{"author_link":"\/users\/neon-glass","author_name":"Neon Glass","author_uid":"1122409","comments":[{"author_name":"Marcin J","author_uid":"1159782","time":"2019-10-12T12:12:01Z","epoch":1570882321,"modified":1570882321,"text":"Very solid mechanics and a base for the game. If I were to play it more, it'd require some tweaking, balancing and a greater variety of content. All not really doable in jam time constraints so a good job :)\n\nHave you considered making enemies move sometimes? After you figure out some basics, the game just becomes too easy for my own personal liking.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neon Glass","author_uid":"1122409","time":"2019-10-12T16:24:17Z","epoch":1570897457,"modified":1570900007,"text":"@marcin-j Thanks for playing! Sadly, we didn't manage to balance the game at all, to the extent of only being able to playtest after publishing.\n\nOne of the things left out was - indeed - moving enemies, and yet another one was timed spikes.\n\nWe are considering a post-LD rewrite\/expansion of the concept - there's definitely more to it than we managed to make!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Darkwing00Duck","author_uid":"1091733","time":"2019-10-20T21:58:14Z","epoch":1571608694,"modified":1571608694,"text":"Cool graphics and style. The name says \"cat\", I want more cats in the game :cat: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pandamnesik","author_uid":"1068904","time":"2019-10-27T17:57:15Z","epoch":1572199035,"modified":1572199035,"text":"Really cool game !! I love it !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Anion_Z","author_uid":"1080999","time":"2019-10-28T05:21:30Z","epoch":1572240090,"modified":1572240090,"text":"Wow, didnt expect this to appear here, the art, concept, sound, humour is on a decent level, its not amazing, but it definitely would go there if more time would be put in the game, otherwise if you are only person working on the game, this is pretty good, first I thought I was dying randomly but there was a timer, which is neat since it forces you to do mistakes, I replayed the game quite a lot hehe","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BrokenMirrorMedia","author_uid":"1164279","time":"2019-10-28T08:07:07Z","epoch":1572250027,"modified":1572250027,"text":"This was an interesting game, really balancing risk and reward every time you go back into the dungeon.  I did think the game moved the character very quickly, but I guess that was to encourage you to value your time or your lives as you searched for treasure.  Unless I missed something I found it a bit cumbersome to switch between my keyboard and mouse when purchasing upgrades or even just starting the next run, maybe there should have been some hotkeys for that instead?  Overall a pretty good game, I enjoyed it!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lychee","author_uid":"1170613","time":"2019-10-28T08:26:30Z","epoch":1572251190,"modified":1572251190,"text":"Really cool and addicting game! I like that when you died you retain some of the money you had so you don't start from scratch. I got to the point where my score was so big that it underflowed though! This is probably the game I spent the most time playing in the jam, really great work ^^\n![under.JPG](\/\/\/raw\/57a\/92\/z\/29e38.jpg)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neon Glass","author_uid":"1122409","time":"2019-10-28T20:19:29Z","epoch":1572293969,"modified":1572293969,"text":"Thanks for playing and sweet feedback, everyone!\n\n@anion-z With the actual timespan we had, making a really short gameplay loop with an 'endless' design worked wonders, it would seem. :D\n\n@brokenmirrormedia Uh-oh, a lesson to me on adding the 'Controls' section - at least to the game page. While not having hotkeys for shop, we do have a WASD layout to Delve with the left hand!\n\n@lychee To be honest, saving money on death was a bug. It did feel nice on testing, so we decided to leave it in! \nAlso that was my first actual experience working with exponential values, so I screwed up the variable type, apparently. Thus I'll _claim_ overflow to be the win condition for now - and congrats on winning!