#Caracal Games

[miketendo-64]

[Review] Downward: Enhanced Edition | Nintendo Switch

Is this Parkour Adventure game on the up or is it all downhill from here? @jonathanober takes a look at #Downward: Enhanced Edition on #NintendoSwitch in his latest Explain & Play review.

Welcome to EXPlay, (Explain & Play) the review series where we care not for scores but tell it how it is when it comes to every game we get our hands on, whilst also taking the time to include some lengthy gameplay, to give you the reader, the chance to shape your own impressions and views whilst watching and reading. In this explanatory review, we’re covering Downward: Enhanced Edition by…

[twohitgames]

Star Overdrive desvela su mundo abierto para Nintendo Switch

Caracal Games y Dear Villagers han revelado su próximo juego de acción y aventuras de mundo abierto, Star Overdrive. Anunciado durante el Nintendo Direct con un adelanto especial. Star Overdrive se lanzará a principios de 2025 en Nintendo Switch. El desarrollador independiente italiano Caracal rinde homenaje a la jugabilidad emergente única y la libertad de The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild…

[gebo4482]

DOWNWARD Enhanced - Release date trailer

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[talesfromthebacklog]

Tales From The FRONTLOG: Traumatarium

How likely am I to recommend this?: 3/10 How much do I like it?: 6/10

I intended to put this on my Switch backlog. … But Traumatarium cut directly to the front of the line.

Well… you know what they say about good intentions 🔥🔥🔥. Whoops! It went on sale from $2.99 to $2.54, so… you know. Gotta jump on that vicious price cut. (Click here for the link to the Nintendo page for the game!)

How could I not pick this up when in game I am a hulking mountain of a man with a horned helmet and the trailer played wicked heavy metal music at me? And it was $2.50? It’s called Traumatarium for god’s sake! The name alone hooked me instantly. Sign me the fuck up. And that isn’t sarcasm. I have a great love for ridiculous fantasy like this.

I should be playing stuff that gets the blog attention but also I don’t WANT to play that stuff right now! So… ONWARD.

Switch is usually the backlog I actually work on over my other consoles and my PC. It’s also the shortest of the bunch. I have a clear and unapologetic favoritism for my Switch.

I’d say Traumatarium reminds me of Dragon’s Lair. If Dragon’s Lair was a choose your own adventure book instead of the famous: “You clicked wrong, goodbye idiot” gameplay. Meaning you are running through a sequence of events with occasional button presses over a more standard gameplay experience.

You get a town hub with a few shops, and then a few dungeons to go through. The dungeons are “randomly generated”. Which is a very generous phrase. There are only so many rooms per dungeon type for the game to pick from. It only rearranges the order of the rooms. And since the rooms are all functionally the exact same in mechanics the order doesn’t matter. At all. In any kind of way. You just get a different picture per room. This isn’t a bad thing per se. I’m just pointing that out.

In most rooms in a dungeon you have two options. Explore or leave. Any other options are just variances of this mechanic.

Exploring can net rewards and money. Leaving can possibly spare you damage, but 9 times out of 10 leaving is the worse option. You’ll miss your opportunity to get free healing items (which they are very generous with) and you won’t progress far into the game otherwise.

After all. If you interact with nothing you aren’t really playing the game are you?! 🤣

Saving costs gold. (Which you make by defeating bosses and monsters). So you have to manage your money between equipment, saving/full healing, and healing items. Also there’s a hunger mechanic. Eh. I feel nothing positive or negative about it. It’s just kind’ve there to manage. It’s not annoying by any stretch.

There is no experience points or leveling. You grind money to get weapon and armor upgrades. That is the only way to increase power.

This game is not hard. At all. It’s filler. Which isn’t a bad thing. It’s a game where you’re just kind’ve there to get through quickly and for the experience. I like how the game has various color options for not only accessibility, but just to better make it to your particular taste. The little stuff matters.

The sprite work is nice. I think I like it so much because it’s so… hokey. I like over the top corny fantasy things. 🤷‍♀️ The higher the fantasy, the better.

“Okay it sounds like you like it. But my dude you rated it a 3 for recommending it to other people. Most people wouldn’t consider that good.”:

A fair point. But let me explain: It’s basically a phone game. I’ve played longer winded Gameboy titles before. That’s not a dink against it, but it’s good to know what you’re working with. I’m personally not apt to recommend a title like this because I have other games I would recommend far ahead of this one. It doesn’t change that I like it though.

