{"id":2452,"edition":13,"categories":3,"features":1,"size":13103,"name":"SnapCat","authors":[{"name":"Can Altıparmak","url":"c6p.netlify.app","login":"c6p","gh":80478}],"description":"

SnapCat - Complete the Black Cats’ photo album!

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Goal is to arrange the cats to meet all objectives and capture the perfect group photo.

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I really like the concept and the artwork is great! I wish there were more user friendly indicators that I was moving in the right direction vs wrong, like a real time happiness gauge I could watch go up or down or something. As it it, it felt like I just did a lot of trial and error.

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Still, I felt like it was a really cute game, and just a couple small tweaks would make it fun to play repeatedly.

\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"typ":1,"at":410464230,"re":410397986,"author":"Can Altıparmak","login":"c6p","gh":80478,"url":"c6p.netlify.app","text":"

Thank you! And congrats on winning last year’s competition, that’s awesome.

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I was torn between showing a mood score or just highlighting likes/dislikes, and in the end I went with the visual approach. Now, I see it doesn’t give enough clue about direction.

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I’ll definitely keep that in mind for a director’s cut. Really glad you enjoyed the concept and artwork!

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Very cute graphics!\nThe gameplay reminds me a bit of my game from last year but with more complexity.

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I find the difficulty curve a bit hard. Took me a while to realize that some cats are supposed to be unhappy. This mechanic could appear a bit later, some early wins often create a better hook.

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Fun game with good theme fit

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Thanks for the feedback! I’ll check out last year’s The Society of Multiphobics.

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You’re right about the difficulty. Level 4, right after the tutorials ended up requiring very specific arrangement. The game was too easy at first, and while trying to toughen it up in the last days, I probably pushed some early levels too far.

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I also see what you mean about the unhappy cats. I thought it was clear, but I should’ve introduced things in more gradually - like starting with colors and accessories, then adding patterns and negavite mood objectives later on.

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Appreciate the thoughtful notes!

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A fun little game, took a bit to understand where to place the cats. But overall I loved it.

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410568462,"author":"qufakuz","login":"qufakuz","gh":157382081,"text":"

It’s really fun, especially for the mechanics. Very well made game

\n","games":["Cat and Spikes"]},{"at":410581234,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"

Ok, dangerously similar mechanics to my game so I recommend trying my game out too Mor Chess. I tried really hard to figure out how the logic works, but there are too many moving elements to make clear sense, and the heavy use of English language didn’t help. I wanted to finish this, by completely understanding how it works by testing my hypothesis and poking around, but I finally gave up after I found this bug, from what I understand, when you click on a cat, it is affected by cats near it and the distant cats that don’t effect gets blurred. So I organized the cats so Black cats has green check-mark, And when I click either black cat they blur out distant cats, and when I move another cat in the middle just a little bit, and check again the black cats, their blurred cats don’t change, but the green check-mark dissapears. So probably a screenshot would have been helpful, but you can’t post in this forum.\nOther than that I believe the mechanics have a lot of potential for different puzzle games, and the graphics are really cute. I didn’t notice any audio however

\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"typ":1,"at":410722330,"re":410581234,"author":"Can Altıparmak","login":"c6p","gh":80478,"url":"c6p.netlify.app","text":"

Thanks for playing! I’ll check out your games too.

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If you hit the help page (?), moods are listed from saddest to happiest, and the like/dislike buttons at the bottom show what’s highlighted for cats (x3), colors (x2), patterns (x1) and accessories (x2). Everything should make sense from there, no need to know the English terms. Though, it is a valuable feedback.

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About the bug: blurred cats don’t affect the selected cat. But since mood effects depend on distance, another cat moving closer or farther might affect cat’s mood. Does objective checkmark and cat’s mood differ?

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There are little sounds when placing the cats and a double-click shutter sound when you take the photo. If you don’t hear it, your browser might be blocking, you may need to allow audio.

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Its a nice fun littel game I enjoy my time with it.

\n","games":["The Ninefold Gambit"]},{"at":410737294,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"

Great variety of cats to arrange. It was too “thinky” after the first few levels. Just arranging the cats how you want and taking a snapshot that got some score would have been funner ;)

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Again, great cat images, it’s hard to choose a favorite, maybe the fat one with an umbrella ;)

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Cute graphics and sounds. Original idea. Congrats.

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410818726,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"

This is a really interesting idea. I liked the graphics too, particularly cats going in and out of focus. I found it was quite difficult at times and occasionally when I had 2 green ticks trying to get the 3rd tick became trial and error.

\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"typ":1,"at":411070591,"re":410818726,"author":"Can Altıparmak","login":"c6p","gh":80478,"url":"c6p.netlify.app","text":"

Thanks for playing! I’m glad you liked the graphics. Since it’s a photographing game, the in/out of focus effect felt like the best fit to show cats with/without any effect.

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If you’re stuck on level 4, there’s a solution video on the cover image. It seems I should also show mood changes so it doesn’t feel like trial and error.

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I can see a lot of thought was out into this game. I thought it would just be a simple snapshot game but after seeing all the cats’ personalities and traits, the game got very interesting! Good job on making all of that come to life! Thank you for making your game!

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Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m really glad you enjoyed the traits. I plan to add more personality to the cats.

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Interesting game concept. Needs a touch of music for immersion, I know there is the snap audio, but music would be great.

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I couldn’t quite get the mechanic… like I’d have 2 ticks, and then none, or one and couldn’t get the third. I looked at all the instructions and likes/dislikes but it really wasn’t super clear to me.

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I understood that you have to hit the exact moods, but the last was really just trial and error.

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Thanks for playing! I tried to add music in the last days but couldn’t fit it into the 13k limit.

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It seems I made level 4, right after the tutorials, a bit too specific. I’ve added its solution in the cover video. The core mechanic is simple, but I realize I need to explain it better. Each cat has likes/dislikes for other cats (x3), colors (x2), patterns (x1), and accessories (x2). For example, if a cat likes another cat (+3) but dislikes its color (-2) and both accessories (-2 * 2 = -4), the combined effect is -3, which is then multiplied by 1/distance.

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I avoided showing the exact combined effect to prevent the game from turning into pure number-chasing, leaving some discovery to the player. But for the trial-and-error part, each mood level has a threshold to pass. I may need to display mood score changes so players don’t feel left completely in the dark.

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I was also planning to add more constraints beyond likes/dislikes, but it seems I first need to make the core mechanic clearer.

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Really cool game! Love the cute cats and the fact that they’re wearing outfits 😄\nIt would be great to add some relaxing music -that would make it easy to spend a lot more time playing.\nGreat job! 🐱🎮

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"typ":2,"at":411804674,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"

Hey Can,

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This was a great submission! It could use some music but overall the submission was great and I loved the focus mechanics.

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High ratings from me!

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I recorded a video review for all the games here so that you can see my initial reaction while playing your game, which is often quite helpful from a user experience perspective. https://www.youtube.com/live/jl6pC4OnVJA?si=hadQmN9JZB93hDUM

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Good luck in the competition and good job!

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Love the game

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Really fun and requires a bit of thought to get that snap taken

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The graphics are good, the camera click sound works well

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Aren’t cats fussy :)

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