That was fun, and it looks great! There's definitely a rhythm to it! And the balance of finding a safe orbit or jumping for points.

I really like the atmosphere and graphics of this game. I'm not so sure about the gameplay, it felt like I didn't have enough control. And it was also unclear what all the different meteors did. Maybe I missed something important, idk. I think your sound/visuals/atmosphere make up for that though. It was fun to just float around.

Fun game with really nice slick art and a good gameplay hook. I never really got to the point where I felt like I could stay alive for very long, but I had a couple good setups, best I got to was 9 points though. Gonna try more later. Great work!

@binary-coder Thanks! We loved making it and glad you enjoyed playing it too :)

@mateu All the blue shapes are safe to jump to, and all the red ones were unstable. Thanks for playing though! We thought the player would enjoy just floating around the level so we left it in.. strategy comes from being able to chain between the blue shapes, keeping control.. didnt have time to implement a tutorial unforunately :(

@landosystems Glad you enjoyed it! Our highscore is only 23! We haven't seen anyone get over it yet haha, quite the difficulty curve with a safe helping of RNG :p

Once you understand how to play, it is incredibly fun, at first it was difficult to aim for other blue geometry shapes, but with practice I started to chain and chain jumps, incredible.

The controls were simple and intuitive! the game was very graphically pleasing, I'll play it again later for sure and its definitely my favorite of the 4 games i've tried here already. The camera movements are perfect and it feels playful and fun. the concept is really cool! I'm pretty bad at video games so im super glad the controls were simple. I like to just jump in and play the game, so having one shot from blue to blue, and then being whirled around by the gravity of the blackhole felt immersive and chill. i like chill.

I love the audio track its very chill! had that 80s synth sound which i love. I hope my review and rating was fair! cheers!

PS i got to 13 after my 6th try.

(EDIT)
My wife played the game too. she tried for about 30 minutes. she got from 0-5 most times. but she did get 17 one time, i wish i could send you the photo as proof!!! im gona bump the overall from 4 to 5! because my wife played it more than she played the game my team was involved in...good job. I'd love to see a finished product from this, this game is fun and easy and the RNG is good, i feel the RNG is 90% if you are clicking randomly, and 50% if you're clicking intentionally with aim.

my wifes take on the audio she said "it sounds very chinese" (shes from Indonesia and I'm korean-American}. I liked the audio alot though!

Cheers! great game guys! my favorite still

Fun innovative game with quirky style. I got up to 9 a few times, but RNG was not always with me. A couple spawns put me well out of reach of any kind of life preserver. The nice thing is the loop is so tight you can get wrapped up in it and lose track of time.

Lovely little game! I love how simple it is! The black hole mechanic is great though it would be better if we had a way to negate simply getting unlucky with the blue objects! Otherwise its a great game and I love the audio and visual work too!

Nice game!. Very difficult to play and for me, that is always good. One consideration could be to think of a solution for the RNG because even if one gets good at the game the randomness is too high. Still, I enjoyed it a lot, great work.

@tebiondl Glad you liked!!!

@hybridkin Awesome, already beat my highscore!

@grimmpaperman, @mabrax and @artman Thanks for the feedback, the randomness was one of the "unstable" elements on the gameplay, but I think we've gone a little bit overboard with it hahahaha.

Great graphics and audio, and the gameplay is quite fun with a surprising amount of depth. The fullscreen option in the main menu didn't work for me.

@baconharemthug yeah.. we noticed. A workaround is to press Alt+Enter that should full screen your game :) Ill make sure to put that somewhere on the screen ty!

This game was really nice and had nice audio and visuals. I think it'd be nice if you put instructions in the game itself, because I clicked on your game from your post and had no idea what was going on, but I got the hang of it quickly and it was a very fun game.

@ominusgalaxy44 Unfortunately we ran out of time to put in a tutorial.. sorry about that, glad you enjoyed it though!

