Cardboard Kitty by DylanBrowne
Cardboard Kitty is a simple and playful adventure platformer game made by myself and my daughter Alyx (She’s 8). Embark on a cute adventure in a world of cardboard and authentic drawn characters.
Cardboard Kitty was created in Unreal Engine 5.6 (UE5-Main) and makes extensive use of the new MegaLights feature set along with Lumen, Nanite etc.
Alyx Drew all the sprites and designed the quests, I did all the 3D art & logic.
Other Programs used: Houdini, Audacity.
Requires a GPU that supports Shader Model 6
Controls:
Move - A, D
Jump - Space
Interact - E
Menu - M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2eaBHtnDhw
I opted out of the Audio category as the background music I grabbed from here: https://freesound.org/people/nomiqbomi/sounds/579523/
All other sounds though were recorded by us this weekend.
| Link | https://dylserx.itch.io/cardboard-kitty |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/cardboard-kitty |
Ratings
| Overall | 117th | 4.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 277th | 3.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 122th | 3.886⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 343th | 3.913⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 9th | 4.75⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 137th | 3.833⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 138th | 4.065⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Great idea of making a cardboard theater! A shocking experience to see this in an LD jam.
The cardboard world with the characters drawn on them is super charming and the lighting is gorgeous!
ещё был то ли баг, то ли так задумано. но после ухода от кота и собаки в самом начале - не видно куда идёт главный персонаж, парочку раз умерла из-за этого( после разговора с пришельцем - камера встала в статичное обычное положение. также не хватило возможности выйти в меню и отредачить звуки.
НО ГРАФИКА И ЗАДУМКА НЕРЕАЛЬНО КРУТЫЕ!! Я ОЧЕНЬ ВОСХИЩЕНА!! 10/10
It was so cute & so well made.
The cardboard setting, hand drawn pictures and death sounds were definitely my favorite.
Also, I'm not very good at platformers so saving my spot was a nice touch!
Great job!
I don't know Unreal Engine and I would like know more about the process to create all the the cardboard decor. Is it prefab or have you created it from photos ?
Keep up the good work to you two ❤️❤️❤️
The cardboard meshes are all procedural created in Houdini, I spat out a bunch of variations for each shape from there.
Cheers!
Digitally, in a jam? (tick)
Backlit with handdrawn art? This deserves a lot of attention - well done indeed! :)