Catnip Express by rubentipparach

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made by rubentipparach for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

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The cats were having a night of heavy binging and found themselves strewn across the solar system. The only thing you have of where they live is these random pictures.

Pickup cats and send them home! space_delivery.gif

Controls: WASD, QE

Instructions: - Enter rings to boost speed. - Hover inside Green spheres to pick up cats - Find the yellow/orange spheres to drop them off.

[Note: please ignore webGL as I am currently trying to figure out how to port it at the moment..]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJAmsgjg34

Ratings

Overall 120th 3.761⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 200th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 146th 3.522⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 76th 4.196⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 81th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 110th 3.609⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 60th 3.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 140th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

nekowei
01. May 2023 · 01:43 UTC
Who can refuse to deliver cute cats🤗

Good space visual, good music and funny sound effect.

Sometimes it's a bit hard to find the target behinds the planet.

It will be better if you can provide a control description. It takes me some time to realise that I can use Q and E to rotate just like other space game and slow down at the right time will be much easier to reach target.
clemall
01. May 2023 · 15:05 UTC
Haha I see cat in the name, I have to play it!

Cool game with a nice music/sound effect.
I had fun playing. Good job :thumbsup:
adam-gould
01. May 2023 · 21:03 UTC
That was fun! I had a great time zipping between the planets and the visuals were very impressive - not to mention the great sound effects :)

I probably would have liked some sense of progression towards an end goal, as it stands the game is "deliver cats until you don't want to anymore" - but hey, that's the compo life!
🎤 rubentipparach
01. May 2023 · 21:06 UTC
LOL yeah that is true! I definitely spent way to much time generating planets!
LDJam user 279622
01. May 2023 · 21:20 UTC
it looks like you accidentally linked to a WebGL build instead of the source code
🎤 rubentipparach
01. May 2023 · 21:49 UTC
@badcop fixed. Thanks for pointing that out, my folders are a mess after the weekend lol
Pincushion
01. May 2023 · 21:55 UTC
The environment looks so good! The ship's controls felt right. The reticle was a good idea. I agree with Adam. Some kind of goal would have been great.
Kreshi
01. May 2023 · 23:48 UTC
that's an awesome game you did there! great lighting, good controls, super nice audio and a great package altogether :) :).
Tyler M
02. May 2023 · 00:23 UTC
Great work! Your updates made it much easier to find the cats; I really enjoyed your voice-over!
Archaeognathus
02. May 2023 · 06:31 UTC
Wup wup wup wup very nice vibe and miau miau miau miau miau voiceover and music.
Wasn't sure how to find the cats first and flew off to a random planet, before I realized you can see the distance. Now i have a catchy tune for the day ;)
zyapimstudios
03. May 2023 · 14:39 UTC
This was a quite fun game! I love cats so I just had to click on this. Good job!
JpBaraky
03. May 2023 · 23:45 UTC
Nice +1 for the cats in space
Cinterre
04. May 2023 · 01:47 UTC
Cats... in... spaaaaaaace. Was fun to zoom around. Nice work on making a 3D game for compo.
Smoky01
04. May 2023 · 05:11 UTC
Good and interesting idea game
kaliuresis
04. May 2023 · 05:17 UTC
The ship controls are pretty good, and the graphics are excellent. I felt that the searching the whole planet for spheres part of the gameplay was much less interesting than the piloting the ship through rings part, but that might be a personal preference.
fabula_rasa
04. May 2023 · 09:20 UTC
Honestly, I didn't like the music at all - too electronic, and I think it did nothing for the atmosphere. But I loved the "miau miau miau" sound you made :grin:

Controls work very nicely and smooth. It feels good to fly around, and the rings were fun. Navigation could use some improvement. Because of the 3d world and distances, you don't always see the light beacon from where you are, and it's not obvious which planet is "Jungle" or "Wasteland". You can easily end up going to the wrong one and there is no time to go back. Some legend (either here on LD page or in-game) with planet images and names would help a lot. Or a directional arrow in-game, but that would mean addition implementation time, which might not be available in compo, I know.

Overall, it's quite impressive game to do on your own in such a short time. I didn't see even one bug, just the cats :wink:
Fupi
06. May 2023 · 23:07 UTC
Game's pretty cute! Best part is definitely the ship controls, they're super smooth and intuitive, and flying through rings is extremely satisfying. Also great shaders. I didn't think the music fit super well but it's fine! On feedback maybe I just wish there were more rings around, or more ways to rack up speed other than the rings, because the planets are so far apart it can get kinda tedious to just press W for a long time.
justslavic
08. May 2023 · 16:04 UTC
Graphics are amazing, cats are really cute, but I didn't figure out where to go for a long time, maybe if there would be nicer indications where is the pick up and drop off points, it would be just a bit easier and nicer, but anyway it's a cool little game, I enjoyed it a lot!
Zirrrus
08. May 2023 · 16:27 UTC
That was great! Looks really nice, flying the ship is fun.
Things I wish it had are some sort of indicator which planet to go when you are really far to and maybe a short recharging boost.
Really well done!
D3kryption
14. May 2023 · 04:14 UTC
I love flying around on the edge of a planet! its such a cool affect.

I'm still in shock the game is about delivering cats :joy: IN SPACE! I love it.

I did get the rare lag however which made it a bit difficult sometimes but flying away solved it

It handled great and was very pretty.

nice job! I had fun :)
icxon
14. May 2023 · 05:28 UTC
Those sounds are adorable! :smile: I like the planets, ship controls and the halo effect. Also camera free look is a nice option.

Here is my playtest:

https://youtu.be/douWobrUPjo