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   Konstantinos Dimopoulos (konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 16:03:38 JST Konstantinos Dimopoulos

   'How the animation of Little Kitty, Big City rejects realism to achieve authenticity' by Micah Breitweiser https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/deep-dive-how-little-kitty-big-city-rejects-realism-to-achieve-authenticity

   #animation #gamedev

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 16:03:37 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     @konstantinosd As an aside, and I don't mean it as a criticism (I liked the game and gave it a thumbs up on Steam), my Steam review from a few days ago literally says, as part of a comparison: "Stray portrays an actual cat. Little Kitty, Big City represents the popular fantasy / stereotype of a cat". To me as someone who's been around cats for 30+ years it's obvious this isn't a "real" cat (and there's nothing wrong with that).

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     Konstantinos Dimopoulos (konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 18:27:14 JST Konstantinos Dimopoulos

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     • Jacek Wesołowski

     @jzillw Very much noted!

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     Christiaan Moleman (ninjadodo@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 20:50:10 JST Christiaan Moleman

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     • Jacek Wesołowski

     @jzillw @konstantinosd I think that's only true visually. In Stray the player LOOKS (and moves) like a cat but does not behave like a cat at all... A cat would not understand these robots, search their apartments to find lost diaries and read and understand English graffiti (through the eyes of the player) and then act on that. It's like you're playing a human possessing a cat.

     For all its cartooniness, Little Kitty seems to be much more about just being a cat doing cat things.