Cat's Out Of The Bag: Mew-Genics

Bits and pieces of genetically modified cats have been spilling out of Team Meat's web-gullet for a few months now but the most recent hairball of information catapulted onto the blog contains the clearest description of the game to date. It's a "Cat Lady Sim", with a cut-away of a house crawling with felines, each of which has a unique appearance, set of stats and personality. I'd imagine quite a few of them have catastrophic diseases of one sort or another as well.

I think most would describe Mew-Genics as a cross between The Sims and Pokemon with a sprinkling of Animal Crossing and a dash of Tamagotchi , but at its core the game really isn't like anything we've seen before.

The retelling of a session with the game explains more.

McMillen reckons Mew-Genics is the most complex game he has ever worked on and the scenario described in the blog certainly intrigues. Here's an excerpt:

Sadly Champ wasn't up to snuff and Puddle made this obvious by repeatedly kicking him in the face, I separated them quickly by putting champ in the attic but when I tried to feed him.. something odd happened. See, Champ was a dullard and when Puddle kicked him he just happened to also be eating and now associated the trauma with food instead of Puddle herself, he was scared of all food.. and sadly died in the attic shortly after.

It's Little Computer Cats, with the expected McMillen dark side. Oh, and don't worry about running out of critters - the catalogue of cats in the game currently stands at 25418658283290000000000000.