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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Sensory | #1 | 4.387 | 4.387 |
Metroidvania | #2 | 4.387 | 4.387 |
Overall | #2 | 4.181 | 4.181 |
Execution | #2 | 3.968 | 3.968 |
Enjoyment | #4 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
Relevance to the theme picked | #7 | 4.355 | 4.355 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme Chosen
The Year is 20XX. We interpreted this theme as a cyberpunk theme
Engine
Godot 3.5
Team/Developer
Nateycakes, Vivante, Martcoza, Seventh Sam
Reference info
twitter: @nateycakes_ discord: nateycakes
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i didn't finish playing (because i got stuck somewhere) but overall i loved it!! the art was amazing, the double jump was smooth and the sound design oh my GOD...now i didn't finish it because i got stuck in a place trying to get out while using a double jump (but the platform seemed to be just a little too high), i tried for a long time before giving up, i probably missed a different way to get out so this most likely is just because i'm bad at games lol. i actually had a lot of fun though, spammed Q a lot !! keep meowing !!
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you had a good time!
I might be biased, but I think our art and sound teams did a FANTASTIC job. I'm also glad you enjoyed the dedicated meow button - it's the most important feature in the game imo
so true! i also think your teams did a fantastic job!!!
Your comments make my day (as the sound person on the team). I appreciate it greatly, thank you!
Really awesome aesthetic and musical choices. The level design was solid, usually the player has the feeling of what to do once getting an upgrade.
Little nitpicks:
- Could be good to have a jump animation, I believe the cat still looks like it's running in the air.
- Having map would help a lot while traversing. I had to cut the map from my game as well, but given the size of yours it would be beneficial.
Great job!
Thanks for playing and for the kind words!
I agree, the jump animation would help with immersion and just look nicer. We do have one, I just had trouble with the logic for displaying it and never got time to revisit it
Also agree map wouldve been helpful - sadly had to be cut as well.
This was my first metroidvania and 2nd-ever platformer, so a lot of lessons learned for next time. Thanks again for playing!
Glad you played and enjoyed it. Nitpicks noted!
Excellent game! Love the artstyle as many have said, and the subtle choice of having a different sound effect for the second jump was great. Very atmospheric soundtrack - my only real criticism is that you didn't call it Cat GPT :)
Thank you very much for the kind words! also LOL that pun is almost *too* powerful
I'm glad that detail paid off. Thank you for playing!
This one is a contender for me.
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Thank you for playing and for the very kind words!
For what it's worth, we did have a codex menu planned that would pop up when you paused the game. Each Disc collectible in the world would add an entry to the codex and have worldbuilding lore if you wanted to get absorbed in the story. We sadly ran out of time and couldn't get the menu working in time
Truly this is one of the saddest phrases in gamedev: we sadly ran out of time
Take heart--if "out of time IRL" were the theme for this jam, we'd almost all be getting 5s
Fantastic aesthetic, and overall pretty fun to play through.
The C.A.T controls are very satisfying to jump around with, but the button layouts (at least for a keyboard) is a little funky. For example using WASD, I had a really hard time attacking while jumping to the right.
One very minor nitpick is that the jump animation is a bit rough, since it seems to just be the running animation in air.
It was a little tough to see where I needed to go. When I ran into this issue with my submission, I had to zoom the camera out. This way the player can see a goal area/platform/collectible that they want to go to and navigate a path to that place instead of the player only being able to see the next platform to jump to without knowing where they're going to eventually end up.
Each room was very well designed, I really enjoyed exploring the area and finding the collectibles, though I didn't come close to getting all of them.
> the button layouts (at least for a keyboard) is a little funky. For example using WASD, I had a really hard time attacking while jumping to the right.
I admit I didn't give the keyboard layout the love it deserved, but for what it's worth, you can also use the arrow keys for movement!
> One very minor nitpick is that the jump animation is a bit rough, since it seems to just be the running animation in air.
