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Bear Lobster

Wandering the wild and rocky coast-lines of the world, the Bear Lobsters are a species of crustacean with the size and appetite of a bear. Or a car. Except cars don't have appetites, and lobster cars would be absurd. But I digress. Bear lobsters live underwater, but hunt on land - looking for fruit, nuts, and mushrooms to supplement their diet of ocean flotsam. They come out at night to find chanterelles and raid fruit trees, then slip back under the waves before anyone's the wiser. Also garbage. They love to get into garbage. And compost. They're pretty gross, actually. They're rare and solitary beings that travel up creeks and rivers to access orchards further inland. With creeping urbanization, they're beginning to take up residence in city sewer systems with easy access to good dumpsters and bad cinema. But fear not! They're quite friendly, and sometimes carry rare treasures and stories from the far ocean deeps. Befriending an ocean lobster is good for everyone concerned, whilst angering it will make it spit foam and chase you, and nobody has time for that kind of nightmare.  Want to be a part of this nonsense? Follow @catsdanger on Twitter and @dangercatsgame on Instagram to get interactive! Remember: your interactions with the game and the community will directly affect how I write subsequent episodes and build the world. Come be a part!  Go check out Danger Cats: Night One for free at http://bradcollins.itch.io Follow dangercatsgame.tumblr.com (this page) for updates, articles, development journals, lore, and the other stuffs and things.Support my work and check out my other projects here: Blog The Bradcast Prints Patreon Social Media:Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Instagram

Danger cats is now on Instagram! Do you like lo-fi pixel graphics? Surreal, experimental novels? Interactive comic books? Pictures of cats?

Well, what are you doing reading this nonsense? Find Danger Cats on Instagram @dangercatsgame. Follow for screenshots fresh out of the oven as I write and draw them. And remember, your comments, likes, and interactions may change the course of the story as it develops! Go check it out! Exclamation point!  

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Kabuki Apple

Kabuki Apples are a kind of boulder-sized fruit, famous for their huge volume and the strange faces that grow on them.

Kabuki apples begin on trees, but are carefully treated, tended, and shaped using a series of secret, mystical techniques.

Grown by rare, specialist farmers for food or cider, some families have tended some orchards for centuries.

The rarest of the rare specimens of kabuki apple are grown by true masters into specimens of unusual size, colour, and character.

Kabuki Cider

Kabuki Apples were originally grown by ginger monks during the warring states period as a sort of meditative art form. It’s said that they were taught the way in secret by the Tengu of the mountains.

Legend holds that a famous swordsman returning from battle wanted to drink his reserve of sake dry in celebration of a great victory. Unfortunately, he’d done this a number of times now and had run completely out.

The swordsman’s steward, knowing his master was soon to return, issued a reward of one century of rice to anyone who could satisfy his lord with drink.

A ginger monk of that province offered to turn his kabuki apples into cider, but warned that if his lord should drink too much therefrom, he would be blinded in one eye from it.

The steward knew he’d have to commit ritual suicide rather than face the shame of letting his master’s victory go imperfectly celebrated, so paid the monk his rice and filled his master’s store with cider.

On returning home, the lord and all his riders, swordsmen, archers, and ninjas feasted and drank the red sun up. The bonfire they built could be seen from afar by the twin gods of thunder and lightning, and the DJ they got was totally sweet.

The next day, all who partook of the cider were struck blind with a blank eye.

The monk visited the lord some days after, and explained to him that he could recover his sight by performing a task in service to one of his men, and that his men could recover their sight by performing a task in service to others.

In that month, an army went out to tend gardens, build bridges, fix roads, protect farms, bring bandits to justice, recover lost treasures, feed the poor, care for the sick, and apologize to women.

Soon they had recovered their sight, and the ginger monk became an honoured member of a famous court in a golden generation.

In his later writings on the 47 articles of strategy, the monk admitted that the blindness goes away on its own after a couple of days.

Gruntfuttock Cider Farm

BlackBerry Hill’s famous cider farm has been in the production of kabuki apple cider for the last century.

Gruntfuttock Farm was originally a homestead tended by potato dwarves, but was purchased by ginger gnomes some decades later. It retains its original name in part because ginger gnomes don’t always use words to communicate and therefore view the name as something like a tree or a rock that came with the land.

The same family of ginger gnomes that settled that side of the hill to grow apples still resides there, making and selling batch after batch of their cider in traditional blind demon faced flasks.

Fujisan

“Mister Fuji” is the name of the prize winning kabuki apple at Gruntfuttock farm. Named for the iconic Japanese mountain, the apple has unfortunately been hollowed out and vandalized by a gang of bikers from the underground highways of Ratterdam.

