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PLAY! (http://flashpunk.net/play/NECO/) (mirror) (http://timeforcute.com/NECO)
Play in Japanese! (http://flashpunk.net/play/NECO/?lang=jp)

Old Build Log:
the fifth one (first stable) (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/08/NECOTOUCH1.swf)
the fourth one (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/08/NECOTOUCH.swf)
the third one (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/NECOTOUCH2.swf)
the second one (trash) (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/NECOTOUCH1.swf)
the first one (garbage) (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/NECOTOUCH.swf)

To Do:
-fix cursor collision
-alterable cursor directions
-timed interval changing colors (cursor and targets)
-moving targets
-weird-shaped targets
-working points system
-more enemies
-achievements(?)

PREPARE YOUR PERSONA FOR 4 EXCITING NECO TOUCH STORY!!!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man2-prof.png)
Naoto is a bright youth who enjoys NECO TOUCH profusely!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man3-prof.png)
Smith is a USA boy who ascend 40 NECO to his head with one TOUCH!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man4-prof.png)
Aya is a smart woman who NECO TOUCH delicacy with spirit!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man1-prof.png)
Tanaka is a old man who does not believe a NECO TOUCH can being enjoy!

I can't read Japanese, but this game looks like it's about cat's controlling human hands with their minds.  Awesome!

It's about trying to touch a cat.

I am glad somebody's doing this one. (I almost decided to do something like this (http://www.powercursor.com/examples/?example=cursorbug.swf).)

I think mine's gonna be more of a retro platform dodge-em-up.  Gonna work on it later this week.

JR HILL! I'm totally thinking of doing this one.

Most of this compo is turning into small hyper games like the once from Wario Ware, I LOVE THIS!

I want to touch a cat thing :)

There is some German in that cover that says "Let's touch a cat! And make friends!"
I'm utterly confused and intrigued. :ninja:

We could collab, I mostly just want to do NES-style success splash screens haha.
Or...  WE COULD COMPETE!!

I would love to collab with you, since you are awesome.
BUT my idea for the game is completely different, heh.

COMPETE WE SHALL!

I changed my idea for the game completely too!

Part 1: Hit the target (it gets harder and takes different forms as you go) or you WON'T TOUCH THE CAT BUT SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY!!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/06/mockup.png)

Part 2: You are near the cat, but don't let your nerves get the best of you!  You have to calm down, stop shaking, and hope to hit a part of the cat that is pleasing to your senses!!

[NO IMAGE YET]

Part 3: CONGRATULACIONS YOU ARE NECO TOUCH!!!

[NO IMAGE YET]

P.S. I'll do it in Flashpunk at double resolution probably.

I luv cats!

What does that Japanese in your mock-up say?

Oh it says Points.  I'll do an Engrish version too (maybe)

PREPARE YOUR PERSONA FOR 4 EXCITING NECO TOUCH STORY!!!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man1-prof.png)
Tanaka is a old man who does not believe a NECO TOUCH can being enjoy!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man2-prof.png)
Naoto is a bright youth who enjoys NECO TOUCH profusely!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man3-prof.png)
Smith is a USA boy who ascend 40 NECO to his head with one TOUCH!

(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/man4-prof.png)
Aya is a smart woman who NECO TOUCH delicacy with spirit!

I am seeing Persona 4 everywhere in this compo!

PREPARE YOUR PERSONA [...] 4[...]

Tanaka is an old man who [sells crazy products and has a rad theme song on the Tee Vee]!
Naoto is a bright youth who [eez little detective person]!
Smith is a USA boy who [okay this one doesn't really fit]!
Aya is a [delicious Chinese diner about to get bum-raped by the Junes]!

Also, this game looks great.

Sounds familiar but I've never played it lol.

Wow that's a big coincidence.

:3

Sawaritai.

I really like the cartridge - it's a great starting point : )

really liking everything!

Guys, what are some things that you wouldn't want to touch?  Like a cactus, wall socket, dog butt, etc.

Frogs are pretty yucky (though smaller ones are cute). Mushrooms? Cockroaches. Earthworms. Boogers. Zits. Chewed bubblegum.

The surface of an open eye. A sizzling hot frypan. A hobo.

Edit:
An open wound. Extra points if there is a bone fragment poking out of it.
A hairy mole.
Poison ivy.

A hot stove, of course.  A female passerby's breasts.  A giant, hulking man's dick.

God what is wrong with me. :facepalm:

a nun.