The art and music are great, and I love the concept of having this cat floating around trying to escape from gravity. The gameplay was a bit tricky to understand first, adding a tutorial level might help, so you jump from constellation to constellation. Still, once you get into the rhythm of it, it becames very satifying to hit the shape and keep the motion. You know what... rhythm game loops and mechanics would be a nice touch.

What an intro! It's a pretty cool concept and was easy to understand. I had a lot of fun trying to beat my own score

Super cool and addictive game. My best score is 13. Also that animation when you start playing is incredible! Congrats to everyone in the team !

Really cool game with nice art and music. But it is really hard sometimes. I only got a score of 8.

Cool intro animation, liked the gameplay. A well executed idea, great job!

Real nice explosion art !

Really cool game, loved the audio! Really great concept and would love to see a fully fleshed out version. Well done to everyone in the team on creating this in such a short time frame!!

Very cool :D
It's addictive, even though apparently I'm very bad.
I really like the music.

congratulations

Pretty addictive. The winning strategy for me seems to be trying to find a cluster of shapes and keep jumping between them.

What a cute little game, really love how the color of the cat changes every time I had to restart and the little spawn effect it has :D Congrats on the cute submission :)

**Thank you for playing!!!**

@binaryprinciple Wish we had the time for a tutorial! I agree, it feels real nice chaining shapes from far away and OOO rhythm mechanics??? That'd be something!

@ominusgalaxy44 hopefully the updated ludum page will give better instructions!!!

@baconharemthug looks like the mechanics started to click! I wonder if you beat my highscore!

***I've been practicing and I finally managed to get 25!***

@shawn-beck @snowpriestess @maxpower638 @fernando-sydenstricker-c @senso @wobs @becky-rayner Had a lot of fun making the intro animation and ohhh when it was in game, that was incredible!!!

@kaiomoi I'm a bit addicted as well! Sometimes the runs are just a score of 1 but other times you get in the flow and it breezes by while you're reaching 20! Just like @grimmpaperman @artman @mabrax found out. Sometimes the RNG is on your side, sometimes it isn't! But the quick respawn just pulls you in, right???

@binary-coder I felt a rhythm as well! but sometimes, you just want to take a break and float around like @mateu

@noctiphobia has the right idea! Using clusters can net huge points but careful you don't missclick and launch yourself into somewhere dangerous! I found that keeping a constant uneven rotation with the blackhole (so making ovals around the blackhole) gives you just a lot of time to plan your next jump! @landosystems maybe you could try these strats! chain your jumps but careful since you only have one! Be sure to use gravity to your advantage! @tebiondl I'm still practicing as well!

@hybridkin I'm glad you enjoyed the experience!!! I had a lot of fun making the tracks! Especially the main theme that plays as you play. I actually played your game before you ended up posting here! I'll leave a comment sometime soon! I'm not sure what it means for audio to "sound very chinese", what does that mean?

A lovely little space to play around in, even if I'm not particularly good at it

Ok it took a while before I got more than a 2 lmao but I managed to hit a 10 before getting ping ponged 3 times into the void. All in all kinda addictive and fun to play. Love the death sound too.

@polkoii I'm not sure what my wife means by her comment. But I think it's the song key and the plucks used. She says the same about my music. It's a great polished track

Great game, it was fun, the spawn animation is super cool, it would be cool if it had a timer for how much time i survided.

Woah, I love the style of this game! The spawn animation is awesome, along with the music and sound design (like the losing sfx). It took a little bit to get used to the orbiting mechanics but once I did I started having a lot of fun with it. My scores remained pretty low but I had a good time! Well done!

This game is genuinely beautiful. Once I understood the play, it was more relaxing to watch everything play out. If you ever have more time, breaking up the concepts into levels would probably help.

 We love gravity games! The visual treatment is really nice on this! especially that opening effect, dang. Also, doing a skill game like this with only one shot at a time is a really clever choice. You have to make sure each shot counts, but there's still time to appreciate the ambiance of the whole thing. Awesome job!

The animations are amazing. D=

Great job! I also think the audio was great and this was (most importantly) a really fun game!

