In Calico, a magical lady can use magic (duh) to develop an extraordinary cat to the scale of a horse so she will be able to experience it whereas one other, smaller wobbly physics cat rides on her head. There’s additionally one thing about managing a magical village’s cat cafe, however that appears secondary to what I simply mentioned about cat-stacks. Developed by CatBean Games and over midway funded after one day on Kickstarter, I’m fairly certain this game is precision engineered to enchantment to my softer facet. I’ve been following its improvement for some time, and it seems like a daft, fluffy gem. See the Kickstarter trailer beneath.
On prime of trying lovely, most issues in Calico’s world are physics-driven, together with the cats, canines, raccoons and all the opposite animals you can pet and play with. Cats flop round bonelessly on the bottom as they solar themselves, and wiggle adorably while you determine to put on them as hats. The cafe administration facet of the game seems to emphasize feel-good antics over number-crunching, so that you’ll get to manually beautify the truffles you promote, and accumulate tons of toys for the cats to amuse themselves with. Other animals are welcome, although – they point out putting canine beds on your canine buddies.
Above all, Calico seems like an enormous, tender, fluffy sandbox stuffed with animals to fulfill and pet, like a lower-impact, cuddly Animal Crossing. Considering how quickly the game has been funded thus far, it might appear that there’s an viewers hungry for that. The game’s magical facet seems to be constructing on it – the More-To-Pet potion as one instance, letting you flip any animal right into a rideable, extra-cuddly big for some time. They’ve additionally proven off magic brooms to experience, and I’m certain they’ll have a number of extra artistic concepts by launch. Or you’ll be able to simply change to spectator mode in your cafe and watch the cats frolic.
After just one day on Kickstarter, Calico is already $19,541 (£14,873) funded, with a purpose of $29,995 (£22,830). If all goes nicely, the game will launch in April subsequent yr, and $13 (£10, roughly) will get you a duplicate of the game when it’s accomplished. You can see extra of the game on its official page, and the developer’s GIF-laden twitter feed. Even the glitches are cute.
