If I Fits, I Sits! by cheesepencil
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A simple but challenging game about sitting in boxes
You're a very special cat because you can be long or stubby at will! You'll need your special talent to fit into - and ultimately sit in - a series of cardboard boxes. You'll walk across the screen and at any time have the option to halt each half of your body. To fit in the box, your chest and butt must be within the edges of the box. If any pixel of your chest or butt is outside the edges of the box when your front and hind ends stop moving... you lose! But if you fit in the box, you get points for the sit and move on to the next!
Precision is rewarded. Earn triple points if you fill the box perfectly and double points for great fits.
The excitement builds as successful sits increase your movement speed. How long can you keep it up? Can you get the high score?
Controls
F11 or alt + enter to activate fullscreen. ESC for a menu with some helpful options.
xinput controller (Xbox controller)
- X button: halt left side of cat
- Y button: halt right side of cat
- A button: halt both sides of cat simultaneously
- B button: quick reset after game over (skip the title screen)
keyboard
- left arrow or
akey: halt left side of cat - right arrow or
skey: halt right side of cat zkey: halt both sides of cat simultaneouslyxkey: quick reset after game over (skip the title screen)
you can change the keybindings in the options menu ESC
Can you beat 2000 points?
Please share your scores in the comments!
This is what a precision sit looks like:
Ratings
| Given | 109🗳️ | 164🗨️ |
was a bit confused in the beginning, thinking the point was just to fit in the box, as soon as I figured out you need to fit the cat as precise as possible, the game was even more enjoyable and fun :)
The best part is fitting perfectly, so it's good that it's rewarded with points.
I liked it better when the cat was larger than the box.
The numerous cases where it was the opposite where kinda underwhelming in comparison.
The main menu animation takes to long when I want to restart the game :)
And I miss purring on successful sit fits.
Let me solve it
Edit: I failed, I couldnt... 1494 current highscore
very relaxing to play.
Started to get in the zone and judge the size better the longer i went.
Good job
Ok, maybe my only feedback would be that the tiny boxes are really tough! I consistently can't get the cat's bottom in if I stop the head even a few pixels too soon.
Thank you for the kind words!
Really enjoyed the game loop, the art is super cute and the cat's walking noises are 100% cat
A simple yet very enjoyable game. Good stuff. I really appreciate the quick restart button. Very nice work!
The control was a bit weird. On my computer the arrows and 'a' and 's' worked instead of 'x' and 'y'. Still fun to play.
Maybe a cute music would be insane
It's a simple game but i love it, it's really fun et I always want to improve my score
Nice work ! I download it !
Amazing. This is the best game so far. It's got all my favorite things:
* cat
bonus pic of mine fittin' and sittin' on my media server
The rules are intuitive, but it becomes easy to make mistakes when aiming for a high score, which adds an enjoyable twist!
Great job and congrats for submission!
https://youtu.be/UUIFkHIFgYE
Since I made both the directional controls and the gamepad `x` and `y` buttons share the same functions, we get the strange `a` and `s` keyboard bindings. I chose not to alter the bindings from default to preserve functionality with physical controllers. If it's an inconvenience, you can rebind the keyboard controls in the game's options menu by hitting `ESC`!
https://youtu.be/OMFzVKOU-1I?si=0HjFcEBokjup6e1z&t=553
EDIT:
Not the best score but I consider myself satisfied 
Very nice game, when I thought about this idea I was considering it more as a flex the limbs to make the whole cat fit in a box top-down, but this is a quicker arcade version, very nice!
Well done! Take a candy! :candy:
Two elements that could have improved the fun:
a) it's the kind of game that lends itself well to quick die-and-retry. To lean into this, not having to go through the title screen would be nice. (EDIT: as @cheesepencil answered you can, but I didn't see it in the itch page at first)
b) we don't have much time to enjoy the purr animation. Lengthening that time seems at first contrary to the spirit of a), but maybe the player would have to press a button to go on to the next level, which can be done quickly. It would also add a way to interrupt a run
Good job!
