Awesome game, i had a little visual bug with the "Press escape to skip cutscene", every time the intro switched scenes it appeared for a milisecond.
I played the downloadable version.
You can also spam click the start text and it does the sound even in transition.
Very creative skills, i like the ball one, also while you are in ball form you can still use the needle so that may be unintended, and if you spam the e key you can also stop the ball midway and do it again really fast in another direction. The platforming is pretty good.
This one is a little bit nitpicky but you should be careful of gaps that look like the player could go through them but can't, also in my first playthrough i didn't see the wooden sign so i didn't know it was a decision to talk to each animal.
The level design is pretty neat, level 3 ball should be better balanced i think, i like the idea of having to jump on a flying box, that´s cool, but the timing is weird, the "jump here!" text wasn't that useful.
The level one from the monkey i spotted a bug where i stuck the nut below the box and couldn't complete the level.
I didn't understad the last level, i just destroyed the boxes and won.
Now for the story, the concept and message is good, but i didn't feel like it was very connected to the gameplay, i get that the cat had identity crisis, but that was because the other cats didn't like him, what changed during the adventure? Did the cat realised it was fun to be a cat? or that being black didn't have anything to do with misfortune? I get that we tried to be like the other animals and that wasn't our identity, but why? Can't a black cat be a cool bat too? Maybe a reason as to why the cat couldn't become the other animals or that he didn't need to change it's identity would be good, but that's probably due to the time constraints of the game jam.
Or maybe show the other animals accepting the cat for who it is but maybe that's what the ending hints at.
Very cute art, i liked it very much. Good job to your team!
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Thanks IvCill for your humongous comment!
You really brought important questions to the board!
It was hard to make the game in every aspect perfect and thanks for pointing out some possible improvements!
The last level should be a nice change of space and there is actually a strategy that can been followed. most of the tiomes and you only spam attack .... than you will most likely not get to the top.
About the story I will say the following. The game doesn't talk about what you should identify yourself as a person or what you wanna be. What I wanted to tell is that we shouldn't search ourselves in others and that we shouldn't change based on others what we are. Every person should always act with it's reason and not only with their rationality (Kant ethical base concept) and eventough this ethical concept is primarily directed towards the behaviour of the other cats it also touches the the overall thinking. So deciding to find your existence in others doesn't help yourself and also not the others. The most important thing is that you search what you wanna be and develop yourself twowards it. The message couldn't be perfectionized in 6 days and regarding the amount of gameplay this game should also be seen on a perspective of a game jam game. Regarding your critisisim as a suggestion though it is totally a point to improve.
Thanks for playing!
Yeah, a lot of what I said is just an opinion, I brought that up because the average player that doesn't know you or didn't read that may not get the message across,
My point was that yeah, the game is about not searching ourselves in others and to not try to change for them, but the main mechanic is doing that, and if you don't, you can't reach the ending, so you still have to try to imitate others to find yourself (if we don't count skipping the levels, that actually would be more in line with the message I think). Because yeah, you say we shouldn't try to change for others, but I didn't see the consequences of doing so. Just giving something to think about.
You say that we shouldn't find our existence in others, but we exist because of others, when we are kids we look out for our parents, we have idols, we have celebrities, we have superheroes, and not just people, every idea is born from others, not just divine revelation, and by holding Kant's ideas, you are trying to be a little bit like him too I believe.
Maybe the idea that you really wanted to touch was reason vs rationality but I didn't see that in game.
I could also be misinterpreting things so sorry if I'm wrong!
Don't worry about the state of the game too much, It doesn't have to be perfect and it's perfectly functional and good as how it is right now.