Paw Of Black by BOOtak

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made by BOOtak for LD 43 (JAM)

Nine lives. One victory.

You are a cute cat, and you have to find your favorite yarn ball in a dark noir 30's city, filled with enemy rats and other obstacles. All you have is 9 lives, which you can sacrifice and use your own corpses to get through the level.

Controls: Arrow keys Grab dead body: Z

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Ratings

Overall 286th 3.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 428th 3.361⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 262th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 170th 4⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 243th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 313th 3.265⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 165th 3.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

WongKongPhooey
03. Dec 2018 · 21:54 UTC
Great little game! It looks cool in monochrome and plays well too. It's a nice use of the theme to have a cat sacrificing its 9 lives! Also, great to see TIC-80 submissions (I'm a fan of TIC-80 myself!). Well done!
DeathStorm
04. Dec 2018 · 10:42 UTC
A real cool game. The idea is great and the graphics aswell.

Some sound and music would be polish this game a lot.

Great Job keep doing.
Zhanna
04. Dec 2018 · 14:10 UTC
I've fallen in love with your idea when I heard you announcing it for a very first time. Lovely concept for a gameplay and cool graphics as well, though I do agree that sound could make it better. I wonder what could it sound like, 8-bit jazz? Is that even possible...
Anyway, keep it up.
AllesKapaul
06. Dec 2018 · 21:07 UTC
Great LD game with really nice graphics! Love the black and white feel. Maybe opt out of the sounds though if you don't add any sounds.
fishbrain
07. Dec 2018 · 05:50 UTC
Very nice graphic style. Great concept for the theme too! Well done!
🎤 BOOtak
07. Dec 2018 · 08:17 UTC
@alleskapaul yes, thank you, I've forgotten to opt out voting for audio.
🎤 BOOtak
07. Dec 2018 · 08:20 UTC
@zhanna thank you! It's all thanks to https://vk.com/tmokienko. We'll think about adding some music later :)
zgragselus
09. Dec 2018 · 03:04 UTC
Cool idea and great execution.

You never have enough dead bodies to build huge pyramid though!

Keep up the good work!
Bros.
11. Dec 2018 · 16:32 UTC
The idea is totally macabre, but it implements this LD'S theme just perfectly!
Atmosphere and graphics are very fitting.
Only thing missing is a nice jazz tune playing in the background.
dk5000p
11. Dec 2018 · 18:23 UTC
Some sounds would have been nice. Seemed very difficult, at least to me. Was hard to maneuver around the gun dogs. Still I loved the aesthetic and was a nice take on the theme.