Making the cats!

Believe it or not, this game actually has unused content in the form of cat sprites. I made these one week into development, after the main programming work was done.


This was the first result. I used a template with strongly contrasting colours that I could then later recolour into any cat I wanted. Might be recognisable as a cat, but... well... yeah.

After making many improvements and getting excellent feedback from some friends (special thanks to https://lensu.itch.io/ for doing an in-depth analysis and throwing some alternative ideas my way!) There was a big cat, because initially the game was planned to take place in a village of cats. Also note how the smaller cat has a tail (lacking in the final game :( ) and very beefy arms.


After many more iterations and more help from Lensu and other friends, I finally settled on what I decided was good enough. The big cat never made it into the final game, and was cut before any animations could be made for him. The smaller one became Tuki and Nuki!