You have achievements! and a leader board! That's so cool, but I am terrible at those games...
I definitively want to add that to a future game

Edit: Oooo I had not seen the creature get all snuck in the spaceship with you! That's adorable!

Ok I am hook now, still bad at it, but I want to get more achievements!

Wow this is super polished, awesome job

Polish is crazy, great little game. The leaderboard doesn't work for me btw: 

@dhim @halgendy Thank you!

@frontiersend Unfortunately there may still be a couple UI scaling issues, playing in fullscreen should fix it! Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

this is so fun omg i am already addicted!! also the music is amazing

Really good game! I like how clean the UI elements all looked and felt to interact with. The art was also very cute. Great work!

I had a lot of fun playing this. I liked that it punished you if you missed too, so you couldn't just keep spamming your hook. The music was really nice too!

There are so many details (e.g. the achievements, playing normal vs. hard mode, the different attacks of the tiny creatures and so much more :heart_eyes: ) and I played so many rounds because it is so much fun and I wanted to try different strategies (e.g. scoring due to time vs. due to collecting)! Amazing work! :heart_eyes:

@elsidraws @arcolm @adjo @n-lan Thank you! We're glad you're enjoying it!

I have been accepted into the leaderboard!

I absolutely love this — cute adorable little creatures, awesome music, and of course... space chaos! ((PS, my kids are now hooked too haha))

EDIT:
....My son took 2nd place and now there's a war in my house. Thank you in a good way. LOL

Great game! 🎮 Loved the cute creatures and chaos in space - looks incredibly exciting! The music adds atmosphere and the interface is clean and pleasant to interact with. Special thanks for the achievements and leaderboard - it gives the game more depth and excitement. 🚀 Very exciting! 👾 Great job, will definitely play more!

Incredible game, I had a lot of fun for the first round, then the leaderboard opened and added such a massive aspect of competitiveness that I played for way longer than I planned for. Art and music are both fantastic, the difficulty scaling is perfect in my opinion and the battles feel fair and rewarding. I also love that you got achievements and difficulty settings in, this game truly delivers content for hours.

The one tiny nitpick I have is that the popup that tells you what upgrades when you collect three of the same item is a bit too far out of my peripheral vision, which means I mostly missed it once the game gets more hectic and chaotic. That is such a small nitpick though that I decided to not give you a point penalty for that.

I simply love this game. Great job all around :D

Space cat—what an absolutely delightful concept! I’m completely in love with it!

Amazing game! super impressive to get so much done for a jam game!

Fun punishing if you miss the grab

Wow, you managed to do many cool things in so little time! Great job, I love it!

I really liked this game! It's awesome!

@infiltratingmom We're glad you and your kids are enjoying the game! The leaderboard was actually a last minute addition so we're glad to see it's being received so well!

@sviborg @initialposition @smielke @yoav-kagan @jesse-martin @yuvonvith @kirass Thank you for your kind words!

крутая игра! очень прикольная графика

I really liked the game, it looks very dynamic and exciting)

I MADE SECOND PLACE!!!1!!! I definitely put some time in this game. And I mean a lot. I love the aspect of collecting the creatures, and the online high score is perfect for a skill game like this. This is a perfect LDJam for me.

its amazing you took the time and effort to make a leader board, kudos to that!
i like how the game is like a space version of Gold Miner with cute creatures. did take me by surprise that the creatures are attacking me-- i thought we were friends! ;(
but overall i love the game. good work!

Awesome game, love the art and concept. Music matches pretty well but I wish I could turn it up. Leaderboard super cool and surprising! Did you guys use a server somewhere? Animals sooo cute as well.

OK BUT REAL TALK NO ONE IS BALANCING THIS GAME:
1. WHO IS CATCHING THESE FROGS LIKE THESE LITTLE JUMPERS JUST ZOOM AROUND THE MAP AT LIGHT SPEED AND THEN THEY STICK THEIR TONGUE OUT AND YOU DEAD GG
2. HIPPOS JUST NOT SHOWING UP FOR FUN LIKE PLEASEEEEEEE JUST SPAWN MORE
3. CLAW SPEED TOO SLOW NO ONES WAITING 603415801 YEARS FOR IT TO COME BACK
4. LEADER BOARD BROKEN I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF IM FIRST OR DEAD LAST
5. QA TEAM AFK (JK I LOVE U GUYS)

Man the crabs with the guns are the coolest thing ever. The frogs are jerks.

the game is really cool but the highscore make it incredible we try hard with some friend to have the highest score

Thanks for the hard work! Very cute space game with simple gameplay. There are many unique tiny creatures and have different attack method. I like the design of frog, you have to wait until it attacking or the frog will run away and your attack cause stagger. Nice job!