TURD
PISS
BLOOD
A NAKED MAN
A SPLATTERED BRAIN

dog vomit
grandpa's hemorrhoids
soldering iron
electric fence
band saw
rat trap
contents of a clogged toilet
dirty spittoon interior

inverted horseshoe crabs
the inside or outside of a car after a particularly hot or cold day
a surface covered in ants
boiling water
a live shark's teeth
roadkill, especially if it's not actually dead yet
a surface that is known to have been underneath one or more members of your family while copulating
a very expensive ceramic vase
a land mine

Every day I seem to find something new to prove the TIGsource community is insane.
I love you guys.

This thread has transcended the mere awesome-ness of JR Hill making a game about touching cats, thanks to this recent development.

I need to catch up to jr hill's awesome-ness

Inside a drain.
Rotting meat.
Rotting people.
Horse head full of eels - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW03z829Jhg <-- Clip from the film adaptation of The Tin Drum.

 :wtf:

Well, I have to agree that I wouldn't want to touch most of that stuff either haha.  About 30% of that stuff will make it into the game.

Note: I won't be able to work on this game properly for about a week thanks to a fried motherboard.  :giggle:

Shame has no place in an artist's repertoire.

Y hlo thar, I wasn't aware you had a game.
I look forward to touching cats with the power of NECO TOUCH.
Also, thanks for reminding me to believe. It got me over that particular hump.

P.S. Do you really draw giraffes on request?

He's always looking for an excuse.

ALWAYS

I like the direction this thread is taking.

I wouldn't want to touch someone who I am gigantically attracted towards but who is in a very concertedly romantic, monogamous, and long-term partnership with someone else.

Did anyone suggest random animals butthole yet?



I would like to...

This seems oddly specific :concerned:

A petri dish with agar and unknown other.
A baby lamb whose mother will abandon it if it has the smell of a human on it.
A Buddhist monk (at least, women aren't supposed to touch them.)
Ham with a hologram on it.

This game sounds awesome!!

Does this mean that you finish the game when you neco touch the cat??

I'm particularly interested what happens to a cat which has been successfully touched.

You get a points then you will TOUCH additional NECO!!

FIRST BUILD!
(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/not-a-mockup-anymore.png) (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/NECOTOUCH.swf)

Current Features:
None lol

To do:
Everything

 :-*

Progress log: Collision detection errors!!
 ;D

It won't let me touch the neco. :(

same here..

what do??

Yeah, that build doesn't do anything yet lol.  The current build I'm working on has full cat-touching capabilities, but I screwed something up with the cursor-target collision detection so the current build isn't uploaded yet since it just crashes when you click the mouse.  God-willing I'll have a "playable" build tonight.  After I get the collision detection working, adding all the other features will be a breeze.

Other features:
-enemies
-moving targets
-weird-shaped targets
-alterable cursor directions
-working points system
-achievements(?)

Features:
-Kind of points
-three enemies
-one player character
-buggy collision detection
-you can TOUCH the NECO!!

Guide:
Click mouse to stop the cursor.  If you land on the correct color, YOU NECO TOUCH!!!

Also this:
(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/pigbutt.png)

I like it JR, it very simple but polished...feel very warioish. I'd love to have the target also moving, as the game gets harder, or an animation that keep changing the target size and color, to confuse the player...

well done   :handmetalL: ;)

I was just going to mention that  :eyebrows:
Nothing like failing to touch a cat because of a shoving a finger up a pig's ass  :handthumbsupL:

It's weird, polished and fun, but I think you should focus on making it challenging.
Some ideas:
-Speeding up the cross
-Changing the color of the cross in constant intervals (an decreasing those intervals)
-Some sort of score that gets reset when failing (And back to "easy slow mode")
-Moving the target (as mentioned)
-All of the above :)

Keep it up!

Thanks guys for the encouragement!  I don't know where y'all are getting "polished" from, cause to me it feels buggy as heck.

Most of those I was planning to do, although changing the colors of the cross at intervals I hadn't thought of, and also makes me think about changing the colors of the target too.  Anyway the rest of those will likely get implemented in the next few days.  I'm also going to have the target sections move independently once the difficulty ramps up.

After I get the gameplay down pat I'll add a title screen, character selection, options, etc.  I also gotta play more of your guys' demos and contribute some critique too haha.

Haha, fun little game.  I like the game-show feel (and music).

Thanks!  Probably going to change it out later, but I felt like it wasn't complete without some goofy music.

I suggest you make the current color more explicit (for instance, by changing the color of the cat), and not make the upper portion bulls-eye-shaped, because then you just feel compelled to hit the center rather than a particular color.

The guy's expression deserves to be stronger when he fails!

But I'm really liking this. :)

I really like this. Sometimes I think I get lucky, or accidentally abused a glitch, since I got a huge streak of yellows, so I just had to click as fast as I wanted to.

