Cool mechanic with beautiful pixel art ! Enjoyed the game so much!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Fun | #6 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
Aesthetics | #7 | 4.655 | 4.655 |
Theme | #8 | 4.405 | 4.405 |
Mechanics | #9 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
Music | #9 | 4.214 | 4.214 |
Sound | #22 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
Story | #145 | 3.119 | 3.119 |
Ranked from 84 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?
4
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Music, sound effects and fonts come from free-to-use and no-attribution sources.
Link to your source?
https://github.com/jpdurigan/cat-a-combs
Comments
Wow! What an amazing game from start to finish! The music, art, animation, mechanic, everything. Beautiful choice in music which really sets the tone right from the main menu. Nice smooth transitions between scenes. The dithered lighting effect around the character is also a very nice touch. You even managed to have a surprising number of levels in there. An incredibly polished experience. Congratulations to your team on a job well done. I'm blown away!
Such an awesome submission! The art style is so good, and the mechanic was simple and intuitive. The level design also made very good use of the mechanic! I can really tell that this game was made by a team. It's just so polished. Well done!
Really good game, with fantastic mechanics. I love the aesthetics and the little details, like the candles in the background and the shining spikes. Well build and polished, with a lot of great ideas, like the checkpoint system and the puzzles. It is almost perfect, almost! I really hate that the fading platforms are not regenerating and you have to sacrifice one life! :D Besides that, awesome job, congratulations! :)
Incredibly polished! The control is precise and smooth. The level design is generally very good. The sprites and the animation is cohesive and beautiful. I find the spawn point to be visually appealing. the game is very pretty!
There are some spots that feel a little bit frustrating. And sometimes the platform is positioned just right that I will always bump into it and die. It will also feel a little better if the laser hitbox is a little more forgiving. But the overall difficulty is totally fine.
Overall, a very good game with very interesting level designs filled with ideas. Very well-made. Great job!
First off, the art direction here is something special. Hats off to the artist. Altogether an incredibly polished and beautiful puzzle platformer. The 2nd level with the laser skulls proved to be too tricky for me, so that's where I stopped. I had a lot of fun though! One of the most polished submissions in the jam, and one of the most original styles, 100%!
Very fun game following the jam's theme perfectly!
Not too easy nor too hard, just perfect for a casual play. The checkpoints were a nice touch that many other games that I tried in the jam don't have.
Well polished presentation and well thought out game mechanics, puzzles and level design.
The music and the sound effects chosen were great too.
Works as a really good demo that I can see becoming a full game.
Great game!
Awesome, awesome, awesome. The fact that you praised my game means even more coming from the creator(s) of this game. When I was coming up with an idea for this jam, I entertained a similar concept to this, but I couldn't think of a way to make it unique or interesting, as the idea has been done before. The way this was executed, however, was better than I've ever seen it. I love that the levels have multiple ways to be solved (instead of just one solution like most games of this type). I love that there are checkpoints which raise the stakes. I love that there are obstacles to intentionally hit and some to just avoid. All of these elements combine to create a very fun experience that didn't get old repeating the level over and over. Very charming and relaxing aesthetics, too, despite the game getting appropriately challenging.
I also love mechanics that build off each other, and this game has it in spades. Amazing level design. Super polished. Overall, best game I've played in the jam thus far. Very well done.
This game is definitely the best puzzle platformer we have played so far! The levels are fun and the difficulty feels just right, the art is great proper pixel art with a consistent style and palette and you were also very attentive to avoid certain possible game-breaking mechanics (like the platform squeezing the character in one level but not making it stuck). Overall really good job, we really enjoyed playing it and would play a longer version of this too :D
An excellent puzzle game, the art is gorgeous, the mechanics are solid and no bugs on site!
I loved the background details, they add a lot to the game!
I saw the main idea in a couple of other jams before, but, I don't mind!
The execution easily covers that up!
Wow this game is FANTASTIC! It's almost perfect. Few mechanics, that work perfectly well together. Great art, great music, great game name, and loved the idea of the several cat lives :D.
The only thing that I think could improve the game is controlling the jump with button press length. Sometimes you just jump higher than you want. But that's a detail, the game works extremely well!
Nice done! I think my highest rating so far :D
heheh i love the play on words from your title! CAT-ta-comb hahaha
It took me awhile to finish the last level ^w^, but i didn't give up! So I managed to finish your game after so many tries!
I loved playing this so much XD. I didnt get it at first that i had to die to reach new places, and that is so amazing! Awesome game ^w^.
Oh! U're the 3D artist from Outer Darkness, right?!
I'm so glad u had a great time! The last level makes me wanna cry in a corner a little bit LOL but life is a challenge, right!?
Congrats a lot on ur game too! I got pretty scared at the beginning and scared the fuck out of my cats by screaming hahahha
Yis I am the 3d artist ^w^, thank you so much for enjoying our game, and thank you guys for your submission!
Ahahaha I'm so sorry your cattos got spooked XD. I can just imagine their lil tiny faces.
Yis that last level was helll, but it's so satisfying once you pass it! XD
Congratulations too! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
We have similar idea about the game mechanic, but your execution is so much better. Really great job!
Very nice and polished, congrats! Makes me remember Life Goes On, which is a mechanic that I knew some people would try on this jam!
When using a gamepad, the cat keeps sliding and I couldn't jump, but I don't know if it is a problem with the gamepad (it's a generic xbox-like controller), or the game does not fully support controllers.
Good luck on the jam!
Wow, this game is incredible. The music matches with everything. The fact that you chose how to die in order to complete the level even faster. Just beautiful.
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