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Robot Cat Loves Boxes by Dan Norder

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made by Dan Norder for LD32 (COMPO)
Robot Cat Loves Boxes is a simple game created for Ludum Dare #32 (theme: "An Unconventional Weapon"). You are a lonely Robot Cat who longs to hang out in his favorite cardboard box. Unfortunately, a group of Robot Dogs would like nothing better than to spoil your fun by blowing your power cell to hell. Fight back with your power-charged cybermeow.

For the Flash application to work you must first click the game to make it active. Then use arrow keys to move and space bar to launch your unconventional attack.

Graphics are in a mock NES style, though the number of colors in sprites and number of them on the screen likely wouldn't really work on a Nintendo.

Game is copyright 2015 by Dan Norder.

Download link on my itch.io page includes a ZIP file with a Windows version of the game as well as the source code (in .mfa format).
Web http://dannorder.itch.io/robot-cat-loves-boxes
Windows http://dannorder.itch.io/robot-cat-loves-boxes
Source http://dannorder.itch.io/robot-cat-loves-boxes
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=35070

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1713
Overall 2.65 967
Audio 2.41 667
Fun 2.50 944
Graphics 2.77 724
Humor 2.68 568
Innovation 2.00 1072
Mood 2.90 579
Theme 2.64 975

Feedback

SmallPhil
20. Apr 2015 路 01:15 UTC
Funny game, but the controls are a bit wonky :/
peejaygee
20. Apr 2015 路 02:15 UTC
Fun Game, maybe a little more AI work may be needed, or at least the top guy on level 2 to be moved a little lower, kills you too quick.
馃帳 Dan Norder
20. Apr 2015 路 02:39 UTC
@peejaygee: Enemy and wall placement is procedurally generated. The code tries to make things more difficult as time goes on, but sometimes bad luck will get you early on.
ehtd
20. Apr 2015 路 03:28 UTC
fun, but perhaps too difficult
Toby Pinder
20. Apr 2015 路 03:47 UTC
Bit slip-slidey, which adds difficulty. Hit detection on walls is a bit mean too! Love the concept of a "cyber-meow" though, and it's got polished tile art going on!
fluidvolt
20. Apr 2015 路 07:45 UTC
This feels like an old-school arcade game. Like Joust-era stuff. The sfx are great (I like the blippy meow when you clear a level). Fun little game.
KedumeBits
20. Apr 2015 路 14:42 UTC
Nice game. Robot cat inertia makes the game devilishly difficult.
sawyerWeld
20. Apr 2015 路 16:49 UTC
love it!
shrapx
20. Apr 2015 路 17:56 UTC
I found it quite hard to get through the level. When there is a single tile width, the cat would bang against the corners a lot. I love the little mew when the cat gets to the box. mew :3
sally_anne
20. Apr 2015 路 18:06 UTC
It was quite easy to game the AI and get them to come from only one direction at a time as they all seemed to get stuck pretty easily.
It would have been nice if I could choose the direction to shoot and almost made it feel more like a puzzle as I had to decide which direction to move to make it easiest to shoot the dogs.
Your image of the cat looks really similar to something I drew for my twine game (the bad ending)!
Manu & Wan
21. Apr 2015 路 04:10 UTC
Nice work.
You just need some more work on the IA pathfinding but for a compo entry it's hard to have time for everything ^^
elpaulo
25. Apr 2015 路 11:05 UTC
Cool graphics and sound effects, except the repetition of the wall collision sound.
Some levels are just unbeatable, because Robot dogs spawn too close to the Robot Cat !
Nice work anyway.
norwalnate13
26. Apr 2015 路 21:45 UTC
Cute! I have a problem with the movement. It seems you used physics based movement. This game would work best with instant acceleration/deceleration. Otherwise, I love the idea of getting the cat to his box. :D