{"author_link":"\/users\/freakoftheyear","author_name":"freakoftheyear","author_uid":"1012125","comments":[{"author_name":"siimer","author_uid":"1041947","time":"2018-12-03T13:41:43Z","epoch":1543844503,"modified":1543844503,"text":"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! ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"lienthealien","author_uid":"1112178","time":"2018-12-03T14:02:38Z","epoch":1543845758,"modified":1543845758,"text":"Niceeeee game ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"figglewatts","author_uid":"1123419","time":"2018-12-03T15:25:31Z","epoch":1543850731,"modified":1543850731,"text":"Awesome game! Really enjoyed it. Controls are a bit sensitive.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Simanis","author_uid":"1065957","time":"2018-12-03T21:14:12Z","epoch":1543871652,"modified":1543871652,"text":"Did not expect to like it and yet I did.\n\nStuff I liked:\n- sfx\n- mood\n- story\n- mechanics\n\nThere 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","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mr.MadCat","author_uid":"1010740","time":"2018-12-04T00:40:07Z","epoch":1543884007,"modified":1543884007,"text":"Cute game.\nGraphics are pretty pawesome.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"optimatica","author_uid":"1026476","time":"2018-12-04T12:18:11Z","epoch":1543925891,"modified":1543925891,"text":"Really nice and polished game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aplite","author_uid":"1059711","time":"2018-12-05T13:48:50Z","epoch":1544017730,"modified":1544017730,"text":"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.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OakenMan","author_uid":"1122614","time":"2018-12-05T15:04:20Z","epoch":1544022260,"modified":1544022260,"text":"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","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cute Dog IRL","author_uid":"1126553","time":"2018-12-05T15:14:26Z","epoch":1544022866,"modified":1544022866,"text":"Sound and especially art are great, very cute.\n\nI 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.\n\nOveral quite a good game though!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"angelnm","author_uid":"1011336","time":"2018-12-05T15:32:36Z","epoch":1544023956,"modified":1544023956,"text":"Very addictive!! And the way you fall over the tree instead of restart is pretty cool.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jimbly","author_uid":"1000989","time":"2018-12-06T14:28:53Z","epoch":1544106533,"modified":1544106533,"text":"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...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mirsakka","author_uid":"1128970","time":"2018-12-06T21:59:34Z","epoch":1544133574,"modified":1544133574,"text":"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!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Toulou","author_uid":"1009576","time":"2018-12-09T17:30:19Z","epoch":1544376619,"modified":1544376619,"text":"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 :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fnissalot","author_uid":"1128234","time":"2018-12-10T15:09:02Z","epoch":1544454542,"modified":1544454542,"text":"Nice game! I like the aesthetics with the music and such! well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jens Steenmetz","author_uid":"1122631","time":"2018-12-10T18:41:35Z","epoch":1544467295,"modified":1544467295,"text":"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!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rumor","author_uid":"1105232","time":"2018-12-10T19:54:31Z","epoch":1544471671,"modified":1544471671,"text":"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!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"freakoftheyear","author_uid":"1012125","time":"2018-12-11T02:18:36Z","epoch":1544494716,"modified":1544495059,"text":"Thank you so much everybody for playing and commenting! I am glad you enjoyed it! Also, lots of really great feedback to improve on!\u2764 \ud83d\udc31 \u2764 ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"red","author_uid":"1007819","time":"2018-12-22T03:32:47Z","epoch":1545449567,"modified":1545449567,"text":"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.","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld43\/129712-88e661cdda87ad7261edf9c2dbfc92ef.