New Cat

New Cat is my capstone project for the MIT xPRO Professional Certificate in game design.

My goal for this game was to make something creepy and unsettling, while also having very systems-driven gameplay, which I think is a bit of a rarity in horror games (especially in the lo-fi indie scene on itch.io).

The overall system structure is a lot like keeping a sim alive in The Sims, albeit with a lot more hidden information and crunchy pixelation. As the day wears on, the cat's demands will become more frequent, forcing the player to juggle multiple tasks back to back and mitigate disaster.