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Collect cat food, dodge asteroids and keep your suit powered!

Submitted by bene-labs, Nayuka, Johannes | P3ngui — 6 hours, 20 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Presentation	#166	3.833	3.833
Theme	#185	3.648	3.648
Fun	#229	3.241	3.241
Originality	#254	3.537	3.537

Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent "Power"?
In this game you must use your limited power (electricity) as efficiently as possible.
You can only move by using your space-suit's boost, but doing so cost power. The goal is to reach as far as possible without running out of power.
Hitting asteroids drains power, or kills you if you have none left, while collecting cat food restores power.

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OofishySubmitted30 days ago(+2)

Really fun game! Physics was a pleasant surprise

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Wizard Without Legs

bene-labsDeveloper29 days ago(+2)

Thanks! Godots 2D physics rule :D

OofishySubmitted29 days ago(+2)

yeah, I was impressed by how easy it is to figure out, even though I had never used it before

Mystery Box GamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

I think I have an addiction issue with Leaderboards, cause as soon as I saw this game had one I couldn't stop playing till I got #1 xD So I definitely enjoyed your game! The art and music were nice. The only critique I have is that I felt like there should have been some invincibility for like a few seconds after you get hit. I didn't really like how sometimes you could be hit by an asteroid and based on where you got hit (say the front on the bottom) it would cause you to flip 180 degrees just for your tail to get hit and damaged. If there were invincibility frames it would seem to make it a little more fair/satisfying. But if this is what you were going for I get it too. There is a good mix of randomness and skill that was very satisfying. Great work!

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Killing Humans for Zommies

bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

Thanks for your feedback an congrats on your incredible score! I glad you enjoyed our game. :)

I actually added invincibility frames but they’re way too short (just 0.2 seconds). I wanted to add a shop where you could upgrade the invincibility duration among many other things but run out of time for that and forgot to balance it accordingly…😅

Mystery Box GamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Ah, that would've been awesome. You should continue to work on it after the jam!

tapesclubSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

nice work! my high score is 5765.91m, which seems to be good for #8 worldwide, so putting that on my cv

oddly satisfying slamming the poor space cat into asteroids (don't tell my cat)

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

Thank you and well played!

5700m would have given you #2 not too long ago, I love how the top scores are ramping up. :D (And yeah, I also feel a bit guilty about designing the game that way)

PhlegmleeSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

I am really bad at this, but I can't seem to stop playing it regardless. Good fun!

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

Thanks! :D If you can’t stop playing that’s a good sign ^^

HalfBakedGamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

I learned today that I should not be allowed to pilot space cats. Had a laugh playing this for sure. The global leaderboard was a nice touch.

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

Thank you! ^^

jonas newhouseSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

I loved the art and this was such a fun idea! Movement was pretty smooth too once I got ahold of it, though stopping my momentum proved pretty difficult most of the time. Also worth nothing that I tried using the mouse thumb buttons but one of them is also tied to stepping back a page on my browser so i wasn't able to lol. Another reason to love that you gave options for controls though! Overall this was a fun and wonderful game, also scoped very well for a game jam time constraint imo.

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Boot King's Tax Day

bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback!

Maybe I should have buffed the break a bit, but I like that the best strategy is to crash into asteroids in a way that allows you to better align yourself. Tough maybe the cat is too cute to make people wanna do that. xD Really glad that you called out the different control schemes, I tried my best to enable many different one-handed controls this jam. :)

ollie's hard driveSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Loving this art style so much! THE CHARMMMMM~~~~ !!!!!

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BangoSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Great art and music - game plays smoothly too. I LOVED that you have global rankings. I haven't seen that yet in a game jam and it adds a great touch.

Slowing down was the trickiest part but made for a good challenge.

Nice work!

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

I’m glad your enjoyed it, thanks for the comment!

Setting up online leaderboards wasn’t actually too bad thanks to Google Firebase. I think I’ll add them to most of my games from now on. :) Btw. “Catnap” managed to get online leaderboard working as well

BangoSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Yes - I played Catnap right after this and I was like "Dang, I gotta try global rankings next time!" Thanks for giving me something to learn and practice next. Cheers!

Yah'elSubmitted30 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Can I please get a screenshot of this game on a hoodie? Its cute, its simple. At one point I got stuck at the bottom of the screen and couldn't get out of it lol, but good work team!

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

Thanks for the kind words!

Yeah the walls were a bit of a pain. I made them super bouncy at first but it was too much for a lot of playtesters. There is a secret to always free yourself tough: rotate back and let your tail push you. ;p Still not ideal of course…

DorkSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Space Cat is the best cat. Wish I didn't stink at this game.

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Hiding_n_PublicSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Really liked the style for the cat and the coloring down. Having the multiple star layers parallazing is fun too. After around 3000 though I got buffeted by bouncing asteroid to my doom

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

Haha yeah maybe I went a bit too tough with the balancing there. I didn’t want a round to last too long but still… ^^ One tip if you want to make it further: if you can maintain a high speed most of the flying asteroids won’t hit you and the further you go the more cat food will spawn making it more safe to crash.

Thanks for your feedback!

HeckYeahGamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

The art is really cute and the game was fun. The asteroids flying in from the top and bottom were purr chaos, but I made it 3456m.

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Bots n' Batteries

Daniel JinSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

That is one durable cat you've got there! The game is well presented and fun to play!

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bene-labsDeveloper30 days ago

It did eat a lot of gourmet gold… ^^ Thanks for playing!

TorbsSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

loved the artstyle! struggled a bit with the controls and got stuck between a big cluster of asteroids, but was fun to fly around space as a cat haha! well done :)

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barrousuSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Cool game, the art style is very nice!

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cbasaSubmitted31 days ago(+1)

so cute! our game also has a cat in space at the last level :D

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bene-labsDeveloper31 days ago

Thanks! Looks like I gotta give your game a try then ;D

RamiTheCoolGamerSubmitted31 days ago(+1)

The controls are great, the art is beautiful, and the leaderboard system is such a nice touch!

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bene-labsDeveloper31 days ago (1 edit)

Thank you so much! ☺️

The leaderboards were a very last minute addition but I luckily got them to work just in time 😅

Tim0nSubmitted31 days ago(+1)

Super fun! I'm glad the cat was indestructible because otherwise I would have felt so bad!

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Mini Powerlines

bene-labsDeveloper31 days ago

The suit has an advanced Asteroid defense system, that’s why. xD It does need power though…

Congrats on #5 and thanks for playing!

Daniel's funny fun zoneSubmitted31 days ago(+1)

So cute! Made number 3 on the leaderboard! :D

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bene-labsDeveloper31 days ago

Nice, Congrats! Thank you for playing :)

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