Don’t Find The Kitty

July 19th, 2008 by Jamey | Posted in Development, Don't Find The Kitty, First release, Games |

I was going through a tutorial on PlayBASIC, making fun little programs to practice what I was learning, when one caught my attention.  It was a simple program that printed out a bunch of random ASCII characters in random colors.  From there, it just kept getting bigger and bigger…

So I’m proud to announce and release my first-ever fully coded indie game!

I know it isn’t much at all, but it was fun to make, and I learned a whole hell of a lot during the process.  It’s based on a game I played a long time ago, with my own little swing to the theme.  The name is Don’t Find The Kitty, and the premise is to not find the kitty.  After each game, it will save a text file in the folder listing your playthrough.  This file will be overwritten each time, so if you want to save it for some reason, just rename it or pull it from the folder.

Part of DFTK relies on animal names and adjectives.  I realize I need many, many more to get a good output, but it works just fine right now.  If you want to add your own adjectives and animals to the game, I’d love to oblige.  Just email me a list or reply to this post if you feel the urge.

Development time: About 7 weeknights, maybe 1 1/2 to 2 hours per night

Link: Don’t Find The Kitty

I’ll leave this post with my latest capture file.

Captures by Jamey – 13:49:03 – 20 Jul 2008

|2| – relevant mollusk
|-| – serious pelican
|s| – sultry finch
|d| – middle-income earning snail
|L| – vengeful bluebird
|N| – relieved dodongo
|W| – sultry krill
|U| – jubilant hornet
|u| – broken turkey
|x| – cohesive dodongo
|e| – satiated gnu
|a| – mute lobster
|N| – serious rook
|B| – ornery echidna
|N| – famished hedgehog
|E| – pluralistic butterfly
|j| – petrified salamander
|3| – depraved snail
|H| – ameliorated hedgehog
|i| – perpendicular monitor
|j| – engaged polar bear
|E| – welcoming zebu
|;| – spinning zebrafish
|*| – satisfied coral snake
|3| – petrified mole
|=| – alienated weevil
|6| – idependent narwhal
|k| – interesting fly
|0| – engaged kiwi
|_| – heterochromatic hedgehog
|5| – matted lobster
|X| – award-winning manatee
|<| – aggravated bumblebee
|a| – bummed out koala
|A| – rambunctious chinchilla
|i| – nervous buffalo
|Y| – rancid monitor
|z| – uncursed shark
|i| – prehensile finch
|3| – envious camel
|F| – cursed buffalo

|L|
You found the kitty.
He was broken.

Score: 41