Gaming reception/journalism, and by extension its attitude, kinda has this take or leave it policy. Which isn’t my favorite. I don’t care much for black and white.

I also believe in realism. I can tell the difference between me liking a game and the likelihood of someone else liking that game. Y’all I play serious games but I also pre-ordered Fashion Dreamer for next month. I will look you in the eye and give a horse game a 9/10. And that’s a flaw in a flat rating system. In reality it should be more like a square. It’s far less misleading to go 9/10 horse game but it’s a horse game so you probably don’t want to play it.

One last side thing about the game: When you open the game you start in a little office. The game, box, manual, and “definitely not a gameboy” are all sitting on top of the desk. You have to put the game inside the gameboy to start playing. That’s just cute. I’ve seen other games do it but I can’t help but like it almost every time.

They have another game you can buy (and maybe swap out with Traumatarium in game?) called 2021: Moon Escape.

I’m not quite ready to tackle this game or pick it up yet. Though I’m adding it to my wishlist to consider playing later. I’m already playing a Moon themed game and my review on that is in my drafts being worked on.

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Helloooooo (big) kitty pic. May i have a one infodump?

These fellas are probably the best bird hunters of all cats. They can jump 3 meters high and twist their body around midair to catch flying birds.

[argoncrystal18]

Niko with Caracal Ears :3

[mea-trinitas-profana]

still messing around with that faith warrior cats au

[clockworkbanana]

I don't have anything really ready for today so he's a picture of my son Gurashi in his aslaran (caracal) form.

[funnierasafictive]

We personally see ourselves as more of a machine system than people in a human body so our "mascot" of sorts is more so what we feel we look like, a pink TV head

I doubt this is very helpful but I thought I'd share

It is alright, I think it is a fun design and concept! there are many forms a mascot or sona can take. Human, humanoid, furry, object head, object..

I usually see furries and the usual humanoids, but not much of object heads. =)

[stimwyrms]

A STIMBOARD FOR EVERY SINGLE CAT IN CAT GAME: THE CATS COLLECTOR (not including premium tower cats outside of exclusive ones)

10/653

Fancy Room: Scottish Fold

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[daymusik]

🐾 Listen, when you see it, you will see JUST HOW MUCH EFFORT I PUT INTO THIS VIDEO and you will understand why I REALLY want you to watch this one's visualizer: https://youtu.be/t7Wh1pJXhOQ 🐾 Purchase this song here: https://daymusik.bandcamp.com/track/spider-dance-daymusik-remix-2022-edit ▶ After years of self-improvement, I have remixed Spider Dance from Undertale for the final time. I am happy with this, and I better be with how LARGE this project became! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ óÓÒò 🐾 Where to begin? Well, the song itself is more or less the same as the last iteration, just MUCH more polished, and more cohesiveness, and this time I actually had an idea of what I was going for. I decided to go for a pseudo-glitch hop style as one would with a remix of a video game soundtrack. Of course, @jacksepticeye is still in this version, or rather his amateur voice-over of Muffet's in-game speech. I decided not to say "featuring Jacksepticeye" this time since this time, I decided to try and "animate" Muffet speaking. He does make an appearance as himself at the end, but that's more of like a cameo/guest appearance rather than a feature. But what do I know? I just didn't want to put him on the face of this song because I want this song to speak for itself, not because Seàn is in it. This song, I will say, has been in development for a few years. The main growl bass instrument that comes in during the drop is one I made myself. I spent SO LONG trying to make a good sound, learning new things, trying different things, until finally, this sound worked well enough. Fun fact about the ritardando into the second drop near the end: I had to shorten the length of that. It still slows down to the same temp (maybe slower, I think), but the ritardando was shortened from, like 12 counts to 8 counts because my computer cannot process ritardandos. Whenever I try playing back the song to listen to it, the whole project lags and stutters IMMENSELY that I had to shorten it, but, of course, that did nothing for me. So that's why it's a fun fact. Because it was pointless. 🐾 Now, onto the video. Hoo boy. In keeping with my previous...whatever of adding simple video editing animations corresponding to the video game sound effects that are happening, I decided to do that again. But, like...different. And, uh...I think I went a little too... hard? Listen, I am typing this at 7 am on 14 January after having started the final editing process of this song at about 5 pm yesterday. I am VERY tired and my words are eluding me. But, long story short, for some reason, I decided to MANUALLY animate Muffet speaking. I'm almost 100% certain there was a much easier way to do that. I'm about 85% certain there is a way that I actually know how to do, but instead, I went manual. These aren't gifs, by the way. I wasn't synchronizing a video to the positions or anything. The last time I made the video for this, I downloaded ALL of the Undertale sprites -- all 6800+ of them -- just to make the video. So I did that again. Each frame isn't in a sprite sheet; they are individual images. I'm not going to go on about how tedious this project has been nor will I, again, expound on how much time and effort I waste on these videos. Instead, I decided to write down some numbers, because, undoubtedly, this is the largest project I have ever made. # of plugins: 174 # of [ZGameEditor Visualizer] layer: 47 # of mixer tracks: 94 # of channels used: 252 (mix of audio, automation, and midi clips) Overall time spent on this project: 67h Video file size: 2.67GB Audio file (wav/mp3) size: 48.8MB/6.59MB óÓÒò ▶ Bandcamp 🐾 https://daymusik.bandcamp.com ▶ MySpace 🐾 https://myspace.com/daymusik197 ▶ Twitter 🐾 https://www.twitter.com/daymusik/ ▶ everywhere else 🐾 https://linktr.ee/Daymusik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[meowhawkk]

