Catnip Express by rubentipparach

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!

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
| Link | https://ruben-tipparach.itch.io/catnip-express |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/catnip-express |
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🗨️ |
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.
Cool game with a nice music/sound effect.
I had fun playing. Good job :thumbsup:
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!
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 ;)
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:
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!
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 :)
Here is my playtest:
https://youtu.be/douWobrUPjo