Apocalypse Meow

It's the apocalypse. The Damned have been damned and the Saved have been saved. But someone forgot about the cats! As the water levels rise time is running out for our furry feline friends. Will you be able to save them all?

You are armed with a powerful hookshot, and some pretty awesome double jumps.

If you want to challenge yourself press enter while playing to enter editor mode!

Apocalypse Meow was written for the 2020 Spring Lisp Game Jam and it's source can be found on GitLab

The source is available under GPL3 and the assets developed for the game are available under CC-BY4. The assets include all sprites used in the game and the music.

If you're playing the game on a laptop make sure that you adjust your settings so you can use your track pad and keyboard at the same time!

The Hookshot

Save All the Cats

The poor cats have been stranded! Approach them to free their spirits to escape the Apocalypse.

Avoid the Rising Water

The water is rising! It will be your doom as much as its the doom of these poor cats if you get caught in it. Beware.

Game Controls

• Look around with the mouse
• Hook by pressing down the RMB
• Release by lifting the RMB
• Move left and right using the arrow keys or A/D
• Jump using Up/ A or Space
• F10 Toggle Fullscreen
• m Mute
• p Pause
• q Screenshot
• Esc Return to the menu
• Enter - Enter editor mode

Editor Controls

• RMB add tile 
• LMB remove tile (when they can be removed)
• v saves the map (on windows you need to create a folder named "Apocalypse Meow" in %USER/AppData/Roaming)
• n next-tile (ground -> cat -> player -> gate)
• A | Up arrow move up
• S | Down arrow move down
• F10 Toggle Fullscreen
• m Mute
• p Pause
• q Screenshot
• Esc Return to the menu
• Enter - Enter game mode

Tips

Concerning jumping, you can double jump even after you've fallen off a ledge. Similarly you can jump after you have finished hooking!

Concerning hooking, don't follow all the way though with the hook. Use it to accelerate yourself and let go at the perfect moment. Don't forget you can let go after you've double jumped.

Know Bugs

 I keep getting a message telling me the game is corrupt when I try loading it on mac. To get around this you can either download Love11.3 on and play the provided .love file or extract the executable and run the game directly.

When saving on windows you will get the error that the "Apocalypse Meow" folder does not exist in your AppData/Roaming folder. Creating this file fixes this issue. This will be addressed after the jam.

Credits