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Congrats on the Daily 2nd Place Award!

Great job Ryan! Congrats on the Daily 2nd Place award (TK and I knew you'd make the daily top 5!). I dunno how I missed this when you posted it last month but I just searched for it to see it you had posted yet on Newgrounds. Is ep 2 coming soon? (I saw that you posted ep 2 on the forum but it was deleted before I could watch it)

"Now there goes a real man..."

Great job Andrew! Congrats on the Daily 5th Place award (Tom and I knew you'd make the daily top 5!). Now you HAVE to continue the series...

Cute animation, but NOT original idea

This idea of the "buttered cat paradox" has already been animated before. In fact, Kimberly Miner won a Student Academy Award for her animated film "Perpetual Motion" in 2003.

Still, this was a decent animation.

Great retro-style, but hard to see powerups

Very cool retro style. I like the controls and the pixel explosions but it is really hard to differentiate the powerups from the falling meteors because they are all the same size and shape and similar color, with only little dots on them to tell them apart, and besides the one with the + on it, I'm not even sure what the other powerups do.

Simple yet challenging casual game

This is a great idea for a game but it feels a bit like a work in progress, because there's a major problem that you should fix ASAP: swimmers can be eaten by sharks when they are still off screen at the top or bottom, so I was losing points for not saving swimmers that I couldn't even see, let alone click and drag.

Also, you might want to consider having the "saved" swimmers on the sides swim away off screen instead of just floating around, because I only skimmed the instructions the first time and in the chaos of the game, I didn't really notice that I had saved the swimmers that I'd dragged to the sides. I might've figured it out while playing if the sharks and swimmers didn't overlap the dashed lines so much. I understand that you probably want the player to accidentally drag the sharks into the "safe" areas, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense that the swimmers would stick around. If you really want the player to drag the sharks, then maybe you should have one side be for the sharks and the other side for the swimmers.

Again, great idea and the art / animation is really fun, especially how the swimmers hold onto the mouse cursor, and how the body parts are randomly dispersed when the swimmers get eaten.

Stunningly simple but beautiful

Wow, such a simply concept and design. I'm most impressed by the way the captured dots form patterned rings in the center and then the dots dance at the end of each level. The music is perfectly befitting.