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Magikitty Fights The Sea by xett

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made by xett for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

Cats eat fish? Cats fight fish! Join our magikitty as they ride the waves and fight the ocean .

Controls:

WASD: Movement

Mouse: aim

Left Mouse Button - fire

Shift: Start casting (player is idle while casting, press shift again to confirm spell)

Casting

Pressing shift enters a casting mode. instead of moving, WASD will be input commands to cast spells on the top left corner.

Press shift again then click the game area to summon spells and formidable allies!

[Shift > Combo > Shift > Left Click]

Known bugs:

-sometimes hitboxes do not clear hitboxes after a game

UPDATE: Newer releases with bugfixes to prevent crashing and more platforms. Old file is to show version before jam ended.

Itch.io https://gaberson19.itch.io/magikitty-fights-the-sea
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/magikitty-fights-the-sea

Ratings

Overall 551th 3.597⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Fun 475th 3.565⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 485th 3.467⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Theme 434th 3.855⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 656th 3.629⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 41🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 382819
16. Apr 2024 · 05:28 UTC
so cute， I love it
Moonblast
16. Apr 2024 · 06:45 UTC
Cute characters, love it
James Greenleaf
16. Apr 2024 · 07:02 UTC
Nice concept. I like the theme and Helldivers-style inputs. A little confusing at first that I had to press shift to enter input mode, finish the sequence, then press shift again before I could use the ability.
S1l3Jamal
16. Apr 2024 · 07:09 UTC
That was fun. I needed a sec to get the summoning mechanic down, but after that things went smoothly.
lobbienjonsjii
16. Apr 2024 · 15:09 UTC
A cute little bullet hell! I would have like a visual indicator to know whether or not I am in summoning mode.
PixelPotionMell
16. Apr 2024 · 15:19 UTC
very cute design :D very nice concept and summoning system :D although it took me some tries to figure it out
derllie
17. Apr 2024 · 12:32 UTC
such a cute characters and design of this game, i like it!
ffffchai
17. Apr 2024 · 13:27 UTC
The art style is so cute, and the tower is a cat-crawler!! The summoning spells are very involving, though a bit hard for me. Nice work!
kalibrated
18. Apr 2024 · 02:06 UTC
Nice work! Loved the sort-of mash between bullet hell and fighting game with the spell combos. It did feel a little clunky casting the spells (I think making it auto-cast when you finish instead of pressing tab again would help). But I got quite good with it and lasted for a little over a minute. Interesting spell ideas and very unique!
Yanato
18. Apr 2024 · 22:13 UTC
The game works, nice! Tried to kill xenoses and died for Freedom. R.I.P.
LDJam user 147386
19. Apr 2024 · 02:00 UTC
This is actually a pretty fun little game! You should experiment with making enemies that do side-to-side movement as well, enemies with staggered movements (Stopping and starting), enemies that move along restricted paths, there's a lot of possibilities! Great work :)
Nanaschi1984
19. Apr 2024 · 14:24 UTC
For me spells did not work at all :p Other than that cute game
Aleksa_Al
19. Apr 2024 · 14:31 UTC
This is a very good game, you did well
YoYoJ
19. Apr 2024 · 17:32 UTC
The design is great, very neat. For the summoning, it's kinda difficult to understand properly that you need to click again for the spell to work. Could be improved. Though good idea, effects are cool, though great job !
SStyles93
19. Apr 2024 · 17:38 UTC
Graphics are really cute, love the invocations but having to exit the "summoning mode" once the code is achieved is really not intuitive and there is a lack of feedback on the character when you succeed the code. For me its the only downside. Otherwise you can really feel the "Hell Divers 2" influence.
The name is nice but you totally should have called it "Cat Divers" for the joke.

Anyway...very good job! =)
BoroBoro
20. Apr 2024 · 08:25 UTC
Cute art :)
Game gets quite challenging towards the end, but its very fun!
fabula_rasa
21. Apr 2024 · 12:03 UTC
Very pleasant art and colors. The music is also nice and fitting to the setting.

I think the summoning could just be ended with a click, after you are done with the combo. Pressing Shift again seems unnecessary. I would also love to see some end screen with a score/stats - e.g. seconds survived, enemies destroyed. That would give a player an incentive to try again and do better. Right now, the game just goes back to the menu, leaving the player without closure.

Anyway, it's a really nice entry. Great work :smile:
MrGaberson
21. Apr 2024 · 13:06 UTC
@fabula-rasa yeah, we didn't have time for end screens and polishing in the end, Xett's internet was cut off on the last day and I got school so we had to wrap up the core game itself

still, glad you enjoyed it!
oller125
21. Apr 2024 · 16:10 UTC
I like the art style and music and sound. I would say that the controls to cast spells is a bit clunky. I would prefer either not have to switch to a casting mode, or to automatically exit from the casting mode once a valid combination is entered, maybe using the Shift key to reset if you entered an incorrect one. However, you would be limited in the number of valid arrow presses you would have.
Dan Allison
22. Apr 2024 · 12:33 UTC
This is really great. I actually did something similar with using arrows to summon for my entry but I think I prefer the way you've implemented it, mine was a bit clunky. The art is really cute - the cat and the summons especially. I think there's a nice variety of different summon types here which is great, it really helps you play in a few different ways. Well done!
denilseven
25. Apr 2024 · 18:08 UTC
The Helldivers-esque casting mechanic is fun to use and the graphics are really nice! The inputs might need a little tweak as said above, but it's no biggie. Overall, this is a cool game that is going in the right direction :100:
runningopenloop
29. Apr 2024 · 03:24 UTC
I really appreciated the challenge in this one.
Derpmeowmeow
03. May 2024 · 19:15 UTC
Very cute and fun game, i enjoyed playing it eventhough i pretty much sucked at it haha