This year’s JS13k’s theme was “Black Cat” which got me excited because we lost our best boy last year who was a 20+ year old black cat. For most of the jam I had trouble coming up with an idea. With only a week left I decided to make a Tiny Wings inspire game with cats.
In the end I am very happy with how my entry turned out. I targeted the theme directly by having the player be a black cat, and tried to include as many 13s as possible. Visually the game is already one of my best. The gameplay is a solid take on Tiny Wings style games with 13 islands and 13 unlockable cats. Due to limited time I wasn’t able to expand much on the gameplay formula, but I will experiment with that more now that the jam has ended.
This was also my first time entering the mobile category so I put a lot of effort into ensuring my game performs well on range of devices. The rendering system is well optimized with native pixel scale and adaptive aspect ratio. Give it a try on your phone and let me know how it goes!
Update: The results are in, L1ttl3 Paws received 26th place out of 176! Honestly not as high as I hoped, but the really amazing thing is that 6 of the top 10 games including the top 3 in audio category use my ZzFX sound library! Also, the 5th place game used my game engine LittleJS! There were so many other games using these tools, it’s really inspiring for me personally to see my work being put to good use.
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