looserty wrote:

A studio. It's just gonna be you can showcase the project(s). They have to be in by 10:30am EST.

littlemissmim08 wrote:

MinecraftKittenTwo wrote:

TheDreamyProfessor wrote:

—UPDATE—
Second edit by TheDreamyProfessor:
Please only use for Cat’s Great Escape.
2020 MLZ Studios.

Cat backstory: Fluffy is a retired cat fighter. He also works for a top-secret cat agency. In his early years, he fought against dogs, mice and even some competitive cats. One day, he was taken by an adoption shelter. Fluffy was then adopted and now lives with another cat, Snowy. But Fluffy was still a fighter cat. Whenever his owner let him outside for long periods of time, he would scatter the woods for any cats who were taking up territory and fight them. However, one day Fluffy got too engaged in his fight, and ended up lost in the woods. Eventually, the owners found Fluffy, but the owners kept him inside until an urgent mission from the cat agency needed him to do a secret task.
(Backstory is displayed to the player in pixel text form).
It is morning and Fluffy (the protagonist) wakes up.

Display text: 9:45 AM Owners House. (idea to have an alarm clock on the top of the screen to notify players of the time. A minute in-game might be equal to 1 second or 3 seconds in real life)
(Animation) Fluffy gets up and jumps down from the couch. Snowy runs through the door (preferably a small one) and talks to Fluffy.
(Displays text in a visual novel like fashion), preferably with a small version of the character beside the text box and the characters name on top of the text box.

Snowy: Fluffy! Fluffy! I have something to tell you!
MC: Huh? Snowy? What’s wrong?
Snowy: Fluffy! The cats have sent me to notify you about an underground dog clan!
MC: Really? So? It’s just a dog clan. What's so special about this one? To be honest, it's probably one that's really weak. They probably would always end up losing after anything we do with them.
Snowy: Well, then you're wrong, since they're plotting revenge against us, due to our rising fame online!
MC: Really? Revenge for that? Okay then, but what kind of revenge?
Snowy: Hmm, the cats haven't told me anything about that, but they say you need to come quick!
MC: But Snowy, I can't leave the house!
Snowy: You'll just have to, trust me! They also reported that some cats have gone missing, and are suspicious about this dog clan!
MC: Then fine, if it's really important, and some cats need help, I must go.
Yeah! That's what the cats hoped of, they knew you were a fierce fighter!
MC: If this is for the future of cats, I'm ready to do anything, even I need to make some sacrifices.
Snowy: Definitely! Now I have business to attend. Also, I have something for you. Keep this handy in case anything goes wrong.

(Animation) Snowy hands over a communications device called the “Meower” to Fluffy.
The dialog then appears saying:

You have received the Meower! This is a communications device to contact Snowy or other cats in the Cat Agency. It also works vice-versa! Press “C” or tap the icon on the bottom left to call.

The hotbar/inventory should fill up with a small version of the Meower device.
Plans for Meower device:
If the player calls using this device without anything going wrong, there will be a pause of 3 seconds and dialogue will appear, saying that nothing is wrong and the player should continue the platformer. Dialogue should be in visual novel style. However, there will be no small version of the character speaking, and the character name will be filled with a “???”.
If the player calls using this device with something actually going wrong, a text box will appear immediately, telling you to go to some location immediately. There will be arrows on-screen pointing to the emergency and also an invisible timer. If the player doesn’t get there on time, the game will restart to the most recent checkpoint. There will also be a notification in the inbox, but no prompt to click in it except for a “ping” sfx when the emergency starts and a icon on top of the inbox like this:


MC: Thanks! See you later.

The dialog closes and goes to a platformer area. Ground textures is a wood floor, with a table, couch, window, door, and a hole in the wall. It will fit a modern design. Screenshots coming soon.

The difficulty will not be challenging and will be more of a tutorial level. Traps will be:
- Mousetraps (Snaps on player. Player is prompted and taught how to do a claw attack to shake it off (maybe something like this)


After the first time, the Player will constantly lose 1 health per second and will continue until player shakes it off.

Ideas in the works

The goal will be to find the right path. This area will be similar to Henry Stickmin, where you can choose where to go and what to do, however, this will be mostly platforming (i.e. Player goes into wall hole but gets stuck, or player goes through door but gets caught by the owners walking in with groceries). If a complication occurs, (i.e. The owner catches them) The level will restart. “Ideas” will help the player find the right path (i.e. Crayons, Cat toys, etc.). There will not be checkpoints, or items to collect (other than “ideas”). The amount of “ideas” collected will help the player get through, and is also needed to finish this level. Silhouettes of these “ideas” will be in the Heads-up display, and once these are collected, they will fill the silhouettes to signify they have been collected.

Once the tutorial ends, the player is prompted with:

Congrats! You have finished the tutorial section of this first stage. As a reward, here is a map, it will help you find your way.

This map will basically be a hub world in which the player may select what level to go to, and help to find the cats. Of course, in usual platformer fashion, when progressing levels will unlock. The map also serves as a way of finding areas in levels. Certain levels, however, will not have access to the map, to make it more challenging.

