Let's take a little break from the gameplay and jump into some graphics stuff – well, half-technical/half-graphics, I guess.
This is a cat
This is 100 cats.
As you can tell by that gif, there are a nearly infinite number of cats in Mewgenics, and that's because the cats in Mew are randomly generated!
If you look closely, you'll notice that each cat is broken up into a few specific pieces: front legs, back legs, body, tail, head, and fur. Each head consists of 2 eyes, ears, eyebrows, mouth, and a "face" (a face changes the placement of these pieces inside the head).
Each of the pieces mentioned above has hundreds of variations that range from common (normal-looking cat features), uncommon mutations (odd but not super drastic features that come with minor stat changes), and rare mutations (very distinct-looking features that add passive abilities or more significant stat changes).
using this setup we can get away with a universal animation system for all cats!
Each time you breed your cats, they will pass on their visual DNA to their offspring, creating kittens that look like their parents.
Recently, we have gone beyond visuals and started doing vocal sets for cats.
A vocal set is a specific set of meows that cover all the cat's possible emotions: happy, sad, angry, neutral, purring, hissing, getting hurt, and dying. When a cat is generated, it's assigned a vocal set, and then that vocal set is randomly pitched up or down.
Originally, we simply asked friends and family to contribute their meows, but once the word got out, we started getting requests from streamers and even a few voice actors. So we decided to go for it and started our great cat cameo search of 2023! Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen a few interactions with some very notable voices, and I can say that the past few months, I've been quite blown away by the caliber of cat vocals we have acquired. I don't want to spill all the beans yet, but I think it might be cute to start posting some cat vocals here and there and let you guys guess who they might be.
Here is this month's cat cameo... WHO'S THAT CAT!?
As you may have noticed, this specific person did two cat voices, one more cat-like and one more human-sounding. That's because vocal sets also have rarity, so common vocals may sound exactly like a cat, uncommon more like a human doing cat sounds, and some rare sets sounding like totally different animals. Will you acquire that shiny vocal set?
We currently have over 75 meow sets, and the goal is 100. If you know of anyone that you would LOVE to hear voice a cat in Mewgenics, please let me know. The major catch here is they need to know my work, or they simply won't care :)
I'll end this post with another amazing track from Ridiculon, a house or "radio" track called Legend of the Claw. Radio tracks will play when you are breeding your cats / fixing up your house, and there are a ton. Enjoy!
-Edmund