Catch That Squirrel!
Hello. If you are thinking about playing this game, I feel sympathetic for you. This game is about something that I do quite often: chase squirrels. Unfortunately, I don't really get to catch the foolish things, but it's fun to try.
This game was my first actual game made with Unity, and that is the reason why the squirrels look as though they are possessed. Because I want to keep learning the Unity engine, I am going to update this game not quite frequently. I look forward to the future frustrations that this game will give me, and because I know it's going to be oh-so-fun fixing bugs, this game is going to will be open-source on GitHub sometime in the future.
One thing I often forget to do is provide instructions to my games, so here it is:
- WASD - Move around
- Left Shift - Run
- Space - Jump
- R - Resets player to starting position
- N - Reset player, squirrels, and caught squirrels.
- There is now Controller Support!
Chase after the squirrels. When you 'step' on one, it will be considered as caught. This is in active development, and will be updated, but for now, if those pesky rodents jump (or fly, run, or bounce) off of the ever-so-original mountain that traps the player on the map, just pause the game and click Restart.
This game was also made for the I Can't Draw, but I Want to Make a Game (Again) Jam.
Download
Install instructions
To install, just download the zip file and unzip. Then run Catch That Squirrel.
Development log
- First Fully functional Core-Game Release!Jan 06, 2022
- New Update Coming Out TomorrowJan 24, 2021
Comments
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I tried both the windows and the browser version. It is refreshing to have a 3d game every once in a while so kudos on making one. I had a good laugh at how crazy those little suckers go zooming all around! I ended up getting all 4/4. Interesting and fun concept
Bugs: The squrriels seem to like jumping through the mountains into out of bounds; and when you first pause the game, your mouse is frozen until you do it again, it works fine after the second pause, just on the initial press freezes.
Thanks for the feedback! The squirrels going out of bounds was something never prevented, as I was still trying to get the hang of Unity. It is on the todo list for the next update though.
As for the page menu and cursor problem, I've attempted to fix that, and did a small amount of research, but am unsure how to fix this yet.
Once again, thank you for the feedback!
Edit: both have been fixed, there will be an update tomorrow sometime between 1:45 A.M. and 4:45 P.M. EST.
I definitely didn't spend a while waiting for the web version to load, before reading the installation instructions saying to not use the web version x.x
The squirrels look amazing though, excellent game!
Thanks. If only they looked like that in real life...
The game has this odd vibe to it that I really like, especially with the structure near spawn and the trees. Movement was a bit too slippery and I feel like the squirrels could've been a color that sticks out more from the environment (like a red or a brown).
I'm not one for details like that, so that never crossed my mind. The movement is a pproblem that I've noticed, though I'm not sure how to tackle that yet. Thanks for the feedback, and I'll definitely make sure that the squirrels get a different color.
Unity has a free asset called standard assets that contains a first person controller. If you wanted a quick fix I'd recommend using that :)
I am using that. I was using the rigid body controller. I think it had to do the scaling, but either way, it's fixed now,
so itshould be updated by tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion though!COO