A common question we get when we talk about Mewgenics or show in-game screenshots is, "What happened to hoarding and breeding cats in your house and collecting furniture?"
The short answer to that is, that's all still in and a foundational element of the game, but for this blog post, I'll dive into the long answer.
This is your home in Mewgenics!
Pretty basic, an empty, rundown, abandoned shack with a few cats in it. But with some effort, that little shack could grow into something like this!
Or even THIS!
The House
The house hub is where the action happens, not only because that's where the cats get it on, but it's also where time exists. I've gone over it in a previous post many months ago, so I'll do a quick recap of how the house hub works.
See those numbers up there? The meat is how many units of food you currently have; the cat head shows how many cats currently live in your house. If you click pass day, each cat in your house will consume 1 unit of food, it becomes night, a simulation will run to see what cats mated/had babies, got into fights, or experienced something worth noting, then the next day starts.
This day/night cycle will push you through weeks, months, seasons, and even years as you play. But more on that later, let's go over the house HUD real quick.
Furniture Tab
This tab will put you in "edit mode" and allow you to click and drag the many pieces of furniture you've collected on your adventures or purchased at "Jack's Shack", allowing you to tetris together the perfect hoarder house filled to the brim with magical furniture that will change the cats living in that room into the perfect monstrosity.
Examine Cat Mode
This tab will help you get more detailed info on whatever cat you are holding in your house. This makes it a lot easier to parse through your growing army to form the perfect party for your next adventure, or maybe you just want to find out the best breeding combo so you can lock them in the attic and pray they don't end up killing one another when someone makes a move...
Item Storage
This tab opens up to show you your current item collection. A few items you collect on your adventure can be stored here for future use. This will help greatly for trying to collect item sets as well as storing that sweet shotgun for any possible home invasions. The storage may look tiny now, but much like everything in Mewgenics, this too can be greatly upgraded over time. You just gotta know the right person to talk to...
The Map
This tab opens up your local map. Not only will this tab allow you to visit local shops with ease, but it will also show the current favor earned from each NPC as well as alert of any of them that may want to have a word with you. What is favor, you ask? Well, it's simply how much an NPC likes you. Each time you do an NPC a solid, or send them a specific type of cat over the course of the game, their favor will go up, and each time you meet a specific threshold of favor, that NPC will "give you something". For example, Frank is a great contractor! Don't let his hump throw you; this thing is very good with a hammer... sounds like a threat, and maybe it is. But if you are in need of an attic, extra bedroom, or whatever, tending to the needs of Frank is where you wanna be.
That about covers the basics of the house hub, so I'll just leave you with this gif of some ragdoll physics.
-Edmund