AeroCat

This game is ludicrously beautiful, the visual style and music go together perfectly. The movement is very fluid and after a few attempts felt easy to control. I managed to get quite far through the second stage (how many are there?), but then I was unfortunately killed as multiple objects lined up almost perfectly to block my path. I would be nice to restrict the restart game button to a single key, as I accidentally restarted the game instantly when I wanted to see my high score.

This is by far the best LD game I've played. Great concept, beautiful visuals and sound, all around brilliant. If I had to give some criticism (and I'm really digging here), I think the controls are a little awkward. I'm not sure if I want the cat to be diving vertically or staying sideways like a parachute.

The game looks very very good and the movement of the cat is a very cool idea!
The animations for the cat is great! I like how when you bump into a wall it sets you into a roll.
I have a feeling this cat may be having a nightmare not a dream... With all the bees and falling down a pit this does not sound very pleasant for the cat.
I think the movement is a bit too sensitive and maybe the camera should be a bit lower.

The art and the animation are outstanding. The controls are a bit jerky, though. The cat constantly trying to roll uncontrollably. I think for this type of game (relaxing I think) controls should be easier to master. But overall it's a cute and moody game. I enjoyed playing it. Nice music too!

Amazing drawing and animation c: The cat evokes sympathy and warm feelings, love it! I like attention to the details: when the cat falls like a parachute, spins in a ball or dives. Very cool!
The only things that caused difficulties were controls. Thank you and good luck!

Great art and sound design. I enjoyed it very much.
The cat is so good. Great job

Fantastic art. Animations are so nice. I like the controls. It feels good to play once you get a feel oh how it works

The graphics are amazing and the cat behaves how you imagine a cat would

Took me a little while to figure out how gentle you need to be with the controls - but after that, it became fairly easy. The scrambled "defeat" music at the end is... eh, and I noticed a few hitboxes felt like they could be tightened, but other then that, it was fun!

@bereg @jonah @ratrat44 @euphelys @blaster391 @cody-miner
Thank you everyone for your comments, I'm happy you enjoyed the game and our little cat character :heart:

The art and the music are amazing. great job!

Gorgeous visuals, I especially love the cat animation! It feels so satisfying to float around and watch the cat change positions.

What did you use to make the animations? It looks really great.

The look of this game is really spot on. The dreamy graphics and the animations work really well. I would have loved to see a bit more creativity in the gameplay. Well done.

A little complaint about the score screen: if you're playing and dodging stuff and hammering an arrow key, you might accidentally skip the score screen, if an object hits you while you're still pressing the key. This is especially frustrating, if you have a high score and then don't know how much it was.

A better way would be to use space or enter as continue key.

@jonah I painted and animated the cat entirely in Photoshop, it was a long and tedious process though!

This cat... it's so pretty drawn and so cute animated

This is great, the art and music is beautiful, the atmosphere is calming and the gameplay loop is addictive and fun.

The colours and the animations were done beautifully! I love cats and that little cat is really cute! The visuals are so good!
But, I couldn't keep him alive for long, he kept rolling and I couldn't move him. I love the game I'm totally going to keep trying!

@chriiis88 That's a valid complaint, we probably should've done it differently indeed! Hope it didn't ruin the fun too much :c
@remusnomos Thank you, I'm so happy you love the cat, I had a lot of fun drawing him :heart:

@anactualhuman Thank you :heart:

@nefeli Thank for your comment, my advice would be to press very gently on arrows to move the cat! But, if he spins, then you can press the opposite direction to slow him down! Hope that helps :joy_cat:

I really loved the feeling of the movements, it felt very natural and quite unique ! A lot of other entries chose a similar concept, but the controls in this one makes it a lot more interesting and fun to play !
The art is also just amazing, really loved all the colors !
The death sound makes me cry everytime tho

Very beautiful game, but it's hard to control the cat ahah.

damn this is a great game.... it took a while to understand the controls, because when you said arrow left and right I thought it was straightforward, not that one controls the rotation, it is still nice. The visuals are the best part I think, together with the music, I loved it!

This game is beautiful. I shared this with folks outside of the jam! I enjoyed this so much. It's also really hard to not just nose dive the cat and do the minor tweaks but ultimately it was a blast!

