I am a sixteen-year-old student, and I decided to participate in the game jam without any prior preparations on August 13th. Here is the goal and description of my game:
\nHelp the black cat escape safely by guiding it to the flag. To achieve this, you must place items on its path.
\nThere are four items available to assist the cat:
\nFood: If it is in a straight line and there are no obstacles, the black cat will move towards it.
\nMouse: The mouse will try to escape from the black cat, while the cat attempts to catch it.
\nBox: The box functions like a wall; it blocks the cat and can alter the mouse’s path.
\nBall: The cat will always jump to a ball if it is two tiles away, regardless of walls or boxes, except when the flag is one tile away.
\nThat’s an interesting and fun puzzle game!
\nI would have liked it even better if I had been able to remove items again directly, without having to undo all following items.
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\n"},{"at":410424770,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"I found these puzzles very interesting and the concept of your game sounds unique to me. The embeded tutorial to understand the mechanisms is clear, progressive and I really appreciated it. The level progression is fine, but the levels are tricky to solve. Well done!
\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410470024,"re":410424770,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks for playing the game; I’m glad the tutorial helped, I felt like I passed too much time on it. I sure hope the levels were tricky; I spent a lot of time reflecting on how to make them hard, and what is the most counterintuitive way to solve the game.
\n"},{"at":410425403,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"This game deserves the Heisenberg Cleverness Award. Especially the one before the last one. It would have been perfect if the last one wasn’t unsolvable.
\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"typ":1,"at":410470127,"re":410425403,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks a lot, the last one is actually solvable, but you need a little research on where do the teleporters guide you.
\n"},{"at":410432080,"author":"Romain Arnaud","login":"Rominou34","gh":17294713,"url":"https://osmova.com/","text":"Very clever game, the graphics and the music are simple but it is not overwhelming and allows you to actually concentrate on the challenges, which I found pretty hard once the tutorial was finished, and that was a nice surprise. I didn’t finish it (stuck on level 8), but well done !
\n","games":["Oggy's Curse"]},{"typ":1,"at":410470211,"re":410432080,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much, I’m glad the game is a bit difficult, though I felt levels 5 and 6 were still easy, I’ll try to upload soon a video on how to clear all levels, and a detailed explanation of the solution.
\n"},{"at":410484850,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"Great puzzle game -original and very cute - well explained and great level progression.
\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410498288,"re":410484850,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, best of luck for your game (I couldn’t test it because I have no VR)!
\n"},{"at":410512158,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Interesting concept, nice art and audio. congrats! (especially at your age)
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"typ":1,"at":410557509,"re":410512158,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks a lot, I don’t think my graphics and audio are particularly nice; but thank you anyway!
\n"},{"at":410573421,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Very clever game, and quite enjoyable! I wish I could update my layout without having to do a complete reset and re-place all my items. Instead I’d like to just be able to add the one little thing I missed and try again. If there was some way to do this, I couldn’t figure it out. It seems like I had to reset all my items over again.
\nThat’s really my only complaint, its quite a good game and very impressive!
\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"typ":1,"at":410652118,"re":410573421,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, there indeed wasn’t a way to do this; I could’ve added that, but it was a little complicated since on some levels, there are already items laid out which makes deleting items a bit difficult.
\n"},{"at":410590019,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"A smart game. Good challenges. Feels like you might have a future in robotics.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"typ":1,"at":410652240,"re":410590019,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I’m not that sure about the part of me having a future on robotics, but glad to see you enjoyed the game!
\n"},{"at":410606847,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"Nice one! I ended up getting stuck at the level with 8 pre-placed balls (the one in your cover pic). But had a blast getting there :)
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"typ":1,"at":410652367,"re":410606847,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed the game, I plan on updating soon a record of myself showing the solutions for each level.
\n"},{"at":410674188,"author":"qufakuz","login":"qufakuz","gh":157382081,"text":"nice game design, really intresting mechanic, i love it
\n","games":["Cat and Spikes"]},{"typ":1,"at":410740935,"re":410674188,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much, I really spent quite a lot of time into game design so that the last levels would be hard, so I’m glad you like it!
\n"},{"at":410739211,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"Really like the clever puzzles, reminded me of zachtronics games. The tutorial was super useful. And the music was pleasant too. Congrats on submitting!
\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410741557,"re":410739211,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I thought there were too many tutorials so it feels nice seeing they were useful;!
\n"},{"at":410787687,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"That’s awesome! It’s really cool that you know about this competition and decided to participate at just 16. Your puzzle game turned out great — I really enjoyed playing it! Well done! 🎮👏
\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"typ":1,"at":410806764,"re":410787687,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, glad to see you enjoyed the puzzles!
