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Third by onnofal

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made by onnofal for LD 43 (COMPO)

My second LD attendance - yet the game is called the Third

This time with title screen, cats and monsters!

The story

I guess this game does not need much words, you are welcomed to try playing it: and you are necessarily going to immediately fail few times and soon you will get an idea what you are supposed to do for successful survival.

but anyway...

Monsters are trying to get to your house, place your cats on entrances to scare them off. But cats don't stay on one place where you put them for a long, right? And when the situation gets out of control, sacrifice a kitten on your home altar. Don't worry, it respowns, but after a short moment, so use sacrifices wisely.

ld43-02_item-carry.gif

Known Issues

Unity3d WebGL build is playable but lacks smoothness of desktop one - the game is too unoptimized to work 100% fine in browser as it is and overall feeling laggy with unreliable collision detections. Especially after scene load when player busy, leading to buggy behavior allowing the player to escape boundaries. Taking a note myself for next time to test, if you are more seriously interested please download binaries :)

Tools and resources used

  • Unity 2017 on Linux 🐧
  • Gimp, FL Studio + Audacity, BFXR
  • Homespun Font by Brian Kent (https://www.1001freefonts.com/homespun.font)

Thanks to Herni Laborator for organizing the site

Source code https://github.com/mavlac/ludumdare43
HTML5 (web) https://mavlac.itch.io/third
Linux https://mavlac.itch.io/third
Windows https://mavlac.itch.io/third
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/third

Ratings

Overall 200th 3.523⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 185th 3.409⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 173th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 243th 3.5⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 169th 3.591⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 61th 3.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 136th 3.19⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 117th 3.545⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

paveljezek
03. Dec 2018 · 11:02 UTC
This is great fun and looks awesome. I wish the movement would feel a little bit better. Otherwise very good job!
pantoufle
06. Dec 2018 · 16:53 UTC
Nice little game! I felt it was a bit hard due to the playable character being too fast. I couldn't control it properly and often went further than expected. I played the webGL version.

I like the music and the whole concept of the game. Also I love cats (who doesn't?)

Congratulations on making this game in 2 days :-)
Codesity
06. Dec 2018 · 18:57 UTC
Funny little game. but Cat sacrificing is a bad idee :(, Cats are to cute, to be sacreficed. Anyway. Good Work!
🎤 onnofal
06. Dec 2018 · 19:21 UTC
@codesity Oh I agree with you; I could not think of anything else you would want to sacrifice less, thats why such subject. They respawn, no harm done :) Thanks for playing!
Pedro Rosa
09. Dec 2018 · 17:23 UTC
The game is cool. I concept it is easy to understand, and the graphics are great. I really like the death "animation" and the sound design. My only problem was that the character moves so fast and the room is so small that is really difficult to control the character. If you reduce the speed or the movement slide of the character I think I would be a much better experience. Overall I really like the game and I had a lot of fun playing it.
Suchista
09. Dec 2018 · 19:48 UTC
Cool game! It looks nice, gameplay is simple but really fun. And music sounds well :)
pcmaster
15. Dec 2018 · 09:29 UTC
How come so few ratings? This is a really good game! And hard! And fast! I like everything. Epic job!
🎤 onnofal
17. Dec 2018 · 18:41 UTC
@pcmaster Thank you!
stevenjmiller
19. Dec 2018 · 04:11 UTC
Good game, the music is great and the art is very clean. The best score I got was 24.
Eli Delventhal
20. Dec 2018 · 21:40 UTC
The game feels really good. Nice polish. Wasn't clear on why a cat would survive one time and die another, and when a new cat might appear. There is a bug where I was offscreen between restarts.
kamekai
26. Dec 2018 · 17:08 UTC
I'll echo what others have said about the crisp graphics and music. My main gripe is that it's hard to control your character due to the exaggerated movement speed. Also, the search radius for the action button could be bigger.