Catbox
Better in fullscreen!
In Catbox help Kyurin the recursive multidimensional cat exit the rooms he got himself in, solve puzzles by grabbing crates and make objects bigger by sending them through dimensions! It's a mind-bending platformer based on physics.
This game was made in less than 96 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2024. The theme was BUILT TO SCALE. It matches the theme with the objects re-scaling themselves when they go through a dimension and using that mechanic to solve puzzle. It is also on aesthetics with our sense of scale getting put to the test with recursive dimensions contained within dimensions themselves.
How to play
Move: A and D // Left and Right arrow keys // Left joystick // D-Pad // Q and D (AZERTY Keyboard users)
Jump: Z // Up Arrow // 🞪 or o or A or B on gamepad
Grab: Space // Any gamepad Trigger or Shoulder button
Throw: Same as Grab when an object is held
Dimensional Switch: X // â—» or â–³ or X or Y
Restart: Use mouse to click on button onscreen // Back or Select
Special thanks
To Jams for his tutorial on how to make a "VTuber Logo"
Song attribution is Headscratcher by Congusbongus. Changes were made to separate instruments to have alternate versions and outro was removed.
And to the wonderful game jam community!
Contact me about the game here: catbox@delvallet.com
Development log
- New version16 days ago
- How to do a "Recursive dimensions" effect in Godot using viewports?23 days ago
Comments
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I like recursion but this gets tedious at times.
Good work,i love your game
Wow! That's a very cutie and funny game! There's some hard parts, some VERY hard parts, I mean, and I lated 30 minutes to win. Yes, I was angry because I needed to restart over and over and over... But that's an INCREDIBLE game!!!
(Your game is at start. I also have commentary version of the video.)
Very fun game, despite can be janky at times, and clip off the floors of the box dimension/s at times. Cute graphics (<adores pixel art. Easy 10/10!), and pretty cozy music! One of my favorites in this game jam.
Ijust can't figure out level 10. I can get the key down to the bottom, but not the middle section on the right with the vortex box. Usually when I knock it over, it disappears though.
A good mix between Patrick's Parabox and Recursed
which recursed?
look it up on steam
Pressing volume on my keyboard goes left for some reason. Love the game though.
Cool Idea. Reminds me of Patrick's parabox. Though Rightnow it seems very easy to softlock yourself. Like throwing a box on a platform too high forces you to reset.
Wonderful game!!! the music and graphics are on point! the dimension switching mechanic is interesting and I like the musical touch, but it is a tad confusing at first! Great work :)
Clever game! I love the little meow the cat does, as well as the cool cross dimensional puzzle solving! Cats and boxes, shenanigans occur!
this is fun! i left a room in the middle where stuff drops... let's say things got big fast before i realized xD
I say this is going to be on the top 100.
It took me a while to understand what was going on but it was cool !
I had no idea we were discarding euclidean geometry in a game called catbox, but here we are. 10/10
cool
Cat Box recursion Advanced
Fun Game. The different dimensions aspect seems like a creative approach to the scale theme. I wish the character was a little bigger, but other than that its great.
Super creative and brilliantly executed! I found myself getting stuck quite a bit, usually by pinning myself underneath a giant key or running out of space. The puzzles requires some out of the box thinking but I think the difficulty in the solutions ramps up a bit too fast. Wonderful game, I would play this as a full release!
Really cool game. There's a lot of times where I accidentally threw an object into the other dimension because I couldn't place it properly. Would be helpful to either be able to place something without throwing OR be able to throw upward
Also very nice style. I like the cat