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scirra.com\/arcade\/action-games\/icatus-36747","text":"Other (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1yAejj0WLuCngnOdf0FPfQQvuJlgbWHPV","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1lzXH4aQ1hYQIm6dyUVDevwm9w7zLgnCp","text":"Shockk"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1fymg9h2GnUKQCtQ46Uy89zt8GxNo94b8","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1B2jHqxj3x0keyQpgVcUZCwWG9INTaxzX","text":"macOS"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=12EAQB5NsupM7zOKB6zmFhwhGnRzw3lwL","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1am7pZy-PJ0pxU8d_PxJynnoUh5IdZxtd","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"44434","g_author":"1012125","g_event":"LD43","g_eventkey":"71","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"242200","g_title":"ICATUS and the Golden Ball of Yarn","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"147","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"129712","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"129712","n_urlkey":"242200","n_parent":"120415","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/icatus-and-the-golden-ball-of-yarn","n_slug":"icatus-and-the-golden-ball-of-","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"12125","n_created":"1543650505","n_modified":"1543846072","n_version":"388956","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":129712,"parent":120415,"superparent":9,"author":12125,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-12-03T01:02:01Z","created":"2018-12-01T07:48:25Z","modified":"2018-12-03T14:07:52Z","version":388956,"slug":"icatus-and-the-golden-ball-of-yarn","name":"ICATUS and the Golden Ball of Yarn","body":"Icatus is a homeless cat who wishes to catch the golden ball of yarn in the sky.\nFor his holy mission to catch the sun, he has to sacrifice a lot of birds to make wings.\nWill he succeed?\n\n2D Jumper platformer.\n\nConstruct 3\nPhotoshop(Piskel) for graphics\nAdobe Audition\/Premiere for music\nRecorded all the sound effects, most done with my voice.\n\nThis 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.\n![New Piskel (4).png](\/\/\/raw\/d5f\/2\/z\/1c59e.png)\n![tut).png](\/\/\/raw\/d5f\/2\/z\/1c5cb.png)\n\n(Update: uploaded a web build, I will try to make an android build as well)","meta":{"author":[12125],"grade-07-out":"1","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01-tag":"42440","link-01":"https:\/\/www.scirra.com\/arcade\/action-games\/icatus-36747","link-01-name":"Web version","link-02-tag":"42337","link-02-name":"32","link-03-tag":"50","link-03-name":"64","link-04-tag":"42341","link-04-name":"64","link-05-tag":"42339","link-05-name":"64","link-06-tag":"42332","link-02":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1yAejj0WLuCngnOdf0FPfQQvuJlgbWHPV","link-03":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1lzXH4aQ1hYQIm6dyUVDevwm9w7zLgnCp","link-04":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1fymg9h2GnUKQCtQ46Uy89zt8GxNo94b8","link-05":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1B2jHqxj3x0keyQpgVcUZCwWG9INTaxzX","link-06":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=12EAQB5NsupM7zOKB6zmFhwhGnRzw3lwL","cover":"\/\/\/content\/d5f\/2\/z\/1c48d.png","link-07":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1am7pZy-PJ0pxU8d_PxJynnoUh5IdZxtd","link-07-tag":"42332","link-06-name":"construct c3p file","link-07-name":"html5 code"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/icatus-and-the-golden-ball-of-yarn","parents":[1,5,9,120415],"love":0,"notes":18,"notes-timestamp":"2018-12-22T03:32:47Z","grade":{"grade-01":24,"grade-02":24,"grade-03":24,"grade-04":24,"grade-05":24,"grade-06":22,"grade-08":23},"magic":{"cool":73.145871184487,"feedback":15,"given":10.5,"grade":23.571428571429,"grade-01-average":3.636,"grade-01-result":147,"grade-02-average":3.455,"grade-02-result":171,"grade-03-average":2.455,"grade-03-result":458,"grade-04-average":2.636,"grade-04-result":456,"grade-05-average":4.114,"grade-05-result":48,"grade-06-average":3.475,"grade-06-result":108,"grade-08-average":3.357,"grade-08-result":172,"smart":-12.61371024947}},"text":"Icatus is a homeless cat who wishes to catch the golden ball of yarn in the sky.\nFor his holy mission to catch the sun, he has to sacrifice a lot of birds to make wings.\nWill he succeed?\n\n2D Jumper platformer.\n\nConstruct 3\nPhotoshop(Piskel) for graphics\nAdobe Audition\/Premiere for music\nRecorded all the sound effects, most done with my voice.\n\nThis 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.\n![New Piskel (4).png](\/\/\/raw\/d5f\/2\/z\/1c59e.png)\n![tut).png](\/\/\/raw\/d5f\/2\/z\/1c5cb.png)\n\n(Update: uploaded a web build, I will try to make an android build as well)","title":"ICATUS and the Golden Ball of Yarn"}