{"id":2309,"edition":13,"categories":3,"features":1,"size":13299,"name":"CLAWSTRIKE","authors":[{"name":"Rémi Vansteelandt","url":"http://www.remvst.com/","login":"remvst","gh":3472387}],"description":"

Avenge your fallen human and cut through waves of enemies across fast-paced, punishingly fun levels. CLAWSTRIKE is a\ndie-and-retry action game: you’ll fall often, but each retry is instant, keeping the momentum alive.

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Prove your skill and unlock 9 Lives Mode by completing the game.

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Controls

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Optimized for both mobile and desktop so you can avenge your human anywhere.

\n","source":"remvst/clawstrike","stars":17,"dc":"https://meow.tap2play.io/","yt":"n8V4umhu9ZA","comments":[{"at":410351325,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"

Amazing game! Love the style of it and the stealth based gameplay, and just a super cool concept. Sort of an opposite John Wick. I love the minimalist style. Looks great and just the right color choices. Particle effects are really amazing too!

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The one thing that bothered me was the lack of controller support. A game like this with fast gameplay, I really want a controller. Especially since jump is “Up”, plus roll, plus left and right all with the left hand. Controller support with a jump button and attack button would make this game perfect.

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As it stands, all the fast movement in the later levels became frustrating, because I just felt I couldn’t control the cat as I wanted, plus my wrist started to hurt ha. Add controller support and I’m coming back again and again!

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Still, I think this is a brilliant game, would love to keep playing it and going for faster times, just on a controller :).

\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"at":410353047,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"

Awesome! I love the looks, and everything feels so polished.

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It did crash on me twice. Last time, I was partway thru the level where you learn rolling, and got TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'x') at ....<anonymous>:1:27026. Page became unresponsive. Would have given this straight fives, but had to knock one off for that, sorry :(

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I second Louie’s call for gamepad support (defective fingers, I really can’t play action games on a keyboard). I did manage to get my fake-keyboard driver talking to it so no worries ultimately.

\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410360234,"author":"Randall Lee Spence","login":"analoguerls","gh":165508034,"text":"

Very impressive and a lot of fun. I understand the request for controller support, but I imagine that would have been a bit too much to ask for 13kb.

\n","games":["Order of the Crimson Dot"]},{"at":410385433,"author":"John Stimac","login":"jcubed111","gh":14258407,"url":"jstimac.com","text":"

Super cute! I really loved the graphics. The way the cat’s legs fly about and stick to walls is hilarious. The controls were super smooth and getting revenge via tons of scratching was super satisfying.

\n","games":["Mewnbeams Adventure"]},{"at":410387680,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"

Short but sweet soundtrack!

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Options to set controls to my own pudgy fingers would have been great.

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The black on color graphics really suit the game, and great animations.

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Man, you should get 3 t-shirts for this (but not my one) ;)

\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410393573,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"

This looks phenomenal - the animations, backgrounds, shadows - and it was definitely fun to play too. The “meow” mechanic is really clever.

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I only played the desktop version but I think it is the sort of game that would work really well with a controller if you have the time for a post competition version. However, I’m a bit clunky with using the keyboard controls so it could just be my problem with not being good at it.

\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410394418,"author":"nihdao","login":"Nihdao","gh":74270287,"url":"adamalet.fr","text":"

Played this game when it was only a draft and…. this is so cool, a perfect game!

\n","games":["Clicker Pawry"]},{"at":410397741,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"

Great game - fun and complex - controls work nicely - interesting gameplay

\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":410402339,"author":"Harvey Seager","login":"hseager","gh":27302661,"text":"

Amazing visuals and sound effects. I think the level design is really well done too. Especially enjoyed the particle effects and shadows, I’d like to know what font you used!\nWhen I was getting used to the controls on mobile, I did encounter an issue where the tab reloaded which restarted my progress a couple of times. I’m unable to replicate it consistently unfortunately, but forcing browser full screen mode might have prevented it if it was gesture related

\n","games":["Super Benji"]},{"at":410417693,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

A really great cat-on-a-rampage game

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The graphics, sounds and music are really good, I particularly like the shadows on the blocks, the “clumsy” cat animation is quite endearing especially the chaotic leap

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The meow to distract is an interesting dynamic to help sneak up on the enemies, it works quite well

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I also liked the zoom at the end of each level

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":410426485,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"

It would make me feel a little bit better if easy mode was the default and you had to unlock hard mode or something, otherwise this game is insane difficulty. Congratulations.

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Difficulty: Easy\nDeaths: 28\nTIME: 11:19.88\nBEST TIME: 11:19.88

\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"at":410434588,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

As always very well made / polished game!

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Simple but clean graphics with really nice attack feeling! Reminds me of your other fighting games but in some ways this is simpler and more enjoyable!

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Quite tough on Normal but rewarding when you defeat a level.

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Lots of the nice touches that I have come to expect from your games, camera, animations etc.

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Awesome!

\n","games":["Yarn Run"]},{"at":410441417,"author":"qufakuz","login":"qufakuz","gh":157382081,"text":"

Love the gameplay and grapichs, interesting meoww mechanics.

\n","games":["Cat and Spikes"]},{"at":410445118,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Great game with juicy effects, both animations and sound. I like the colors and the vibe of the game. It’s really difficult though, especially on mobile, even on Easy mode, but I made it through! The levels become increasingly more difficult, and I have to use the meow ability to actually win (which is a good thing). Having some more variation could help elevate the game even further, for example, a different kind of enemy (a dog?) Overall a great a game, and one of my favorites.

