taken into consideration, not just by having cats - but also the tall buildings that cats would frequent. Its also nice to see cats and mice getting along for once.

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The music and sound effects you added are also perfect - good job.

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One thing I would love is to see more crisp graphics and text - as this made it a little hard for me to understand what I was reading.

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Overall - well done!

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411638654,"re":411112503,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Thank you so much! Yeah I think the are being pixelated was an issue with my canvas size and next year I want to try some different ways to load art into my code instead of just having it as PNG’s. Then I would be able to have higher quality PNG’s and better text

\n"},{"at":411206463,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

Great idea and awesome music!\nA few thoughts for future improvements:

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We really enjoyed playing! Well done! 🎼👏

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"typ":1,"at":411638565,"re":411206463,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Thanks so much! Yeah totally I should have added auto dropping and fixing the movement is the biggest things I have seen

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411467251,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"

Thanks for your submission! First, I can’t know how much effort you’ve put on the game, so don’t mind me if I get clichĂ© or repeat ideas you simply didn’t get the time (or kb) to finish. Second, great you have finished a complete game!

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Great work on the music! Having it stereo was a really nice touch.

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Also I enjoyed the charming graphics. The cat, rats and buildings were all in harmony. I could feel the vibe of being a night cat delivering rats from the roof of city.

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I managed to get 36 moneys, and I think I have managed to see everything the game had. Maybe you could make the game only 10 levels and vary a bit until the end – that would make it a short and complete experience.

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I usually try to play the games first, without reading the instructions or descriptions. In your game it was impossible to figure out what I should do with the rats initially, and then I had no idea Q could drop the rats.

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The only real technical problem I experienced was not being able to switch directions if I’m pressing some arrow key. Like I jumped and tried to go right, because I was walking right, but I got stuck. That made the platforming experience less enjoyable.

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411638525,"re":411467251,"author":"Jude","login":"Hude06","gh":40799876,"url":"judemakes.com","text":"

Thanks so much for everything you had to say! Yeah that’s the biggest issue I have heard from people is the controls I think it was something to do with the engine I was using GA. I prob could have made it so you can drop them all and it does it automatically instead of one at a time. Just ran out of time

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Very cute game, well done!

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It looks very funny when you collect a bunch of mice and they all stack up on your back. I also liked that it was nonviolent and you’re helping the mice, not eating them!

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I agree with the other comments saying that the jumping feels a bit off, especially when you jump against a wall but it’s not a big issue.

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I also agree that having to press Q to drop them off is a bit redundant, this could happen automatically when you reach the elevator.

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The background colour could be adjusted a bit from pure black because the cat just completely blends in like this.

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Good music and sound effects, they add to the mood of the game.

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Great job releasing this, excited to see what other games you’ll make next!

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