press c to cat

A few weeks ago I visited the A MAZE./Berlin Festival. Apart from showing Catcher and talking to lots of other indie devs, I also visited the #weirdkids workshop on digital improvisation and made a weird glitch art thing with the base projects they gave us. Proudly presenting:

press c to cat

press c to cat screenshot

press c to cat
press d to dance
press f to frenzy!

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press e to exhibit

When Fernando and Christoffer told me to give them a build after the workshop, I thought it would be shown in a presentation for a few seconds. Instead, I later found out that it was shown in the cellar exhibition. So cool!

press c to cat at the cellar exhibition!
press c to cat at the cellar exhibition!
A cute little explaination sign
A cute little explaination sign

press c to cat wasn’t made for long exhibitions at all though – the cats spawned automatically, but never despawned! So soon, it looked like this, with no cats recognizable anymore, haha.

Despawn? Ha! Nope.
Despawn? Ha! Nope.

press r to react

When I entered the exhibition space, there were lots of people sitting in a circle in front of the exhibits – and it turns out they all had wondered about this strange cat game that seemingly contained no cats, only glitchy geometry. I restarted it – and finally they saw the cat and went “Ooooh”, haha. It was awesome!

After the festival, I got some reviews on Twitter too:

Casual catting was epic!!- Ida Marie Toft

great stuff. i couldn’t stop catting…- Sabine Harrer

hold f for fanfiction!

Also, lying next to the monitor, I found the BEST THING EVER – a short fanfiction!

Fanfiction!
Fanfiction!

Responsible for this lovely work of poetry are Titouan Millet, Max Cahill and Michal Marcinkowski. The first piece of fanfiction I ever received! Thanks a lot, guys!

hold c to credit

  • Idea and messing with stuff: Tobias Wehrum
  • Music: Moritz Ufer
  • Aaaall of the other assets (and a lot of the code) is from the weirdkids workshop!