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I don't really see the cats very well, and I'm not sure what the point of shooting the turrets is, unless I'm taking damage and don't realize it...","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":620335,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619383622,"text":"Posted some helpfull tipps on the top, thank you for your feedback :heart: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":622756,"author_name":"LakshyaIsAGod","author_uid":"lakshyaisagod","epoch":1619417169,"text":"TODO: review game","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":623550,"author_name":"William Corrin","author_uid":"william-corrin","epoch":1619424326,"text":"I got 26! This was fun, although it wasn't suuuper clear what was going on \/ what you're supposed to do. Some more clarity to the player would be nice. I appreciated the 3 different guns, that was cool!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":623625,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619424956,"text":"@william-corrin 26 is a pretty good number! Next time I'll try and makes things more clear! Thank you for trying it out. :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":623919,"author_name":"Karpinsky Andrew","author_uid":"karpinsky-andrew","epoch":1619427543,"text":"Hi! very fun :) I didnt understood though at first what is the purpose of the shields. The tooltips helped on this page :) Do they give more time to cats escaping? I managed to get 17 )","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":623963,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619427939,"text":"@karpinsky-andrew Hi! Thanks for playing! If you turn the shield processors blue (fix them, by shooting them) the turrets will fire at the cats for you to help out a bit. Makes the game a fair bit easier if you can activate all 4 before the cats starts to spawn.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":624296,"author_name":"adam077x","author_uid":"adam077x","epoch":1619430667,"text":"Very nice game. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":629182,"author_name":"CubeX","author_uid":"cubex","epoch":1619460585,"text":"Not bad! Kind of hard to figure out, but the graphics look good!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":640697,"author_name":"TheJohnyFeeD","author_uid":"thejohnyfeed","epoch":1619515184,"text":"I loved the gameplay and music, but the visuals sometimes are TOO bright.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":641647,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619519054,"text":"@cubex I updated for the 3rd day and put a tutorial room into it, hope it explains things a bit more :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":643717,"author_name":"Dyp54","author_uid":"dyp54","epoch":1619527428,"text":"yeaaah verry funny game ! good job, like it !!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":655089,"author_name":"Zalos","author_uid":"zalos","epoch":1619566709,"text":"Love the graphics and the colors!! Wasnt sure how to get more ammo and so got stuck but overall good fun! 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Thank you for your feedback :smiley: \n\n@borderdestroyer you did much better on max difficulty then me, thank you for playing! :heart:","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":660146,"author_name":"VerlanMan","author_uid":"verlanman","epoch":1619602705,"text":"Its very fun to play. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":660937,"author_name":"DevParty","author_uid":"devparty","epoch":1619609873,"text":"Fun game! Overall good entry.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":660977,"author_name":"EndSSGamesStudio","author_uid":"endssgamesstudio","epoch":1619610169,"text":"interesting game, I think the models should be more worked, the effects are very good and the sounds nice","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":661732,"author_name":"Asephy","author_uid":"asephy","epoch":1619615417,"text":"Cool game, could use some fine tuning but cool game ;D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":661814,"author_name":"nyanpierre","author_uid":"nyanpierre","epoch":1619615884,"text":"The environnement and the sfx work very well together, good job !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662138,"author_name":"AwesomeZebra","author_uid":"awesomezebra","epoch":1619617686,"text":"Pretty cool. Love the variety of weapons, although the second one is OP against the boss.