FURBALL is a minimalist arcade platformer where you guide a little cat leaping across floating diamond platforms in the sky.
\nTime your jumps carefully, keep your balance, and climb as high as you can to rack up points.
\nBut be careful ā miss a platform and youāll pay the price!
Nice clean game! It was hard to predict where the cat would jump. I found myself mostly waiting for platforms to converge horizontally rather than risk a lateral move.
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410339862,"author":"FčÆå°¼","login":"kennyfully881230","gh":208875314,"text":"I like the idea of this game, but I wish there was something to collect along the way. Moreover, the controlls are a little okay but I wonder if there could had been a different way to get the height and the direction to be more controllable. Thank you for making this game!
\n","games":["Heimao"]},{"at":410340696,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Nice simple graphics and an interesting idea that could had much potential which was not exploited.
\nGreat cat sound!
\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410348004,"author":"RatoGBM","login":"RatoGBM","gh":80184495,"url":"ratogbm.github.io","text":"Nice little game,
\nThe controls might have been better to be relative to the cat itself. It took me a while to figure out because I skipped the description.
\n","games":["Laserpointer"]},{"at":410373364,"author":"LuoPeiran","login":"halfTree-dev","gh":49297000,"url":"https://half_tree.gitee.io/","text":"A concise game with classic core gameplay. I wish players could get a visual cue for the jump direction before leapingāmaybe adding an arrow indicator would help? Otherwise, it feels a bit too difficult to control.
\n","games":["Rin the Cat Sorceresses"]},{"typ":1,"at":410374363,"re":410373364,"author":"bacionejs","login":"bacionejs","gh":167394556,"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@bacionejs","text":"Sorry, I should have made the controls relative to the cat, but instead I made them relative to the center line. Maybe next time :\\
\n"},{"at":410379390,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"Fun to play - cool sound effects. Wish you had a little more control of the cat jumps so you could have more work.
\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410383061,"re":410379390,"author":"bacionejs","login":"bacionejs","gh":167394556,"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@bacionejs","text":"Sorry, I should have made the controls relative to the cat instead of this center line. I know itās too late for judging, but if you want an updated version that has controls relative to the cat, you can try the directorās cut.
\nhttps://bacionejs.github.io/furball
\n"},{"at":410395978,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"I had no controll over the jumps movement of the clouds made it so confusing how to go like i want go left it go right and if i want go right it go left, trying to stay in middle donāt work either, the mew sound is cool, and since its a minimal the gameplay is very fitting for a hard endless game, if only i could get passt the first cloud. it need practice to be able to get the hang of it but then it become easy, the scroll for diffculity does not add much of a difficulity but is a good addition to it. well done and good luck
\n","games":["The Familiar"]},{"at":410401068,"author":"Harvey Seager","login":"hseager","gh":27302661,"text":"I liked the meow SFX and the rotation based on direction is a nice touch. I really struggled with the controls and my high score is -128 :D
\n","games":["Super Benji"]},{"at":410408808,"author":"LawftyGoals","login":"LawftyGoals","gh":42514030,"text":"Buggy on mobile, cat could suddenly launch in a near 90 degrees angle despite clicking above it. Otherwise a very normal cloud jumper game.
\n","games":["Blackhat's Black Cats"]},{"typ":1,"at":410411415,"re":410408808,"author":"bacionejs","login":"bacionejs","gh":167394556,"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@bacionejs","text":"If you want the cat to go vertical, click on the middle of the screen. All the clicks are relative to the middle of the screen, not the cat.
\n"},{"at":410418740,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Controls are tricky though: they are relative to the screen center instead of the catās position, which feels unintuitive. It could be fun if platforms slowly descended to encourage climbing higher.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410443949,"re":410418740,"author":"bacionejs","login":"bacionejs","gh":167394556,"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@bacionejs","text":"Really? The platforms arenāt moving down? They should be moving down slowly. If you want to move them down faster, use the level slider in the upper left.
\n"},{"at":410420370,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"The game is decent as it is right now, but I believe you could add some features like a soundtrack; different platforms (scoring more or for example a platform you can jump through); as well as make the controls a little better, since those are not really intuitive (they are handled based on the mouse position relative to the screen, but I think it would be better if it was handled relative to the catās position). Good luck!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"at":410424477,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"I like the simple controls. It takes a while to get used to it though.
