It’s the classic Worms mayhem, where two teams of worms – packing a formidable arsenal of bazookas, miniguns, cluster bombs, and more – fight it out to be the last one standing.
\nPlayable as either local multiplayer, or remote multiplayer for up to 2 players at once.
\nWith an (admittedly) very loose connection to the theme, “Worms 13k (and the Unholy Black Cat)” brings the familiar turn-based, terrain destruction gameplay, with the addition of two new cat-based weapons: The Nyan Cats and the Unholy Black Cat.
\nUse them at your leisure, but beware, friendships might not survive!
\nI had a blast playing this! And the SVG masking for terrain destruction is very cool!
\n","games":["Color Cat"]},{"at":410401793,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Love Worms, love the game! The destruction and collision detection are super impressive, as is the overall presentation.
\nTwo things that I noticed that at least for me hold the game back a little bit. The first is moving the camera around. If I move right or down, I end up over the scrollbars and the camera stops moving, if I move up its the taskbar, left its my app nav bar. Granted up and left can be fixed by going fullscreen, down and right are always a problem. You could get rid of the scrollbars, and/or capture the users mouse. You already show your own mouse cursor, just capture their mouse and show yours? Something like that should work and make that much more user friendly.
\nSecond is the wind is so varied and random, and has a huge influence. I don’t remember it being like that in the worms games, although it’s been a long time. I’d like the ability to turn it off, or at least way down.
\nI only call these things about because the rest of the game is such an amazing accomplishment and I want to keep playing it! If you put out a directors cut that tweaks these things, I’ll definitely keep coming back and playing with friends, just like the old days in Worms :)
\n","games":["Whiskers Witch Adventure"]},{"at":410474323,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Amazing that you managed to create a whole online Worms in 13Ks.\nControls in some of the weapons are hard to understand but overall great entry.
\n","games":["Pacific Black Cats"]},{"at":410574610,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Really incredible to fit a clone of the very first worms game in 13k with these visuals, audio, gameplay, destructible terrain, weapons and everything. And online. Wow.
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410578555,"author":"Benjamin Boyd Austin","login":"bbaustin","gh":18755168,"text":"Woah, this is awesome! It really plays like the original. Amazing that you could create all of the different weapon mechanics. The cat items are a lot of fun, too.
\nMy only gripe is that moving the camera was a little touchy and slow. Sometimes I ran out of time in my turn, because I couldn’t find my enemy fast enough.
\nBut yeah, really fun! Amazing job
\n","games":["VOID Cat"]},{"at":410592517,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"I don’t recall calling for an ultimate air strike. Since you made a clone, 2 things are missing back-flip and AI.
\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"at":410667621,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"It’s amazing you packed so much into your entry. Great technical achievement! It brings back a lot of PC computer game memories from when I was a lot younger.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410688481,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Then destructible SVG terrain is amazing! Also that you managed to essentially add the whole worms-game into the 13 kB.
\nOk, the theme “Black cat” is obviously…. erm… lets name it “scratched” :-D
\nHowever: Really great Job done!
\n","games":["Miami Mice"]},{"at":410759758,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"Looking amazing, but not much to do in it without AI bots.\nSome weapons, like Nyan cats and air strike does not seem to work.
\n","games":["All you have to do is Dream"]},{"at":410777891,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"Pretty impressive destructible terrain, and the explosions going around everywhere are cool, but it’s a bit difficult to understand what’s going on in my opinion; the controls aren’t explained in-game and when you use some stuff, you have negative amounts of it. Otherwise, the game looks cool, congratulations!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"at":410786382,"author":"Zach","login":"Beanminchild","gh":199300398,"text":"Ive always been a huge fan of the worms game and this is such a technologically impressive recreation of the heart and soul of those games in such a small package with online functionality too!
\nThis is an impressive feat but I do have to say the theming is a bit of a stretch and the game doesnt run great on my computer and the controls can be a bit wonky.
\nBut a fun game is a fun game and I cant be too upset because this is very impressive!
\n","games":["BlackCat_Hacker"]},{"at":410837695,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"The level, worms, sound FX are all great. Impressive to see the fully working game within the limits of this jam!
\nHad some issues with performance and the homing missile broke play.
\nFun to play!
\n","games":["Yarn Run"]},{"at":410912057,"author":"Gleb Volkov","login":"malec-palec","gh":2181873,"twitter":"volkov_ayyy","text":"I really love how it delivers classic Worms mayhem - big weapons, chaotic explosions, and that nostalgic feel. The flow is fun and it gets pretty wild in a good way. I was kinda hoping to hear an iconic “Worms alleluia” but with cats doing a meow-chorus instead 😄 - still, it hits most of what makes Worms great.
\n","games":["Catapoolt"]},{"at":411103885,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"This game is buggy as hell, but it only made it more fun. There’s a bug in the air strike where you can spam click to absolutely destroy the landscape. I haven’t tried it in online mode yet :^)
\nThe scrolling doesn’t work very well, even in full screen, as the mouse has to be in a precise location, but not on the edge. I also wish we could zoom out.
\nOverall, very impressive game. Movement is a bit janky, and the worms get stuck often. There’s no double backflip so sometimes it’s impossible to continue moving. But just the fact that you implemented random terrain that can be destroyed in 13kb is already really amazing. The diversity of weapons is impressive, as is the wind effect and the precision of the shots. The addition of the two cat bombs is also welcome.
\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"at":411121571,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Really fun, super graphics and gameplay
\nI played the original a lot at University, so it was very nostalgic for me
\nI need to get some people together for online battles
\nGood job
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"at":411211768,"author":"Gabor Héja","login":"gheja","gh":1894642,"url":"https://gabor.heja.hu/","text":"It is impressive that you could fit so many things in such a small size! I encountered a few bugs (side of the map seems to be a wall, randomly teleporting through terrain, etc.) but I had fun. The atmosphere and chaos is definitely Worms :) Great job!
\n","games":["Alley Kitty"]},{"at":411790254,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"🐛 Incredible to see a Worms-style game in 13kB! It brings back so many memories. Having multiple weapons is great, though the shooting power felt quite different between the bazooka and grenades.
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"typ":2,"at":411829653,"author":"Ben Allfree","login":"benallfree","gh":1068356,"twitter":"benallfree","text":"This is a super fun game, I’m not sure what happened but it kept spamming bombs and not stopping. It reminds me of the old Scorched Earth that I played for hours with my friends in the 90’s.
\nWell done!
\nWalkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Srnb5qEx1I
\n","games":["Mewsterpiece"]},{"typ":2,"at":412040910,"author":"Michał Chojnacki","login":"alcore","gh":13606783,"url":"https://muyo.io","text":"It’s fun and wacky in the same way the original is. It also feels like the online integration is a natural fit here and works nice as well - I had a blast, ugh, blasting my partner to bits. Bugged air strike or not ;)
\nTechnically, doing this all within an SVG was surprising to many of us here and I felt it was worth shouting out (personally I’d love to read some post-mortem that explains the “why” behind this decision). It worked just fine on my beefy desktop, but was unplayably sluggish on my low-end laptop from a few years back. Generally it’s expected in 3d games etc., but in this case I felt that for what I get to see on screen, that hardware should’ve been more than sufficient. I suspect the entire SVG gets rasterized each frame and not culled, and that’s the culprit.
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