Kittens Go! by xhunterko

made by xhunterko for LD27 (COMPO)

Your drag racing kittens have only 10 seconds to live! Get them to the finish line faster by feeding them speed enhancing pellets! They're not drugs, honest! Can you balance your desire to win big with your urge to finish quickly? See if you can in Kittens Go!

Instructions:

1. Your drag racing kittens have only 10 seconds to live!

2. Get them to finish faster by feeding them speed pellets!

3. To place pellets, click on the black road!

4. Pellets cost money and their price changes all the time!

5. Go into too much debt and you'll have to quit!

6. Each kitten that passes the white line wins you random, yet decent cash prizes!

7. Get enough winnings so you can retire!

8. Press the Space Bar to pause! Press Escape to get out of pause!

Windows	http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f395565a218343def91acaa3f67af14d
Web	http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f395565a218343def91acaa3f67af14d
Source	http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/download/45249c59483a1100a7b3a5010501dbd6
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=1960

Ratings

Coolness	71%	3
Overall	2.41	1079

Fun	2.44	929
Graphics	2.64	705
Humor	2.44	441
Innovation	2.40	946
Mood	1.92	1024
Theme	2.70	925

Feedback

madk

26. Aug 2013 · 06:32 UTC

Interesting idea, I'd love to see if you took it farther.

sol_hsa

26. Aug 2013 · 06:41 UTC

White text on yellow background was a bit hard to read :/

Roan Contreras

26. Aug 2013 · 06:43 UTC

Those kittens are cute... :3

Brassawiking

26. Aug 2013 · 07:04 UTC

For the love of God, change the yellow background or change the font to black, my eyes burn haha =) Good idea, would have liked to place multiple pellets instead of one at a time. Some basic sound effects would have helped a lot also. Really nice pixelart!

Zuige

26. Aug 2013 · 22:13 UTC

Took me 20 seconds to finish. Maybe slightly too easy?

andwhatnot

26. Aug 2013 · 22:17 UTC

Cute and fun! I wonder what I get to do in retirement.

🎤 xhunterko

26. Aug 2013 · 23:05 UTC

Sorry about the text! I have added the instructions in profile.

@Zuige Maybe. Any ideas on making it more difficult?

@andwhatnot Whatever you like! It's your retirement!

Thanks to those who've rated so far!

27. Aug 2013 · 15:56 UTC

Its kind of easy, since you only need to click on those guys to win, there could be obstacles of some sort(for example some spike traps that you need to click on to deactivate). Graphics is not so great(kittens turned out cute though) white text on yellow background is terrible dont do that.

Prudiiarca

28. Aug 2013 · 08:24 UTC

It was hard to read the instructions (a darker background or font would be better) but it's a nice little game though. There could have been a more exact collision detection of pellets and kittens...

Capro

28. Aug 2013 · 10:50 UTC

Good concept, keep working on it!

DDRKirby(ISQ)

30. Aug 2013 · 07:30 UTC

Cool.

rezoner

30. Aug 2013 · 08:38 UTC

This is adorable. The gameplay is not so well yet but I think the idea has potential.

Andresh

02. Sep 2013 · 03:44 UTC

Would love to see you explore this idea more. Had fun though but some obstacles would be a good addition to the gameplay.

ShellfishGames

11. Sep 2013 · 11:32 UTC

"Click to retire", hehehe. :D Funny concept, seems a little easy though.

Zap

11. Sep 2013 · 12:59 UTC

White text on yellow was a poor, poor choice. Don't do that again. (Thank you for including the instructions here as well)
Interesting idea, but it's too easy and has no real strategy. Maybe it could be balanced by introducing a limit on how many pellets you can give at a time, or how much money is received.
The cats are pretty cute though! But I wish they had little legs that were frantically running :3

Lianne Booton

12. Sep 2013 · 02:50 UTC

Do they get sent to the glue factory if they don't cross the finish line? ;_; Good entry, and only the second game involving kitten death I've played this LD!

🎤 xhunterko

13. Sep 2013 · 08:09 UTC

@Zap Very sorry about the text. I thought it was a good choice at the time.

@Lianne Booton Sadly, no they do not. Thanks for playing!