The Search for Catlantis

co-authored: @brianpow, @cambosouph
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.73
You play as Diver. Diver heard stories growing up that there once was an advanced ancient city for catfolk called Catlantis. Armed only with her speargun, Diver dives deep into the ocean to prove that Catlantis exists. Can she reach her destination without losing her breath or becoming fish food?

Shoot enemies with your speargun and collect bubbles (health) and bombs.

Controls
Move - WASD (keyboard)
Shoot - Spacebar
Shift - Bomb!

Comments39

Mad Sensei
Mad Sensei27 Apr 2021, 00:29
Cute arcade style game! Great work on the art!
shieldssounds27 Apr 2021, 00:31
Can this be a full game plz? I wanna play this on my Switch - Great job!!!
timeloopedpowergamer
timeloopedpowergamer27 Apr 2021, 00:31
Great feel of sinking into the ocean. Cute and quick. I liked it.
Sabomball27 Apr 2021, 00:31
easy mechanics and fun to play :)
the music is a bit much (the volume is quite loud) but is a great choice when it comes to atmosphere.
oeschmid
oeschmid27 Apr 2021, 00:33
The art and music are great! I love the cat :) but also the stuff like the pufferfish exploding are fantastic! Especially when you get a chain reaction going. Really well put together, fun arcade game :)
zeoxo
zeoxo27 Apr 2021, 00:35
Loved everything but especially that music!
Im5x527 Apr 2021, 00:35
Very fun, and I really enjoyed the music. The art is on point and super adorable, I love his little leg kicking!
Ian McD
Ian McD27 Apr 2021, 00:37
siccc beat
alec
alec27 Apr 2021, 00:41
Man, those graphics are spot on. The game was fun and the controls were easy to master. In my opnion, it got really hard really fast at the end. A more gradual buildup in difficulty would have given me more time to play this amazing game! Nice job.
frompdx
frompdx27 Apr 2021, 01:06
Great music! Reminds me of Matt and Kim. I liked the art and controls as well. Overall very good and right on the money with the theme.
chrissx227 Apr 2021, 02:47
Lol, love the idea of the cat with a little bubble helmet.
pedrohph
pedrohph27 Apr 2021, 03:10
I loved this game.
The ideia is very good, art are beautiful and sound is cool!

The bubble/helmet is so cute.

For some reason, I can't see the game over the screen, so I never know how many points I have scored.

Nice work :smiley:
auxC
auxC27 Apr 2021, 03:17
Nice, you got a proper bossfight in! Well executed game with great atmosphere. I was catjamming the whole way through! :D
Préda
Préda27 Apr 2021, 13:13
I really like how this looks and how simple it is
Ladycerberus27 Apr 2021, 14:02
Love this little kitten and so fun to play, congrats!
guimm12
guimm1227 Apr 2021, 16:53
I heard there was a boss fight, so came back and finished the game, very glad I did haha. I like how unique every enemy is, leads to more interesting gameplay for sure. Great job!
cambosouph27 Apr 2021, 17:19
haha glad you came back to finish it @guimm12! Thank you so much!
Digo27 Apr 2021, 18:06
Very cute and fun! I also absolutely loved the music.
FoghornLeghorn27 Apr 2021, 18:16
Awesome game and artwork! Very cute! Great work 😊
fabula_rasa27 Apr 2021, 18:37
I think I did indeed find Catlantis and it was full of game credits ;)!
I really loved the graphics, especially Diver herself. Music is also quite cool.

Gameplay is totally fine and feels polished. There is a nice variety of enemy behavior, which really adds some meat to the game. I only met one bit of a bug with pickups - sometimes they just don't react, and you have to swim over them a few times before our heroine actually picks it up. And I wished I had a health bar or something to that effect.

The boss cheats and does not take damage until he fully reveals himself. It was surprising. But I forgave him - after all, he (she, it?) is the THE BOSS :wink:

Incidentally, we called our game "Catlantis". Great minds think alike :laughing:
Attala
Attala27 Apr 2021, 18:51
My daughter really enjoyed this game. The graphics was amazing. (My daugther specially liked the helmet). Fun game.
systemeffect27 Apr 2021, 19:06
The excitement of going from "I HAVE MORE BOMBS THAN I'LL EVER NEED" to "I NEED MORE BOMBS" in 3 seconds was astounding.

Great quick game, enjoyed the different enemy types. The air bubble as the health mechanic is a cool twist on it. My only suggestion is turn up the speed of play.
Ithildin
Ithildin27 Apr 2021, 20:56
Lovely art style, solid gameplay and catchy music :heart:

The item spawns felt a bit too unpredictable, but other than that this is quite a solid entry. ¡Great job everyone!
poboy
poboy28 Apr 2021, 09:09
Really wonderful art style and overall quite fun :)
Valfr28 Apr 2021, 15:14
Cute game :D
Julia Lee28 Apr 2021, 15:57
Very cute game! but wish it had a settings button to control music.
azaliya28 Apr 2021, 21:38
I love art! So cute :hearts:
nyanpierre
nyanpierre28 Apr 2021, 22:10
so cuteeee, the game is a little bit difficult. I love the animation of the chat x) and the sfx work pretty well, good job
MilkWine
MilkWine29 Apr 2021, 04:18
Cute game, nice music. I would have liked to tell exactly how many lives I had left so I could choose to be more or less risky when going to grab more bombs next to enemies. I was going to give up after a couple of unlucky tries, but saw comments about the boss so I decided to try a couple more times. Some way of showing how close you are to the end might also keep more people playing until the end. Good job!
ancient-pixel
ancient-pixel29 Apr 2021, 12:25
I am a simple man, I see cats - I clicks.
You have a real good variety of enemies and I like how its not just scrolling right, but down, this is very different from usual bullethells and works great!
cambosouph30 Apr 2021, 13:36
thanks for the feedback @milkwine! Having some kind of progress meter is a great idea.
hwaet
hwaet1 May 2021, 01:37
The art and music are great. The slow descent is nicely paced. Great addition to the usual mechanics.
joonamo
joonamo1 May 2021, 09:18
Greetings from Catlantis!

After clawing my way around the many different sea animals and finally puncing the gategeeper, I eventually managed to reach this long-rumoured gradle of cat-civilization. The music here is rocking hard and after you get to know the sometimes aggressive sea animals, you can start enjoying their beauty.

Altogether enjoyable trip down here, wish you join me down here soon enough!

PS. Remember your cat-helmet can use the bombs with shift. It wasn't included in the manual and took me few tries to figure out!
LucaVazz
LucaVazz1 May 2021, 14:04
Incredibly cute deep-sea cat.

The life counter in the bottom left seems to be broken unfortunately, it always showed 2 (instead of 7 :P)
Incal12 May 2021, 20:58
Cute art, nice work with the attack sequences and enemy diversity, especially the blowfish.
OadT
OadT18 May 2021, 17:30
Who would have guessed there is such cool music under water! Super cute graphics and nice idea to indicate the health (though a bit hard to read sometimes) Also nice that there was a boss fight, but the end was a bit abrupt :smile: Great work!
Yword
Yword18 May 2021, 17:50
Yeah, I just defeated the boss! Really fun and cute, with great mood too! Maybe it will be more fun to play if can use mouse to aim and shoot.

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