Alone amongst Kittens by Rylius

made by Rylius for LD22 (COMPO)

Stranded somewhere in the nowhere, confronted with intrusive kittens, you need to build walls and houses to fend them off and ultimately collect resources for the rocket which will bring you into space.

Collision is crap. Expect kittens/yourself going through the roof occasionally.

Graphics are crap too. Programmer art. :)
Particles!

Edit: Added a batch file in case the JAR doesn't work.
Edit2: When prompted to build the launchpad/rocket, follow the green arrow and press the down arrow/s key!

Windows, OS/X, Linux (Java)	http://hazewood.de/files/ld22_rylius_rc2.zip
Source	http://hazewood.de/files/ld22_rylius_rc1_src.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7056

Ratings

Coolness	44%	289
Overall	2.25	532

Audio	2.80	180
Community	2.00	519
Fun	1.91	535
Graphics	1.91	592
Humor	2.50	142
Innovation	2.09	473
Mood	1.82	518
Theme	2.00	561

Feedback

Mesene

20. Dec 2011 · 09:06 UTC

what does mean: build a launch pad?? I must beat this game!
soo funny, just minor problems with collisions, recomended

Setech

21. Dec 2011 · 23:12 UTC

I love the music; very catchy!

Shigor

23. Dec 2011 · 20:44 UTC

Yeah... collisions are crap. Since every time I start to dig for more metal some kitten goes through the wall and starts to breed on my legs, I'm kinda unable to do anything. Good idea, but it alternated between boring and uplayable (I really have no idea how to escape wall moving kittens :/)
Very good music.

triplefox

26. Dec 2011 · 03:30 UTC

I had some fun with this one but my game ended suddenly when I ran off the right side of the map and was forced to run right forever.

I also had no idea how to "build a launchpad" which prompted the above misadventure.

Tifu

28. Dec 2011 · 16:32 UTC

Ugh - on third try I got to the rocket building stage and the cats just glitched their way through it and killed me, after spending so much time mining the metal I really don't want to try again. Why not disable the death condition when you know the enemies can walk through walls and make the game unfair, at least then we could play to the end =/

If the collision problem was fixed though, this could probably be a fun game.

cappelnord

31. Dec 2011 · 23:57 UTC

Couldn't play. It' just saying "Loading Music..." all the time. All i can do is Toggling FPS and Pausing with Esc.

OS X 10.7

🎤 Rylius

05. Jan 2012 · 13:19 UTC

Loading the music takes a while, just wait until the text disappears.

Zutty

06. Jan 2012 · 21:13 UTC

Gave up waiting for music to load (~5 minutes). OSX 10.5.

Maato

06. Jan 2012 · 21:30 UTC

Got an 'OutOfMemoryException' which caused it to get stuck on loading music. I fixed this by adding the -Xmx1024m argument in the bat file. There were too many kittens and it was impossible to jump up while walking into a block which made movement kind of hard. So I didn't finish collecting all the metal.