The game is not complete, however the game mechanics is working and this attempt recovers the old school of HTML + CSS display with a good FPS.
\nYou will get the story intro and a chance to fight against “They”, the enemy people. The intention was to construct a real story to criticize the war, however, without time and story, it looks like a “war ode”.
\nFar away from my previews entries this is a “point and click” shot game.
\n","source":"aurium/js13k-2025-the-soldier","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":410600039,"author":"Attila Horváth","login":"attilahorvath","gh":4081005,"text":"Well, this was way more disturbing than I expected, with a ton of blood and especially the “kids killed” counter which is a big yikes. Also, didn’t fit much the theme besides a single sentence in the intro.
\nI understand it wasn’t finished but it was technically pretty competent though so I would’ve liked to see the complete vision for this.
\n","games":["A Voiding Your Problems"]},{"typ":1,"at":410758870,"re":410600039,"author":"Aurélio A. Heckert","login":"aurium","gh":30254,"url":"http://aurium.one","text":"Thank you Attila! I intend to finish it and with the story that is still beating in my mind I hope it all makes sense.
\n"},{"at":410751304,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"The style and graphics looked really good.
\nI keep getting to what looks like the first mission and after I get shot, the “A hero dies” newspaper article appears on the left, however everything seems to continue: I can still move the target and click to fire with the mouse and I can see bullets still being fired by other characters. There was no ending or game over.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410755913,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Impressive graphics and animation. A bit bloody. I wish there was sound too. Not related to the theme at all?
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":411044743,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"Such a sad beginning to the game 😢 It’s a shame there’s no quick restart button, sound effects, or music.\nThanks for your work!
\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"typ":2,"at":411058912,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Good build up of narrative, even if incomplete. Very sad start to the game, and might be a bit too close to home or some.
\nThere’s not too much to the theme here, so think about how you could implement “Black Cat” more into your game.
\nControls are intuitive. Graphics are different which is nice to see. Add some sound effects and music to your game for better immersion.
\n"},{"at":411435959,"author":"Surma","login":"surma","gh":234957,"url":"https://surma.dev","text":"Interesting approach to a shoot’em up. I like the controls and I think this could be built into a proper game. I got a bit frustrated because it was very hard to see the bullets, so I had no idea what happened when I died.
\nI will also admit that I do not see the relation to the theme?
\n","games":["Swing A Cat"]},{"at":411548427,"author":"Jesper Rasmussen","login":"repsej","gh":116525,"text":"Tried a couple of times … got shot very quickly (or a fellow soldier?) … and I couldn’t get on with the game … stuck in the “hero got shot” news clip.
\nTried clicking everywhere and pressing all keys.
\nDo I need to reload the game until I pass this ??
\nVery nice graphics and good story telling … too bad the game was unplayable … what went wrong ?
\n","games":["Black Cat Squadron"]},{"at":411568157,"author":"Raptor Dev","login":"raptor0999","gh":74460924,"twitter":"Raptor_IndieDev","text":"This is a very cool entry in some ways, but irritating in others lol
\nI love the art style and controls that you have going. It’s amazing that you did all of this in less than 10k (zipped but whatever). The graphics and controls both are great.
\nNegatives are you cannot skip the intro that I know of, and it seems you have to watch the intro alot because this game is freakin hard!
\nThe worst part of it I think is that the enemy shoots from offscreen, you don’t have much health, and as far as I can figure out you have no way to take cover. So you die very quickly and have no easy way to fire back and take all of the enemies out.
\nIf you can improve this aspect a bit then it would be much more fun to play this game. The intro alone is gold.
\n","games":["Boots and the Black Cauldron"]},{"at":411884518,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Thanks for your game
\nIt had a fun control scheme, the graphics were good
\nThe theme was very dark and brutal
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411947017,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Really ambitious project with cool graphics, a solid story, and fun gameplay. And guess what-it’s all made using DOM elements. Nice job!
\nMy only nitpick is that it’s hard to spot the enemies, and you can get killed instantly.
\nAlso with that 4KB left, if you had managed to squeeze in some audio it would have been an epic.
\nThis game has real potential. You should definitely continue developing it after the jam ends - with a bit of polish, like adding an enemy radar, the ability to zoom in and out of the terrain, and then submitting it to platforms like itch.io or Newgrounds.
\nIf you decide to finish it, tag me in - I’ll definitely play the full version!