Yeah, it def looks a lil jank - we *do* have a jump animation, however I was having some trouble working the logic to get it to display for longer than 1 frame and had to move on and would "fix it later" (I didn't fix it later) lol
Thank you for playing and for the kind words!
Wow, just wow. I had a great time playing this and I didn't want it to stop. Aesthethically this game is amazing, audio especially, it was so engrossing and chill, SFXs were all matched greatly too. Only graphical nitpick I can have is that background in some situations was a bit too saturated and obscured gameplay, but not enough to bother me, just noticable. Gameplay was simple but satisfying. You didn't have a map system but personally I didn't feel the need of it, but if I were to go for 100% completion I'd probably expect it to be there. The fact that there's a dedicated meow button is very charming :)
I really, really like this entry, good job team!
Thank you so much for the kind words! and thank you for playing! I'm glad you had fun with it :D
Audio person here:
Thank you very, very much for the kind words <3 The *very* first thing that was asked of me when we met to discuss the initial plans was the Meow Button LOL
I really liked your art style and it meshed well with your music. I got a good chuckle out of the cat hit meow which gives the game more personality. And clearly, you have a solid grasp of metroidvanias. Honestly, I think what I love the most though is the cat's idle animation. Having had many cats, I love when they're in that position, usually when trying to catch something.
A lot of the comments below are the same criticisms I have for the game.
The following points just considerations moving forward
Overall a cool game with personality! Congrats!
Thank you for playing and for the kind words!
The Map: I definitely agree the map is pretty crucial for the genre and would help our game's flow immensely. This was my first metroidvania and 2nd-ever 2D platformer, so a lot of learning of how to set up various gameplay systems was done along the way, hah.
The CDs: they were part of another unfinished feature, a lorebook/codex. When you collected them, they were going to populate a lorebook that appeared on the pause screen. It was a way for players to have lore if they sought it out, and also give completionists a drive to collect em all
The extra considerations are very much welcomed, I never thought to do that, and as a Godot newbie, I really appreciate the mouse hiding piece of advice. Thank you again for the really constructive and thoughtful feedback!!!
Thank you for playing, and for the helpful feedback and suggestions!
Very cool aesthetic, I really enjoyed the variety of backgrounds and the feel of the different areas (although space was... weird :P). The movement was very fluid and smooth and the jumping felt precise and controllable. The attack, once I got it, was satisfying and I liked that it was more of a stun than an actual attack, I wasn't incentivized to go around clearing out entire maps of enemies. I liked the abundant health pickups and the jumping puzzles later in the game (well, the devices that you'd have to whack and land on in the same jump). I also cracked up every time my cat got hit, and appreciate that there's a dedicated button to "meow".
Some feedback:
1. The world is big and I don't have a map (as far as I could tell). I eventually got my head wrapped around the central thoroughfare, but the space map was particularly disorienting and took me awhile to work my way through.
2. Similar to the above, I never really felt like I had any guidance, I was just kind of let loose in the world and had to guess where you wanted me to go. There was a fairly natural progression in the beginning of the game up to the first ability, but after that I was sort of just wandering around aimlessly until I found the next one.
3. It was unclear to me what the CDs were for, if they were necessary for progress or just a bonus collectible. I got to the end, so now I know, but having all these items scattered around and me not necessarily knowing where I was supposed to go at the same time just sort of had me worried that I needed to find X CDs and then take them somewhere or something. Probably a me problem, but it was there in the back of my mind.
Anyway, I enjoyed my time with the game. Good implementation, great aesthetic, and a cool usage of the theme. I'm happy I got to help the cat escape cyberspace!
Thank you for playing and for the really constructive feedback!
For points 1 and 2, we were planning on implementing a map and some "non-interactable doodads" to help guide the player, but I ran out of time and didn't get to implement them. I def agree though!