Once this is over, the player is on the map. The player will select the first stage available, which is titled “Scavenging Evidence.” Plans for this level:
Might just be a regular platformer without any RPG style fight scenes. However there will be things to collect called “evidence” which is optional. However, when collected, the agency would make more progress, and thus, the game will progress faster, with less emergency fights, and more happy cutscenes.
Difficulty: A bit harder than the tutorial level
Dangers:
There are no mousetraps, and instead of that, there are cat traps which decreases -3 health. For artists reference:
There will be another tutorial that tells you to press “C” to wriggle out of the trap. (I don’t know how these traps work so….)

After finishing Secrets in the bushes, the player will unlock Stage 2: “World of Trouble”, However, when the player enters the stage, the Meower will ring. MC will answer it.
The call dialog is as follows:

Fluffy: Hello? This is-
Snowy: MC!! Help, HELP!
MC: What is it, what's wrong?
Snowy: The dog clan is trying to capture me, I see traps everywh- AAHHH
???: Now that'll teach a cat!
MC: Snowy? Snowy? Hello, Snowy?
The mysterious person hangs up the phone.

The dialog closes, and MC rushes back to the house.
MC sees 2 dogs from the dog clan holding Snowy.

Snowy: Nooo!
Dog 1 crushes Snowy's Meower.
Dog 1: You're coming with me. Hey you, put him in with the rest of ‘em
Dog 2: Yes, sir
Fluffy: What do you think you’re doing?!
Dog 1: Well well well, look who's here, tryin' to save his little brother Heh heh heh heh!
Fluffy: Augh!!

Fluffy proceeds to fight with Dog 1, triggering an RPG-like fight sequence. (Something like the fight sequence in Undertale.)
If Fluffy loses, a cutscene with Snowy in Dog 1's and Dog 2's car, driving away, and a game over screen will happen. The player will have an option to return to the title screen, and save the game with a save code, or continue. Continuing will restart the fight.
If Fluffy wins, Dog 2 will drag Dog 1 into their vehicle, and attempt to drive away. Fluffy will get attempt to get the cats out of the vehicle with the dogs, but fails and only manages to grab Snowy, which Dog 1 and Dog 2 leaves with the rest of the cats.

Fluffy, grabbing Snowy: Ahh! Nooo, don't leave with the rest of them!
Dog 1: I'll see you cats later when I capture Snowy!
Snowy: Whew, that was a fight! Thanks for saving me, Fluffy.
Fluffy: No problem!

Fluffy receives a call on the Meower:

“Hello, this is Marie speaking, from the Cat Agency. Our cats are reporting that several cats have gone missing. Fluffy, you need to get to that dog clan. Soon enough, we may all end up trapped. We have received some information from our spy cats. On your Meower press the Mail icon, and you'll receive a document on what our cats have found.”

It then prompts the player to check their mail. The document attached reads:

“Spy Cats team report #1. 12/23/20

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS. DO NOT DISCLOSE TO OTHERS OUTSIDE OF THE CATS AGENCY. Suspicious posterboard found in Dog clan lair. Posterboard seems like a plan to capture the cat agency. The rest of the cat agency has been notified of this. Searching for more information. Will make next report on Christmas.”
Enclosed in the message is a photo of the “suspicious posterboard”, which will be in pixel art form (NOT an real photo).
The photo will be used in the future, and the player can check the message to see the posterboard again if they need to.

After finishing this level, the player will proceed to the next level by pressing on the map icon. The next stage will be called “Entering Dog Territory.” This level will be a lot more difficult than “Scavenging Evidence” but not too hard. There will be a series of easy RPG fights.
Dangers include:
Dog traps. Continuously decreases -5 health until the player presses “C” to wriggle out of the trap. However, this time, it will be much harder to wriggle out.
Cat traps. They work the same as the cat traps in “Scavenging Evidence”.
The RPG fights will be very easy and the characters to fight are:
Small dogs
Hedgehogs
Big rats
The goal for this level is:
To collect small pieces of “evidence”, but this time, collecting all the evidence is required.
Perks for this level:
The map is gone until you finish the level.
In the middle of the game, you will receive a call.
Fluffy: Hello! Hello? Who is this?
Bruce: Hello, this is Bruce from the cat agency speaking. Our spy cat team has requested that Snowy stay in our headquarters for a few days, since they reported that some dogs have been secretly spying on you and Snowy, and it would be unsafe for her to follow you on this mission. However, I’m sure you can still hold up. Meanwhile, please stay alert. Goodbye.
*hangs up with a beep sfx*
After this call, there will be an animation of Snowy running back to the cat agency headquarters. Snowy should have been following the player before that animation.
Images are included in last edit.

Maybe add like names for the dogs instead of saying Dog 1 and Dog 2. I have no idea what to name them though ;-; I should probably go to a random name genorator… (3 trillon years later): Umm… theres Pual but that i dont think will fit ummm… (128 trillon more years later): havent found anything

Maybe Charlie and Poppy?

looserty wrote:

what are you whating?

TANGNEO000 wrote:

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TheDreamyProfessor wrote:

By the way, anyone need assets?