Aw you just missed my v1.0.1 update (don't worry both versions exist for download). I re-enabled i-frames and the boss's explosion after accidently disabling also fixed a collision issue I made... and recentered the camera.

Yeah, I broke the i-frames before submitting the game a final time, same with the enemy explosion when you beat the boss.

Coyote time wasn't added, mostly related to the fact that the Collision box is significantly bigger than the size of a normal player, so you can actually go extremely far out before you fall... It's similar to the distance I would have allowed a normal player collision to walk off with coyote time. I will think about how to implement it in the future, since having it be able to walk too far will look really bad.

The attack is similar to the roar in The Lion King (Sega), where you stop to stun your enemies early game. There were plans for more attacks that would have countered the claw attack, but the claw was supposed to be a high-risk risk high-reward attack, doing more damage than a longer distance means. 

The camera needed to be zoomed out more and adjusted according to where the player jumped. There was going to be a crouch that shifted the camera down as well. When you are gliding, the camera would have centered more, and when you landed adjusted to be where it is now on the ground.

we're glad you enjoyed the game we hope to make it more polished in the future and have more areas and abilities that can be used for other things then just getting past an obstacles  for example how the roll was really only useful for getting through gaps the player couldn't walk through. We were inspired by platformers and metroidvanias. I personally really like castlevania and metroid so it inspired my art a little bit.
 

Appreciate the feedback! We had a really cool UI originally, but some weird stuff was going on with it, so we had to simplify it for now. )

there was just the credits screen as the end screen how ever if you hit a key on the keyboard it just instantly disappears. Good job beating the boss :3 we will be working on a 2.0 release soon with a bunch of bug fixes but we will be taking out time with it we don't want to rush ourselves to add a bunch of content and areas with different feels then the last. I am glad you enjoyed the game none the less.

I appreciate the detailed feedback.

I 100% skipped coding in the coyote time, good job on catching that. You're the first to say something about it. That cat's collision box is so wonky it created its own coyote time, almost, so I didn't worry too much about it.. 

As for the camera, because I was using some pixel snap settings, if you hit a corner of the deadzone block in Godot, it causes a strange stutter, so I just left it out and didn't worry about it for now. I wanted to code my camera controls because I wanted more player control over it. One thing I should have done for sure, though, was to zoom the camera out quite a bit. 

There is a credits scene, but if you press a button after the boss dies, you jump past it quickly. It even had its unique song for when you beat the boss... It's possible to go into credits and hear it after you beat the game, but I don't have saves added to this game. It is 100% possible it reads mouse movement also... I think I forgot to add a check for that. A

The boss used to have explosions, but when I went in to fix a couple of things, I accidently disabled them.... same with i-frames and I had no clue until it was too late (sorry about that!)

I'll keep that attack being mouse in mind when we do an update. I was debating on speeding up the attack also, but when I did it before, it looked odd. ( I was surprised how hard it is to work with 4 legged creatures in games. It's my first time doing that.

Thank you so much for the feedback

sorry about that, I did notice an issue with the roll where it's possible to get stuck in those areas, but I didn't quite have time to fix the bug. It's pretty hard to do so, I'm impressed. It sounds like you were outside the boss door, though.

Yeah, the camera was just thrown on the player with no modifications. I should have probably done that at the very least. To defeat the boss, you have to go between its head after the fireballs and while it's doing the head attack, get an attack or two in. While the fireballs are going off, you have to navigate your jump and glide a bit.

We appreciate that! We like cats also, and Zorp worked hard on the cat sprite. I had to have them revise it a few times. I bet they got sick of me with that :D. I'm happy the inspiration came through

Zorp used an asset as a reference, but we needed a lot more than the asset pack provided.  So we ended up making our own in the long wrong. Zorp made all the assets from scratch. Using references here and there to help build on the idea. 

I was the only one in the group who could do SFX, but I was also the lead programmer and had tons of stuff to clean up to make sure the game stayed fun. 

I appreciate the praise for the movement system. It is a reworked system I use in a game I've been making for a bit now. I'm happy the boss wasn't too hard. I had to increase the idle time justa  bit longer to make the fight a bit more fair.

When Shovel announced the theme Just Get Started it reminded me of how metroidvania's work is where you start with almost nothing. So I took it a bit further and made it so you can only walk.  I wanted to spend more time on level design then I personally did, but in the end it didn't work out. 

I will be checking your game out in a moment! I always make sure to check everyone's game out who comments. :)

Ah, yeah, I think the issue related to this is that I use a variable jump height, which means you have to hold the jump down to get the most height out of it. The moment you let go, you start to fall back down. This was not clearly indicated in the game, so it appears to have caused some issues. Perfect, we had a mix influence of sonic and metroid when coming up with the game. Although the sonic side isn't as prominent.

Yeah, the game wasn't designed to be super easy. That being said there are a few hitbox and hurtbox size issues so that really don't help at all either lol.

The meow button was thought of at the last second I also have like a cyber meow sfx in the files somewhere. Just never implemented it.

Haha, the super knockback.  Yeah, that knock back is pretty nasty! Sorry about that!

Haha, yeah we did use the cat from hi-fi as a reference for the character. We thought it would be a cute homage to the game. Even though I personally never played it all the way threw.

The story idea was that you are one of the cloned cyborg cats that were born in the tubes. The lab was being evacuated, and you were almost evacuated (it's why the tube you are in is empty, it was yours, and there is a carrier cage next to some of the tubes.) Something came up and you were left behind. Time passes, and you finally boot yourself up and begin to explore on your own. You as the cat find these chips that store data on how to do things, and as you get close to the chips, you learn the details. Like you said, if we had time, we would have gotten more into details, but the most we could do was tell it threw the environment and let others decide what was going on.

Yeah, I was surprised how hard it is to capture the hurtbox for the cat. I also think I made the microwave hitboxes bigger than I wanted. Thank you for the feedback!

We appreciate it. I think we were a bit over our heads on the level design, but I think we got something decent out of it.

I did have i-frames at one point, but when I went in to change something a the last second, it appears I broke a few things. like the i-frames and the boss explosions. Thank you so much for the feedback! When I update the game, I will keep this all in mind.

Don't worry, I'm pretty bad at platformers also. But no your right, the knockback is pretty high. There was a bug related to bumping into the enemy, so in order to prevent that, I did a band-aid fix by bumping the knockback a decent amount.

Thank you. We appreciate and we are happy you enjoyed the game!