\n"},{"at":410941372,"author":"Gleb Volkov","login":"malec-palec","gh":2181873,"twitter":"volkov_ayyy","text":"I love how the game uses that unusual indirect control mechanic - guiding rather than forcing feels super clever and gives a fresh twist. Although the visuals are schematic, it totally draws you in. If anything, more feedback when you’re influencing the cats would be cool, but overall it’s really well done.
\n","games":["Catapoolt"]},{"typ":1,"at":411023944,"re":410941372,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much; I was a bit afraid at first that the guiding concept wouldn’t be appreciated but I guess I worried for nothing; I’m not exactly sure what you mean by more feedback, but I’ll definitely keep it in mind should I post an updated post-js 13k version of the game.
\n"},{"at":410998935,"author":"skyatmoon","login":"skyatmoon","gh":53244544,"text":"Great! Cute cat game, audio plays well, does this game’s idea from loop hero? good designs for most levels
\n","games":["A Hungry Black"]},{"typ":1,"at":411024110,"re":410998935,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, the game isn’t really inspired from another game (or rather I just felt inspired, but it might have been influenced by games I’d seen before).
\n"},{"at":411025114,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Very clever! Enjoyed playing through the levels, nice level of challenge for all ages!
\n","games":["Yarn Run"]},{"typ":1,"at":411106310,"re":411025114,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I hope the end wasn’t too difficult!
\n"},{"at":411028173,"author":"nihdao","login":"Nihdao","gh":74270287,"url":"adamalet.fr","text":"What a puzzle game, very original, well done!
\n","games":["Clicker Pawry"]},{"typ":1,"at":411106363,"re":411028173,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much, I hope you liked it!
\n"},{"at":411102896,"author":"Michel Sabchuk","login":"michelts","gh":361492,"url":"http://turbosys.com.br","text":"I like how levels help you progressively understand the game!
\nIt is a nice concept of puzzle game! Congrats on the entry!
\n","games":["Black Cat's Rise"]},{"typ":1,"at":411106431,"re":411102896,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I hope you enjoyed the game!
\n"},{"at":411120633,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I had fun playing the game, the puzzles were good to work through and the difficulty ramped up well
\nThe music was well done, and the sound effects were good
\nI was glad you had a game speed adjustment as at times it can be a bit slow to move with the larger levels
\nOne thing which may be good is an “undo last placement”, so stuff can be placed on the level, then if it doesn’t work you don’t have to go and place all the same stuff back out on an empty level
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":1,"at":411196624,"re":411120633,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed the game; although I’m a bit confused since there is an undo last placement, simbolized by “✕” (but it only works if the level hasn’t started).
\n"},{"at":411191373,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"This was cool. Well done. Nice audio and music, good graphics and interesting game play. One very small thing is the use of colour, the “GO!” and other buttons looked like they were greyed out / disabled initially so I waited a while in case something had to happen for them to be enabled before eventually just trying to click them to see if they worked.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"typ":1,"at":411196749,"re":411191373,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thanks, I agree it might be confusing to have greyed out buttons, I didn’t pay too much attention to it and wanted a neutral color; without thinking it might look disabled. I hope it didn’t bother you too much, that is an actual change to make.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411516309,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"Great puzze game involving logic and a bit of programming. With some polish on the graphics it could be a very big thing.
\nCongratulations for being 16 yet already able to build interesting videogames.
\nKeep up coding!
\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411534805,"re":411516309,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much for your feedback, I hope you enjoyed playing the game!
\n"},{"at":411722144,"author":"Jacobo Caraballo","login":"Jastro","gh":6153050,"text":"Amazing concept super fun and super simple, congratulations i love it <3
\n","games":["SHADOW'S ESCAPE"]},{"typ":1,"at":411778564,"re":411722144,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Thank you very much, I hope you enjoyed playing the game!
\n"},{"at":411866357,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Really cool concept! I loved the puzzle aspect of it -like how each item like the food, mouse, box, and ball offers different ways to navigate.
I got up to level 5 and got stuck near the end where there were two blocks before the flag. But I really enjoyed playing it!
I’m glad you enjoyed the game, the trick to the level 5 is to place a ball instead of a fish to go down, so the fish can be used to travel across the two blocks.
\n"},{"at":411980577,"author":"sdeseille","login":"sdeseille","gh":106524,"text":"I like the aspect of preparing the steps the cat must follow to escape its situation.\nGood puzzle game.
\nGraphism are simple but good. You have put sound effect and you have done better than me by having a background music. Even if it is a simple music.
\nGood job !
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