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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #23 | 3.882 | 3.882 |
| Authenticity (or, Creativity in use of resolution) | #31 | 4.294 | 4.294 |
| Overall | #35 | 3.794 | 3.794 |
| Gameplay | #39 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
| Graphics | #54 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Themes
Fugitive. In the game you're a cat that is fleeing attacking hands!
Tooling
Used pico8. Familiar with it now. Also used ASEPRITE for images in the game page.
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The cat is so adorable! The gameplay is simple but gets surprisingly challenging with certain combinations. I agree that telegraphing multiple overlapping hands gets pretty confusing, and the long gaps between hand sets combined with slow retraction speeds feel a bit off timing-wise. Regardless, the game is super fun, cute, and simple. Great job!
Yea... some hands take too long to leave. Noted! I'll check on improving the attacks visualization! /nod
Thanks! Glad you had fun!
Love love love the cat sprite. The run animation in particular is just. It brings me such joy. Also gotta love a game with a dedicated meow button. (Initially I thought that maybe the mew button would help tell you which hand is coming first, when there are overlaps, but that doesn't seem to be the case? Didn't stop me spamming it during frantic overlaps regardless.)
Well done!
That's actually a great idea! :O
You see, the first idea was that you'd have to "hit" the hands with your meow. But I ended not implementing that and focusing more in the hands itself. Left it in the game 'cause I thought it was cute. xD
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Three legged cats rule! gg
Yea! xD
Thanks! :D
Nice concept, cute visuals! Love the tail swishing and running animations. When multiple hands are telegraphed at once I find it difficult to discern which will come first. Thankfully the extra lives spawn generously!
Hehe! The only limitation is that you can have at most 9 lifes. :P
I need to think into a better way to make it easier. When lots of hands are on the screen it gets pretty messy!
Thanks! Glad you were able to have fun!
Love the cat sprite, the visual style, and the overall rhythm of the game. In my opinion, the perfect version of this game just has the player learning what all the different hand variations do and doesn't have the warning boxes beforehand. I don't know, though, that's just what I was feeling while playing. Loved the music too.
Oh yea! I think it'd be cool to leave it as an option! "turn off warning".
Thanks! The music is pretty cool indeed! I used it from a music-jam for pico8. They have some cool other there too!
https://packbat.itch.io/laser-rot-p8-music
Fun game with cute visuals, cant really ask for more!
Thanks!!! :D Glad it was fun!
Love the little cat sprite, very cute! Fun game!
Glad you liked it! :D
I am a simple person: I see a cat game, I play.
And this one is not only cute but also innovative, great work! :D
Thank you for playing! Glad it was fun!!! I wanted to put more meows thou.
Real nice! I found a wee bug by accident: After 99 rounds, it only shows the two most significant digits of the score (so it looks like 10 instead of 100). Yep. I played that long :D
Oh my! It makes sense it does! I will update it!Thank you for playing it! Glad you enjoyed it!
Really fun and addictive gameplay, although it did get a tiny bit repetitive towards the end! Really loved the simple mechanics and the cat animations were super cute. Great job!
40 !!!! You played so much!
Yea, my first plan was to have a generator generate the attacks...but time got in the way. At some point it chooses from a list, so it eventually gets repetitive. I'll update eventually!
Thank you! I'm glad it was enjoyable!
This game is awesome! I loved how the difficulty ramped up the longer the game went on. 10/10, would recommend!
Thanks for playing! Glad to know you liked it! :D
I played this a lot longer than I thought! Starts easy and then gets harder and harder. Good think there are extra lives once in a while.
Liked the little background story on your project page =)
What about making the hit box a bit more precise? Maybe fit them exactly to the visual sprites?
Cool small game jam entry you have here. Liked it a lot!
Yea, I'll make sure to update the hitboxes. The top and botton hands are a bit clunky. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for playing! Glad you liked it!