what did Mint do when Eggman decimated GUN? (off screen in Forces)

UHHH didn't really take Forces into consideration much tbh honest GAJDBSKSHS.... but i suppose if she had a Forces AU she probably would just be part of the resistance ? Is that the name of the group? i can't remember much of forces I will be real HAJABAJA I'll have to read up about

shes Mostly based & set in the SA1 / SA2 & Sonic Heroes timeline (bcuz those are A. my favourite sonic games!! & B. to me they feel the most consistent but see point A bcuz I may be biased) with a tiny droplet of the stuff goin on in IDW (the forbidden C point is that i just think it's cool & if i can fit it into her story i will)!!! if that helps explain what i got going on here

[kikanawj]

We found a big kitty towards the end of last session. It might've been the reason it was so fucking cold still.

It also killed the giant metal bird that was chasing half the party, and then brought the head over for us! I think we've made a new friend!

Or maybe it just didn't see Yūji as edible or a threat. Maybe just that.

[gatorsnot]

i miss going to video rental stores 💔

[lea-andres]

SO! This is Trista Carcis, AKA Breeze the Caracal

This one is done by @mightourge and the below is mine (they fixed my horrible hand art)

Breeze is an aerokinetic with a lot of potential stories for her. At base, she is usually the curt and cold type, and has a very dominating personality, but is also not unknown to have very fiery moments. She will claim whatever she likes as the means to obtain what she deems to be her birthright, which changes from version to version. She isn't the friendly type, but does love Chao and nature walks. Most often she is pretty uncaring about how her actions affect others.

Most of her features are subject to change with the different versions of her story.

My fav idea is that she has Sol dimension heritage from a noble who eloped to the Chaos dimension, and thus has a claim to the throne from Blaze. In her bid for power and show of strength, one of the sol emeralds actually binds to her instead, and uses that power boost to dominate a few settlements and convince a few citizens to follow her instead. Naturally she fails to best Blaze and loses the Sol Emerald, but from there it's a lil loose on what happens to her.

👀👀👀 I like her! She seems like a lot of fun. And I'm always down to beef up the Sol Dimension's content.

Plus a rival for Blaze's throne is a really awesome idea that I didn't know I wanted until now, but I do wish we canonically had that. 😭

(Bastard was chosen affectionately, btw.)

[psychwardpup]

cat ask game !!!!

american shorthair — what’s your biggest comfort ?

maine coon — what’s one word you’d use to describe your personality ? how would others describe you ? 

bombay — are you an introvert or extrovert ? what is your favourite time of the day ?

caracal — how well do you think people know you? how hard is it to get to know you ?

ocelot — movies , tv shows , books , or games ?

bobcat — when you think of your future, what is it like? who’s in it? where are you ?

lynx — what’s one place in the world you really want to visit ?

lion — what are you most proud of ?

tiger — whats your best character trait ? what’s your worst ?

snow leopard — do you prefer to fit in with the crowd or stand out ?

clouded leopard — how dark / deep do your thoughts tend to be ?

cougar — what fandom were you most interested in as a kid ? what about now ?

cheetah — favorite and least favorite thing about your appearance ?

jaguar — how do you try to appear to other people ? 

black panther — if you could have one celebrity’s voice, who’s voice would you choose ?

fishing cat — what are your hobbies ? ALL of them