For point 3, we also had planned some kind of "lore book" that collecting the CDs would add a piece of lore to your notebook/codex that you could read to get that DEEP LORE. But again, I ran out of time and couldn't finish it.
Thanks again for the great feedback!
I'm happy you got the cat to escape, too! All feedback is well taken.
I had a lot of fun playin this! The aesthetic is easily one of my favourites, and the music and ambience... I canny even articulate. Well done crew, hope you guys come back to this one and add more!
thank you very much for playing and for the kind words! I'm happy to hear it was fun!
Music and ambience person here:
Thank you <3 Makin' my day.
Actually love the art style, I really enjoy the simple neon look it has!
Thank you!
Our artists did a fantastic job, imo :-)
I really like the art style and amount of areas and secrets/coins there are. think it would be great to have some sort of minimap/map to show how the regions are connected, It was very well designed so I did not get lost, but I think it would be heard to find all the secrets as is.
Classic metroidvania!
thank you for playing! and yeah, a map was planned but sadly we ran out of time to implement it. It definitely would be helpful. Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for playing!
I enjoyed the game! It really feels metroidvania ish
thank you for playing!
Thank you! Glad to hear it.
Cyber cat, cyber cat! Meeeoow!
Loved the theming, visuals and music.
From what I've played so far the most metroidvania-ish game and one of the most fun too.
Thank you very much for the kind words!
Graphics are really pretty. They're simple but still visually nice to look at. The music fit the visuals nicely too. The walking animation was really nice too.
I don't remember where but at some point I went through an exit and instantly turned back and ended up falling through the ground. Would have liked a jump animation since you do it so much but it wasn't the worse to not have it.
I feel like I kind of got lost. I got the double jump and made it to the second region with the rocky surface and the flying enemies, I explored a bunch there but wasn't entirely sure where to go and I think I was going around in circles a lot.
The controls were to my liking. Some people in a lot of these game jams seem to prefer certain other schemes (like arrow keys) but I personally like WASD and space. I like the dedicated meow button.
Really cool entry.
> I don't remember where but at some point I went through an exit and instantly turned back and ended up falling through the ground.
I've seen a few ppl have something similar happen! I'm bummed we never caught it in our playtesting, but def will fix in the future
>I feel like I kind of got lost.
A map system was planned but sadly we ran out of time so it got cut
>The controls were to my liking
That's great to hear! We tried to accomodate many control schemes since we lacked a rebinding menu
Thank you for the great feedback and for playing our game!
really pretty entry, lovely graphics and the cat animations are spectacular... Bit easy to get lost and a map would help, but I had lots of fun with this one!
Thank you for playing and for the kind words! We had a map system planned, but sadly ran out of time to implement it, but I'm glad you had fun regardless!
Cool project! It really feels like a metroidvania. I would love if there were some epic or strange powers or environment objects to play with
Thank you for playing! It would be fun to expand upon the small world we've created for sure
It felt way too easy to get lost in this game. I spent most of my time running in circles until I happened to run into the attack ability. A map screen or some more distinctive landmarks in the level design would have really helped. That said the game was pretty fun otherwise
Thank you for playing! We had a map planned along with having some non-interactable landmarks but sadly ran out of time to implement them - I agree it would've helped with navigation, but yknow, jam time 😅
I dig the atmosphere of the game, great meshing of visuals and sound. My #1 issue was that several times I went through a door to another area, and just ended up in a void where I was falling endlessly.
Poor Cyber cat... falling forever. He will never see the then of the game...
Oh no! Can you give some pointers on where you encountered this issue?
It happened in different places... I think the key was walking into an exit and immediately changing directions to go the other way?
Hope that helps
Thank you! We'll look into that
Wow! It's amazing how much content there actually is, feels like a real game they could've shipped along with Stray. Love the art direction and music working together really well. Managed to beat the game with 9 secrets gathered. Took me a while to find the attack ability, I though my controls were broken :)
Thank you! Your feedback is appreciated.