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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #119 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Story | #323 | 2.385 | 2.385 |
| Aesthetics | #378 | 3.154 | 3.154 |
| Fun | #506 | 2.615 | 2.615 |
| Mechanics | #680 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
| Sound | #750 | 1.231 | 1.231 |
| Music | #790 | 1.154 | 1.154 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
only me
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
yes, I modified free assets, here are the links: <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" computer-games-cartoon-elements-3d-set_4282637.htm#query="2d%20game%20assets&position=0&from_view=keyword&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/computer-games-cartoon-elements-3d-set_42826...</a> by macrovector on Freepik <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" autumn-landscape-background_1165702.htm#query="2d%20game%20assets&position=5&from_view=keyword&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/autumn-landscape-background_1165702.htm#quer...</a> by alekksall on Freepik <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" cartoon-isolated-floating-platform-game-asset_38654961.htm#query="2d%20game%20assets&position=41&from_view=keyword&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cartoon-isolated-floating-platform-game-asse...</a> by upklyak on Freepik <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" halloween-cat-disguised-katrina-character_5718341.htm#query="cat%20skull%20vector%20stylized&position=3&from_view=search&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/halloween-cat-disguised-katrina-character_57...</a> by gstudioimagen on Freepik <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" halloween-cat-flat-design_9922055.htm#query="cat%20skull%20vector%20stylized&position=23&from_view=search&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/halloween-cat-flat-design_9922055.htm#query=...</a> by pikisuperstar on Freepik <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" set-seamless-borders-liana-branches-tropical-leaves-game-cartoon-elements-creeper-jungle_35475261.htm#query="climbiung%20plant%20vector%20stylized%20games&position=18&from_view=search&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/set-seamless-borders-liana-branches-tropical...</a> by valadzionak_volha on Freepik Download 12: <a href="<a href=" https:="" www.freepik.com="" free-vector="" game-grounds-with-texture-ice-water-lava_21329661.htm#query="water%20vector%202D%20platformer&position=20&from_view=search&track=ais"">Image" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/game-grounds-with-texture-ice-water-lava_213...</a> by upklyak on Freepik https://www.gameart2d.com/cat-and-dog-free-sprites.html
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Cool concept and the art is very well put together! Well done!
I'm stuck here In the beginning.
But I finished, Smooth player movements, thank you
awesome!!!
thank you very much for playing to the end! ♥
yeah, the climbing bug keeps happening :(
I'm working on it during the weekend, and hopefully will get it fixed.
Funny idea about schrödingers cat :D I loved the skeleton cat and the color palette from the death dimension. Sadly I got stuck in the skull :P
Thank you! :)
I am working on fixing the bugs, hopefully would get it done after the weekend :)
The game is simple, but well done. The climbing is a little buggy, in particular if you get on top. Overall, well done. I liked the art. Some music may add a lot to the game
Thank you for playing and for the feedback!
I have been stuck with university work but I will get back to fixing bugs during the weekend. Sadly I didn't have time to add sound and music :( But I am considering developing the concept further and then will have music for sure!
I think I found another issue with our climbing collider - when I climbed too high I dropped a little bit and then was stuck inside something and couldn't get out anymore happend on the first ladder and after a restart on the third aswell
Thank you!
I'm working on the bugs now, tried several possible solutions but bugs still happen some times less some times more, the goal is to stop them from happening, ever. I will submit the update and notify in Discord when it is fully fixed :)
There's a rather fundamental "bug" with the design, which is that if you fail a jump and fall down when in the 'wrong' dimension, there's no coming back from it since most of the platforms are invisible, but you might still survive (e.g. falling down on the starting platforms). The only solution then is to try to commit suicide :(
The switching between dimensions could maybe be done through permanent portals or switches instead of pickups? It shouldn't really change the way things work otherwise, but it would allow for mistakes.
thank you for playing and for your feedback!
The original idea was to have the pickups respawn after a while so the player could switch dimensions again if goes back, but I had some problems trying to implement the respawning in the engine so I had to leave it like that at the end due to time constraints. Changing the pickups into permanent portals would have been a better solution yeah! sadly I didn't think of it at the moment, thanks for pointing it out!
Typical cat, get stuck in high places and can't get down.
hahaha XD
hadn't seen it that way but yeah... that way the getting stuck bug makes sense :P
and thanks for playing! :)
Nice choice of art.
The character is still controllable for a few seconds after death, that surprised me.
I got stuck a few times on the ladder. Holding A/D before reaching the top seem solve this issue.
thank you! oh, a dead character controllable is a newly discovered bug :O will fix it, thanks for pointing it out.
I'm working on the ladder issues too, good you found a way out! thanks for pointing out that as well.
Hey nice! I feel like I'm missing something obvious. What do I do after the first moving platform?
you have to climb the bones ladder on the small island where you arrive in the moving platform :)
ohhh I thought that was it! I kept trying to press 'w' to go up! finally got it with the up arrow. Nice work on the game!
oh sorry, only up arrow. I should add W control as well, thanks for pointing it out!
And thank you! :)
Hi! Cute game!
I found some invisible boxes in the 2nd level to the left of the floating static platform.
The skeleton skin is so cute!!!
This catto's life is truly in 2 dimensions! Clever use of theme ^w^. But I got stuck on the skill after climbing on level 2 so I couldn't move forward :'(.
oh sorry about that, I thought that bug had been totally fixed, I will give it another fix... 100000th time haha.
about the invisible boxes, yeah I didn't have time to make all the collisions disabled I just made them invisible XD, I'll see if I can fix that one too before the deadline for bug fixing, although it doesn't make the game unplayable. I enjoyed working on that theme a lot, I might make a proper game of this demo at some point :)
Yaaaas, I would def play that game when you finish it ^w^. I thought the invisible boxes were part of the gameplay too, like those invisible boxes in mario hehehe.
"it's not a bug, it's a feature" :P ...yeah let's go with that haha
Ladders in the death dimension give me troubles if I move all the way to the top, the ones on the right hand side in particular. Even when I don't get trapped, getting from the ladder onto a platform is a bit too difficult. Other than that it's a fun, cute game!
So far it is only possible to jump out of the ladders after reaching the end of them, not in the middle, and yeah it seems some bugs are happening still, even though I had supposedly fixed them. I will work more on it. Thanks a lot!! :)
Thank you for submitting and sharing your game! I hope you can get the bugs sorted out! :D
thanks, I am working on it :) I'm more on the art and design side so all the dev part is overwhelming but I like it anyway, just not my strength. But yeah doing my best to fix those bugs every single time they appear, it seems they happen or not depending on the EXACT position of the player + the EXACT combination of keyboard input when trying to get out of the ladder, quite some work to do XD
(btw the browser version of your game is not loading, I will try the download).
I hope you're able to sort it all out!
Please do use the download, the browser version of my game also has a bug which I can't get to the bottom of. I thought I'd fixed it and tested it on another itch page and everything was fine, but putting it on the gamejam page causes it to happen again so I'm super confused about that! And I can't even blame it on being an artist!
Congrats on submission. I got a climbing bug, so I couldn't go that far.
oh, sorry to hear that, I didn't find that particular bug, will work on fixing it. Thank you! :)