What a ooooooool game!I really like this game

Very cute!!

Cool graphics, interesting idea and overall the game feels good. In the current state, the game is clearly very hardcore, first of all, I think what makes it difficult is that while we are shooting, we cannot move. And if you miss a shot, you are guaranteed to receive a million attacks.

Nicely polished game. I didn't even expected that level of development. Perfect entry!

Had a great time playing this! Kept going for much longer than I planned to - although sadly not sure it shows on my leaderboard position XD

Great game, polished, fun, giving you the will to play multiple times. The difficulty curve rises slightly too fast for me but it was nice anyway. Audio is just enough to put you in the mood and is not too invasive. Graphics are honestly perfect. Like there's litteraly nothing to say about it. It's beautiful, clear, cute. Huge clap to the art team !
The different behaviours of the enemies are cool and unique. That said, ?/!#*!ing frogs hahaha I hate them, team Octopus here ! The only few improvements points I would say besides the difficulty curve above-mentionned, are making it clear what are the upgrades we unlock, because I often felt it was useless, and letting me move when I launch my grappling. Other than that, congrats team for this awesome game.

It's a cute game, it plays smoothly, and the art and music create a great atmosphere.

It's a cute game, it plays smoothly, and the art and music create a great atmosphere.

(lots of enthusiastic sounds of a small creature in a vacuum)

Words are unnecessary. I want to be allowed to play longer. I was given a rating very quickly, apparently, the ship ran out of space. BUT I CAN'T HELP BUT TAKE these... these... they are beautiful.

Your game in my heart.

This game is delightful, but ohh- I've got some gripes.

Okay, so first of all, the difficulty. I feel like I reached a point of "unsustainability" with every run I had, where I mentally gave up due to the density of objects on screen. I started trying to track "hippos gained per hits taken" but once the screen is so flooded with objects, there's no possible way to collect *anything* without taking hits.

Second, I love the upgrades. I love love love the upgrades, and the system in which you collect them. But you *need* to tell me what I just picked up every time I get one. The message that tells you what the upgrade is needs to stay on screen longer too. There's a large handful of creature types, each with their own perks, and I am not going to be able to remember all of them when I'm just starting out. If you say it just once, and never again, I'm doomed to forget it. Picking them up in the future could be beneficial, but if I don't know what I get out of it, why would I go out of my way for it?

Speaking of, many of the upgrades are ill-explained. Claw Durability? What does that do? How much does each squid increase the invulnerability? If you have stats like this, you cannot keep them hidden from the player. You even have an achievement for reaching certain thresholds with these stats, but if they aren't visible to the player, how could one know if they are close to an achievement? Additionally, with the difficulty of the game, I have no idea how possible some of those achievements even are.

By the way, having achievements like this is awesome. I seriously applaud this game. And a leaderboard?! wow! It's very impressive! But there's such a strong juxtaposition from the incredible achievements / leaderboard systems to the lack of information while playing the game. In my final run, which I think scored 2nd on the leaderboard, I completely ignored squids, rabbits, and crabs because I don't think those helped me at all. Perhaps they do, but with the information I was given, it felt advantageous to ignore them.

And god dang it, those frogs can appear on screen and hit you within times way faster than one could react, and that just feels bad. I don't know if the solution is to zoom the screen out, or have some sort of "radar" to indicates where off screen enemies are, but there needs to be something done about enemies that can zip on screen, smack you, and then zip off screen within a moment's notice.

All of this to say, I had a lot of fun, and it's the little things that make me want more from this. It's a darn near perfect jam game.

I recorded myself playing the game to deliver maximum feedback. I seriously hope this video helps out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix5C0ZdzIvc


This is really impressive for a jam game that did a leaderboard and achievement function!!!

Wow that's super cute and polished ! Like the others, I'm impressed by the leaderboard and achievements implementation. I like how the upgrade system add a element of strategy to the gameplay.
Two suggestions : I haven't tried (maybe that's already possible), but I think the game would be great to play on gamepad (with a dual stick mecanics). Also it would be cool to be able to move while the graple is shot.
Well done !

Oh this is incredible. Super well polished and fun, I could spend hours playing this getting all the achievements. As others have mentioned, I found the difficulty curve a bit steep, and I didn't realize the different critters give you different upgrades at first and it took a few runs to memorize them. Overall, amazing job!

Awesome! All the elements of the game were fairly well executed, my favorite was the plants vs zombies vibes with the music :D Good to see ya still gamedevving mr. gabe!

Congrats on top 15!! This was a lot of fun to play, and I spent way too much time playing it :D