{"id":2424,"edition":13,"categories":1,"features":1,"size":13256,"name":"Kuro Neko Market","authors":[{"name":"Federico Tibaldo","url":"https://fedetibaldo.com","login":"fedetibaldo","gh":21128334}],"description":"

Fed up with your lack of contributions around the house, your owner has sent you off to work. Just your luck!

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Gameplay

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Pick up fishes as they pass on the conveyor belt, calculate how much they are worth, then input, print, and stick labels onto them. As soon as they are back on the belt, your guesses will be verified: correct prices will net you points, wrong ones won’t. The job is simple, but it’s sure to keep your paws busy.

\nHow to play\n

Controls

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Click. Click. Click. Just the left mouse button.

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Some less obvious interactions that I should mention are:

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Levels

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Each of the three main levels offers a distinct spawn frequency, generation strategy, and fish pool. Every run will feature a random set of modifiers, so memorization is not a long-term strategy. Instead, quick wits and fast execution are the key to achieve 100% completion.

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The last level in the list can be customized to fit your needs, be it for a practice run, to avoid a fish you don’t like (yuck!), or to try a even higher difficulty.

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Trivia (optional, go play already!)

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Although they look pixelated, graphics are vector art. The game is rendered on a small offscreen canvas and then upscaled without interpolation.

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The glyphs for the numbers are SVG paths traced starting from the Fredoka font. I figured this was an efficient way to do custom text.

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This year I discovered context.createPattern and have used it in several key areas, such as: to paint the fish scales, the menus backgrounds, and even the wood texture.

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The collision boxes are not axis oriented. They instead match the rotation of the object. Yes, it was as painful as it sounds.

\n","source":"fedetibaldo/kuro-neko-market-js13k2025","stars":0,"yt":"XYkS4vrhKuY","post":"https://fedetibaldo.itch.io/kuro-neko-market/devlog/1033446/postmortem","comments":[{"at":410350477,"author":"F肯尼","login":"kennyfully881230","gh":208875314,"text":"

This game is absoluetly amazing! I am so surprised about all the work you’ve put into this! I have no suggestions, but I want this game fully supported on mobile too! (which shouldn’t be hard to do).

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Thank you for making this game. I will definately re-play it many times over!

\n","games":["Heimao"]},{"at":410378462,"author":"Alexander Fredstie ","login":"alex-irt","gh":5434285,"twitter":"summontoast","text":"

This was fun, these types of games don’t normally click for me but this felt really satisfying. I got really happy whenever I got a max value fish. The sound design is really good too, it gave it a relaxing vibe.

\n","games":["Color Cat"]},{"at":410589954,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"

Excellent game!\nLoved the pixel art vibe, and the gameplay is really fun! like many recent working game. Nice execution and difficulty!

\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":410620193,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

Very cute graphics and amazing, smooth interaction animations, which make it look really polished. The environmental sounds are incredible. Great job

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":410652886,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

Excellent graphics, sound, animation, ambiance and idea, congrats

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410666787,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"

Overall this is great, I loved the idea, the graphics and audio support it very well.

\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410803310,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"

I really liked this game. Nice visuals and sound. Easy gameplay. Good job

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":411014161,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"

Super smooth animations and overall experience. Except the game-play. If you just add something to skip with doing math, or even give hints to what the labels could be, so instead of manually entering digits select from a set of numbers that would enable ballpark guess. I couldn’t play the game but It was still super fun experience. Another problem is graphics are somehow looks a little blurry.

\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"at":411025496,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"

The game is very very polished, the audio (sound of sea) is great and the praphics / animations are awesome. Unique game that fits perfectly the theme. Great job!

\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"typ":2,"at":411055064,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"

Right under the 13kB, nice work! Love your post mortem too.

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Your GitHub README is lovely and I like the graphics and gifs you included.

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Fantastic gameplay and concept. I LOVE the animations: the way the cat flips the paw, the pencil and picking up the fish. Switching the pages and the colour wasn’t super intuitive (good that you wrote it in the description, but would be cool on screen), but I got there.

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I also really like the fact that you have the chance to redeem yourself if you put the wrong number on the fish! I know you’re constrained with your kBs, but would be SUPER cool to have some music in this to give it that extra oomph.

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The increasing difficulty is awesome, and I love the fact that it’s always random so you can’t just learn it.

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Wow the game looks amazing

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A simple concept but executed really well

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Nice waves audio in the background

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The game is fun and relaxing, yet can get hectic when lots come along at once

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My first run I totally missed that I was meant to be pricing the fish up, so when I got nothing for collecting the more “valuable” fish on my bench I had to go back and read the info more closely

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But really good, and likely more fun on a touchscreen

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411725334,"author":"LawftyGoals","login":"LawftyGoals","gh":42514030,"text":"

Fairly nice arithmetic game. My only gripe is that its hard to associate with theme. I get the black cat is the pricer of the fish, but it is very irrelevant to both the theme and the feel of the game.

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Controls are great, art style is nice and the audio that is there adds a nice level to the game without getting annoying. I feel this would be a great mobile game.

\n","games":["Blackhat's Black Cats"]},{"typ":2,"at":411920695,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"

I am really bad at this type of game, but I must say it is very well made!\nThe graphics are cute, controls are fine (but I played on a trackpad and it was challenging at times) and I like the atmosphere created by the sound effects. The level of difficulties are also well balanced. Overall, you did a great job with this game. And I am all for having more cats contribute to society.

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