Second patch and Steam release!

Hello Cat friends! Thank you all so much for playing my little cat adventure 😻

I have just updated the game (version 2024-03-16)! This update is much bigger than the first one

Here’s a list of what’s new:

• New music: A new track for the pancake party + credits
• New animation: Cat throw flour on rock wall
• New animation: Cat plants onion seed
• Cat stretch animation in intro is now longer. Bigger stretch!
• New NPC in the starting area that you must talk to before you can enter the cave (to improve the tutorial)
• Butter no longer has a B on it, avoiding confusion with B on XBox controllers.
• Performance improvements and stutter fixes. Game now runs much smoother on displays that update faster than 60 hz.
• The font rendering has been improved a lot. The text in the game now looks much nicer (live stream of me doing this)
• Added an extra indicator for which dialogue option is currently selected, making it less confusing when there are 2 options.
• You can now use any gamepad connected to the computer.
• Both 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions are now supported.
• Fix crash on Windows when changing audio output
• Fix for occasional bug where THE CAT let go of walls for no reason
• Made keyboard button hints during dialoge tutorial look consistent
• Fix for rocket fire glitch when flying up to oak tree
• Minor dialogue changes, some lines have been replaced and the order of some dialogue options have been changed.
• There’s now an option to toggle fullscreen mode.
• The camera zoom no longer changes when you are in the pause menu.
• Make game playable even at really low framerates
• Fixed UI blinking when you jump into onion.
• The mountain next to the second oak now looks better if you see past it
• You can no longer loop the “what have you done?!” convo with the flour tree
• Keyboard ‘put away’ portrait binding now looks like the rest of the bindings.
• You now have to talk to Squirrel before being able to smack the tree, this makes sure you don’t miss vital information regard your quest.
• Fixed some interaction distances. You can no longer pour out water or smack the angry door from too far.
• Cat portraits are better positioned.
• Fix for 2 px pixel snap when jumping into rocket in front of second oak.
• Added a checkpoint that gets saved just after picking up egg.
• Mac version now uses the correct type of fullscreen mode.
• Removed invisible block outside the impossible house.
• Some additional small fixes that I forgot to write down.

The source code has also been updated with the latest changes.

Steam Release

The reason for the big update above is that I have released the game on Steam! As I was collecting wishlists for the Steam release I decided to do the fixes in this patch. Now the Steam and Itch versions are more or less the same. The only thing the Steam version has that the Itch version doesn’t have is achievements.

Here’s my Steam release trailer, which is different from the one here on itch:

The Steam version has, just like the Itch version, gotten some very lovely reviews. They are very heartwarming to read. Thank you everyone! 😻

Here’s a link to the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781210/CAT__ONION/

The future

CAT & ONION is pretty much done at this point. I will soon move on to new projects! If you are interested in following along on that journey, then please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@karl_zylinski

On there you’ll find:

• CAT & ONION development live streams
• Deep dive videos on select gamedev topcs
• Beginner tutorials on how to make games using Odin + Raylib

Thanks again, have a wonderful day! 💖 /Karl