Ataru Moroboshi

“Struck by a Falling Star” is the name of the national blue ribbon winner for “most shocked expression”.

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How to Play

Danger Cats: Night One has been out for a little while now, and I’m still catching up on explaining it.

For starters, I’m going to give you a rundown of the basics.

Actually, there’s not much more than basics to go on. There’s no special hadouken punches to memorize or skills to upgrade. Its just a few pixel drawings so primitive they’re almost abstract and stack after stack of dialogue.

That’s intentional. I don’t want a lot of clutter between the player and the words.

It’s meant to be as simple to get into as a comic book, but interactive. Mobile friendly and easy to access. Quick to write.

Manual

Navigate the world with the arrow keys on your keyboard or with the touch screen on your mobile device.

Interact by walking into objects, characters, prompts and pickups.

Walk into doors, screen edges, and other exits to move to the next scene. 

If you’ve picked up an item, it may change interactions with some objects and characters elsewhere.

Play with anything and everything that stands out to you. If it glows a different colour, if it moves, if it looks out of place, try it out.

There are secrets everywhere and clues to find them. Some are obvious. Some are hiding.

Night One is finished, and you can play it right here for free. As I continue to work on subsequent episodes, I’ll keep writing about it and how you can be a part of it. Want to be a part? Follow @catsdanger on Twitter and get interactive!

Go check out Danger Cats: Night One for free at http://bradcollins.itch.io

Follow dangercatsgame.tumblr.com (this page) for updates, articles, development journals, lore, and the other stuffs and things. 

Support my work and check out my other projects here: Blog  The Bradcast  Prints  Patreon

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The Twittercock

The Twittercock is a special breed of fowl that repeats the calls it hears from other worlds.

It’s like a shuttlecock, but for twitter, and not at all like a shuttlecock. It’s just fun to say, really.

In Night One you can find the Twittercock to the south of the mailboxes taking in a view of lunatic bridge from the cliff.

The Twittercock doesn’t have much to say yet, but the next time you find him, he’ll have all sorts of jokes and messages and shout-outs from the Danger Cats community to share.

The more active the community, the more the Twittercock will have to say each time.

Think of him as a community journalist, or a gossipmonger, or however he comes across. He might seem like a different kind of character depending where you find him, and depending on what kind of tidbits he’s hearing from beyond the veil.

This is all kind of an experiment, and I haven’t set any hard/fast rules. It’s an interactive performance piece like much of the game, so I’m eager to see what develops rather than trying to shape it.

Want to be a part? Follow @catsdanger on Twitter and get interactive!

Go check out Danger Cats: Night One for free at http://bradcollins.itch.io

Follow @catsdanger on Twitter to get interactive!

Follow dangercatsgame.tumblr.com (this page) for updates, articles, development journals, lore, and the other stuffs and things.

Support my work and check out my other projects here:

Blog

The Bradcast

Prints

Patreon

Social Media:

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Night One

Night one has been released and you can play it for free, right here!

So what is it?

Danger Cats is an interactive graphical adventure that synthesizes my favorite elements of comic storytelling in a retro pixel-art package.

Night One introduces us to Tom Dangercat, a burglar sneaking around the sleepy village of Blackberry Hill on a quest for rare comic books.

How to Play:

First of all, go to http://bradcollins.itch.io

Next, select Danger Cats: Night One and run game!

It’s really simple to play. Just use your directional arrows (keyboard) or drag your finger across the screen (smart phone).

Move Tom from scene to scene. Interact with any object that stands out to you by walking into it. Try everything! Try it twice! Each episode is jam packed with all sorts of absurdities.

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Ahoy! Welcome to the work journal for Danger Cats. 

Part comic book, part role-playing game - Danger Cats is some kind of weird narrative experiment I’m releasing issue by issue in chapter-sized bites as quickly as I can produce them.

This work journal will help me document that process and give me a place to lay out some fun ways in which the community can interact with the development of each chapter. 

Keeping it minimal makes it faster to develop. Instead of spending weeks on graphics, I can develop each chapter as fast as I can write it. That and I actually enjoy the aesthetic. It’s part of the soul of the project. 

Exploration is highly encouraged. Reading the dialogue is what it’s all about, and exploring each concept offered by the game might lead you deeper into hidden scenes you might have otherwise missed. It’s not about scoring points, but about taking a swim in a weird, unpredictable, multi-layered interactive narrative full of secrets and subtext. 

The first chapter is very nearly ready for launch. Danger Cats: Night One will be free for everyone to play, but subsequent chapters will be behind a tiny pay barrier.  A guy’s gotta eat. 

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