[i fits and sits.png](///raw/adc/24/z/5fd4b.png)
Great game! Had TOO much fun. That box wasn't going to defeat ME!!! Super fun, thank you for the entry <3
I like the idea of a button press to advance to the next box!
good:
- simple, fun concept
- good delivery on the theme
- nice polish with menu, consistent art style, sfx
bad:
- maybe a bit too simple? I don't have any suggestions for what to do with the core gameplay mechanic to add more interest though. :/ I guess it being a score attack makes it replayable, it probably gets harder after the point where I died like a n00b
- no bgm
Here's the VOD on YouTube to watch the gameplay, just skip to your chapter on the video!
https://youtu.be/-eCnQ8GAhN8
Good idea on switching the sides the cat comes from, and having the cat be sometimes longer or shorter than the box, as it forces you to be on your toes and choose quickly whether to stop the front or the hind end. The speed increase made for good progression, too.
The aesthetic part is great, it makes me want to try and make a TIC-80 game myself. The graphics are clear (cute cat!) and the sounds are fitting. It might use some simple music track playing in the background, but with such a quick turnover between playing / restarting / trying again I didn't really have the time to miss it much.
Also, I wouldn't say it is too difficult, but it does ramp up rather quickly with the speed. It's not too tough to get a great fit, but I don't think I ever could get a perfect one. If anyone manages that, I congratulate you.
I hope you have fun with tic80! If you've already used PICO-8 you'll find many similarities - and a few differences, some welcome, some not!
I would've liked some cute cat sounds :)
On a serious note, this is a very fun, cute game. The timing is harder to get right than it looks, especially as the game speeds up, or on those occasions where the cat is actually shorter than the box it needs to go in and you have to try and remember to stop the back end first, not the front end. I got exactly one perfect fit and was very happy with myself when I did so.
The only real complaint is a lack of music, but I understand perfectly if you couldn't fit it in before the deadline. Overall, great job! 10/10 would sits again
Anyway, absolutely great submission. It's everything a game needs to be.
I got better after a couple of tries :)
GG
- I failed many times over and it was really annoying seeing the title screen for like the 10th time, and the sound starts to sound like laughter.
- It took me very long to understand what is going on. I somehow found using left and right confusing, and thought I'm stopping the front of the cat and the end of the cat. Then I thought you have to make the cat the same length as the box, and I was confused weather the front of the box counts as valid space. Then I figured out the cat had to stop above the box and had to fit inside it. I think the title is a little confusing, because even if the cat fits it doesn't always sits (if it doesn't have to move and fits, it sits). I only ever got 2 success in a row, I once got good points (270) but I didn't understand why, as to me it didn't fit well unlike some other times when I got low score. **edit** also I guess the gif (and the main screen) show the cat extending not directly above the box but outside it's vertical "goal points"
Thanks for giving it a try!
Cute art, though I have the minor-est of gripes. Why the need to show the cat's butthole? I'm no prude, but given the position of the cat's other leg, it simply wouldn't be visible from this angle, ha!
i was kinda reaching for that humor rating, but it's too late for me to chicken out and patch it now
Even though it's quite simple, I think a *slightly* more developed version of this, maybe with some obstacles or different shaped cats/boxes etc, would be an excellent time killer on mobile.
Even divorced from the limited space theme, this is just a very appealing and marketable concept. I think it'd do well.
It's a nice idea to have the cat coming from left or right, and to have some cats that are already small. It adds a little variety.
This could totally be a mini-game of Wario Ware or things like that.
Nice graphics too, especially the "back" of the cat.
Very nice theme interpretation, well done!
At first I was trying to fit the entire cat, including the head. Only after I realized you only had to fit the paws.
Longcat is long, but this one is only as long or as short as necessary.
Flexcat?
Schrödingerly long cat, both long and short at once, until you press the button?
So many questions.