In Italy, people say that black cats bring bad luck. But don’t worry—you can chase the curse away! When a black cat appears, scream into your microphone to scare it off and earn a lucky point.
\nPoints are shown as horn signs (🤘), a traditional Italian gesture believed to keep misfortune away.
\nBe careful:
\nStay silent when you see a non-black cat, or you’ll lose a point.
\nMiss a scream when a black cat shows up, and you’ll lose a point too!
\nRun out of points and the game is over.
\nSurvive long enough to reach 7 points—just like the 7 lives every cat has—and you’ll advance to the next level, where the cats move faster and the challenge grows tougher.
\n🎤 To play, make sure your microphone is on and find a quiet place to shout your way to victory!
\n","source":"fbedussi/black-cat","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410411202,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"Strange idea and kind of fun - I enjoyed the unusual interface options (yelling at my computer)
\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":410487513,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Impressive graphics and sound.\nWarning: on Windows, flags emoji don’t work natively. We just see the letters “I T” instead of italian flag.\nNext time, provide a fallback (for example in svg it only takes a few dozen bytes).\nAlso, you could have added a way to play without microphone even if it’s a solid gameplay mechanic by itself. A backup plan using mouse or keyboard would have been welcome on PC.
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410509035,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"I wasn’t able to get it to work on desktop, didn’t seem like screaming worked, but it was working on mobile.
\nI wish there was a bit of visual feedback for the current volume of the microphone, so I could tell how much I need to scream.
\nFun idea though!
\n","games":["CLAWSTRIKE"]},{"at":410520764,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"Clever gimmick, using the microphone! I live in a tiny apartment with thin walls, so I just tapped the mic to make noise instead of screaming; it worked ok.
\nIt would be helpful to have some visual feedback to know how close you are to the noise threshold.
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410579044,"author":"sodium ","login":"shiturstupid","gh":208161057,"text":"it took me a while till i found out what to do, great work however i wish you added a step by step tutorial. still a cool work tho!
\n","games":["The Laser Cat"]},{"at":410885912,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"Interesting concept integrating the microphone. Good job on trying something different here.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":411120845,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I wasn’t able to play the game without a microphone
\nPerhaps you could add the ability to click on the black cats?
\nStill, I liked the concept, and the cat graphics were really good, alongside the slide-in animations for the cats
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411200545,"author":"Attila Horváth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"What an interesting idea with the microphone, definitely very unique! Haven’t seen anything like this in this compo before. Also, great interpretation of the theme. I liked including the number 7 as well for the 7 lives (although some people insist it’s 9?!).
\nUltimately I felt like the game was a bit too simplistic though and became way too fast to me after around level 10 to continue playing.
\nGreat job on a very unique entry!
\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"at":411382129,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"Pretty great idea, using the microphone. I wish there was an alternative way in case you can’t make any noise. I get it that’s the main part of the game though!
\nI love when a game uses a new or a different mechanism.
\n","games":["Black Cat's Herbs & Brews"]},{"at":411439226,"author":"Surma","login":"surma","gh":234957,"url":"https://surma.dev","text":"Great idea for a concept! I got a bit uncomfortable screaming at home, so I just slapped my laptop microphone instead. Glad the game accepted that, too ;) Surprisingly addictive, despite being quite repetitive. I think if you added couple more twists and variations to this game, it could be a real banger!
\nI think some intense (and maybe speeding up) music would have been the cherry on the cake.
\n","games":["Swing A Cat"]},{"typ":2,"at":411516145,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"mamma mia, black cats and horn signs, molto italiano.
\nloved the idea to use a microphone and scream at the black cats!!
\n"},{"at":411773321,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"Really nice to see a game using a unique mechanic. I just blew into my mic which also worked.
\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"at":411856621,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Innovative gameplay, and fun idea for a game. The cats are very cute.
\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"typ":2,"at":411978569,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Thanks for your submission! First, I can’t know how much effort you’ve put on the game, so don’t mind me if I get cliché or repeat ideas you simply didn’t get the time (or kb) to finish. Second, great you have finished and shipped a complete game!
\nAmazing innovative job here with the mic input :)
\nGreat work on the animations and the game feel. I really liked you took care of the timings and mixed it a bit for the surprise moments or expecting a reaction. The swooshes were really convincing.
\nYou could improve the mic input testing. It took me a browser restart to even get Chrome to read the microphone and even then I was fighting with which input the game should be reading from, while the round was already started. I realized that the game is only asking for the mic input after the game starts and this in part the problem.
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