It's high time this game got a thread.
Homepage -
http://mewgenics.com/RPS Articles -
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/25/cats-out-of-the-bag-mew-genics/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/21/ridiculon-the-mew-sic-of-mew-genics/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/17/cat-ching-up-with-mew-genics/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/05/kitty-kharacters-mew-genics-hints/http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/22/curiosity-rebuilds-the-cat-mew-genics/A Team Meat Blog post about the game -
http://supermeatboy.com/141/Mew_Genics_/#bCaturdays! -
http://mewgenics.com/147/Its_Caturday_again_/#bRelease date: Not right maow. (Earlyish 2014. Cats do what they want, when they're damn well ready to!)
So WTF is Mewgenics? According to Team Meat:
I think most would describe Mew-Genics as a cross between The Sims and Pokemon with a sprinkling of Animal Crossing and a dash of Tamagotchi , but at its core the game really isn't like anything we've seen before.
Mew-Genics revolves around Cats, obviously. We knew tending to these cats in a simulated "cat lady" environment would be the foundation of our design, but the core of what we are trying to do is make a game that feels alive, a game that creates stories as you play where consequences actually mean something...
Perhaps you like your game pitches in comic format instead?
It's a game wherein you collect cats and breed them. A fairly simple premise but with big implications, especially in the hands of Team Meat. In the best tradition of Creatures and other AI Life games, cats have genetic code that gets passed down through successive generations, affecting everything from appearance to behavior. Cats also have personalities that can be modified based on the circumstances of their existence. For example:
Last week I was playing a game with Puddle, a fat female cat I had been working on earlier that day, I thawed her out of her Cryo-cube and placed her in my current single story house along with her newly generated companion Champ. I had been focusing my time on Puddle due to the fact that she seemed to have a very unique tail that I believe had helped her place 2nd in a cat pageant in a previous and I needed to breed her so I could continue her bloodline before she got too old. Sadly Champ wasn't up to snuff and Puddle made this obvious by repeatedly kicking him in the face, I separated them quickly by putting champ in the attic but when I tried to feed him.. something odd happened. See, Champ was a dullard and when Puddle kicked him he just happened to also be eating and now associated the trauma with food instead of Puddle herself, he was scared of all food.. and sadly died in the attic shortly after.
In addition to raising them, breeding and tampering with their genetic code, you can enter cats into beauty pageants, fights, races or you can stuff them into a Cryo-cube, to revive them later for breeding or to perhaps cure them of a terminal illness. Read the blog, it goes into further details. Something about feline aids and going to jail for animal abuse. Also, I guess there's some sort of collection mini-game and some chick named Nona who needs saving. Whatever. MEOW.
According to the RPS article, there are approximately 25,418,658,283,290,000,000,000,000 cats in the system so far. Dat's a lot of kitties, enough to ensure you won't encounter duplicates for a long, long time.
Seems like the cat will be out of the bag soon.....
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Topic: Mewgenics - Cats! SCIENCE?! Adventure!.....The cats came back 10 years later. (Read 27692 times)