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Daymare Cat 10-year Anniversary Edition

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"Daymare Cat is a gorgeously sketched exploratory platformer that feels like a simple adventure game. The platforming here isn’t particularly challenging, but almost every hand-drawn scene is worth witnessing." - said some by now non-existent indie game review website in 2013.

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The main character of this game is Cat Jahnke, and I'm not talking about the in-game little girl, but the singer and songwriter, who created the song that this game is all about. This is the reason why this particular game stands out in my catalogue of games. Hats off to you, Cat. Let's just hope that you're right in the song, and things will finally get better.

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Meanwhile, it's 2023. How is it possible that it's been 10 years already... Daymare Cat is the ancestor of Slice of Sea, one could even say that it was the foundation of Seaweed's game. Cat is the OG.

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This game needed some major upgrading, since its release my gamedev art direction and workflow changed drastically. Things that are new in this Anniversary Edition:

  • The game is in glorious 60 fps and plays in full screen.
  • Most noticeably the game has new background texture. This might be a bit controversial take, but in my opinion this improves the vibe.
  • Interactive items have a color. Yes. A color.
  • Cat now runs like a ballerina, not a raptor. Thank god.
  • Platforming is a bit easier thanks to hitbox tweaking but also by redrawing platforms in few places, for reference check the main gate.
  • I added a new pathway for you in case you have a fear of being eaten alive by a cosmic horror monster and really don't want to do this part. So now you can go around it.
  • No changes were done to the music, since it's already perfection.

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Enjoy and let me know your thoughts about changes made!

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This game was so awesome and introduced me to cat's music. Thanks for the remake I love this!

Neat stuff! Unfortunately I haven't played the original Daymare Cat so I'm missing out on the sense of nostalgia as well as a point of comparison for changes made between versions, but it was still interesting to see this piece of history as a newcomer!

Overall I thought it was a decent short and sweet experience, but if I were to be rough, I'd say that the game is largely carried by its vibes, as while the art style and music are very cool, the game itself is pretty ho-hum, being short in length with janky feeling platforming and no real sense of puzzles or challenge. Perhaps this is unfair as I'm comparing it to games nowadays instead of back then. But then again, those vibes and their sense of mystique did push me all the way through the game, so hey, it was clearly enough, and I enjoyed seeing the music come together with the ending cinematic!

I'll have to check out Slice of Sea sometime!

Well this was a cool little game, idk what daymare is ill check it out

Love the game! can't find the last disk player.

Love this game along with the Daymare Town series!

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