This is your starter house, a simple but effective single-room house with enough room for your little cat hoard. "But how does this house actually play into all this turn-based adventure stuff you've been selling us for the past year?" you ask. Well, that's what I'm here to explain, silly!
When you start Mewgenics, you will select your starter cat from Dr. Beanies and bring him/her back to your little shack to care for. Caring for a cat in Mewgenics starts simple; a cat needs food, shelter, companionship and a cat needs to be cleaned up after. Let's go over each of these real quick.
Food:
Each time you pass the day in Mewgenics, each cat currently inside your house will consume one food from your supply. If it can't, it will start to starve and eventually die. There are many ways to gain food in Mewgenics but the most effective way to do it is to go on an adventure.
You can go on an adventure by placing 4 cats into the "adventure box" and departing. This will then allow you to class your cats, equip any weapons or armor you may have found around town or in previous adventures, and finally depart on your quest to find food, money, glory, and possibly even love!
The further you go in your quest, the more food you acquire. The harder the path you take, the more food you will find! Once you finish your quest, or find a shortcut home and decide your team has had enough, you'll return home with the food, money, and a few items you may have acquired. Everything you have will be placed in your house inventory.
Shelter:
Not only does your house protect your cats from the elements, but it also protects your extremely valuable pieces of furniture you'll hoard as the game progresses. Having stuff for your cats to interact with, sleep on, and stare blankly at for hours not only raises the happiness of your cat family but also has magical effects on them and even the world! But I'll hold that info for another blog post.
Companionship:
Each time you pass the day in Mewgenics, a stray cat will wander closer to your house and wait, crying outside for you to let them in. This will not only allow you to snatch up more heroes for your future adventures but will also allow you to offer companionship to your current cat family. Passing the day in the house hub will roll a few dice for you behind the scenes to figure out how well your current household gets along. It will also let you know if any of the cats "got busy" and if getting busy was successful enough to yield a kitten. Kittens are yet another way to make progress in Mewgenics, and we will talk in-depth about that in a future post.
Clean up:
Cats poop, and cleaning up after them is important. You don't want your starving cats eating poop for dinner... or do you? Clean-up is simple; click the poop you want to remove and poof, it's gone! And hey, you may get lucky and discover something valuable your cat had eaten without you realizing it!
And those are the basics of the house hub in Mewgenics. The house is currently still very much a work in progress but even in its bare bones form, it's been a huge game changer.
Just for shits and giggles, here's a side-by-side comparison of the original flash prototype of Mewgenics from 2013 compared to now.
I love this game,
-Edmund