Nine Tails

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★66%
Nine Tails is a minimal puzzle platformer, based on the idea that cats have multiple lives. You use this to your advantage.

Controls: Arrows to move, 'Z' to jump.

bugs:

* Can climb walls

* can sometimes jump in air

Comments48

RyanK29 Apr 2013, 11:30
Great idea.
Linus Lindberg29 Apr 2013, 12:32
Amazing idea!

The game was a little buggy though:

*If you hold an arrowkey and jump and keep holding it as you land the walking animation stops.

*By holding down an arrowkey towards a wall and repeatedly jumping you can climb
dualtaghauthor29 Apr 2013, 12:38
Thanks, Yeah I know about those bugs, I'll try fix them after work!
8BitPimp
8BitPimp29 Apr 2013, 12:42
Nice idea of using your deaths to your advantage.
I agree that it can be a little buggy in places, for instance climbing using just your chin feels like cheating.
raincole29 Apr 2013, 12:45
Great idea. btw I have finished it but still can't understand why it's named 'Nine Tails' o.o
Nakato
Nakato29 Apr 2013, 12:45
Pleasant game.
Level design is ok.
Like already said, some bugs, but no one very important
dualtaghauthor29 Apr 2013, 12:47
Cats are said to have 9 lives, and Nine Tails sounded better :P
arnaudmolle29 Apr 2013, 15:56
Some tiny bugs but nothing really important. Your game is fun, I like the idea.
rainblade studios29 Apr 2013, 19:53
Fun! Liked the whole idea. Good job. A little bug, but nothing ruined the experience.
sfernald29 Apr 2013, 19:54
Very fun take on a popular genre of game. Clever use of cat's nine lives, lol. This is one of the best games I've played this competition. Fantastic job! Simple yet fun and challenging.
ignifluous29 Apr 2013, 19:56
Nifty. "Over my dead body" now carries a whole new meaning ...
neight29 Apr 2013, 19:57
Really clever idea. Had fun!
neight29 Apr 2013, 19:57
Really clever idea. Had fun!
psychomonster
psychomonster29 Apr 2013, 19:57
This idea is so fantastic... use your life :D GREAT GAME
Diamonde
Diamonde29 Apr 2013, 19:57
This...so...cute! :):):)
Also really solid and interesting gameplay, if only a bit too short for such a fun game!
Bluebutton29 Apr 2013, 19:57
Cool game, but wasn't this one of the other potential LD themes? Death is good?
KHANanaphone
KHANanaphone29 Apr 2013, 19:58
Music was weird, but neat idea.
MauMaGau29 Apr 2013, 19:59
Absolutely loved the idea, had me chuckling all the way through. The level design was great; a lot of these games don't introduce the gameplay as well as this. Was totally ready to spend half an hour playing through the rest of levels, but I can't blame you for running out of time.
Nice one =D
d_durham29 Apr 2013, 19:59
I really like 'self cooperation' games like this, and this one is pretty nicely done. There is something darkly brilliant about jumping up onto a pile of dead cats. Good job!
BumpkinRich
BumpkinRich29 Apr 2013, 20:00
Great idea. Was sad it was a bit short but feels like a lot of experimentation went on in creating it. A bit buggy and felt sluggish but there's a great game in there waiting to get out.
jolle29 Apr 2013, 20:01
I like this. Can't currently think of anything that works quite like it, although a certain movie comes to mind (not saying which to not spoil anything).

It's a bit buggy. You can climb walls, and sometimes when I died I became two corpses. Still fun!
arrowthefighter29 Apr 2013, 20:02
nice game it was really fun
i found a bug when your on a moving platform and you hit a spike you can sometimes stay alive and it makes lots of dead yous
but still awesome
Cyboot
Cyboot29 Apr 2013, 20:06
A game where dieing is good? You have my vote ;)

Great game, like I said very nice concept and solid graphics (fitting to the theme).
small side note: Sometimes you spawn in the wrong position but its not a big problem, just another live to loose :D
dualtaghauthor29 Apr 2013, 20:08
Thanks for the comments guys, Yeah there is a few bugs and it's a pretty short game! just ran out of time, thanks :)
Brassawiking
Brassawiking29 Apr 2013, 20:11
Good use of the physics. Nice variation achieved within 48 hours.
phnxphire29 Apr 2013, 21:45
Cool game. Although there were some bug such as being able to scale walls if you keep pushing space bar against the wall but it was still cool. Best of luck.
Ludipe
Ludipe29 Apr 2013, 21:58
I played this game and the first time I killed the cat I was like:"No way he did this" xD

Really fun but I feel sorry for the kittens :(
john_conder930 Apr 2013, 01:54
I absolutely loved this game. You could go flying-cat and fly out of the level and have to restart, but, the concept was so funny I found myself killing the cat as much as I could. Uh.. yeah .. and this happened: http://i.imgur.com/Lb13RMA.png

But, all joking aside it's a great game! I love it. I wish there were more levels!
john_conder930 Apr 2013, 01:57
Also, I wanted to say, I was kind of disappointed that I had more than 9 lives, but whatever, minor point :P
Christopher Schulte30 Apr 2013, 06:56
That was really cool. I love the mechanic that when you die you add a corpse to the level while removing a live from the world.
dualtaghauthor30 Apr 2013, 08:14
@john_conder9, haha nice! Yeah there are some issues, and if I had time there would me alot more levels! thanks!
jtzp4
jtzp430 Apr 2013, 09:10
The wall-climbing issue makes it very easy to clear some levels ...
But anyway the idea is cool!
kunzbe1 May 2013, 18:10
neat game mechanics! really innovative.
The music tracks kept going faster to the end, awesome
jim3wg
jim3wg1 May 2013, 19:58
Nice remember a popular flash game that i forgoted the name
DustyStylus
DustyStylus2 May 2013, 10:32
Smart little game, great concept! A wee bit glitchy but not a problem as it helped me beat one of the levels quite quickly. :D
NicoSaraintaris
NicoSaraintaris2 May 2013, 11:55
Like the idea and enjoyed playing it. Congrats!
GeorgeBroussard3 May 2013, 06:12
Neat idea using dead cat lives to trigger things or allow access. Character movement needs polish, etc, but there's promise here. Keep polishing and working on it.
dualtaghauthor3 May 2013, 07:59
thanks all!
Jan.M3 May 2013, 18:01
Haha, pretty amazing one. Lets try if my cat likes it as well. (Don't think so)
ZYXer
ZYXer5 May 2013, 12:37
Really like the concept. Fix the bugs and you will have an awesome game.
MinionStudios
MinionStudios5 May 2013, 16:56
WHAT? omg that is effed up. BUT I like it.
Exclamation Mark9 May 2013, 11:03
Hahaha :D Love it. Absolutely. It's dark, it's funny, it's absurd and it's great. And the jump animation is just perfect. If you spent half the weekend on this animation, it was worth it. Forget about the little bugs, this is one of my favourite entries, good job!
matthias_zarzecki9 May 2013, 12:29
Nice work with the level-design! I like how the levels keep getting more complex.
Jonapulse
Jonapulse11 May 2013, 23:02
Kickass idea. Bugs were a bit of a distraction. HA! DEAD BODIES!
TurboDindon
TurboDindon12 May 2013, 12:51
Mwaahahahah, you're a genius. The concept is just great. x'D
I laugh during all the game. The cat is huge.
You made my day.

- SEPHY (@sephyka)
intripoon19 May 2013, 12:09
As others have commented, I think it's possibly to cheat easily. You can jump into a wall and keep jumping to climb it. You can do some maps that way without dying.
Apart from that a great game concept. I would have loved to play more challenging maps.

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