It's Cold, I Am Dead by Papabirb

made by Papabirb for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

inspired by this video of a cat who really wants to eat a dead fish but it's trapped under the ice

It's Cold, I Am Dead

You're a fish that's died, but you're not ready to get eaten by hungry cats yet! Plug up the melting ice with anything you can find to stop a hungry cat from eating you!

pa cat head.png

A simple one-button physics game about using your momentum, rotation, etc. to whack junk into melting ice to plug it up! The ice is melting, though, so it's only a matter of time before there's no ice left to plug up if you don't maintain it enough! Once the ice melts, there's nothing to stop the hungry cat from catching you, and then it's game over!

Features:

One button (click on desktop or tap on mobile)
Fun physics go ping pong
Sfx go ding
Beginner baby's unknowledgeable attempt at sprite stacking
Cool music (a bit crunchy on mobile the first pass through, because Godot web builds :/ )
Probably colorblind friendly? I didn't check yet, but I used the same palettes I always do, except for the gradient background

Information:

Fish: This is you. Click/tap where you want to go, and the fish will spin towards that spot!
Kelp: Pretty bad at patching the hole, doesn't do much for your score either, but it's the easiest thing to whack!
Boot: Also pretty bad for score, but patches the ice pretty decently!
Grail: The Holy Grail! Or, well, one of many floating around in your pond. It's the best for your score, but patches worse than kelp.
Gold: Pretty good for score, but only patches as well as kelp.
Anchor: These heavy sunsa guns are the best for patching up the ice! Not shabby for your score, either, although not as nice as the Grail.

Tools:

Engine: Godot 3.4.4
Music: Beepbox.co
Sfx: Audacity & hitting a random cup on my desk with a pen
Art: Paint.net

Soundtrack:

| Menu | Level | Game over | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | It's just drums | Exported with 2 loops | I had to figure out the tempo again oops might be off a lil but the bytes matched exactly when I exported again so I think i managed to find it |

Link	https://papabirb.itch.io/ld50-its-cold-i-am-dead
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/its-cold-i-am-dead

Ratings

Given

15🗳️

22🗨️

Feedback

05. Apr 2022 · 01:30 UTC

oh have I got it wrong or the fish is controlled by the scrolling whell?
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05. Apr 2022 · 01:48 UTC

@velvetlobster Technically, the fish is controlled by left click, scroll wheel, AND right click, because I forgot to specify and mostly designed it for mobile anyway. The fish goes towards wherever you clicked (or scrolled) your mouse and the tail spins towards that direction!

05. Apr 2022 · 01:51 UTC

got it! It seems to move with scrolling, which I thought was really clever

LDJam user 168286

05. Apr 2022 · 09:27 UTC

I didn't get the goal of the game. What do I have to do ? What's happening ? How do I get score points ?
Still, I had fun jungling with the different assets ! (I really love your game title by the way)

05. Apr 2022 · 15:33 UTC

@jeanne-rossat I didn't have time to tell the player what to do, as is always with game jams :sob: the goal is to stuff things into the ice to keep it from melting away, so the cat can't get you! It definitely needs some work but for now it's mostly a fun pingpong physics game. The score is based on what items you plug up the ice with; some do better score points while others do better patch-up-the-ice amounts! Now that I'm awake I need to put all that in the description too :sob: Thanks for playing! Looking forward to playing buff penguin game!

06. Apr 2022 · 23:00 UTC

Fun idea. The controls for PC (didn't tried in mobile) seems clunky, though

06. Apr 2022 · 23:08 UTC

@lcrabbit Thanks for playing! What about it seemed clunky?

07. Apr 2022 · 01:31 UTC

Made it to 5700. Not sure if that's good or bad. :D

07. Apr 2022 · 01:52 UTC

I might just be extremely bad at fish flinging, but I could never quite get the fish to spin where I wanted.

Concept is cute. I'm not entirely sure what score is trying to accomplish though.

Had fun flopping about regardless.

Fish/10. Nice work!

07. Apr 2022 · 02:04 UTC

@fireslash It's just a vibe of balancing items that are good for score, bad for fixing ice vs fix ice good but terrible score, lol. Thinking about maybe making the score into currency system post-jam? Like them good old flash game days, play the level then buy better stuff in the shop to make the game better, etc. But for now it's just high score stuff.

Fish flinging can be pretty challenging! It's mostly about knowing when to try to spin left (click left of fish), spin right (click right of fish), or just do nothing to let your little fish body push things up!

Thanks for playing!!

07. Apr 2022 · 04:59 UTC

Amazing entry especially for a solo, It's kinda relaxing and fun to play around with well done! :smile:

07. Apr 2022 · 05:03 UTC

@wassim Thanks! I had fun watching you play it on your stream! :smile_cat:

08. Apr 2022 · 14:57 UTC

A fun little physics game that I ended up playing for longer than I expected to. Harder to control than you'd think, too!

