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ICATUS and the Golden Ball of Yarn by freakoftheyear

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made by freakoftheyear for LD 43 (COMPO)

Icatus is a homeless cat who wishes to catch the golden ball of yarn in the sky. For his holy mission to catch the sun, he has to sacrifice a lot of birds to make wings. Will he succeed?

2D Jumper platformer.

Construct 3 Photoshop(Piskel) for graphics Adobe Audition/Premiere for music Recorded all the sound effects, most done with my voice.

This is my first time doing the compo! I am an artist and have always had programmers in my team to do the coding part. I am quite happy how much I was able to push myself to do. So the idea was to make something mechanically really simple, learning from tutorials and try to make it better with art. :) I hope you enjoy. New Piskel (4).png tut).png

(Update: uploaded a web build, I will try to make an android build as well)

Other (web) https://www.scirra.com/arcade/action-games/icatus-36747
Windows https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yAejj0WLuCngnOdf0FPfQQvuJlgbWHPV
Source Code https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lzXH4aQ1hYQIm6dyUVDevwm9w7zLgnCp
Linux https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fymg9h2GnUKQCtQ46Uy89zt8GxNo94b8
macOS https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B2jHqxj3x0keyQpgVcUZCwWG9INTaxzX
Source code https://drive.google.com/open?id=12EAQB5NsupM7zOKB6zmFhwhGnRzw3lwL
Source code https://drive.google.com/open?id=1am7pZy-PJ0pxU8d_PxJynnoUh5IdZxtd
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/icatus-and-the-golden-ball-of-yarn

Ratings

Overall 147th 3.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 171th 3.455⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 458th 2.455⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 456th 2.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 48th 4.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 108th 3.475⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 172th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

siimer
03. Dec 2018 · 13:41 UTC
The art and sound are on point. I also really like how simple this game is mechanically. Aside from the controls being a bit too aggressive (making it harder to land on a platform) and some minor bugs, this game is great!
lienthealien
03. Dec 2018 · 14:02 UTC
Niceeeee game
figglewatts
03. Dec 2018 · 15:25 UTC
Awesome game! Really enjoyed it. Controls are a bit sensitive.
Simanis
03. Dec 2018 · 21:14 UTC
Did not expect to like it and yet I did.

Stuff I liked:
- sfx
- mood
- story
- mechanics

There were some minor bugs, but nothing gamebreaking. The biggest one was that buttons for restarting the game did not work. I think I completed the game with 20 feathers once, but got the bad ending. Might be tripping though
Mr.MadCat
04. Dec 2018 · 00:40 UTC
Cute game.
Graphics are pretty pawesome.
optimatica
04. Dec 2018 · 12:18 UTC
Really nice and polished game!
aplite
05. Dec 2018 · 13:48 UTC
This is a fun game. The graphics and audio are well done. The controls felt a little too stiff. I did really like the added mechanic of being able to sacrifice a feather for a second jump.
OakenMan
05. Dec 2018 · 15:04 UTC
Great game ! The cat is really cute and i liked the fact that even if the story was quite simple, it was easy to sympathize with the cat
Cute Dog IRL
05. Dec 2018 · 15:14 UTC
Sound and especially art are great, very cute.

I feel like the hitbox for hitting the cats is way to big, it often felt like I was really far away and still got hit (seemed to happen mostly when jumping). The controls are a bit difficult because of how far you go after pressing a direction for a very short time.

Overal quite a good game though!
angelnm
05. Dec 2018 · 15:32 UTC
Very addictive!! And the way you fall over the tree instead of restart is pretty cool.
Jimbly
06. Dec 2018 · 14:28 UTC
Enjoyed it, really liked the look of it! I'm pretty certain I had 21 feathers when I completed the game, but got a bad ending... maybe I lost a couple between when I looked at feathers and the end of game screen came up, but I didn't think so...
mirsakka
06. Dec 2018 · 21:59 UTC
Cats, yayy! Main character and other graphics are super cute. Maybe the "enemy" cat and the owl could have been more separate color, now they got easily mixed when playing. Nice work!
Toulou
09. Dec 2018 · 17:30 UTC
Fun little game ! It's simple yet I enjoyed playing it for a while. There's a few problem like the controls a bit too responsives, making the cat hard to control. But overall I liked it, the graphics are cute and it's surprisingly challenging. Good job :)
Fnissalot
10. Dec 2018 · 15:09 UTC
Nice game! I like the aesthetics with the music and such! well done!
Jens Steenmetz
10. Dec 2018 · 18:41 UTC
Fun game! Apart from sacrificing your wings, it is a bit unoriginal, but it is very well executed and has really nice graphics. Great job!
rumor
10. Dec 2018 · 19:54 UTC
The theme and graphics are fantastic. Gameplay is a little simplistic and, I felt, unforgiving. The touchiness of the controls and they way the platforms disappeared so abruptly at the bottom of the screen was kind of furstrating (typo... but I'm leaving it!). But it's fun enough and adorable, which is what really counts!
🎤 freakoftheyear
11. Dec 2018 · 02:18 UTC
Thank you so much everybody for playing and commenting! I am glad you enjoyed it! Also, lots of really great feedback to improve on!❤ 🐱 ❤
red
22. Dec 2018 · 03:32 UTC
Pretty nice, simple game. There's a nice amount of sound effects, although some sound a bit low quality. One graphical improvement I would like to see is to make the platforms stand out from the background a bit more.