Bebop the cat loves jazz and hates pop, too bad his owner took him to world-famous music festival, Floatchella! Help Bebop escape using your thumbs in this point-and-click text adventure!

Incompatible genres: pop / jazz, point-and-click adventure / text adventure, cats / music festivals, obviously.

This was an experiment in exploring how narrative storytelling and game design structures can be impacted by conflicting themes. We are particularly interested in a user's experience on the other side of the screen- both as a player and from the entertainment standpoint.

Check it out: https://donshinski.itch.io/bebops-breakout

Bebop the cat loves jazz and hates pop, too bad his owner took him to world-famous music festival, Floatchella! Help Bebop escape using your thumbs in this point-and-click text adventure!

In this first version, you’ll only have to solve one puzzle to win, but the idea is to ultimately build out a grand adventure.

https://donshinski.itch.io/bebops-breakout

The Idea

This was an experiment in exploring how narrative storytelling and game design structures can be impacted by conflicting themes. We are particularly interested in a user’s experience on the other side of the screen- both as a player and from the entertainment standpoint.

Incompatible Genres

pop / jazz point-and-click adventure / text adventure cats / music festivals, obviously. To start, we decided to run full-throttle with the theme - and using it to add an element of the game that would not only be completely non-sensical, but also challenge the user’s patience. A point-and-click text adventure introduced an interesting problem - how do we get players to stay engaged when presented with absurd gameplay?

Enter: worlds cutest cat.

Bebop the cat loves jazz and hates pop, too bad his owner took him to world-famous music festival, Floatchella! Help Bebop escape using your thumbs in this point-and-click text adventure!

Play the html5 ver here: https://donshinski.itch.io/bebops-breakout!

In this first version, you’ll only have to solve one puzzle to win, but the idea is to ultimately build out a grand adventure.

This was an experiment in exploring how narrative storytelling and game design structures can be impacted by conflicting themes. We are particularly interested in a user’s experience on the other side of the screen- both as a player and from the entertainment standpoint.

Incompatible Genres

pop / jazz point-and-click adventure / text adventure cats / music festivals, obviously.