Project Catalyst

a game by John Manard III, Fiona Soetrisno, Lauren Nakamura, Megan Belle Maun, and worblir for the College Game Jam.

Greetings Colleague! Welcome to Project: Catalyst, an experiment in which you will help me combine these unstable elements into a compound. My tether gun (left-click) can connect these elements, and once you connect them in the recipes specified by the list on the right, we will move onto our next set! If you mess up, you can right-click your mouse to shoot an anti-tether to disconnect all tethers from the element hit by the end of the tether gun.  Don’t get hit, and good luck out there!

Known Bugs

- The background music will play twice over itself if you hit "Retry" on the first level after dying. To fix this, simply return to the menu and hit play again.

- In longer games, enemies will congregate in the bottom right corner until you approach them.

- Lighting in the web build didn't come out quite right.

- Pressing 'Quit' on the menu that appears either when you die or complete a level makes you restart the game. The pause menu 'Quit' button will send you to the menu, however.

Credits

John Manard III - Programmer and game designer

Fiona Soetrisno - Programmer, artist, and game designer

Lauren Nakamura - 3D and 2D artist and game designer

Megan Belle Maun - 2D artist and game designer

worblir - Programmer and game designer

Music

The main menu song used was an edited version of 'Too Cool' by Kevin MacLeod (Music Source)

Too Cool Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The main song during gameplay used was 'Funky Chunk' by Kevin MacLeod (Music Source)

Funky Chunk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Audio

Most audio/sound effects are from Adobe Audition's sound effect library (Link)

Failure buzzer sound effect by hypocore (freesound.org link)

Extra Environment 3D Models

Some additional environment 3D models used were made by Google's 'Poly by Google' user account on Google Poly. However, Google Poly will be shutting down on June 30, 2021 (RIP), so this link may be broken soon (Google's Account on 'Google Poly' Link).