So delightful. :-*

Also

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/necoTouchShot1.png)

I should have touched the neco. :(

Yeah, for some reason I keep goofing up the detection, I just did a 1x1 hitbox on the center of the cursor and a pixelmask for the different sections of the target...  Still, it's been pretty goofy.

Oh lol it's cause I was updating the movement on the same frame as the input.  Now it's working much better.

Since the cross will be movable with the arrow keys (or wasd I guess) would you guys prefer the "stop" button to be z/x/c/y/space/mouse button or all of the above?

THIRD BUILD (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/07/NECOTOUCH2.swf)

New Features:
3 Difficulty levels (at 0pt, 5,000pt, and 10,000pt)
Speed increases or decreases based on your current track record
Points start at zero
Collision works correctly
Added meat enemy

After a while (during the segment where the cursor moves up and down and you control horizontal movement) EVERYTHING was giving me baddies. Even when I matched the color.

uh oh :droop:
It seemed like it was working for me but maybe I didn't test it enough...

fun minigame. i dont understand the arrows though when the dpad comes up.

You can control the direction by pressing an arrow.

You can change it back and forth though I'm not sure it really helps all that much. :biglaff:

You can also stop the cursor with the space, z, x, or c keys.

I thought this was quite fun.  Will the target itself eventually move?

Yeah I'm definitely getting the same error when it gets up to the x-y part, not sure what's causing it but I've probably messed up y-coordinates or something.

The target will definitely move... :wizard:

Niiiiiiice  :) Looking good man

Check for divisions by zero, that in AS3 return NaN (or something) that's considered a Boolean false :)
Maybe it's that.

You should give it a rest on the cross that says "no directional controls" after a couple of plays, it's kind of distracting.

Cheers

It's supposed to go away after 3 rounds, but I guess it'd probably be better to have it pop up as a tooltip or something.  Seemed like it clashed the second I put it in but was too lazy to change it last night haha.

So I finally remembered to play this and it is *~pretty classy~*. I think your game is one of the titles that is inherently funny just by being a game and you've certainly run with it very well :D

I enjoyed it for a few minutes, pretty good.  :)

:crazy: COLLISION ERRORS I WILL DESTROY YOU :crazy:

maybe

FOURTH BUILD!
(http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/08/version-the-third.png) (http://timeforcute.com/cute/2010/08/NECOTOUCH.swf)

New:
You can hit the targets right.
The frog is more grotesque
Three new enemies (cactus, japanese stop sign, high-fiving teddy bear's armpit)

To do:
Opening screen/character selection
Winning/losing
More enemies
Different shaped targets

IT'S THE HOME STRETCH AND I CAN DO IT!

At first I played it and didn't understand what to do.

Then I cam back and read all the pages, played again and had a great fun!
What I'm saying is you probably should add instructions before playing, I didn't even notice that the cross changes color, but I noticed that the cat changes color, so I tried to pick the target according to the cat and that didn't work so well...
I also didn't know that you can use the arrows, that adds also to the fun.

FINAL BUILD! (http://timeforcute.com/NECO)

I'm liking this! It's great fun, and the music really fits the game. However, it can be a bit unclear what to do at the start. I had a younger brother play it and he couldn't get the hang of until I pointed out that the cross changed colour to him. It's probably because the target starts off looking like a bullseye which to most people means "hit the middle!". Although it's probably a bit late to do something about that.

Still, it's awesome.

Perfect, awesome. Hahahahahahah! I'm glad I waited until you were totally done with this to play it. =) The overall effect when you manage to touch the cat is priceless... =) Made my day!

Yeah, I know that's an issue...  I put instructions on the webpage below the game that says match colors, but I know I rarely read those when I'm playing games, lol.

PsySal: Phew!  I'm hoping everyone who plays this game gets at least a few laughs out of it.

Love it! Very fun, and the pixel art is fantastic!

The color changing target is a bit confusing at first. Perhaps you could make the matching part of the target flash to push the player to hit that? Just for the first few rounds until they realize the colors need to match. It took me several goes before I realized what I was doing wrong when the target color changed the first time.

The first time through, I felt like the target score was too high, as the game dragged on a long time. The game really doesn't have any depth to it, so it starts to drag pretty soon. I feel like the player should have a limited number of Necos, and you go for the high score by touching as many in a row as possible. Alternately have a "Story" mode that is basically the game you have right now.

I'd love for there to be an ending. A one-page splash screen detailing how the character's life has been touched by the Neco would be a great outro.

