{"author_link":"\/users\/khaotom","author_name":"khaotom","author_uid":"1001130","comments":[{"author_name":"mikelovesrobots","author_uid":"1037511","time":"2020-10-05T05:19:10Z","epoch":1601875150,"modified":1601875150,"text":"I appreciated the topicalness of it and thought the circle mechanic was neat, but on html5 it'd get interrupted if the mouse accidentally went outside the app border so that was a bit frustrating. Good music and nice spritework!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Maxwell3000","author_uid":"1160396","time":"2020-10-05T05:24:38Z","epoch":1601875478,"modified":1601875478,"text":"This game was really funny and an interesting take on the theme. Though I quickly found that the easiest way to cheese the game was to just quickly circle the entire screen, winning in less than a few seconds. This could possibly be fixed by having a limit or resource for drawing circles. Great game!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"KirKami","author_uid":"1161082","time":"2020-10-05T10:38:09Z","epoch":1601894289,"modified":1601894289,"text":"I was laughing all around! Neat game with awesome execution :smiley: ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MikeSalyh","author_uid":"1055035","time":"2020-10-05T21:44:54Z","epoch":1601934294,"modified":1601934294,"text":"This is hilarious! I love the graphics, & the tutorial. Really polished excetution too!\nI beat it after about 15 minutes. The world is now safe from Carens.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cary Stanley","author_uid":"1100694","time":"2020-10-05T22:03:14Z","epoch":1601935394,"modified":1601935394,"text":"I like the game concept of quarantining individual using the circle, but its really hard to get a circle around the character, either hit the end of the screen, or I hit their speech bubble. Is the \"speech bubble\" intended to be a collision?","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lombax","author_uid":"1147315","time":"2020-10-05T23:18:17Z","epoch":1601939897,"modified":1601939897,"text":"why put a circle on individual things when you can put one circle on the entire screen xD.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LelulaGames","author_uid":"1212108","time":"2020-10-06T04:58:32Z","epoch":1601960312,"modified":1601960312,"text":"I think being able to draw a circle over other circles would be a good added feature. When a person got too close to another circle I'd have to wait for them to move away so that I could get a loop around them. You might also slow down their move rate on earlier levels and have them get faster as you progress. Otherwise it was a ridiculous and cute game. ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"paulhocker","author_uid":"1005112","time":"2020-10-07T03:49:52Z","epoch":1602042592,"modified":1602042592,"text":"i liked the idea of the game but the circle mechanic was not very forgiving. and the karens moved way too much. still pretty good. thanks for making it.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Teto","author_uid":"1186511","time":"2020-10-07T21:01:02Z","epoch":1602104462,"modified":1602104462,"text":"Cute and funny concept! Let out your Karen frustrations in game form :laughing: I agree with some previous comments about the circle being a little difficult to deal with and level difficulty increasing with speed not just number of Karens and circles. Graphically very good with the character animation and speech bubbles making it a really dynamic game. The visual and audio feedback was really nice with the loops as well! Great job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Daniel Whittaker","author_uid":"1183429","time":"2020-10-09T19:14:12Z","epoch":1602270852,"modified":1602270852,"text":"Surprisingly fun little game. Nice presentation and great sound effects. Needed more cats tho ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jaybaus","author_uid":"1183537","time":"2020-10-09T19:20:18Z","epoch":1602271218,"modified":1602271218,"text":"I liked it! The music absolutely slaps, I was bopping the whole time I was playing it :) There was a good amount of difficulty, sometimes I didn't understand why the circle was breaking which was frustrating but overall it's a nice little game and I appreciate the topical humour :) Good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Thulium Games","author_uid":"1122243","time":"2020-10-10T22:12:22Z","epoch":1602367942,"modified":1602367943,"text":"Really fun to play but getting circles to register can be very finicky. Also, Great music!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"1002840","time":"2020-10-11T17:02:14Z","epoch":1602435734,"modified":1602435863,"text":"This game was a pleasure to interact with all around.