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Adam Saudagar","author_uid":"1079108","time":"2019-10-28T22:03:23Z","epoch":1572300203,"modified":1572300203,"text":"cool concept, nice tile based system, fast based dungeon crawler is a fun concept but going back to store after each dungeon feels a bit annoying, as you dont get enough loot in each run to buy anything... so maybe only you could give the player the ability to visit shop when they want and notify them if a new item becomes purchasable... also you could add a boss fight every few levels or add more enemy types\n\nwith a bit more work and some polish you could turn this into a pretty good hyper casual game\n\nGood Job! Keep it up!!!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld45\/161949-d675234ec030f915ab9d38916fa9b801.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/neon-glass.itch.io\/cat-a-comb","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"56099","g_author":"1122409","g_event":"LD45","g_eventkey":"78","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"264034","g_title":"CAT-A-COMB","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"261","g_commentcount":"9","g_site2_node_id":"161949","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"161949","n_urlkey":"264034","n_parent":"159347","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/cat-a-comb","n_slug":"cat-a-comb","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"122409","n_created":"1569390815","n_modified":"1570562745","n_version":"523925","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":161949,"parent":159347,"superparent":9,"author":122409,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-10-07T22:14:42Z","created":"2019-09-25T05:53:35Z","modified":"2019-10-08T19:25:45Z","version":523925,"slug":"cat-a-comb","name":"CAT-A-COMB","body":"![Logo-Cover.png](\/\/\/raw\/92e\/d1\/z\/2840b.png)\n## Description\nA small roguelike based around growing the Dungeon to get more loot!\n\n## Instructions\n- Collect Treasure\n- Try to avoid Spike Traps and Monsters\n- Increase Combo to gain more treasure (potentially)\n- Keep an eye on the timer\n\n## Patch notes for v1.0.1 (LD Hotfix Edition)\n- Shop prices don't reset after every run\n\n## Patch notes for v1.0.2 (LD Mildfix Edition)\n\n- Timer Duration updates after upgrades\n- Player Health upgrades should work now as well\u200b\n- Tweaked Combo Multiplier to avoid rounding errors (+0.5x -> +1x per upgrade)\u200b\n- Time stops on entering the Shop\u200b\n\n*As we aren\u2019t sure it\u2019s valid for LD, we\u2019re leaving the old versions up as well. Feel free to check either!\u200b\n\n## Credits\nCoding and art by Neon Glass team  \nMusic by [Aleks SHAGI](https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/aleks-shagi)\n\n![LD45-1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/92e\/d1\/z\/28098.gif)","meta":{"author":[122409],"link-01-tag":[42337],"link-01":"https:\/\/neon-glass.itch.io\/cat-a-comb","cover":"\/\/\/content\/92e\/d1\/z\/2840f.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/cat-a-comb","parents":[1,5,9,159347],"love":0,"notes":9,"notes-timestamp":"2019-10-28T22:03:23Z","grade":{"grade-01":21,"grade-02":21,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":21,"grade-07":21,"grade-08":21},"magic":{"cool":106.94624818104,"feedback":7,"given":22.875,"grade":21,"grade-01-average":3.763,"grade-01-result":261,"grade-02-average":3.711,"grade-02-result":217,"grade-03-average":3.842,"grade-03-result":137,"grade-04-average":3.921,"grade-04-result":156,"grade-05-average":3.5,"grade-05-result":566,"grade-06-average":3.632,"grade-06-result":226,"grade-07-average":3.316,"grade-07-result":271,"grade-08-average":3.395,"grade-08-result":504,"smart":9.4926315495082}},"text":"![Logo-Cover.png](\/\/\/raw\/92e\/d1\/z\/2840b.png)\n## Description\nA small roguelike based around growing the Dungeon to get more loot!\n\n## Instructions\n- Collect Treasure\n- Try to avoid Spike Traps and Monsters\n- Increase Combo to gain more treasure (potentially)\n- Keep an eye on the timer\n\n## Patch notes for v1.0.1 (LD Hotfix Edition)\n- Shop prices don't reset after every run\n\n## Patch notes for v1.0.2 (LD Mildfix Edition)\n\n- Timer Duration updates after upgrades\n- Player Health upgrades should work now as well\u200b\n- Tweaked Combo Multiplier to avoid rounding errors (+0.5x -> +1x per upgrade)\u200b\n- Time stops on entering the Shop\u200b\n\n*As we aren\u2019t sure it\u2019s valid for LD, we\u2019re leaving the old versions up as well. Feel free to check either!\u200b\n\n## Credits\nCoding and art by Neon Glass team  \nMusic by [Aleks SHAGI](https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/aleks-shagi)\n\n![LD45-1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/92e\/d1\/z\/28098.gif)","title":"CAT-A-COMB"}