Cat Almighty Devlog 01

I’ve been working on this project for a while and recently the progress slows down. I decide to write this. This servers as a record also a way to encourage myself to keep going.

I aim to make a Beat’um UP game. This is a hobby project in my spare time. I know this won’t go commercial as I am really lack of game design skills. I use Unreal Engine and the learning process is really fun to me.

As an animal lover especially cats, an orange cat is the protagonist. S/he drives a robot beating all the enemies. When I was a kid, I have some Tin and plastic toys. Nowadays I still love the primitive design of those toys. The simplified shapes, limited colors, wacky looks of the characters, all these are still in my memories. So  I intended to give the main player a retro toy look. It might be something exist in 80’s to 90’s. I did a few sketches to design the robot:

And finally, I picked design B.

This is the robot and cat. The design and color are intended to be simplified.

The background story is one day, a cat becomes angry about all the bad behaviours people do on the street. So S/he builds a robot and starts to fight. And Yes, the cat is angry.

For the background design, I referred to a game called Beat Street make by Lucky Kat.

This is a concept I did. I haven’t decided what the enemies look like.