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663189,"author_name":"Trusty","author_uid":"trusty","epoch":1619623610,"text":"I like the difficulty options, not something I've seen much in jam games. Had fun blasting my way through hordes of enemies. Thanks for the game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663467,"author_name":"Sodaro","author_uid":"sodaro","epoch":1619625244,"text":"I restarted twice because of running out of ammo when the boss spawned, and was thinking \"why doesn't this game have ammo drops\", but on my third attempt I realized there was a reload button :face_palm: I think the UI would benefit from being grouped closer together as well (I was heavily focused on the middle-right side of the screen and did not realize you could see the reload time on the left side either). Having said that, the game was a lot more fun on the final attempt when I used all the tools, nicely done! :smiley: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663534,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619625577,"text":"@sodaro Excellent point about the UI, I will deffinetly try to do better next jam! Thank you for taking the time to play it! :heart: (Why doesn't this game have ammo drops just gave me a very mean expert+ difficulty idea :imp:)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663646,"author_name":"Holy","author_uid":"holy","epoch":1619626115,"text":"I have not been able to take more ammo (still don't know if there is a way to do that) and the \"huge\" cat was at 0 hp but still alive xD anyway I have really fun running as a headless chicken killing cats. ^^ Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663840,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1619626999,"text":"@holy You can reload with R :smile: \n\nGlad you had a good time :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":664829,"author_name":"LDJam user 183028","author_uid":"183028","epoch":1619632002,"text":"Very addictive, very fun!\n\nI like the weapon variety, too. Only request would be a sprint button to get a bit of distance from the mobs\/boss when you're getting slammed.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":667057,"author_name":"AutoGibbon","author_uid":"autogibbon","epoch":1619643444,"text":"I have such a soft spot for glowy weapon effects! This is pretty cool, felt like TRON or those movies from the 90's about hackers and stuff. Good effort!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":671534,"author_name":"aaants","author_uid":"aaants","epoch":1619690585,"text":"It's clear from the video that I suck at this, as I never managed to actually get into a dome :D\n\nReally nice work though. Tight controls and an interesting mix of weapons. 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More boring, but works.\n\nMy best scores:\n- Beginner: 78.5 (boss defeated)\n- Advanced: 24 (probably I was unlucky)\n- Expert: X (small time to jot the score, I guess that is bigger than 100, but aren't sure)\n- Endless: 77.5\n\nI suggest you to search for a sci-fi font for this game and for better gameplay feedbacks. About the feedbacks: the turret taking hit and turret destroyed have a similiar VFX, so sometimes I got confused. Okay, there is the HP bar, but is a little hard to see the bar in middle of the bright color action\/at distance.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":692582,"author_name":"freamdev","author_uid":"freamdev","epoch":1620148641,"text":"@the-enigma Thank you for the feedback, there is a reload shower kind of on the left side of the screen, but I was told it's not really visible when in the middle of the action :)\n\n@fl Thank you for playing and the feedback, the difficulty actually applies to all 2 game modes. I agree with the VFXs but I was running out of time at the last day, maybe I'll get around fixing up some issues one day :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/freamdev.itch.io\/the-quantum-menace","text":"Itchi.io links"},{"url":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/Windows\/TheQuantumMenaceWindows.zip","text":"Jam version"},{"url":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/webJam\/index.html","text":"Jam version"},{"url":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/Web\/index.html","text":"QoL version"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"77251","g_author":"1010467","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"372765","g_title":"The Quantum Menace","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"784","g_commentcount":"34","g_site2_node_id":"247248","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"247248","n_urlkey":"372765","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/the-quantum-menace","n_slug":"the-quantum-menace","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"10467","n_created":"1619266500","n_modified":"1779568573","n_version":"781146","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":10467,"body":"Finnaly it's done!\n\nThe Quantum Cats are planning to invade our reality and allready took controll of our defenses, can you recapture the anti-virus processors? Can you defeat the seemingly endless hordes of quantum cats?\n\n**Post jam edit**: Today I fixed the webgl issues so the game is playable from the browser once again, I added no extra feature other then that to the jam version.\n\n**Edit Day3**: Ended up finding willpower and time to return for a third day even after work. Added a whole bunch of stuff (new weapon, boss fight, new game mode), so if you played allready you might want to consider trying the finished version again.\n\n**Edit**: Received the feedback that the game does not explain itself very well, so lets do that in the read me! :smile: \n - Shooting the turrets disables them (you can see this by the blue electric effects on them)\n - Disabling all 3 turret around a shield turns the shield off\n - Once there are no shields you can shoot at the red processor unit until it turns blue, aftert that the turrets turn back on and help you shoot at the cats.