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CatTroller by Rockdtben

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made by Rockdtben for LD20 (COMPO)
In CatTroller your mission is to get to Ludum Dare #20. You will start off the game by seeing a cat and the cat will give you the CatTroller. Then you begin your quest to fight the Rat Menace who is trying to stop you from finishing your project. Defeat him and you will have finished your LD on time and in a great fashion!

Movement - Arrows
Jump - Z
Attack - X

Timelapse is up!

Windows/OS/X/Linux http://filesmelt.com/dl/CatTroller.rar
Source http://rockdtben.com/files/CatTrollerSrc.rar
TimeLapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt03UPg58Pc
Web http://www.rockdtben.com/catTroller.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=3031

Ratings

Coolness 0% 243
Overall 3.09 112
Audio 2.36 153
Community 2.56 156
Fun 3.36 67
Graphics 2.64 196
Humor 3.20 44
Innovation 3.36 70
Theme 3.55 39

Feedback

Dark Acre Jack
04. May 2011 路 16:25 UTC
Cat-attack!

Pretty fun, I managed to kill the end boss even though I was dead.

Great work!
erik
04. May 2011 路 17:06 UTC
That was fun. I liked throwing the cats, and the giant chain of cats at the end was great. Also, this is the first "take this cat" themed game I've encountered. It would be nice if the enemies moved more randomly and were less aggressive. Also, you might want to consider finding a way to upload this as a Java applet or Java Web Start program or something like that. Not a lot of people are going to know what to do with a Jar file inside a rar, and you will get less ratings and reviews because of this.
馃帳 Rockdtben
04. May 2011 路 19:53 UTC
Good advice erik. I will look into this and when I'm done I'll add the Web link.
rgbDreamer
05. May 2011 路 09:44 UTC
Very original. As soon as I had enough cats, I stopped throwing them and killed everything with my tail, which is bad because throwing cats is more fun. A longer level that let you appreciate having just a few cats before giving you a ton would be good.
Draknek
08. May 2011 路 14:58 UTC
I get a "CRC failed" error when trying to extract the files from the rar: looks like the file is corrupt, maybe try re-uploading?

I'd second the suggestion to improve the packaging situation.
matthias_zarzecki
12. May 2011 路 11:16 UTC
Here's herding cats, ain't that adorable :-)
ExciteMike
12. May 2011 路 15:09 UTC
I just get stuck at a black screen when I try to run this. :(
Endurion
13. May 2011 路 06:45 UTC
Neat :)
I love the cat line behind me, which also works very nice as auto-attack. However the boss did me in when I tried to cat-tail him.
mwest
21. May 2011 路 21:20 UTC
Quite a nice effort - well done!