\n\nThe music was fantastic and had me bouncing, and if I'm picking up what you're laying down, the supermarket level had a version of the song that sounded like it was coming from the far-away store speakers.  Nice touch!\n\nThe art looked great and was nicely animated.  I also liked how the ... targets \"popped\" their size a bit when I snapped them in a circle.\n\nThe sound effects of the angry growls and huffs were great, and the buzzing of drawing a circle was also nice.  I think a buzzing sound effect like that is risky because it can become grating, but this one avoided that problem and felt electric without becoming unpleasant.\n\nGameplay was simple fun that I think captured the spirit of the game.  If you were hosting a high-stakes KnC tournament or something I guess you could tighten up a few details..  it seems you can kind of cheese things a bit by drawing huge fast circles.  I am also still a little unclear on when\/why the circle-draw action gets cancelled.  It is when a Caren complains?  Or when someone crosses a line?  Or maybe they have an interrupting collider on their head?  I went back and tested specifically this but was still a bit unclear, and on my initial playthrough I had a general feeling of \"wait what just happened?\"  No big deal, it was still fun, but if I was supposed to understand a specific aspect there I missed it.  It also felt like sometimes Carens didn't \"pop\" and I wasn't always 100% sure which were quarantined.\n\nAt first I assumed you had to circle each person alone, and was wondering why I had to wait for \"game over\" when I had 5 Carens, and wasted one of my 5 circles.  But I figured out that I had to quarantine \"Carnens vs the world\".  Makes sense!\n\nVery nice entry with a ton of personality.\n","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"imod","author_uid":"1054750","time":"2020-10-26T18:34:53Z","epoch":1603737293,"modified":1603737293,"text":"Interesting game! I very like gameplay!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld47\/225985-30670b3072df95019a830a8c9a3ba03a.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"59727","g_author":"1001130","g_event":"LD47","g_eventkey":"76","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"271240","g_title":"Of Kats and Carens","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"385","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"225985","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"225985","n_urlkey":"271240","n_parent":"212256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/of-kats-and-carens","n_slug":"of-kats-and-carens","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"1130","n_created":"1601865858","n_modified":"1601870796","n_version":"672241","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":225985,"parent":212256,"superparent":9,"author":1130,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-10-05T04:06:36Z","created":"2020-10-05T02:44:18Z","modified":"2020-10-05T04:06:36Z","version":672241,"slug":"of-kats-and-carens","name":"Of Kats and Carens","body":"A game about quarantining things.\n\n![itchcover1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/36289.gif)\n\n![itchcover2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/3628b.gif)\n\n![itchcover3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/3628c.gif)","meta":{"author":[1130,192016,192614,201256,202687],"link-01-tag":[42337],"link-01":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","cover":"\/\/\/content\/a64\/z\/36283.png","link-01-name":"","link-02":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","link-02-tag":[42339],"link-03":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","link-03-tag":[42341],"link-04":"https:\/\/khaotom.itch.io\/of-kats-and-carens","link-04-tag":[42336]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/of-kats-and-carens","parents":[1,5,9,212256],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2020-10-26T18:34:53Z","grade":{"grade-01":22,"grade-02":22,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":22,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":21,"grade-07":21,"grade-08":21},"magic":{"cool":72.213045403032,"feedback":19,"given":10.625,"grade":21.375,"grade-01-average":3.8,"grade-01-result":385,"grade-02-average":3.375,"grade-02-result":757,"grade-03-average":3.342,"grade-03-result":788,"grade-04-average":3.775,"grade-04-result":633,"grade-05-average":3.921,"grade-05-result":471,"grade-06-average":3.842,"grade-06-result":246,"grade-07-average":4.026,"grade-07-result":96,"grade-08-average":3.263,"grade-08-result":929,"smart":-4.0833695337456}},"text":"A game about quarantining things.\n\n![itchcover1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/36289.gif)\n\n![itchcover2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/3628b.gif)\n\n![itchcover3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a64\/z\/3628c.gif)","title":"Of Kats and Carens"}