Cat Stacker

by zep
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.17
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Food★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Journal★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Polish★★★★★★★★★★3.88
Technical★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Play it online here (requires Flash9)

Download with haXe source here

Ran out of time to do music ): I’m moving house later today, and need to start packing @_@.

Good luck with the rest of the compo - I’ll see you on the flipside.

screenshot
Tools: Haxe

Comments27

nilsf
Fun game with really nice graphics, I like the details, the clouds, the page wallpaper and the little flowers on the platform. :)
wonderwhy-er
Looks good. Tough takes time to master some features like cat\'s still are under control after touchdown :) Overall 4 ;)
Neat game, even if the physics are a bit fudgy.
Notch
Very nice graphics! It feels like the platform is too small.
LoneStranger
Neat tower builder. I found it tough to get the cats to stay on the platform with anything more than about seven, but that's just lack of practice. Maybe different levels with goals would make this a complete and sellable game. And fixed physics, of course.
Very cute little game, and the little cats make it so much more interesting than if it were just shapes.
GBGames
There were a couple of times when the physics engine launched an otherwise stable kitty even if it was the only one on the ground, but otherwise, this was well put together.
Morre
Super nice graphics.
Gameplay is good fun - the idea of using those cat shapes makes it all that much more fun than standard block piling. I love it!
PoV
Very nice. I was also able to crash it, but it took some funny high speed stuff to do it.
Those are some funny looking owls :). Quite a different feel to most physics engines. Very nice. Cute sprites. Impressive non-rectangular collisions +tech points. No sound ?
Sivart13
Cute but booooooooring. Maybe if the cats exploded...?
Haha, cute. ;)

Managed to get an.. uh.. pile :P of give-or-take 7 high. After that cats just exploded all over the place and I insta-lost. :'(
Very nice, I played with it for a long time.

Perhaps you can ask the haxe mailing list about the physics problem. It seems like a very active community, they might be able to point out the problem or fix it.
Pretty nice game. I esspecially liked the art style. And since the physics are a bit forgiving, it was fun to play around without every single mistake making the tower crash.

Maybe it would have been fun to also make the cats shape suitable for horizontal placement... ?
jolle
I can has stacked kitties?

Just stacking cats feels a bit limited though. Possibly more interesting IRL.

Was a bit annoying that you controlled the cat for so long after it had been placed. Because if you started on the next falling cats movement before it arrived... bam! Tower destroyed. Perhaps nothing for hurried people.
Cute and pretty. Too bad about the unstable physics. Seems odd that it would deteriorate over time, even between rounds (floating point absolute timescale?). Works fine initially though, after refreshing.
Hamumu
So hard! It seems a little too crazy for me to actually get a grip on in terms of physics. I never quite knew how the cats were going to act on impact. It\'s kind of fun to try to torque the whole tower around for a few seconds once you land one, though.
Definitely awesome looking. You DO know that owls could\'ve been made in this exact shape, right?
Endurion
Looking nice :)
It needs another key for \"dropping\" a cat so you can continue with the next.
I'm glad you spent time tweaking the friction and such because the result is a stack-em-up which is much more forgiving and a lot more fun than some of the similar games I've played in this competition. Nice pixels, too!

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