Wow! Beautiful artstyle and musical accompaniment. The controls are a bit tricky, but overall a cool game.

It is a cute game, even if it's a little hard to control correctly ^^ Nice music, excepted when you hit something, it's so distorted that I'm sad for the cat D:

@sirkovitch Thanks, glad you liked it! (please keep me posted about your best score I'm sure you could become the best player in the world tbh :eyes:)

@valfr @krebzor @jokerbomb @omich Thanks folks for your comments :sparkling_heart:

So incredibly fun! I wasn't expecting something so cute. 10/10

@chriiis88 I was aware of this and it's fixed now ! You can skip the score screen with Enter only.

Looks, sounds great and feels great. It took me couple tries to figure out the controls, though. But nonetheless this is a great entry, well done!

I love the twist on the controls, it adds a lot of depth to a simple yet very effective concept! The cat is beautifully animated and the colors and textures are delightful, everything feel fluffy and dreamy. It's also well balanced to be challenging and fun at the same time! Congrats on your entry!

Absolutely beautiful art style and super fun aerodynamic cat diving. Playing fast and risky is super fun and just sorta ridiculous to watch. All around solid game, very well put together!

Very nice job! Beautiful art, great music (especialy when the cat dies:D) Quite difficult to get through, but I realy had fun!

It's just too cute! My cats also like to roll around! This fluffy and soft feeling I really can not resist! Really like it too much!

The painted art style is just great. Very cute and well done. Music is also great, very relaxing and dreamy, fits the concept perfectly.

I enjoyed the physics of cat flight. The floating, the diving down - all felt very good. The only bit of strangeness is that you can completely get stuck in a roll, and no amount of wiggling will make you stop rolling. Hitting something will make you stop :laughing:

And here is my highest score to date.

Beautiful graphics and music ! The physics of the cat was quite difficult to understand, but still nice to control ! Well done

This was such an awesome entry! those falling cat physics are really sweet! music when you die is really nice too. And graphics are excellent. Congrats!

Love the multiple playstyles allowed with the rotation movement.

Wow, it's so cuuuute visual style. But a bit hard to control a cat in air c:

Nice art style! Presence gameplay and animation. Cool work.

This game is sooo cute ! Really cool game.

16881 was my highest score, I really liked what you all did here. By raising the skill ceiling on the falling mechanic, you separated yourselves from all the other falling deeper games this LD. The mechanics felt a bit like Mario's cape in SMW, where you sorta pulled back and forward and the cape could go into a dive state. When you get really good with the dive, it feels reaaaal good to go fast and dodge obstacles. After a while you just pray you don't smack into something big like the doghouse :)

Excellent execution, both on an artistic front and technical front!

Just wanted to say how lovely the art style is! :heart_eyes:

Ouch, the game over is as brutal as the game is lovely. The base concept is quite classic but the way the cat controls elevates it to someting far more original! (And it goes without saying that the art and music are both excellent).
Great entry, congrats!

Really like the cat

My score: 9663 :smirk:
The art and music are amazing, nice gameplay too, guys :smile:

I can't tell if it's me or after first click the cat does not react to movement commends. But I like everything else

I just reaaaaally love the art. I can't get over it honestly.

Such a lovely game with stunning visuals! It took a few tries to get the movement right but I still couldn't get very far - which is not a complaint at all. I love how challenging yet addictive this game is. Great job!

The art style of the game is amazing, loved it!

Graphics and sound are absolutely gorgeous!

Controls took a little bit of getting used to, but I found them really enjoyable once I had figured them out!

Great art and music (also very cute animations). BUT! I just LOVE this controlls! At first I was confused, but then I figured it out and it became really fun to play! Thank you for amazing entry!!
Also, is this game endless? =)

The character animation is just lovely :scream_cat: The whole visual style is so pleasing and soothing. Spent the first few minutes just looking at the cat in different rotations. Character controls felt spot on as well. One question: Is there a third background at some point? I was pleasantly surprised by the change after a few tries. Definitely my favourite LD game so far!

@zimennik Thank you! very happy you like the game. Yes, it is indeed endless. And wow that's a very impressive score (our second best one to my knowledge!) Congrats, you got some insane skills !

@heremeus Thanks for your comment! :heart: Unfortunately there is no third background :c I kinda wish I had the time and energy to draw one more though :scream_cat:

hey, @phafou. What is top high-score?

