In the darkness of night, you are Shadow - a cunning black cat trapped within the walls of a mysterious manor.
\nFive treacherous rooms stand between you and freedom. Navigate through furniture, outsmart scurrying mice, and face the ultimate guardian - a massive hound that prowls these halls.
\nYour survival depends on wit, agility, and the treasures you discover along the way.
\n","source":"Jastro/js13kb","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410400215,"author":"Victor Suarez","login":"zerasul","gh":6067824,"url":"https://zerasul.me","twitter":"makeclassicgame","text":"Good game. Is a minimalistic game with some good mechanics like shop and the use of RPG features like the Battle in Text mode.
\nSome improvements can be add sound and add more levels.
\nGood Work!!
\n","games":["Boing Kat"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721329,"re":410400215,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much, Victor! With the tool you mentioned, I’ll use it next time. Honestly, it was my first time and it really showed — between the fact that I did it in 24h and my lack of experience, it was noticeable
\n"},{"at":410501243,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Loved the concept! Would love to have sound in it.
\nI like the implementation where the mice only move when you move.
\nI guess I won the game.
\nGood game, loved it. After Room 5 I got this…\n“SHADOW’S TRIUMPH
\nAgainst all odds, you have escaped the cursed manor!
\nYou are Shadow no more — you are free.
\nThe manor’s secrets remain, but your legend lives on…”
Thanks a lot for your feedback, yep it’s my first time doing this, hope next time i do it better :D
\n"},{"at":410506748,"author":"Eric Ros","login":"ekros","gh":4777759,"url":"https://ekros.github.io","twitter":"ericrosbh","text":"A simple and effective mix of ideas.\nI would probably had a better experience having access to the info about what the color spheres mean during the game. Also, the pounce button moves down when you click on it which can be a bit unconfortable.
\n","games":["Bichita the Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721287,"re":410506748,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"I’m really sorry about that. It was my first attempt and I realize there are things I could have explained or implemented better, like the color spheres and the button behavior. I truly appreciate your feedback and I’ll do my best to improve it next time!
\n"},{"at":410586388,"author":"Antti Haavikko","login":"anttihaavikko","gh":2298536,"url":"https://anttihaavikko.itch.io/","text":"FINAL STATISTICS:
\nFinal Room: 5\nHP: 61/100\nAgility: 51\nDefense: 29\nFish Collected: 172
\nPretty neat. Very much on the easy side though with no real gameplay decisions to really make. Even the boss was surprisingly tame even without the repellant (still wasn’t quite sure about what it’d do). I had like three milk left too and was just mashing the (annoyingly dodging) attack button keeping my eye on my hp and surprisingly fast the dog went down.
\nI think the combat display was a bit much with so much unnecessary information. Would have preferred for it to just me player and opponent life totals stated clearly with maybe a smaller number indicating the change every turn.
\nIt was also kinda annoying to just front load the player with information on the different symbols on start with no context of the game or how it plays and then just rely on the player remembering it all. The symbols could have at least been a bit more informative on what they reflected to make that easier. Just like the cat, dog and mice already were. Why not have the same more indicative shape for fish and milk (maybe a saucer or a milk carton) too and the shop could have been a dollar symbol or something. Not that those things really mattered anyway cause I was at least doing full clears anyway and you do learn the symbols kinda quickly though. But still would have made the beginning a bit smoother.
\n","games":["Catculus"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721696,"re":410586388,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much for playing and finishing it!
\nYes, I made the difficulty very easy because in a jam most people only spend about 5 minutes playing, and I wanted everyone to be able to enjoy it. As for the graphics, everything was made in CSS. At one point I tried to make a fish but couldn’t manage it, and since I only had 24h because I discovered this jam very late, it really showed.
\nYou’re absolutely right that giving so much information at once can be overwhelming. I’m sorry about that — at the time I couldn’t think of a better way to handle it. I’ll try to do better next time and make it less annoying. Thanks a lot for your time and feedback!
\n"},{"at":410601505,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Nice work but I wish you used the extra space to make the graphics a bit more appealing and add a bit of sound :)
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721233,"re":410601505,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much, I did it in 24h and it was my first time. I didn’t know how to add audio without going over the 13kb limit, and due to the lack of time and my limited drawing skills, I improvised by making the graphics with CSS hoping it would take up less space. Anyway, I hope to do better next time
\n"},{"at":410626589,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"The concept is there for sure. I think movement and graphics improvements could make this pop.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721725,"re":410626589,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much, I did it in 24h and it was my first time, I hope to do better next time and add better graphics <3
\n"},{"at":410778225,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Decent game, it’s rather simple to understand, although I wish there were audio in the game, and maybe a little better graphics (and perhaps increasing the size of the stats). Congratulations for your game!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721159,"re":410778225,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much, I did it in 24h and it was my first time, I didn’t know how to add audio without going over the 13kb limit, I hope to do better next time
\n"},{"at":410826123,"author":"cykelkatalogen","login":"stefanforsberg","gh":358570,"text":"Nice job, as others have mentioned some additional audio queues would have made it a bit more immersive.
\n","games":["Nine Lives Later - Deja Meow"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721451,"re":410826123,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much for your feedback!. I’ll make sure to polish these things for the next one. Thanks a lot for playing!
\n"},{"at":410960811,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"⚔️ Nice little turn-based RPG combat system. The graphics are simple but clear. I didn’t really understand the “furnitures” though, maybe a small explanation would help.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721093,"re":410960811,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"I just wanted to add something else besides a mouse, the idea was that the furniture would “block” your way and you’d scratch it to get through
\n"},{"at":411347739,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I enjoyed playing your game
\nThe whole turn based movement was good so that I could plan a route
\nThe shop was a nice touch
\nI thought it was quite amusing that you could fight the furniture
\nOne change I would suggest is allowing the battles to be done whilst staying on the keyboard and not have to switch back and forth with the mouse
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":1,"at":411721409,"re":411347739,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much for the feedback. I didn’t even notice the switch to the mouse, I’ll try to improve that in my next game!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411515960,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"Great roguelike gameplay, very original as nobody, as far as I can see, entered the competition with a RPG.
\nExcellent job.
\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411721055,"re":411515960,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Thank you so much, it’s my first time participating and I only had 24h to do it because I discovered this in the last few days, next time I hope to do better
\n"},{"at":411809663,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"Pretty nice! If you’d spent your remaining 2.5 kB on audio or more detailed graphics, some impact was certainly possible there.
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"typ":2,"at":411928603,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"This game has a very Atari era vibe. It’s a bit sad it does not have any sound, and the graphics are very rudimentary, but other than that, I am glad I played and finished it. Thanks for your participation!
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