Good job! :smile:

08. Apr 2022 · 16:50 UTC

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1448957659

Fun silly little game. The shape of the fish around the axis of rotation made for some interesting effects where which direction you were swinging actually mattered. Great clinky sfx. Fun to pull out and play around with for a few minutes.

08. Apr 2022 · 16:54 UTC

@skruffye Thanks!! Glad to hear you were having that much fun! :smile:

@marcmagus Always a delight to drop by your LD streams, thanks so much for playing! I had a lot of fun accidentally stumbling into the fish rotation mechanic during development, glad you enjoyed the result!

09. Apr 2022 · 11:38 UTC

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=8h50m50s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin

09. Apr 2022 · 18:05 UTC

I like the music a lot, its strangely relaxing. Kinda like aquatic ambience

09. Apr 2022 · 18:23 UTC

@roofloorwall Thanks!! I was going for "aquatic urgent goofy", but ended up with "aquatic relaxing shakira", which is close enough for me!

10. Apr 2022 · 01:23 UTC

I loved it! what a unique source of inspiration!

highlight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1451440143?t=01h24m45s

10. Apr 2022 · 02:23 UTC

@tigerj Thanks for playing!! And showing off those cool 90s toys / that cool fishing game! (Which I can't play unfortunately, because only the app store version is available? Android is mysteriously missing...)

10. Apr 2022 · 02:51 UTC

very original, I loved the mechanics and the sounds. I liked the look too. The video shows that inspiration is something we can take from many sources, congratulations!

10. Apr 2022 · 03:02 UTC

@ulisses Thanks for playing!! it's true, inspiration can come from anywhere! ^^

BurningApparatus

13. Apr 2022 · 20:47 UTC

I really liked the wacky movement of the fish, and the physics was frustrating in a good way. The visuals were a bit off, and overall I feel that the game lacked polish, but overall this was a really fun game.
Keep it up!

13. Apr 2022 · 20:54 UTC

@burningapparatus honestly one of the least visually pleasant games I've made lol, no time to spruce up the programmer art at all

Thanks for playing!!!

13. Apr 2022 · 21:06 UTC

I hate that fish! xD Always I miss xD

13. Apr 2022 · 21:45 UTC

@bios3008 Lol, it can be rough sometimes! Thanks for playing!!

14. Apr 2022 · 01:50 UTC

As WTF as the video that inspired it, can't wait for the movie! :joy:
Control(s) is a little random, but I managed to go to ~7k points, don't know if it's good or bad

14. Apr 2022 · 03:10 UTC

@lereveur Lol, wow! That's a higher score than pomothedog's/arthurd's 5930 which was the previously known high score! That's almost dev score range (8955 is my personal best i think).
There's a method to my madness with the controls, but they were a random decision when i was playing around with the physics coding, lol! Didn't realize the "move towards mouse" code I used would make the fish spin like nuts, found a way to break the code into two parts and control spin separately, and form there just had fun making it spin a different way based on which side of the fish you click on lol.
Thanks for playing!! :)

14. Apr 2022 · 07:51 UTC

A funny take on the theme! And very nice little mobile-friendly game. Visuals, music and sfx are all great and set the mood very well. Really enjoyed playing it!

One area where you can improve it is the cat's attack. I wish there was some sort of a sound warning or a more vfx or even both. It was not always easy to read before it was too late. But over all a very solid job!

Thanks for bringing it to my stream! Here's a recording in case you'd like to refer to it https://youtu.be/P3HI-2edlag

14. Apr 2022 · 19:03 UTC

@caudatecoder Thanks for playing and bringing the stream clip by!!! I'll keep that in mind about the cat attack. Cat visuals overall definitely didn't turn out how I originally planned them so it's pretty likely if I continue work on it that it'll be much more obvious in the future!

15. Apr 2022 · 16:33 UTC

Very fun game! I really like the idea but it's a bit too difficult for me to control my dead body ;(The sound effects are very appropriate ,nice work!

15. Apr 2022 · 17:04 UTC

@alanblue Thanks! Yeah, I'm definitely gonna play around with some of the number values if I keep working on this game in the future. Thanks for playing!!

17. Apr 2022 · 06:06 UTC

[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1457327946?t=03h10m27s)

This was such a unique idea, and I love the inspiration behind it. :smile_cat: Keep up the great work!!

17. Apr 2022 · 15:53 UTC

@coleslaughter Thanks so much for playing it! It's always an absolute blast to bring anything by your streams, be it a game or just vibes! Keep up your good streams for me to bring my games by! :grinning:

Peace Of Cake Games

21. Apr 2022 · 19:47 UTC

Well, can't say I'm anywhere near the top scores, but I still enjoyed this anyway! The music is really catchy and I love the cute graphics. I'll definitely have to play this again soon and try to get a scoreboard-worthy score!

21. Apr 2022 · 21:21 UTC

@peace-of-cake-games I'm glad you enjoyed it and had time to get to it this jam! I unfortunately wasn't blessed with the time to get to yours :sob: :pray_tone1: but it looked cool! Good luck in the ratings!!!