\nYou couldāve probably added some background music too.\nWould be good to see the camera pan upwards to see how high you could get too.
\n","games":["Black Cat's Herbs & Brews"]},{"at":410481613,"author":"Can Altıparmak","login":"c6p","gh":80478,"url":"c6p.netlify.app","text":"I like the cat sound :). Simple endless game. But on my machine movement feel a little sluggish (irrespective of being relative to screen). It might be more engaging if there were items to collect along the way.
\n","games":["SnapCat"]},{"at":410482781,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Aiming is a bit hard. The cat noise is very good. next time try to use the whole 13kb to propose a game with more story / progression / tutorial maybe?
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410499872,"author":"JoĆ£o Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"The controls are not so clear. I was clicking on the left or right side of the cat, only to realize i should click on the right and left of the screen. This might make sense on mobile, but itās not intuitive on desktop.\nGame play is really hard, as calculating the distance needed to jump, while also calculating the position to click on the screen, is quite non-intuitive.\nI like the cat sounds.
\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"at":410558032,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Nice idea, but too harsh. Maybe adding a trail before jumping will help.
\n","games":["Pacific Black Cats"]},{"at":410637632,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"The concept is interesting but I think it would be better with a progression in the game (a story, levels,ā¦). The cat meaow is quite scarry but so fun !
\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"at":410669318,"author":"Daivan Trinh","login":"daivan","gh":1457778,"text":"This was a really hard game.
\nMy record was +1 until i got like -59.
\nIts so hard to determine where I will land depending on where I click.
\nA little music would be nice.
\nThe mauww sound effect was nice.
\n","games":["Run from the Black Cat"]},{"at":411129583,"author":"Attila HorvƔth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"Haha, the meow sound is probably my favourite audio clue from this year so far!
\nI found it pretty hard to play with the mouse and easier with the tap on the phone actually. Iād agree that the horizontal direction should be relative to the cat rather than to the screen.
\nVery basic graphics that couldāve been improved a bit as the package size is still small. Also, some background music would be nice.
\nFun little game overall, if a bit too hard.
\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"at":411262605,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I like the game
\nI saw the diamonds as clouds when I was jumping up
\nThe meow noise was pretty fun
\nFor me this is more of a mobile game than a desktop, although playable on desktop itās not as much fun
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411292141,"author":"Gleb Volkov","login":"malec-palec","gh":2181873,"twitter":"volkov_ayyy","text":"I love the minimalist vibe and that cheeky meow - simple but charming - and the tap-to-jump loop hooks fast. Aiming feels unintuitive with jumps tied to the screen center, so itās tougher on desktop than mobile; a tiny aim cue, some music, and a bit of progression would go a long way. As is, itās a fun, biteāsized challenge that rewards patience but could be friendlier to newcomers. š±
\n","games":["Catapoolt"]},{"typ":2,"at":411554053,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Thanks for your submission! First, I canāt know how much effort youāve put on the game, so donāt mind me if I get clichĆ© or repeat ideas you simply didnāt get the time (or kb) to finish. Second, great you have finished a complete game!
\nI liked that you added some sounds and made the feedback of my actions be an sound effect. I also enjoyed the difficulty meter ā the easy was pretty easy indeed and I donāt think I managed many lands on the hard mode. This was funny to me because the horizontal velocity didnāt change, only the catās air time.
\nOn the playability side, I was confused many times that the origin of the click was on the middle of the screen and not over the cat. Over and over Iād send it flying in the wrong direction because I clicked over it instead over the center.
\nI think you could have a much more interesting game if you worked a bit on the rewards structure. Right now I fall, I lose 5 points, I land correctly and get 1. It made me lose interest quite quick ā itās hard to hit the jumps correctly but then Iām no better prepared or rewarded for the next jump. I can picture, for example, a combo system, where for each jump I hit, the score got would be increased. I could then picture me getting really anxious when Iād start to hit multiple jumps and get way more satisfaction for each subsequent ones. The more Iād improve, the more each jump would mean for me.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411694797,"author":"Bjƶrn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"The controls are a bit too hard for my taste. It is very hard to successfully land on new platforms and I often ended up falling to my death. Perhaps if I could do some kind of double jumping then I might have a chance to correct myself? But I also fall pretty fast so itās hard to correct after the fact.
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