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One thing worth exploring is to have the cat auto attack the enemies without having to press “space”, maybe it could make the controls easier, and the game slightly less difficult? Just a thought.

\n","games":["Triska the Ninja Cat"]},{"at":410485174,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

Very solid entry as usual dear Rémi, impressive graphics and audio, cool level design!

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410579781,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"

Very solid game. Nice mechanics and really great graphics and music. Love it

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410614577,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

Loved the game! The music is awesome, the cat is fun with all its jumping and dodging, and I’m really curious how some of the mechanics were made — looking forward to the postmortem! Super cool animations, and the shadows on the levels give it a really stylish look. Thanks for such a enjoyable game — great job! Also love that you can switch to an easier mode, and the writing is hilarious too!

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":410724402,"author":"Miena","login":"ekmomo","gh":36896740,"text":"

This dude’s code is a fucking masterpiece.

\n","games":["Mr.13lackie"]},{"at":410860007,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

I love the fast paced action, the camera movement is great, the gfx/sfx are super cool.

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Somehow often tried to jump with space… but thats no flaw of the game. Gamepad-support would be nice to have.

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Great game! (played it a couple of times the last days)

\n","games":["Miami Mice"]},{"at":410865818,"author":"Gleb Volkov","login":"malec-palec","gh":2181873,"twitter":"volkov_ayyy","text":"

I really liked how quick and responsive the “die-and-retry” style feels - failing doesn’t ever feel frustrating because retries happen instantly. The levels are well designed, keeping up the momentum, and the unlockable 9 Lives mode adds a cool incentive. Could use just a bit more variation in the enemies or obstacles, but overall it’s super fun and sharp.

\n","games":["Catapoolt"]},{"at":411149439,"author":"JimmySmells","login":"JimmySmells","gh":231127042,"text":"

movement is done well. nice intro. feels like a full game.

\n","games":["The Giver"]},{"at":411367858,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Great game design, music and sound effects. The controls are pretty smooth

\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"at":411450400,"author":"Romain Arnaud","login":"Rominou34","gh":17294713,"url":"https://osmova.com/","text":"

The best game of the jam I played so far, the gameplay is on par with the theme and very fast paced (a little bit hard to control the jumps when there is water or spikes nearby though), and the mechanics are awesome : the wall climb, glide and slide which allows to dodge bullets gives the game a lot of action-packed challenges !

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It was hard though, I had to turn on easy mode after the 4th level, and my final score was this one : 16:08:54, and 35 deaths, maybe I’m just too bad aha

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I love the fact that you added an unlockable 9-deaths mode (I thought it was on by default, and that I would lose after my 9th death, but no).

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The simple graphics and the music + sound effects are also very good.

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Congratulations on this awesome game !

\n","games":["Oggy's Curse"]},{"at":411454795,"author":"Elliot Nelson","login":"elliot-nelson","gh":58273,"url":"https://7tonshark.com","twitter":"7tonshark","text":"

Really nice game! The “silhouette style” graphics with the black-on-color, but each level has a new theme, really packs a visual punch, controls are responsive, not much to criticize here!

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Overall the game is pretty hard, which didn’t bother me; later levels forcing you to incorporate distracting enemies or rolling definitely increases the challenge. Personally I found the “spacebar=attack” a bit confusing the entire time (I kept accidentally hitting spacebar for jump when I got flustered), I’m sure I’d get used to it eventually but I’d prefer space=jump x/z/c=attack.

\n","games":["Ashes of Ulthar"]},{"typ":2,"at":411470730,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"

CAT-ASTROPHE!!

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I really liked your game!! I loved the UI, the gameplay, the palette, the stealth gameplay and the animations of bot the cat and the agents.

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Reminded me the top games of the old Flash era, this game is really awesome.

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Congratulations!

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Wow, this is one of the best js13k submissions I’ve ever seen. Very well done! Good controls, challenging levels, balanced enemy ai. Also kudos to the “Switch to Easy Mode” popup when I’ve died too many times :-) Music and sound effects are also very good. Graphics are also great. I really can’t think of a single negative thing to say about this entry.

\n"},{"at":411802324,"author":"Afton Gauntlett","login":"aftongauntlett","gh":59119773,"url":"https://aftongauntlett.com/","text":"

Fantastic game! It’s polished, satisfying, and a real joy to play. The animations and subtle transitions add so much charm, and it’s clear you put a lot of thought into making the experience feel smooth and rewarding. Really impressive work, well done!

\n","games":["Nyx Felis and Lampyris"]},{"at":411868286,"author":"Noumisyifa Nabila","login":"numshv","gh":149067096,"twitter":"numshv","text":"

reallly coollll graphicsss and micro animations omg

\n","games":["Clawstruck"]},{"at":411877634,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"

The amount of juice and polish in this game is incredible, and I really like the timer that encourages speedrunning. This is a blast.

\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"at":411904678,"author":"Reverend Stickle","login":"ReverendStickle","gh":215874048,"text":"

Wow. I am blown away by the level of polish and thought that went into this game. This is my second favorite JS13K entry of all time. This game is an absolute blast to play, 5 stars for everything, hope you win. You just keep giving us banger after banger after banger in this competition.

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