Cat Bounty Hunter

What is it?

Play as a cat who has set out to make it big in the human world using your knowledge as a cat to run the best cat cafe in town!

Find your cat friends to join you in your endeavors!

Cat Bounty Hunter is A hybrid of a management game with a platformer in which the game is divided into two main cycles. The daytime cycle and the nighttime cycle.

The Daytime Cycle consists of a management sim, where we take care and manage a “cat cafe”. Shop Upgrades and character upgrades are available.

The Nighttime Cycle consists of platformer levels. Upon completing the level, we "recruit" the cat bounty to join the cafe. Each cat enables certain shop upgrades.

I was in charge of making and implementing all of the UI and designing/decorating the first level. One of my biggest challenges was actually the level select menu. It took me a little bit to figure out how to lock levels and unlock them based on the progress made, but also to “save” that progress. It felt so satisfying when I fixed my issues.

This game was definitely a learning lesson as our team had so many great ideas but we had to cut our ideas by a lot with time constraints. Making and decorating the forest level was probably my favorite part! I was so proud of myself when I decorated and made the forest on the first level. One thing that I was trying to prevent was seeing the “void”. It calls back to a previous game I made The Hungry Fox as we can see the void and I didn’t find it aesthetically pleasing. I made sure that no matter where one looked, the game didn’t feel out of place.