An evil society of animal snatchers stole your cat! Search their headquarters for Manny the cat and fight animal thieves along the way.
\nInspired by the classic arcade game Elevator Action.
\nA complete playthrough takes ~15-20 minutes.
\nDesktop browsers only. Tested to work in Firefox, Chromium, and WebKitGTK. Performs best in Firefox.
\nSafari and other browsers are untested.
\nMove around using arrow keys/WASD:
\nLeft/right to walk
\nDown to crouch
\nUp/down to control elevators and use doors and stairs
Space/X to shoot
\n","source":"megagrump/they-took-my-cat","stars":3,"dc":"https://megagrump.github.io/they-took-my-cat/","comments":[{"typ":2,"at":410342377,"author":"Ben Allfree","login":"benallfree","gh":1068356,"twitter":"benallfree","text":"I like this game, nice classic side scrolling shooter. It was a little confusing to lose control while going up/down stairs, but I worked it out.
\n","games":["Mewsterpiece"]},{"at":410394215,"author":"nihdao","login":"Nihdao","gh":74270287,"url":"adamalet.fr","text":"Impressive under 12kb! I enjoyed playing this game!
\n","games":["Clicker Pawry"]},{"at":410402561,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"Beautiful graphics, easily the best part of the game, I loved the music too. The elevators and stair seem a bit difficult to navigate, often an enemy would shoot me while I was climbing and faced away from them. But I guess planning out climbing is part of the gameplay. I enjoyed the game.
\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"typ":1,"at":410426912,"re":410402561,"author":"one grumpy dude","login":"megagrump","gh":31128870,"text":"Avoiding getting shot in the elevators requires a bit of planning, patience, and good timing. Walking around on the floors requires reacting quickly to enemies popping up. Crowded stairs require precise inputs, but they are actually very safe when used right, since you can’t get hit while going up/down.
\n"},{"at":410415922,"author":"Himanshu Bisht","login":"igamerx","gh":44287861,"text":"Graphics are impressive and stylized, I enjoyed it. Only controls some time feels bit off.
\n","games":["The Ninefold Gambit"]},{"at":410428423,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"Graphics with these lightening effects are beautifull, but what really impressed me is the music! Great entry, congrats!
\n","games":["Wash the cat"]},{"at":410574057,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Extremely impressive visuals, animation and audio, congrats!\nI wish I could aim AND shoot with the mouse.
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410619864,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"I really enjoyed the game. The music is magical, and the visual style is excellent! I couldn’t manage to finish it because the enemies keep respawning — especially frustrating during elevator moments when you’re surrounded by two enemies on both sides. I think the game could be a bit easier if enemy reaction times were slowed down. Maybe if the combat felt more arcade-like, with more health, scattered medkits, and so on, the progression would become much more engaging. It also feels like 360-degree aiming with the mouse or a joystick, plus a jump mechanic, would fit perfectly. I’d also suggest improving the movement — adding a bit more inertia and playing around with the camera motion. Great work, this one will definitely stay in my memory!
\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":410678001,"author":"Elliot Nelson","login":"elliot-nelson","gh":58273,"url":"https://7tonshark.com","twitter":"7tonshark","text":"Really impressive looking game, great audio, a sleeper hit!
\nA lot of the difficulty in my opinion comes from the control layout. One suggestion I’d make is to have a different key (“use”?) for controlling elevators and going up/down stairs, because as-is your only protection from getting shot is crouching, and being unable to crouch near stairs and elevators gets you killed. A lot :).
\n","games":["Ashes of Ulthar"]},{"typ":1,"at":410680480,"re":410678001,"author":"one grumpy dude","login":"megagrump","gh":31128870,"text":"You absolutely can crouch near stairs and elevators. There is a zone at the top of stairs where you can’t crouch, you can only go down – but that is basically equivalent to crouching. Keep the down key pressed when going down (and up!) to stay crouched, and you can’t get hurt.
\nI’ve considered changing the control scheme to make this easier, but I ran out of time, space, confidence, and steam.
