Cat On A Wire

[Orangy Tang]

As a pent-up ball of feline energy you've got to take out the birds to survive - you're on the edge, you're a... Cat On A Wire

Play now (webstart)
Window download)
Mac download

Better info and a windows exe version when I wake up tomorrow... ZZzzzZZzzzz...

[kevglass]

Awesome graphics and idea. Found it a bit hard to play - jumping felt a bit awkward but maybe thats my work machine. Will definitely try again from home tonight.

Nice work!

Kev

[CherrySlug]

Good Job Tang!

[CommanderKeith]

These graphics are awesome! What a transformation 

The game is fun too, I just wish the world was bigger - I ran around in the same place chasing birds for too long.

[Alric]

That is really good! Nice graphics and it's playable and fun to boot.. even got good difficulty levels and online highscores.
It doesn't even feel rushed at all.
Impressed!

[SimonH]

Screenshot looks great but I got a problem;

Code:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://www.triangularpixels.com/CatOnAWire/Webstart/CompiledData.jar

[Orangy Tang]

Screenshot looks great but I got a problem;

Code:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://www.triangularpixels.com/CatOnAWire/Webstart/CompiledData.jar

Odd, I've only ever seen webstart do that on really slow connections. Does it work if you try again?

Alternatively, I've put together a windows .exe version. Download here.

[Eli Delventhal]

Lots of fun, very impressive for 48h!

I earned 2850 points. 

[teletubo]

Wow . I really like the graphics, it does feel very dreamy. And the game is also fun to play .
But ... did I miss something or u didn't include Duke ?
anyway, thumbs up !

[Eli Delventhal]

did I miss something or u didn't include Duke ?

It wasn't a requirement, just a recommendation, and whoever used Duke the best gets a special award.

[Orangy Tang]

Whee! Thanks for the comments everyone.

Wow . I really like the graphics, it does feel very dreamy. And the game is also fun to play .
But ... did I miss something or u didn't include Duke ?
anyway, thumbs up !

We ran out of time unfortunately, there was going to be clothes hanging from one of the lines with a t-shirt with Duke on it. However that would have needed a chunk of code to make them properly sway and flap.

[Epitaph64]

Pretty fun, and even multiple levels! Though after playing that for a few minutes, those sound effects becomes extremely annoying, haha. Great art though for such a short time

[Alan_W]

I liked the way the ropes bent as you walked along them.  Lovely artwork too

[CherrySlug]

Orangy Tang
Re: Cat On A Wire
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Whee! Thanks for the comments everyone. Smiley

Quote from: teletubo on Today at 11:02:03 am
Wow . I really like the graphics, it does feel very dreamy. And the game is also fun to play .
But ... did I miss something or u didn't include Duke ?
anyway, thumbs up !
We ran out of time unfortunately, there was going to be clothes hanging from one of the lines with a t-shirt with Duke on it. However that would have needed a chunk of code to make them properly sway and flap.

Actually tang I named the cat after Duke without telling you, so in actual fact the entire game involves duke, I just didnt say anything before because I didnt expect anybody to get upset over it. Damn

[Apo]

The graphics are awesome. It's easy to understand. The sounds are nice and I like the idea with the ropes.
All in all: GREAT game

[steveyO]

Pretty impressive graphics/game..
Webstart didnt work for me either (same exception as SimonH), but neither have any of the others so most likely my problem. Download worked great!

[DzzD]

thumbed down


+
start fine
graphics +/-
originl idea


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graphics +/-
webstart
very agressive sound
dont find it very fun

[Orangy Tang]

So I had a non-techy friend who somehow had Webstart misconfigured on their mac ( ) so I knocked up a native Mac version. Download link. It's the same code just wrapped up via the handy-dandy Ant Jar Bundler task.

[swpalmer]

Code:

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Launcher.java:1321)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Launcher.java:1267)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Launcher.java:1066)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:116)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1709)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1030)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:72)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:129)
at net.orangytang.AppBase.<init>(AppBase.java:49)
at catonawire.CatOnAWireGame.<init>(CatOnAWireGame.java:30)
at catonawire.CatOnAWireGame.main(CatOnAWireGame.java:24)
... 9 more

Please include the Solaris binaries (64-bit) for LWJGL.

[Orangy Tang]

Please include the Solaris binaries (64-bit) for LWJGL.

Wow, people still use Solaris? Shouldn't be too hard to add the libs though, I'll have a look at it.

[Orangy Tang]

A minor update, but Cat On A Wire has a proper webpage do-hicky now.

[Nate]

Cute! 2nd place for me (second try).

[rhdxmr]

The cat is cute!