A simple, but well-executed concept! I like the hybrid 2d fx with the 3d geometry and the color coordination makes it obvious what's good and what's bad. The sound effects are fitting and the music is well done (though I feel like it's a bit more of a "song" than a "soundtrack" if that makes sense? Kinda hard to explain the difference, guess it's also somewhat a matter of opinion). Either way, everything generally felt fairly polished, so nice job on that.

five stars and extra one for cat!

Super cool game! Fun and addictive gameplay! My only feedback would be to wish for a little bit clearer indicator for when you have a jump avaliable. Other than that I had a blast!
Loved the little detail that you get a differently coloured cat on some of the runs (though what that implies narratively about what happens to the cats in earlier gameplays I don't even want to think about! :O XD )!
Graphics are pretty clear overall and the gameplay loop is fun and challenging!

Great gaming idea! I do not know anything else like this.
First the game was a bit hectic and I did not know what to do, but after a while it was zen.
I like the music very much. Fits very well, mix of calm and happy, a bit pushy.
I love the effect when the cat-flying-saucer (?) appears for the first time.
I like the animation and effects of the blue things.
Click controls are solid.
I would have liked the movement of the blue and red things to be a bit slower allowing to target better.
I would have liked the movement of the blue and red things to be a bit more towards the outside, very often the next target was moving towards the black hole, as well as myself, therefore not giving any chance.
If the catapulting out of the current blue thing would be a bit more dynamic it would help. A bit more impulse. I see clicking the mouse far away gives it more, but maybe even more?
I think the game has potential. I would love to play a version which is even more zen/ flow: maybe even allowing three targets, i.e. even if not in blue (at start 3, shooting looses one, getting into a blue increases by 1.5 or something like that).

Nice aesthetic, gives me an Earthworm Jim kinda vibe. The game is fun and entertaining even just watching the trails on the character when it rotates. Great job!

The idea and gameplay are good, cool effect at the start, I would like more control or external influences, sometimes nothing hapens for a long time) But the game is great, good job!

Very nice game! When you're not in a shape, it's quite relaxing to just watch the cat orbit around. The music suits the game well and the overall aesthetic is very clean. The overall movement and mechanics are also very intuitive. There were times when I thought I had hit, possibly, the corner/edge of a shape but it didn't go into the shape, so perhaps the hitboxes could be a little bigger? (or I could just be bad haha). Other than that, I think overall, the game is very nice! Maybe in the future, could even add more black holes or planets so there are multiple things to orbit around. Very nice job!

Really enjoyed the game! The graphics are simple and inviting, very easy to understand and get into.

Very addicting, very challenging. I think my highest score was 7 when I got lucky near the start, and I never did nearly as well later. I especially enjoyed the pentatonic music and inclusion of a cat instead of just being a boring spaceship! Felt very fitting for the unstable theme.

i have to admit that when i first started playing i thought it was kind of a bad game, but after i figured out the controls it was actually very fun. it would be great so see expansion on this with other pickups and types of geometry. thanks for making the game.

Good atmosphere, fun concept. I like that the art is well made for the type of game you were going for, as it doesn't get in the way while also looking pleasing still.

Great game, very addicting aswell

Damn, anyone above 10 is impressive! :smiley:

An interesting concept, but I'd have liked more interaction, if you got a bad dice roll with the blue asteroids , it didn't feel all that interactive awaiting you cat guy to hit a blue one.

Nice little game~ I had fun but didn't manage to get past 5 points ^^'
I loved the 2D Fx at the start of each game with the little cat face :3

Very slick looking game and, over all, it has a very polished feel. Things that were an issue for me (an not necessarily for other commenters) were that camera movement was quite extreme when close to the black hole and it both distracted me a crucial moments and hid wider view from me just when I needed to make a tactical move. The other thing was that it felt a little too chaotic so it was more of a click and hope for the best game rather than one you could play tactically.
However, that chaos may well have been the whole point of the game (and in keeping with the theme) but it was frustrating how many times I seemed to be doing well but then go slammed straight into the black hole by something shooting in from off screen to fast to do anything about it.

