ICATUS and the Golden Ball of Yarn

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Icatus is a homeless cat who wishes to catch the golden ball of yarn in the sky.
For his holy mission to catch the sun, he has to sacrifice a lot of birds to make wings.
Will he succeed?

2D Jumper platformer.

Construct 3
Photoshop(Piskel) for graphics
Adobe Audition/Premiere for music
Recorded all the sound effects, most done with my voice.

This is my first time doing the compo! I am an artist and have always had programmers in my team to do the coding part. I am quite happy how much I was able to push myself to do. So the idea was to make something mechanically really simple, learning from tutorials and try to make it better with art. :) I hope you enjoy.

(Update: uploaded a web build, I will try to make an android build as well)

screenshot
Tools: Piskel

Comments18

siimer3 Dec 2018, 13:41
The art and sound are on point. I also really like how simple this game is mechanically. Aside from the controls being a bit too aggressive (making it harder to land on a platform) and some minor bugs, this game is great!
figglewatts
figglewatts3 Dec 2018, 15:25
Awesome game! Really enjoyed it. Controls are a bit sensitive.
Simanis
Simanis3 Dec 2018, 21:14
Did not expect to like it and yet I did.

Stuff I liked:
- sfx
- mood
- story
- mechanics

There were some minor bugs, but nothing gamebreaking. The biggest one was that buttons for restarting the game did not work. I think I completed the game with 20 feathers once, but got the bad ending. Might be tripping though
Mr.MadCat
Mr.MadCat4 Dec 2018, 00:40
Cute game.
Graphics are pretty pawesome.
optimatica4 Dec 2018, 12:18
Really nice and polished game!
aplite5 Dec 2018, 13:48
This is a fun game. The graphics and audio are well done. The controls felt a little too stiff. I did really like the added mechanic of being able to sacrifice a feather for a second jump.
OakenMan5 Dec 2018, 15:04
Great game ! The cat is really cute and i liked the fact that even if the story was quite simple, it was easy to sympathize with the cat
Cute Dog IRL5 Dec 2018, 15:14
Sound and especially art are great, very cute.

I feel like the hitbox for hitting the cats is way to big, it often felt like I was really far away and still got hit (seemed to happen mostly when jumping). The controls are a bit difficult because of how far you go after pressing a direction for a very short time.

Overal quite a good game though!
angelnm
angelnm5 Dec 2018, 15:32
Very addictive!! And the way you fall over the tree instead of restart is pretty cool.
Jimbly
Jimbly6 Dec 2018, 14:28
Enjoyed it, really liked the look of it! I'm pretty certain I had 21 feathers when I completed the game, but got a bad ending... maybe I lost a couple between when I looked at feathers and the end of game screen came up, but I didn't think so...
mirsakka
mirsakka6 Dec 2018, 21:59
Cats, yayy! Main character and other graphics are super cute. Maybe the "enemy" cat and the owl could have been more separate color, now they got easily mixed when playing. Nice work!
Toulou
Toulou9 Dec 2018, 17:30
Fun little game ! It's simple yet I enjoyed playing it for a while. There's a few problem like the controls a bit too responsives, making the cat hard to control. But overall I liked it, the graphics are cute and it's surprisingly challenging. Good job :)
Fnissalot10 Dec 2018, 15:09
Nice game! I like the aesthetics with the music and such! well done!
Jens Steenmetz10 Dec 2018, 18:41
Fun game! Apart from sacrificing your wings, it is a bit unoriginal, but it is very well executed and has really nice graphics. Great job!
rumor
rumor10 Dec 2018, 19:54
The theme and graphics are fantastic. Gameplay is a little simplistic and, I felt, unforgiving. The touchiness of the controls and they way the platforms disappeared so abruptly at the bottom of the screen was kind of furstrating (typo... but I'm leaving it!). But it's fun enough and adorable, which is what really counts!
freakoftheyearauthor11 Dec 2018, 02:18
Thank you so much everybody for playing and commenting! I am glad you enjoyed it! Also, lots of really great feedback to improve on!❤ 🐱 ❤
red22 Dec 2018, 03:32
Pretty nice, simple game. There's a nice amount of sound effects, although some sound a bit low quality. One graphical improvement I would like to see is to make the platforms stand out from the background a bit more.

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