SAVE THE HIDDEN KITTIES QUICKLY! Help Luc find the 7 hidden kitten of each stage as fast as possible before it's too late! Finding them before they reveal their position gives you extra points for saving them, and even more if you save them before they start to hint their position. There's a 'stage complete' bonus for your remaining lives and time, so practice and do it as fast as possible to climb in the ranking.

This is a GameDevChallenge 2024 gamejam minigame for Mega Drive made mostly during a weekend in bungalow by Elias & Luc Lozano (art), Gabri Garrido (audio), Maria Salnikova (voice acting) and Alex Roca (coding, design, production, etc) developed in C using SGDK in the woods with no internet access.

The game can be donwloaded and played on a real Mega Drive/Genesis using an Everdrive or similar flash cart on in any Mega Drive emulator.

If you play this web browser emulated version using RetroArch's Genesis Plus GX core, we suggest you to select Settings > Graphics Settings > Shaders > CRT-lottes (curved CRT effect) or CRT-aperture (flat CRT display effect that mimics Sony's Trinitron/PVM) and connect a gamepad to get the best retro experience.

Controls:

Arrow keys/dpad: move Luc across the screen
A button in Mega Drive (Square in PS pad, X in Xbox pad, 'S' key in keyboard): Punches a breakable where a cat may be hidden

Features:

Full screen splash screen image with fade in/fade-out effect
2 tiled stages that loop after completing them
Many enemies en screen of 4 types with Skynet level next-gen AI
Dozens punchable breakables of 8 types that may hide kittens
Animations loaded from spritesheets
Stage colission, enemy, cats and breakables imported from Tiled
Original music and sound effects, including digitalized voices
Autodetection of if the console is PAL or NTSC adapting the timings, distances and speeds to make sure it runs the same in both
Old school challenging difficulty that scales down as you keep playing again and again to learn the game
Arcade-like scalable scoring system and Ranking screen to add extra replay value
Custom bitmap text font and system to write Spanish and Catalan texts using a custom 128 characters ASCII
Localized to English, Español, Català, Euskera, Galego, Aranés

V0.12 - Dust vfx for the player walking animation. Migrated to SGDK v211. Added several minor fixes, tweaks and optimizations.
V0.11 - Some fixes, tweaks and optimizations. Code cleaned and implemented custom text font to include multi language support (as of now English, Español, Català, Euskera, Galego, Aranés). It should properly show 320x240 or 320x224 resolution depending on if running on an NTSC or PAL console.
V0.10 - First test in a web browser Mega Drive emulator using Retroarch's Genesis Plus GX core via EmulatorJS, which allows many features such as cool CRT shaders (check the wheel icon for settings in the bottom right corner).

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