You Are A Stray Cat

Pretend this is a cat.

Overview

You are a stray cat and someone is trying to feed you. However, you don't want to be fed. Press the arrow keys in the direction of the incoming food to smack the shit out of it. That's it. Game may have two different endings depending on how much fish you let through your defenders.

Assets

Pretty much everything will be done by me... except for music and SFX. Currently my tablet drivers aren't cooperating so I can't draw... which is why I have placeholder assets from a previous game that are of a dog, not a cat WHOOPS. I hope to fix my tablet driver issues so I can make the art assets I want to make.

Characters

A cat and that one person who really, really wants to feed the cat.

Gameplay

The game will start off easy... but as time goes on you'll have to fend off food from multiple directions. Will you be able to keep your pride as a stray cat? Or will you succumb to the F I S H O N S L A U G H T ?

"NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH" - final game audio

In My First Game Jam Winter 2016 I made a VN in Ren'Py called Cloud Mage that's largely finished. In MFGJ Summer 2016 I made another VN in Ren'Py, this time it was a dating sim called Hug Hug Kiss Kiss, which I didn't finish :( As part of that jam, I also did Cat 22. One of the unused sprites is this shiba dog we called "cat??" so it seems quite apt to use it as a placeholder for my current Unity game about a cat.

CHECKLIST:

Characters and sprites

• Player - 3 sprites (animated idle state, 1-frame hit, 1-frame repel)
• Fish projectile - 1 sprite
• Hand that feeds - 1 sprite (optional)

UI images

• Play screen background (probably an alleyway)
• Main menu background
• Menu buttons
• Fish meter
• Paw print reticle - 2 images, one for idle and one for active
• Slash effect on a successful repel

Story images (optional)

Soundtracks needed:

• Main Menu track
• Game track
• Ending track

SFX needed:

• Button SFX
• Slash SFX
• Munch SFX
• Meow SFX

Full design doc I made before the jam - x

Day 1 + Day 2

- did some basic animations and linked animations to key input
- had fish spawn off screen and move towards the dog cat
- learned how to use prefabs instead of just throwing sprites around
- created trigger colliders that apply random force to the fish on key input
- adjusted speed of the fish

Stuff that's next:
- smack some sense into my dang tablet
- start figuring out how to keep track of the score, and start balancing the speed of the game and how hard/easy it should be... maybe try a difficulty setting?
- learn how to do a start menu and also look into a short story intro cutscene
- collisions are a little wonky and I fixed it a little... but it's still a bit spotty sometimes, idk colliders are hard

Aaaand that's it. This is my first ever Unity game and I think I'm making pretty good progress, though of course that'll change during the weekday :P

To end it off here's a gif of dog cat smacking the shit out of some fish.

POW!! POW POW POW!!!!