\n"},{"at":410755057,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"The game is very impressive, though there is one downside in my opinion, and that is to be unable to crouch near stairs, I agree on that you should have a key use and a key crouch. I really like the light from the bullets. The game was fun to play, congratulations!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"at":410760495,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"Good fun! The animation, lighting and music all worked really well together for that one-man action movie vibe.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410801321,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"I like the style of this. Graphics are different but well done. As others have said controls are a little tricky. but overall I really enjoyed it.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410860540,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"The gameplay has strong retro vibes, the graphics are very nice (i suppose they are prerendered during the pretty long startup of the game?)
\ngamepad-support would be noce to have
\nVery good entry!
\n","games":["Miami Mice"]},{"at":410896749,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Nicely done! Very impressive graphics and great music. The lighting is superb! I did find the controls a little wonky and an options screen to be able to change the keys would have made it really awesome.
\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410925453,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"Gorgeous! I can’t believe how much graphic and audio detail you crammed in here.
\nI didn’t manage to finish it. Kept getting caught by cheap shots, and accidentally going down stairs when I meant to crouch. But those are probably me problems, nothing wrong with the design. :)
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410930030,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"Amazing work with lighting.
\nGameplay is not that enjoyable, though. Down button used for both crouching and lift/stairs is especially annoying, as you ALWAYS has to crouch immediately after taking elevator/stairs up, and down buttons sends you back. Enemy respawning is also not a nice thing to do to player.
\n","games":["All you have to do is Dream"]},{"at":411029878,"author":"Reverend Stickle","login":"ReverendStickle","gh":215874048,"text":"Fun and very challenging game. I found it annoying that you can’t turn around while crouching, guess I’m just not hardcore enough ;)
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":411059436,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Nice GitHub README and love the graphic you put in there. The hero image on this page is nice too.
\nI love the emojis on the walls. The graphics and animation here are top notch. The controls are smooth and intuitive; aside from the stairway which was a little confusing at first (would be great to be able to continue up the “ramp” with the left/right arrow keys).
\nIt’d be cool to have respawn points (where after you get a certain way you restart from there when you die). It’s also a little weird that enemies respawn after you die.
\nWhen walking down the stairs, it’d be good to be able to stop (rather than having your character continue down or up regardless). This makes it tricky when there are lots of enemies either up or down stairs and you need to maneuver around them.
\nChallenging game and lots of fun, the lighting and textures are also brilliant.
\n"},{"at":411101789,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"Nice graphics and music. The character doesnt look much like Bruce Willis but he does look like my neighbour Tony, except for the vest and he doesnt have a cat.\nI figure the cat is hidden on the 3rd floor which is where my cat once went when he went missing and the old lady in the apartment opposite found him.
\n"},{"at":411192948,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Not a fan of the whole guns theme, but the game is visually interesting. The light effects and the different textures and 3D effects, while not to my taste, are technically impressive.
\nI was surprised that you can die from being crushed by the elevator. Was it expected that I can shoot from inside the room?
\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"at":411199365,"author":"Albert Arvidsson","login":"scmx","gh":603846,"url":"https://twitter.com/albertarv","text":"Haven’t beaten it yet, but it becomes easier by knowing that you can:
\nImpressive game! Didn’t play this one with kids. Gamepad support would be nice.\nI like the svg generation code.
\n"},{"at":411262596,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"Amazing implementation and graphics - looks great and play nicely - good dynamics and good fun. Very impressive.
\n","games":["Wake the Cat"]},{"at":411363924,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Really impressive
\nThe graphics are amazing, the lighting effects alone are amazing
\nI enjoyed playing the game going in all the doors and searching, and the shoot dynamic reminded me of another world
\nFor me the main character moved a little slow, and the use of stairs had to be quite well aligned
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411867332,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Don’t mess with John Wick’s cat, Manny! Loved the graphics, the use of light and the music really made it an enjoyable experience.
\nMy only small nitpick is that when you die and lose all your health, it always goes back to the loading screen. It would be great to have it respawn directly in the level, or even better, include a checkpoint system.\nBut overall, I really enjoyed playing it!