@mathemagician, @pandore, @johnnysix, @shreemp the Highscore at the moment is 26!!!

@malcolm The chaos and randomness was indeed intended, but I think we went a bit overboard with it hahahah. But about the camera issues, if you could talk a little bit more about it, please do. We want to understand what was the issue.

@mascoll Shhhhhhh, don't tell our secret...

Thanks for everyone who played!!!

What a fun game! The idea was simple, but it worked very well in the core gameplay loop - even though I wasn't very good at it, I kept coming back over and over! I liked how the gravity worked as well, sometimes it was fun to just orbit for a little bit, and it was great seeing how far out I could go too, and I'm glad the screen zoomed for that! The graphics and aesthetics worked really well in that geometric style, and I particularly liked how the cat rotated and tumbled through space - very entertaining to watch! The music added to the feel of the game too; it felt relaxing, just clicking from obejct to object, once I got into the flow of it. Very entertaining game, I had lots of fun playing it!

You have to fight your instinct to jump right away from the danger. But as they say, orbiting is just systematically failing to hit the ground.

So, not all blue things are good for you and not all those red are bad. Sometimes you'll want to take a risk with a red one, to save yourself from riding a wrong blue.

@villeloso When the camera zooms in you can see less of the playing area of the game. My issue was that it zooms quite far in when you get close to the black hole which shuts out your view of the wider area. This means you can't see where might be the best direction to fire yourself and if there are imminent hazards that you need to avoid.

Also, the amount of camera movement seems excessive as it is constantly lurching one way then the other. It seems unnecessary as, while you need to keep track of your craft, everything in the game centres around the black hole and you need to know where your are in relation to it at all times. You could have had the game static, with no camera movement, and the game would play fine as you never need to see your ship up close.

However, I can see that camera movement makes the game more dynamic and, therefore, exciting. So, it might work to have the camera zoom in less and to use lazy following where the camera doesn't track the ship exactly and doesn't make any abrupt movements. There would be a slight lag to the camera with some easing into changes of direction.
Again, this was just my feeling playing the game and I am not an authority. So, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with your game just the changes I would make if it were me. I do like the game a lot.

With that in mind, here are a few additional thoughts on refining the game. How about starting off with fewer objects (especially the red ones) so that the player can ease in to the mechanics of the game and then the difficult ramps up as the number of objects increases over time. Furthermore, it might be interesting to how most new objects start with a velocity tangential to the black hole so that they are more likely to orbit (unstably) rather than flying straight down the throat of the black hole. This would allow for a more tactical approach as the player could hop from orbit to orbit more easily. The chaos would come from the interaction between objects and the, now rarer, kamikaze objects heading straight for the black hole.

Hey thanks for your comment on RadioFrog! We laughed so hard from your way of calling our enemies "Sketchy Flies" xDDDDDDD. I just tried out your game and had a lot of fun trying to get past 10 points. I really loved the animation that plays when you spawn. That weird cat explosion looks dope, I really like your style and compared to your previous games I can see you have been improving and stepping up your game dev deal.

**Thank you for playing!!!**

@mathemagician @shreemp Thank you!!! Yeah, it takes a bit to get used to the flow of dying and getting the best score.

@hybridkin Thanks I guess! It was fun to make the track :smiley:

@edevjogos oooo yeah timer sounds like a nice idea!

@hwaet glad you enjoyed the game!!! It was a perfect opportunity to be able to make a game that both has chaos and a very nice relaxing atmosphere! I enjoy it immensely

@stephenwhoskins thank you so much! glad those helped the experience!

@guitarbro the design of 2D with 3D was partially because I was getting used to 3D art actually! but the colors were on purpose and I'm glad they worked out! I think I get what you mean about the music being a song other than a soundtrack but I'd love to know what you mean by it!

@ks-zealot thank you!!! +:cat:

@mascoll :eyes: someone mentioned the different colored cats theory!!! we thought about that too when we added this feature. The jump indicator actually was a thing in concept! It was an arrow that would appear around the object you were in in order to indicate the direction you would go. It would point towards the position of your mouse. Though it was scrapped pretty early when design and more interesting ideas (like the starting animation) took priority.

