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Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021

Hosted by mfiano, technomancy · #lispgames
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Qube*CatView game page

Cats love climbing qubes...
Submitted by oofoe — 6 hours, 35 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation - How does it look/feel?#83.5333.533
Creativity - How original is the idea?#112.5332.533
Entertainment - How enjoyable/replayable is it?#112.6672.667
Overall#122.9112.911

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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selfsameSubmitted4 years ago

nice qbert adaptaion, and very cool to see racket target the web. I enjoyed the devlog! 

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upworm
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks for checking it out!

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emacsomancer4 years ago

Lovely game. Brings back memories of playing Q*bert in the arcade. sadly I'm about as good at Qube*Cat as I ever was at Q*bert....

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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Really glad you enjoyed it! At least for this one, thanks to a curved space continuum, the fall is less traumatic for the cat than it was for old Q*bert!

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ntroPiSubmitted4 years ago

Bonus points for nostalgia :-)

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Jupiter Candle
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

I never got to play Q*bert in the arcades, just remember watching the attract mode. Unfortunately, there's no way to (reliably) make a web browser do the "thumping" thing that the original would do when Q*bert fell off the pyramid... Thanks very much for giving it a go!

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David ThompsonSubmitted4 years ago

Very cute game! Pretty relaxing experience. I'm not used to isometric controls with ASZX so I plunged my cat over the edge a good number of times. Never got hit by a ball though! The game seemed to crash after the Thunder level. Not sure if that was the last one  or not.

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Bonnie Bee and the Pesticidal Tendencies
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks for trying it out! Yes, Thunder is the last level. It doesn't so much "crash" as run off the rails, since there's no further level to go to... This is my second or third try with iso controls, still haven't found the perfect combination!

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KimbsySubmitted4 years ago

Nicely put together, I really like the cat model. I got hit by the yarn balls more often than I’d care to admit :P

I also ran into the bugs where is hangs on “pawsed” and breaking at the end of the fourth level. But honestly they didn’t stop me enjoying the game.

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The Sequence Abstraction
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks very much for taking a look! It's only supposed to "PAWS" for five seconds. Did it go on longer than that? I had a choice between being able to end (as in the double bounce mechanic of the last level would work) or having an ending screen, so I went with the former... ; - )

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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Never mind... Just replicated it. Did you have the yarnball on the screen when it happened? Thanks!

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KimbsySubmitted4 years ago

Yeah I left it for maybe 15-20 seconds before I refreshed the page.

I think you made the right choice there, the extra variety from the last level kept it fresher :)

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EutroSubmitted4 years ago

Looks great! Like the cat. I got used to the controls after a few minutes.

It… broke when I finished the last level though.

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Semantic Construct
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Glad you liked it! I don't know if you checked out the Blender files but that cat probably had the best ROI out of anything in the project -- I just made the simplest model I could, rigged and posed it. It was really helpful to keep the look consistent.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any static screens I wanted (title, howto, win, credits) working before the end of the Jam.

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Alex ☕🇨🇦Submitted4 years ago

Love the cat sprite! Not 100% sure how to interact with the ball. It’s nice to see a racket game running on the web!

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Axion Scion
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Glad you enjoyed it! In Qube*Cat land, ball interacts with you... As in, if it bounces on you, the game ignores your input for five seconds. This would be more of a problem if I had gotten the level timer wired in before the close of submissions...

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Alex ☕🇨🇦Submitted4 years ago

Ohhhh! That makes sense. I kept trying to catch the ball ahahaha!

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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Yeah, I wanted to get a title and score explanation screen, but... no time at the end. The ball wasn't even in the game until about three hours before the close of jam, because I like leaving everything until the last minute apparently. /scratches head

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Suspended accountSubmitted4 years ago
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Sound effects are a bit too loud compared to music, plus at some point the “pawsed” screen got stuck indefinitely (the fps counter was still working). The graphics are cute, the music seems fitting enough. The controls are a bit weird but you get used to them.

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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Hi! Thanks for taking a look! I'm still getting over the thrill of actually having music/sfx (I wasn't able to do game sound in Racket until my previous game Zode Trip) -- I guess I need to learn some subtlety! I believe that weird controls were a criticism of the original Q*bert, so I guess in that sense, I'm carrying on a storied tradition... ; - )

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yumaikasSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I like the cat and the puns. The animation/timing of the cat moving up/down seemed a bit too slow. If there’s something I’d improve on qbert, it’d be that, making things more responsive.

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Sparkworks
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oofoeDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks for checking it out! That's the problem with game jam games, no time for the subtle tweaks that really make something "jump"... 

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yumaikasSubmitted4 years ago

Something for next time, then.

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