GattoMagico by tanis
GattoMagico
You are a stray cat with super-powers!!
A horde of rats is chasing you and you must make your way through different levels and reach the end.
You can shapeshift between three different shapes:
- the fat ROUND cat, whose super power is being extremely goot at eating snacks!
- the SQUARE cat, able to shoot fishes at doors to bash them open
- the TRIANGLE cat, the fastest and fiercest of them all. He can freeze the rats tailing you!
How to play:
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LEFT / RIGHT to move your cat
Z to shapeshift (Z or A in the post-compo version)
X to use the special ability of your current form (X or S in the post-compo version)
ROUND = can eat snacks for energy
TRIANGLE = can freeze enemies
SQUARE = can fire to open doors
Press SPACE to make your choices in the menu screens.
Updates
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2016/04/20
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- Added A and S as alternative keys for shape-shifting and using the special ability.
- "CONTINUE" is the default menu choice.
- Added tracking of high score and top level.
- Your progress is now being saved so that you can play from where you left last time you played.
You are a stray cat with super-powers!!
A horde of rats is chasing you and you must make your way through different levels and reach the end.
You can shapeshift between three different shapes:
- the fat ROUND cat, whose super power is being extremely goot at eating snacks!
- the SQUARE cat, able to shoot fishes at doors to bash them open
- the TRIANGLE cat, the fastest and fiercest of them all. He can freeze the rats tailing you!
How to play:
==========
LEFT / RIGHT to move your cat
Z to shapeshift (Z or A in the post-compo version)
X to use the special ability of your current form (X or S in the post-compo version)
ROUND = can eat snacks for energy
TRIANGLE = can freeze enemies
SQUARE = can fire to open doors
Press SPACE to make your choices in the menu screens.
Updates
=========
2016/04/20
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- Added A and S as alternative keys for shape-shifting and using the special ability.
- "CONTINUE" is the default menu choice.
- Added tracking of high score and top level.
- Your progress is now being saved so that you can play from where you left last time you played.
Ratings
| Coolness | 68% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.00 | 636 |
| Audio | 3.24 | 227 |
| Fun | 2.94 | 592 |
| Graphics | 2.77 | 593 |
| Humor | 2.94 | 209 |
| Innovation | 2.56 | 780 |
| Mood | 2.76 | 570 |
| Theme | 3.32 | 493 |
The rats seem to be unstoppable in level 4, but that could just be me not using the Freeze as often as I should?
Controls are well responsive, but the hitbox of the obstacles is unforgiving - trying to make those quick dashes for snacks can end you very quickly. I feel it may be better that the obstacles reduce your distance from the rats rather than instand death? But that's just me.
A nice and entertaining game. 3 thumbs up.
This definitely has that flappy-bird-factor haha, extremely frustrating but really addictive. Getting your swaps down perfectly is incredibly satisfying. Doing it consistenly is extremely challenging.
Honestly my only criticism would be to streamline the menu. 'Continue' should be the first option (the number of times I went back to level01 because my downarrow wasn't registered in the menu...) in fact you really should be able to retry a level with one buttonpress - a game like this definitely needs that to counter frustration!
Anyway thanks for a great game! Played for a solid hour and I'll probably go back to it in future! Can I ask how many levels there are in total?
@shadowforce768 I know the rats can become annoying after a while. And I even toned them down a lot compared to the first versions :-P
@ziege I completely forgot about non-qwerty users! So sorry! I'll add more key variations in an upcoming post-compo version!
@Ibzy the first 3 levels are pretty basic, then the net 3 ramp up with difficulty. Freeze is key to get over level 4. I don't know if getting away from the insta-death mechaninc would add to gameplay or rather tone it down. Thanks for the idea anyway!
@ajhc thank you soooo much for the comment! I really like that you enjoyed the game that much!
I should definitely move that "continue" button in the first place and let it be the default selection! I'll do that in the next post-compo release.
Nice game.
Cheers,
Matei (BananaHammers Team)
It's definitely my fault but I misselected new game quite a lot of times, while i think the most commonly selected option would be continue and it should be on top.
The game was a little hectic at first but I got a hang of the controls later on.