@itzemii interesting... leaning into more of the atmospheric relaxation would be a neat concept! I'm not sure what you mean by allowing three targets, could you explain that a little bit more?

@exmxpx the trails are one of my favorite parts as well! i can see where the earthworm jim vibe comes from! I'm guessing the atmosphere and sound?

@antrimplato yeah! I was thinking something similar as I wanted the player to be able to do something when they're in an idle state (like rotating the saucer or shooting things) but it never really got far since we couldn't decide on a solid idea.

@pkzinpo I'm not sure how the hitboxes are coded but that sounds like a problem! i get the feeling of when you hit something and the feeling that it should have collided! it doesn't give a nice feeling. more blackholes, planets, and things to orbit around sounds like a very nice idea! that would make it a lot more interesting :eyes:

@recnaps thank you! glad it was inviting!

@chris-hay yay! glad it fit the theme well! yeah, it takes a bit to get used to and get the right choices in a run! a little tip is that I find that it helps to go perpendicular to the orbit! the cat was there the entire project! it really gave life to it :scream_cat:

**Thank you for playing!!!**

@paulhocker items and other geometry fit perfectly with some of the ideas we had around the 2 hours left mark! definitely would be fun to explore it more! totally understandable! The game takes a bit to get used to (partly because of there being no tutorial) but thank you for giving it a second chance!

@prismapunch so glad the art matched our game and that it pleased you!

@ozfolo I find it addicting as well!

@johnnysix yeah that was a problem! we had a bit of trouble trying to think of what to add in to make it more interesting but have it still doable within the timeframe! unfortunately we didn't make it there but I'm glad it worked as a concept! and yeah! 10 is really impressive. took me awhile to get there and 20 even more!

@pandore the catplosion is one of my favorite parts as well! usually the higher your score gets, the harder it becomes as the spread of the blue objects can be unpredictable!

@malcolm totally understandable! yes, that is one of the problems leftover: unpredictable kamikaze blue shapes. it does feel less controllable when you are unaware of what is outside your view! though we thought that the camera moving in and out made the game more cinematic and fluid, we'll definitely take into account it polish it better in the future so it is not as disorienting! the orbiting fix sounds perfect and the less shapes sounds like a good idea in general! nice fixes to some of our biggest problems!

@cakestorm I'm so glad you liked the game! you mentioned almost everything I would mention that makes it such a marvel for me to look at.

@ic-rainbow couldn't have better said it myself!

@dylen thank you! it was great fun making the animation~!

You asking about 3x target.
I meant that in your current version when being in a blue box the player has ONE try/ shot. My proposal is to try out giving the player 3 tries before getting into next blue box. But somehow limit it in someway.
All to make it more zen.

Fun and unique! Enjoyed the overall feel with the graphics and audio.

Super impressive graphics and music for a jam game! It's hard to get the hang of, especially when another shape knocks the one you're riding right into the black hole. It was fun to try to stay in orbit though!

Woow ! FX, music, UI and 3D are insane ! GG guys

Super engaging experience. I'm a sucker for this art style - simplistic shapes that are bathed in particle effects and post processing - and you did it very well. Music really fit the mood as well, chill but still energetic. Gameplay felt a bit tougher to judge given how great it felt when I'd jump around from object to object but how bad it felt when I'd get stuck in a slow orbit for 20 seconds, narrowly missing all objects on my slow descent. Not a major criticism for a jam game, by any means, as I think changing the gameplay too much would have made the great parts feel less great. On the whole, really enjoyed this.

I love the simplicity and the high quality execution. Very zen-like to play. Really stellar game!

Once you get a hang of it it feels really cool to score more and more points :D Very nice visuals and sound :)

The lack of camera control and limited movement (can only jump off a blue object once, then you're drifting) contributed to a sense of helplessness that I would normally call a flaw in a game. But I wouldn't call it a flaw here. The whole game seems to be about helplessness since we're playing as a cat pushed around by forces we can't comprehend let alone control. Nekonova's Not Home captures that feeling better than any of the other LD games I've played. That plus the gorgeous art (especially the black and white spawning animation) and sound design make this a super impress entry. My high score was 13 by the way.

cool concept, and pretty art design. it took me several tries to get to understand how it works.

