NekoShift by kostik1337

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made by kostik1337 for LD35 (JAM)
Once upon a time there was a little kitty called Chouhiro-nyan.
She lived in the Green Forest, eating mushrooms and apples, keeping the forest out of troubles.
One day, evil spirits have appeared in the woods to make the forest their haunt.
As the guardian of the Green Forest, Chouhiro-nyan bears a duty to banish these filthy spirits out of her home!
Chouhiro-nyan seeks for amber stones to transform herself in a magical girl for a short time and obtain superpowers.
She has ability to cast lightning charges while in catgirl form to expel your foes.
Beware! Spirits bite. Keep an eye on your HP level and use food to refill your health.
Save the Green Forest from doom!

Controls: arrow keys - move
Space - transform in a magical girl and fire lightnings

Written in python using pygame

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.04 723
Audio(Jam) 3.36 292
Fun(Jam) 2.75 837
Graphics(Jam) 3.84 262
Humor(Jam) 2.30 610
Innovation(Jam) 2.20 1062
Mood(Jam) 3.33 359
Theme(Jam) 3.16 674

Feedback

Elemental Zeal Games Studios
19. Apr 2016 · 17:25 UTC
Loved the kitty sprite. It was a bit stiff in terms of controls and game play.
HolyBlackCat
19. Apr 2016 · 19:00 UTC
Nothing too special about gameplay, but the graphics was amasing!
IDidGame
19. Apr 2016 · 19:25 UTC
sweet!
Benjamin-L
19. Apr 2016 · 19:39 UTC
The graphics are great!
AAGH Games
19. Apr 2016 · 19:39 UTC
Nice concept, I just wish the magical girl form either ran faster or fired more rapidly.
V4lesti
19. Apr 2016 · 19:44 UTC
Nice, but I think the "cat girl" form is way too slow. That could have been interesting though, but you cannot transform back, so you are just stuck. The ray is also too slow to fire, getting you hit during casting, which is a bit frustrating.
omlette.du.fromage
19. Apr 2016 · 19:48 UTC
Quite a cute game. Loving the graphics and music. Didn't quite get what I was supposed to do. It was fun to run around with the little kitty sprite. Didn't quite use the other shape.
Alphish
19. Apr 2016 · 22:56 UTC
The game is really pretty, but falls rather short on gameplay - the catgirl form is much slower than cat and can't reliably keep the spirits away, especially with seemingly long recharge and attacking only the spirits she's facing (and there's no way to turn back to agile cat shape manually, either). After a few tries I managed to complete a level once, but then I failed again and don't really feel like trying anymore. ^^'
From minor qualms, the music (at least in menu) has audible loops, and the font was a bit hard to read.
Keep improving!
Cowa
20. Apr 2016 · 18:06 UTC
Very cute kitty cat :3
Jungle
20. Apr 2016 · 18:12 UTC
I really liked the art. Music are good too. You could increase the girl movement a bit. Congrats
Pusty
20. Apr 2016 · 19:33 UTC
Really cute game! Nice graphics, really good music. Great game! :D
mkghoster
21. Apr 2016 · 19:13 UTC
Nice little game.
(Found the debug 'show colliders' key when spamming WASD :D)
sheepsalamanderfox
22. Apr 2016 · 14:23 UTC
This is a Ghostbuster cat x)
Atridas
24. Apr 2016 · 17:21 UTC
Nice and sweet game. I loved the pixel art and the controls are responsive.
LeoM
25. Apr 2016 · 18:04 UTC
Cute graphics, lovely music.
Nice entry. :)
Tselmek
25. Apr 2016 · 18:08 UTC
Very nice graphics and audio, the atmosphere was lovely. Sadly for me, the game was immensely laggy, it was quite charming nonetheless.
plko
25. Apr 2016 · 18:16 UTC
Nekomimi is justice!!!
The last stage is a little difficult. Sprites seem to no limit, so the game becomes lag when stage start about destroy first portal, this is also making the difficulty from easy to lunatic, lag + large number of sprites, it's really hell.
But...Nekomimi moemoe :PPPP
Freank
26. Apr 2016 · 16:12 UTC
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
deadbodyoutline
28. Apr 2016 · 04:30 UTC
Cute graphics and nice sound.

Something I missed was the ability to transform back to a cat, missed to run away from the spirits ;)