{"id":2318,"edition":13,"categories":1,"features":1,"size":11743,"name":"The Black Cross-Cat","authors":[{"name":"nclbiagio","login":"nclbiagio","gh":46931298}],"description":"<p>A project for the 2025 JS13K Game Jam for fun!</p>\n","source":"nclbiagio/the-black-crosscat-js13k","stars":0,"post":"https://nclbiagio.github.io/ncl-blog/posts/black-cat-post-mortem/","comments":[{"at":410375689,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"<p>Nice little game, I got engaged quite fast.\nIt becames repetitive after six levels, some powerups would had make the game more fun, like being able to stop time.\nAlso different kind of enemies with predictable movement patterns.</p>\n<p>Great work, loved the random music</p>\n","games":["Pacific Black Cats"]},{"at":410398354,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"<p>Nice game - original gameplay idea. Cool music. I had fun with it - wish there could have been more stuff in the gameplay as it got harder.</p>\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":410477111,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"<p>Fantastic music and nice graphics.</p>\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410486569,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"<p>Nice original concept, art and music!</p>\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410507289,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"<p>🚗 Fun game, with difficulty increasing nicely as the levels go on. There’s a bit of randomness — sometimes cats seem to jump under the car by themselves, so it doesn’t feel like it’s my fault when I hit them 😅.</p>\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":410583411,"author":"Himanshu Bisht","login":"igamerx","gh":44287861,"text":"<p>The idea behind the game is unique, and I enjoy it. Nice entry.</p>\n","games":["The Ninefold Gambit"]},{"at":410659966,"author":"Lucas Werle Melz","login":"lucasmelz","gh":75343742,"url":"https://lucasmelz.github.io/portfolio/","text":"<p>Nice entry! Good difficulty progression on the levels and original idea.</p>\n","games":["Stray Cat"]},{"at":410717415,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"<p>I like this concept for a game. Nice and simple. Original game. Nice graphics. Good job!</p>\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410892129,"author":"JimmySmells","login":"JimmySmells","gh":231127042,"text":"<p>The cats hit a 2nd level of evil the way they came back from the dead.</p>\n","games":["The Giver"]},{"at":410902253,"author":"Magnus Lindh","login":"MagnusLindh","gh":26601704,"text":"<p>The cover art is amazing! Reminds me of an Atari game from the good old days.</p>\n","games":["Don't forget to feed the cat!"]},{"typ":2,"at":411167171,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"<p>This game is a perfect example of how you can create a game with little to instructions that is easy to grasp due to the visuals.</p>\n<p>As some feedback - you did explain the WASD movements, but I feel even that could have been ommited by implementing the same movements to the arrow keys.</p>\n<p>The graphics and music were perfect for this type of game.</p>\n<p>Well done!</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411516433,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"<p>This is similar to “2 Cars” old Ketchapp game, but more interesting as you end moving more than two cars, and there is a noble purpose: get to the finish without killing a cat.</p>\n<p>Nice idea.</p>\n"},{"at":411542767,"author":"Attila Horváth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"<p>Interesting idea and I liked the progression as there are more cars in each level to control!</p>\n<p>I especially really liked the audio in this one, well done with the music and sound effects! They create the retro feel perfectly.</p>\n<p>I thought the game got pretty challenging, especially when you had a bunch of cars to take care of.</p>\n<p>I would’ve liked a bit more variety in the gameplay but a really solid entry, well done!</p>\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"at":411906187,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"<p>Your game is fun</p>\n<p>Pretty easy to pick up and play, the controls are intuitive</p>\n<p>I liked the graphics</p>\n<p>Funky music</p>\n<p>A couple of times the cats ran into the car when it wasn’t moving and still hurt me</p>\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":34,"min":1,"score":3.59,"max":4.24},"innovation":{"rank":74,"min":1.2,"score":2.91,"max":4.03},"gameplay":{"rank":79,"min":1.18,"score":2.86,"max":4.37},"graphics":{"rank":74,"min":1.6,"score":3.23,"max":4.56},"audio":{"rank":34,"min":1.75,"score":3.41,"max":4.22},"controls":{"rank":20,"min":1.6,"score":3.73,"max":4.45},"primary":{"rank":41,"min":8.68,"score":19.73,"max":24.89},"label":"Overall"}}