Resize-O-Catch(please go to this link and vote it a 5!) is an interesting new concept for a game that revolves around resizing your main character to catch other characters. There are three types of characters you must catch. You must be bigger than the blue faces to catch them, you must be smaller than the red faces to catch them, and you must be about the same size as the orange faces in order to catch them. Use ‘A’ and ‘D’ to resize your character and use the mouse to move. This game may take some getting used to but is a fun and challenging game once you get familiar with it.

So to do well in this game, you have to concentrate on the power-ups, grabbing all of them every time. The multi-color and the slow power-up are probably more important than the life power-up but they are all important to be successful in this game. For the time when you don’t have the multi-color power-up, a good strategy is start off by always eating the blue squares and shrink your guy as you cross over to eat the red squares, thereby eating the orange squares on the way across. If you try to jump from square to square, you won’t be able to react fast enough and will let more enemies through than necessary. Sometimes, you will have to make an exception for the faster moving squares but usually starting on one side and going to the other is the best way to do things.

Have fun!

Its been a few days since I’ve released Shoot and Catch and although I haven’t promoted it much, it is solidly getting about 10,000 non-skipped plays per day on Mochi-Ads. The game is getting more popular than I would have thought and may end up being my most popular game, despite not having the highest ratings. I can attribute this to the addicting game-play and the awesome graphics I had RushVision do for me.

The game itself is a decent multi-tasking game where you must shoot falling missiles on one side of the screen while catching fruits on the other side of the screen. Some people have complained its too hard and others have found that to beat the top scores, you need to have a friend play alongside you so each person controls one side. While this was not my original intention, many people have found the game enjoyable this way. However, if you are playing single by yourself, I do have a few tips for you. Being the maker of this game, I am well aware of how the dynamics and the power-ups work. One large imbalance between the sides is that the catching fruits side has a life power-up that gains you three lives while the shooting side does not have a life power-up, meaning that you can’t gain life back when lost. For this reason, I suggest concentrating on the shooting side more as you can’t regain lost life. Even though you start out with 50 lives on the shooting side as opposed to 20 on the catching side, its easier to lose from the shooting side. On the shooting side, you need to make sure to hit both the big shoot powerup and the multi-shot powerup when they come down each time. It will hurt if you don’t have big shots but you will absolutely lose the game if you run out of multi-shots.

On the catching fruits side, the main thing is to keep moving the bucket and keep an eye out for powerups. Pay attention to the big basket powerup and the life powerup especially. There is a flying powerup but if you are playing the game by yourself, you probably won’t have time to control the up and down motion of the basket. If you focus most your concentration on the shooting part of the game, you will last longer than if you divided equal concentration onto both parts. You should be able to get about 25,000 points this way.

Happy shooting and catch.

Other games to play:

Bucket Ball — Launch the correctly colored ball into the correctly colored Bucket

Maverick — propel yourself with your dual-pistols across the levels.