CHALLENGE: Catformer

Create a mock-up of a platform game where the player controls a cat (any kind of cat is fine).

Canvas Size - Max 320 (width) x 240 (height).
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Catformer pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

Was inspired by one of Vierbit's pieces for this one :o Not gonna reveal what my idea is just yet >:D

First challenge I'm going to participate in, here's my progress:

My animation's background is ready:

You should try to pixel this cleanly in all your pixels.
You often tend to overpixel uncontrolled.
This here is nice and is a nice surprise

That's looking great - the cat looks a bit gloomy though and the ramp somehow looks wrong as though it should be shaded a little more heavily.

What are the enemies, they look like pickles?

Lovely work, looking forward to more...

No joke man, but my cat for this challenge looks so much like yours. https://orig15.deviantart.net/3e0d/f/2016/011/9/f/katze_by_lytschi-d9nk5yh.png
Just so you know that I didn't copy it or anything xD luckily I uploaded it on deviantart just before you made this post.
And I also had the same Idea as you with the cat tree theme and such but I already changed that.
I'm pretty amazed how much we thought about the same thing (probably Soulmates or something)

Thanks! And yeah I'm going to work on the shading a little more before I submit it.

The enemies are supposed to be cucumbers :P Cats are apparently traumatized by then lol.



Haha well it's a pretty basic tabby cat look, doubt any feuds would have happened over it.

Hello! I want to join to challenge, but my work was rejected. Reason "Its not a platformer".
Here is my art:
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/100993.htm

But how about the game "Snake Rattle N Roll" in isometric platformer?
So, I still want to join (:
Regards, Kaminari.

Platformers have to have the obvious to really fall in the genre.

Snake Rattle N Roll has 'platforms' but that is simply terrain, not platforms. Iso games can be platformers.

A game can have a ship that shoots and not be a SHMUP.

I made that 13-color palette for that palette contest, with some invaluable advice from DB :)
*edit* this is most of the things I have so far!

I like it and I'm ready to play it.

Great looking clouds Lehmure

It has been very busy week, so I started animating my platformer as late as today.

I am making a cinematic platformer (if we believe in Wikipedia). Hopefully this counts as a platformer, if not, it will be cool animation! :p

This is basis for the animation:


@Mrmo Tarius

Have you inspired by this (at least that lurker at background)?
http://sootsprite.tumblr.com/post/12749026961

For some reason I imagine your cat in that old game "impossible mission", might be worth taking a look at that.

@Mrmo tarius
😃 I think, new version is better.

@Jalonso
If you watch closely there is a cat in first 20 frames. Others are just for basis.


Ps. I'm probably stream making this piece at twitch.com/antsu1337 at the weekend. You just can come to say hello, I appreciate that.