\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mRSe4XMaLdo\n\n![img1.png](\/\/\/raw\/3e8\/2\/z\/3c06d.png)\n\n![MainScreen.png](\/\/\/raw\/3e8\/2\/z\/3c06f.png)\n\nPostmortem:\n\nDay1: It was quite easy to get started this time, even came up with an idea I liked: you need to get deep into a computer to figure out whats going wrong with it. I had grand plans of a map where you need to disable viruses, then enter the CPU where you need to avoid sub-atomic traps and electrical charges just to finnaly enter deep into the Quantum reality and disable whatever is messing up the system. By the end of the first day it was obvious we'll never see the CPU map let alone the quantum one. I went to bed feeling pretty disheartened because not only it felt like I'm very much out of time, but also I only had one person drop by the stream wich made most of the preparation process feel pointless.\n\nDay2: I woke up fully prepared to just drop out and play some video games, but during the day I received a message from a friend telling me they watched the VOD and can't wait to see how the game will turn out, its supprising how little one need to keep working even when tired and not feeling it :)\n\nDay3: Had to work since it was a monday so most of the day ended up dealing with that. Regardless managed to add a nice shader graph effect to the game, a new weapon, and even a boss fight. Pretty happy how this day turned out even though I'm extremly spent now.\n\nAt the end I'm very happy I stuck to it and I learned a lot about unity's physics engine, the universal rendering pipeline and mostly how much work can be done in a weekend if I don't spend it on being down on myself.\n","comments":34,"comments-timestamp":"2021-05-04T17:17:21Z","created":"2021-04-24T12:15:00Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":30,"grade-02":30,"grade-03":30,"grade-04":30,"grade-05":30,"grade-06":3,"grade-07":27,"grade-08":30},"id":247248,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":84.431705367635,"feedback":33,"given":18,"grade":30,"grade-01-average":3.589,"grade-01-result":784,"grade-02-average":3.411,"grade-02-result":818,"grade-03-average":3.018,"grade-03-result":1198,"grade-04-average":2.125,"grade-04-result":1893,"grade-05-average":3.625,"grade-05-result":986,"grade-06-average":2,"grade-07-average":3.3,"grade-07-result":451,"grade-08-average":3.375,"grade-08-result":1067,"smart":2.469507659596},"meta":{"author":[10467],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/3e8\/2\/z\/3c046.png","grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/freamdev.itch.io\/the-quantum-menace","link-01-name":"Itchi.io links","link-01-tag":[42337],"link-02":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/Windows\/TheQuantumMenaceWindows.zip","link-02-name":"Jam version","link-02-tag":[42337],"link-03":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/webJam\/index.html","link-03-name":"Jam version","link-03-tag":[42336],"link-04":"https:\/\/freamdev.github.io.\/LD48\/Web\/index.html","link-04-name":"QoL version","link-04-tag":[42336]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-23T20:36:13Z","modified":"2026-05-23T20:36:13Z","name":"The Quantum Menace","node-timestamp":"2021-04-28T20:34:08Z","parent":233335,"parents":[1,5,9,233335],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/the-quantum-menace","published":"2021-04-25T19:29:36Z","scope":"public","slug":"the-quantum-menace","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":781146},"text":"Finnaly it's done!\n\nThe Quantum Cats are planning to invade our reality and allready took controll of our defenses, can you recapture the anti-virus processors? Can you defeat the seemingly endless hordes of quantum cats?\n\n**Post jam edit**: Today I fixed the webgl issues so the game is playable from the browser once again, I added no extra feature other then that to the jam version.\n\n**Edit Day3**: Ended up finding willpower and time to return for a third day even after work. Added a whole bunch of stuff (new weapon, boss fight, new game mode), so if you played allready you might want to consider trying the finished version again.\n\n**Edit**: Received the feedback that the game does not explain itself very well, so lets do that in the read me! :smile: \n - Shooting the turrets disables them (you can see this by the blue electric effects on them)\n - Disabling all 3 turret around a shield turns the shield off\n - Once there are no shields you can shoot at the red processor unit until it turns blue, aftert that the turrets turn back on and help you shoot at the cats.\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mRSe4XMaLdo\n\n![img1.png](\/\/\/raw\/3e8\/2\/z\/3c06d.png)\n\n![MainScreen.png](\/\/\/raw\/3e8\/2\/z\/3c06f.png)\n\nPostmortem:\n\nDay1: It was quite easy to get started this time, even came up with an idea I liked: you need to get deep into a computer to figure out whats going wrong with it. I had grand plans of a map where you need to disable viruses, then enter the CPU where you need to avoid sub-atomic traps and electrical charges just to finnaly enter deep into the Quantum reality and disable whatever is messing up the system. By the end of the first day it was obvious we'll never see the CPU map let alone the quantum one. I went to bed feeling pretty disheartened because not only it felt like I'm very much out of time, but also I only had one person drop by the stream wich made most of the preparation process feel pointless.