As soon as the yellow target starts to move, the game gets REALLY hard. I feel like the purple target should move first, since it is the easiest to hit even when moving, then the red target moves second. The yellow moving would be the last and hardest objective to hit.

Other than that, it's a solid, short time waster! I wouldn't play it regularly, but it's something I'd share with a bunch of people for a few quick laughs. The very concept of attempting to touch a Neco and failing is amusing.

lol, man, you don't have to tell me it's repetitive, I've been playing this thing for nearly a month now. :biglaff:  I never really intended for it to be much more than a time-waster, so aside from any bug fixes I'm just going to leave it as-is and move on to other projects.
Plus the code is pretty horrendous since I hadn't used AS3 or FP before I started.  There's a lot of redundant code that I'd have to fix first before I could really start to upgrade it.

Also:  The points get massive bonuses as you get higher so it's not as far a ride to 1 million as it might seem at first.  But yeah the win screen is pretty underwhelming, especially considering my original idea for the win screen was pretty much what inspired the entire game.  I might add those in later when I'm feeling artsy, but for now it's on the backburner.

P.S. I never said it was going to be easy to NECO TOUCH. 8)

An amusing little time waster indeed. I'd probably make the cursor a bit bigger to make the change in colors more evident, and add an image like the ones you have detailing that you should match colors.

Pretty good, other than the color matching aspect not being very clear.

I like how clumsy and uncontrollable it gets towards the end.

I think my favorite part is the old guy's facial expression when you make a mistake.

Okay, consensus is that it's not clear enough about the color-matching so I'm gonna I put in a helper graphic at the beginning.  Also going to adjust adjusted the point values so that smaller ones give massive points when the game gets fast and unwieldy.

Thanks for all the feedback guys! :beer:

Actually, I've decided the game isn't complete enough for me to be satisfied with it, so in a few weeks I might return and do proper winning and losing screens.

Okay, so my dad was playing this and said after a while the cursor turned gray and red etc.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I can't even imagine what would cause it since there are only the three color values available.  Anyone else get this?

This is good fun! - and that music is pure cheese  ;D

(haven't spotted the grey cursor issue you mentioned yet)

According to this:
http://tinycartridge.com/post/942873021/indie-games-inspired-by-famicase-carts

The guy who did the original famicase art played this game and posted here:
http://olulu.jugem.jp/?eid=354

Anyone who can read japanese able to confirm?

lol yes, I sent an email to them.　　He says he got bored of it after about 5 minutes but that he's happy it was made.  (Also that it didn't match his original intentions for the game, which is true)

I left another comment telling him about JaJitsu's game cause it's better lol.

Good find!

Cool, it's nice to see these things go full circle :)

I don't expect whoever did the musical one I've based my game on imagined flowers and bees either tbh ;)

What exactly DID he expect his game to be like?

Cat education software, you would get points based on how you interact with the cat.  Petting its head would get you x points, scratching its chin would get you y points etc.

Great game!
It really made me laugh - which i think was the intension :)

I especially liked the music, did you make it yourself?

Nah, it's a song by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass called Mexican Shuffle.  Old song, but you've probably heard other songs by him like Spanish Flea.

I am totally amazed that I've gotten any response at all on this game, but maybe that's because I don't really like playing whatever this genre is, lol.

My god, that is some funny music..  :-*

Thanks JR Hill.. I will go eat tacos now...  :handforkL::eyebrows::handknifeR:

This is great. I get frustrated when everything starts moving fast, but it's definitely a good way to kill a few minutes. And yeah, that music is awesome.

After I adjusted the way the scoring works I can't beat it anymore lol.

I think I'm gonna re-polish it a few weeks after the competition ends.

Cool, I got a mention (http://www.bytejacker.com/blog/neco-touch-the-best-game-about-cat-poking-youll-play-all-day) on Bytejacker too!

I feel like a legit indie now.

This game cracks me up.
  :handpointR: :tiger:  mew

Thanks, it's officially "humorware."

Great choice of music. The game is really funny. I found I couldn't tell what colour the cross was when it was moving fast and that small target is impossible to hit whilst it's whizzing around. Good work.

The old guy's expressions are priceless.

This is a fun little minigame. The only thing that I thought was odd was that the menu had different controls from the game, and that the controls were never listed anywhere.

The menu and game both use arrow keys and any of the following: space, z, x, c, for input.

this is the only game i voted for

so dang indie

Oh. Well, I used the mouse.  :P

Oh right, I didn't make the mouse work on the menu screen yet. :shrug2:

@ Tanner : You have chosen wisely.

haha nice game, I liked how you kept varying things a little to not make the game repetitive. The graphics are charming too. Good job!  :)