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Color Cat

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In color cat you and all other online cats travers the colorful lands of patchwork dreams to collect colors. Use WASD and space to move. Complete the game by collecting all 5 special color blocks! Help others by collecting bright colors, then lead the way with your light!

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WebGPU

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This game uses WebGPU, a cutting edge browser feature meant to be the successor to WebGL. Unfortunately WebGPU is not yet fully supported across all browsers in all OSs yet, at least be default.

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If you want to enable WebGPU

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For Chrome, go to chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan. For Safari Advanced > Experimental Features and enable “WebGPU”. For Firefox, got to about:config and enable “dom.webgpu.enabled” and “gfx.webrender.all”.

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Apologies for the poor browser support, I was unaware that the major browsers behaved differently on Linux.

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I played this game on Desktop and it so dark I couldn’t see much even at max screen brightness. I finally managed to hop around on some colorful blocks, but nothing else happened. No enemies, no cats, just an empty world of blocks.

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Did I miss something?

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Walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Srnb5qEx1I

\n","games":["Mewsterpiece"]},{"typ":1,"at":410401021,"re":410347730,"author":"Alexander Fredstie ","login":"alex-irt","gh":5434285,"twitter":"summontoast","text":"

I`m surprised it was so dark, I tried to make it dark enough to be a challenge but still bright just around the player. As you visit the glowing blocks you get brighter lights and the thought was that other online players with bright lights could light the way for others (sort of Journey inspired). The challenge is just to visit all the glowing lights without falling into the void. All the players are black cats but of course by choosing to make it first person I made it hard to tell that is the case when no one else is online.

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chrome latest but page crashes when i start the game I was not able to play it

\n","games":["The Familiar"]},{"at":410587990,"author":"shaurya6903","login":"shaurya6903","gh":69159153,"text":"

I was able to play and got the challenge, but when I tried walking in a straight line, I kept falling — it felt like some mysterious force was pushing me off. This made it hard to progress.

\n","games":["DarkLine-Paws"]},{"at":410757088,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

Impressive graphics and technology packed into this entry! Too bad there isn’t a bit of sound. It’s a bit too dark.

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410960973,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"

I wasn’t sure how to collect the 5 colors or what effect they had, but the graphics are super cool and make the game feel vibrant. 🎨

\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":411178831,"author":"Dmytro Kozhukhar","login":"dkozhukhar","gh":424523,"text":"

Sadly could not run the game on any of my computer.\nWiith enabled flags, the loading screen appears but it generates console errors and the game does not start.

\n","games":["Cat Shooter Ritual Catacombs"]},{"at":411210122,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

The game has a pretty dark atmosphere, and it’s quite challenging to figure out what’s going on at first without a friend to play along with. Interesting idea though!\nIt would be really cool if there were some music and sound effects.

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As for WebGPU part - great technical achivement! Well done!

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Regarding the Online category:
\nIn my personal view, multiplayer games represent the future of gaming. Therefore, achieving maximum accessibility - both in terms of technology and player base - should be the primary goal. The priority is to allow as many players as possible to connect and play, ensuring there’s always someone on the server.
\nThis is why relying solely on WebGPU may be limiting, as it isn’t universally supported across all systems or browsers yet.

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This is just my personal opinion and didn’t affect my rating of the game.

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Thanks for the game!

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":411436278,"author":"Surma","login":"surma","gh":234957,"url":"https://surma.dev","text":"

First of, as a WebGPU fanboy, congrats on just going with WebGPU and giving it a go. That’s really cool! Curious if you have any opinions on whether it allowed you to write smaller code than WebGL?

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I really like the dark ambience (although sometimes the viewing distance was so low that it was hard to know where to go) and the colored lights gave it a really nice mood. I think the concept is a bit on the weaker side but maybe my impression of the game isn’t quite fair as nobody else was currently playing. (Also, I can jump infinitely and just fly through the level :3)

\n","games":["Swing A Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":411508979,"re":411436278,"author":"Alexander Fredstie ","login":"alex-irt","gh":5434285,"twitter":"summontoast","text":"

I’m not sure WebGPU allowed for any smaller code than WebGL but the dev experience was a lot nicer. The renderer is a raytracer implemented as a compute shader which would have been more convoluted with webgl - I think you would have to put it in a vertex shader and then have a fragment shader that just returns the color set by the vertex shader. It’s just nice to write to the canvas more or less directly.

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Loverly technical achievement - look good -

\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":411890714,"author":"Raptor Dev","login":"raptor0999","gh":74460924,"twitter":"Raptor_IndieDev","text":"

Not leaving any ratings because I could never get it to work, either on Firefox 139.0.1 or Chromium 137.0.7151.68.

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I followed your guidance for Firefox but it said it still couldn’t get WebGPU context. Also follow Chrome guidance and enabled Vulkan but still didn’t work either

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Oh well.

\n","games":["Boots and the Black Cauldron"]},{"at":411903468,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I’m afraid I wasn’t able to get your game to work, maybe you could have had a fallback or polyfill so that something would work on all browsers

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Still, it’s impressive that you’ve gone with WebGPU as a fledgling standard

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":2,"at":412041470,"author":"Michał Chojnacki","login":"alcore","gh":13606783,"url":"https://muyo.io","text":"

In my case, the game worked fine on my fairly beefy desktop with a modern discrete GPU, but did not work at all on my dated (a few years) lower end laptop with an iGPU (lack of Vulkan/DX12). Chrome in both cases.

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But that’s to be expected. As a great fan of the industry move from DX11-era APIs to lower-level ones like Vulkan, and from JS to WASM, I salute you for giving a try to one general cutting-edge, i.e. WebGPU, and another competition cutting-edge - our Online experiment.

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Like others noted, the game felt slightly dark, and while I like the idea of having other players (cats) be “beacons of light” in the darkness, it just feels a little too overwhelmingly dark and especially in a brighter environment - really tough to see anything.

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I had some minor visual glitches as well, and while they felt distracting, this isn’t intended as critique - just info, in case you intend to work further on it.

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I hope we get to see you again in the next year with another game - by which time I hope WebGPU will have matured enough so that more people get to actually experience your work and effort, instead of getting a blank screen instead.

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