\n\nDay2: I woke up fully prepared to just drop out and play some video games, but during the day I received a message from a friend telling me they watched the VOD and can't wait to see how the game will turn out, its supprising how little one need to keep working even when tired and not feeling it :)\n\nDay3: Had to work since it was a monday so most of the day ended up dealing with that. Regardless managed to add a nice shader graph effect to the game, a new weapon, and even a boss fight. Pretty happy how this day turned out even though I'm extremly spent now.\n\nAt the end I'm very happy I stuck to it and I learned a lot about unity's physics engine, the universal rendering pipeline and mostly how much work can be done in a weekend if I don't spend it on being down on myself.\n","title":"The Quantum Menace","wayback_recovered":true,"wayback_source":{"capture":{"original":"https:\/\/api-jam.ludumdare.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/254501+254502+254503+254504+254505+254506+254507+254508+254509+254510+254511+254512+254513+254514+254515+254516+254517+254518+254519+254520+254521+254522+254523+254524+254525+254526+254527+254528+254529+254530+254531+254532+254533+254534+254535+254536+254537+254538+254539+254540+254541+254542+254543+254544+254545+254546+254547+254548+254549+254550+254551+254552+254553+254554+254555+254556+254557+254558+254559+254560+254561+254562+254563+254564+254565+254566+254567+254568+254569+254570+254571+254572+254573+254574+254575+254576+254577+254578+254579+254580+254581+254582+254583+254584+254585+254586+254587+254588+254589+254590+254591+254592+254593+254594+254595+254596+254597+254598+254599+254600+254601+254602+254603+254604+254605+254606+254607+254608+254609+254610+254611+254612+254613+254614+254615+254616+254617+254618+254619+254620+254621+254622+254623+254624+254625+254626+254627+254628+254629+254630+254631+254632+254633+254634+254635+254636+254637+254638+254639+254640+254641+254642+254643+254644+254645+254646+254647+254648+254649+254650+254651+254652+254653+254654+254655+254656+254657+254658+254659+254660+254661+254662+254663+254664+254665+254666+254667+254668+254669+254670+254671+254672+254673+254674+254675+254676+254677+254678+254679+254680+254681+254682+254683+254684+254685+254686+254687+254688+254689+254690+254691+254692+254693+254694+254695+254696+254697+254698+254699+254700+254701+254702+254703+254704+254705+254706+254707+254708+254709+254710+254711+254712+254713+254714+254715+254716+254717+254718+254719+254720+254721+254722+254723+254724+254725+254726+254727+254728+254729+254730+254731+254732+254733+254734+254735+254736+254737+254738+254739+254740+254741+254742+254743+254744+254745+254746+254747+254748+254749+254750+254751+254752+254753+254754+254755+254756+254757+254758+254759+254760+254761+254762+254763+254764+254765+254766+254767+254768+254769+254770+254771+254772+254773+254774+254775+254776+254777+254778+254779+254780+254781+254782+254783+254784+254785+254786+254787+254788+254789+254790+254791+254792+254793+254794+254795+254796+254797+254798+254799+254800+254801+254802+254803+254804+254805+254806+254807+254808+254809+254810+254811+254812+254813+254814+254815+254816+254817+254818+254819+254820+254821+254822+254823+254824+254825+254826+254827+254828+254829+254830+254831+254832+254833+254834+254835+254836+254837+254838+254839+254840+254841+254842+254843+254844+254845+254846+254847+254848+254849+254850+254851+254852+254853+254854+254855+254856+254857+254858+254859+254860+254861+254862+254863+254864+254865+254866+254867+254868+254869+254870+254871+254872+254873+254874+254875+254876+254877+254878+254879+254880+254881+254882+254883+254884+254885+254886+254887+254888+254889+254890+254891+254892+254893+254894+254895+254896+254897+254898+254899+254900+254901+254902+254903+254904+254905+254906+254907+254908+254909+254910+254911+254912+254913+254914+254915+254916+254917+254918+254919+254920+254921+254922+254923+254924+254925+254926+254927+254928+254929+254930+254931+254932+254933+254934+254935+254936+254937+254938+254939+254940+254941+254942+254943+254944+254945+254946+254947+254948+254949+254950+254951+254952+254953+254954+254955+254956+254957+254958+254959+254960+254961+254962+254963+254964+254965+254966+254967+254968+254969+254970+254971+254972+254973+254974+254975+254976+254977+254978+254979+254980+254981+254982+254983+254984+254985+254986+254987+254988+254989+254990+254991+254992+254993+254994+254995+254996+254997+254998+254999+255000?authors&parents&superparent"},"object":"objects\/sha256\/b9\/b9f7acc3efe57a316e7be594e5496b4441e274b7849dfc783e5fd00578a5aca9","record":"shard-2\/json-live-urgent-v3\/records\/1af02f69f457cd124442918647a6892d34713329b1d79d0f1e99b3c0ea5e4f56.json","sha256":"b9f7acc3efe57a316e7be594e5496b4441e274b7849dfc783e5fd00578a5aca9","source":"https","stored_at":1784022332}}