@zimennik For now it's 68230! (Meanwhile my personnal best is at 19820 haha :sweat_smile: )

Wow, the artwork is stunning! I also really liked the gliding controls and that there was more to the movement than just move left and right.

it's so cute :heart_eyes: !! Amazing job!

I really like this game. Actually you seem to have went with similar design to our team. We also got a falling down cat, although the style is a bit different :D

Everything's so dreamy. Art style, sound, movement - stunning. Took some time to figure out the controls. Great job!

The grahpics are legit AMAZING. You should be proud of your stunning game. As others have commented, the controls were a bit confusing to me. Sometimes, I'd press left or right, but the cat would stay in place. You should be proud of this though, lovely game!

Incredibly beautiful and atmospheric game. I also liked the music. It is not immediately clear how to play, but there is something in this management. You did a good job.

Incredibly beautiful. I just can't for the life of me figure out the controls and I feel so bad. 😭 But wow, absolutely gorgeous art and music and concept as a whole. 💜

Omg the cat is the cutest! The art and animations are adorable and look amazing

I thank @w0oly and @phafou for having integrated me in their team as music composer.
It was really funny to compose for their pretty cool game.
Also, thank for all the comments on the music it's encouraging.

@emily-pitcher You can't move while the cat is on his back, but you can rotate. Stay flat to catch the air and have better movements, or dive to go faster !

It looks sooooooo beautiful! and also love the sounds/music!

It's so sad my cat is keep dying.

Very relaxing game.

Graphics are awesome. So fluffy!

omg game is beautifuul and suuper cuute!! I loved the graphics and musiiic! Also the mechanic is so unique and cuutee. It took me a while to get (actually a friend had to explain it to me) but when i got it i loved iit

What a beautiful looking and sounding game!

I'm no good at these kind of games so I just died constantly. Made me sad because I just wanted to hang out with this cute kitty and listen to the lovely music!

Well done for making such a gorgeous game in such a short space of time!

11681.
Takes a bit to get used to the controls, but when it clicks, you do start like a cat flying through the dream skies. Probably the most interesting game gameplay-wise I've seen so far in this jam. Oh and yes the art totally matches the dreamy theme, beautifully done.

Simple and fun game

I so much enjoy this one, simple but addictive. The controls take a while to get used to and at some point it feels like you have no more control over what you do.. I don't know if this is what is really happening or if it's just my impression :)
Art and music are super dope!

Great game, super pretty! Took some time getting used to the controls but after that it was really enjoyable. If I had to be nitpicky, a couple of things that I would've liked was maybe a score showing when playing (to know how far you've gotten) and a high score shown at some point! Also didn't realize there was another "level" than the overworld at first. I tried getting past 20000 to see if it would change into something else but didn't quite manage. My highest score was a bit over 19000.

Really fun to play and the graphics were super pretty!

My top 5 games in this event ;
I played this game few days agao; and today I just think of this game play spent some tim in this game :smile:

:star::star2::star::star2::star:

Fantastic graphics style and fall feel. Forward acceleration is so satisfying. Hidden jems of this ludum!))

Definitely one of the prettiest games of the jam! All the little props were so cute, and the music fits everything really well. My only critic is that the controls do feel very awkward at first, but after a bit of time they weren't too much of a problem anymore. Very solid entry. Keep catting!

What a beautiful entry! I love the art, the music and the general atmosphere of the game. Amazing game, great job!!

wowww the music and art so cool. Loved the gameplay also

@bitsandcrafts you can find Nearyx's music on soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/nearyx

@bitsandcrafts Thank you !
I'll upload the full song soon on my soundcloud or my youtube channel.
Here
https://soundcloud.com/nearyx
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgsYKeDNZnYS2IYqePt2zJw

Stay tuned !

Wow, surprising how a simple mechanic with two buttons can have so much depth! You can either play it safe, or go fast and become a master at dodging. Music and visuals are great, too. A very nice entry overall!

Very interesting player controller, the cute cat does not choose the direction you move in but the rotation, that can affect movement in various ways. The art is absolutely gorgeous, I want to hug that cute little cat! I hate the sound when it dies :( its so brutal :( . Really cute idea with an innovative controller good job!