I'm a little late commenting, but I made sure to rate on time! I really enjoyed this game and the chill vibes <3
The art, music, and gameplay came together great and I love that your cat gets randomized each time xD

The only problem I had with it is the same as some others have said where you sometimes just have to hope for the best with your shots. It also took me a while to realize that the speed you jump out of the blue objects is based on the distance between your mouse and you (I think. sometimes I would aim really far away and I wouldn't jump out that fast or sometimes I would shoot out pretty fast when I'm not aimed that far away)

Here's some ideas I had to increase player agency (I probably wouldn't do all of these ideas together):
- Increase the hitbox size of the blue guys. Sometimes I felt like I should have hit them but didn't
- Give the blue guys a small gravitational field that just pulls the player
- Give the player a gravitational field that they can activate with right click to pull blue and red guys
- Give player really weak thrusters (click and hold while not in an object)
- Give player multiple jumps when they exit a blue guy OR give jumping a timer (even if its like 10 sec)
- Instead of clicking farther away to increase jump speed maybe click and hold to charge up so the play can jump farther even when the camera is zoomed in
- When you jump at the start, set the velocity instead of adding a force so its easier to know which way you are going to move

Ideas so jumping between objects quickly isn't the main strategy:
- Blue guys explode (die) when you jump out of them
- Blue guys knock the others away when you jump out of them
- If two objects hit each other, they get pushed away from each other quickly

Misc Ideas:
- A yellow object that gets destroyed instantly when you touch it, but boosts you in the direction you are already moving
- a purple object that that acts like a blue object but spits you out in a random direction if you dont jump fast enough (kinda like a red and blue object combined)
- A powerup that duplicates you could be funny xD
- A Green object that lets you use the thrusters mentioned earlier but has limited fuel
- I don't know if the different shapes do different things, but that could be a cool idea that some of them shoot you out faster (the round blue one stands out because it glows so maybe this one could boost you more)


**Thank you for playing!!!**

@macaroni-dev thank you so much!

@rose @cyrille @mikouaji @vivyhasadream Glad you had fun and enjoyed the graphics and music!

@atmospherium a lot of steep ups and downs! The art style was a very quick decision to save time and still make it look great!

@bunnybones it felt very atmospheric and zen when I play as well :D

@cody-miner thank you so much! I agree that the helplessness does contribute in some way. I'm glad you had fun being helpless!

@itsboats quality feedback as always goddamn

Yeah, the lack of a tutorial left a lot of the game to be discovered and not everything was natural to figure out. Yes! Your jump is based on the distance of your mouse.

**Player Agency**
- The hitboxes definitely need some changes!
- The gravitational fields and the thrusters sound like excellent additions and the change on jumps is pretty cool! I agree that charging up your jump feels more natural to do rather than what is in the game right now.
- The velocity idea sounds neat but I don't think I understand it that well. Could you explain it a bit more?

**Jumping and Strategy**
- We actually thought about explosions for the red shapes! It eventually became what the red shapes are now but explosions would definitely be a good future addition! That, and the pulse that pushes other shapes away.
- We thought about making the shapes repel each other as well but if I remember correctly, we opted for the clumps of shapes so players can chain jumps with a huge risk. But I do still like the chaos that that idea insinuates.

**Misc**
- I like all those ideas. omg why did i never think of different colors??? I guess that was the crunch's fault but those additions are insane. Would love to do something like those if this ever goes anywhere!
- I absolutely love duplication and the chaos that comes with it. That would be great.

**Side Note**
- OH MY GOD YOU GOT 37 HOW DID YOU GET THAT THAT IS INSANE
- YOU BEAT EVERYONE BY A HUGE MARGIN WTF

# GOOD JOB!!!
& THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK! ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT <3