Mewgenics News

[h3]Here it is! the Mewgenics release date trailer by Meat Canyon![/h3][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]Did you watch it? Because I'm not posting the release date here! You gotta fucking watch the trailer![/p][p]HUGE thanks to Hunter, Nik, basementperson, and the rest of the team who did a really killer job on it![/p][p]....[/p][p]You watched it, right? You didn’t just skip down to see the date? Because I just said I'm not posting it outside of the trailer itself, so just watch it and stop looking here for it![/p][p][/p][p]Ok now the dev blog![/p][p][/p][p]What is left dev-wise? Well let me update you![/p][p][/p]

• [p]The final boss is drawn and half animated—he/she/it will hopefully be implemented by the end of the month![/p]
• [p]We’ve started adding hard path rewards and random gen items for said rewards (this is very cool stuff!).[/p]
• [p]Lots of new cutscenes were added! We have 4 large cutscenes and 6 small cutscenes to go![/p]
• [p]We went ahead and had Ridiculon add 3 more tracks to the game for some extra late-game spice![/p]
• [p]Next week we start to implement alt/shiny furniture! (This is also very cool!)[/p]
• [p]Big secret late-game system has been fully implemented![/p][p][/p]

[p]The question on your mind is probably...[/p][p]“Well if all this stuff is getting done so fast, what is taking all this extra time for release!?!”[/p][p][/p][p]Calm down! Let me explain! This is what we’ll be working on for the next 4 months:[/p]

• [p]Making sure all text is 100% finished and NPC stories/dialogue is completed so we can send it to our localizers and launch in more than a few languages.[/p]
• [p]Heavily testing the game so not only is the game’s difficulty smoother, but also to polish and add any missing effects/visuals/sfx... because there are A LOT of moving parts to this and we want our attention to detail to show.[/p]
• [p]Finishing the remaining Mutations and Items—there are still 100+ left of each to add in.[/p]
• [p]Fluffing up the events. Now that we know what this game is, we can start implementing custom events that not only complement the story but also utilize mechanics we’ve added recently.[/p]
• [p]General polish—tons of little extras that not only make the experience cooler but also smooth out any UI or mechanical issues our testers have run into.[/p]
• [p]More Cutscenes![/p]

[p][/p][p]“But then why not just launch in Nov?!?!”[/p][p][/p][p]Dude, listen. Launching in Nov–Dec is hard. We want this game to get the attention it deserves and don’t want to compete with holidays and holiday AAA releases. And honestly, adding a few more months to dev means launching with an even more heavily tested and polished experience![/p][p][/p][p]So bear with us! We know you wanna play, we want you to play! And starting at some point in Jan we’ll start doing live streams, or something? I dunno the details yet but I'm sure it’ll happen soon! Also more hands-on previews are in the works! And maybe even more trailers?! Who knows?![/p][p][/p][p]Oh also I remade the old Mewgenics comic... more on that next month.[/p][p][/p][p]Till then,[/p][p]PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND WISHLIST THE GAME! [/p][p]We really appreciate it![/p][p][/p][p]-Edmund[/p][p][/p]

"An endless Cat Breeding RPG from the creator of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy!" so reads the Mewgenics Steam page blurb...
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[h3]We will be announcing the release date of Mewgenics via a very spicy trailer from the one and only Meat Canyon, Sunday, June 8th at 12pm PST!![/h3]

But that’s not all!

[h3]We will be revealing this trailer
LIVE on the PC Gaming Show![/h3]
So be sure to mark your calendar and watch live with us!

Here is a single screenshot of the trailer...



We will be posting the trailer here shortly after the live show in case you miss it, don’t worry!

But anyway...

A lot of you have been bothering asking us to post full versions of two tracks we have half-spoiled via videos in the past. So here you go!

[h3]Flush (Sewers Track)[/h3]

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[h3]Lonesome Road (Desert Track)[/h3]

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This OST is so fucking good... there isn’t one track on it that I don’t totally love. Ridiculon usually uploads the spoiled tracks to their Bandcamp page, so feel free to check it out and throw ’em a bone! (They deserve it!)

A common question we get asked about Mewgenics is, "Can you break the game like in Isaac?" and our response is usually "Well duh!", but I thought I’d prove it by posting a tiny video of what one of our testers was able to achieve in a recent run (Thanks Eli!)

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So here’s what’s happening... Eli found a piece of armor that says each time you lose a Holy Shield (a shield effect that blocks all damage from one instance), fire sparkles at random enemies equal to the number of damage absorbed by the shield. Then he added in a piece of armor that doubles the effect of the first armor piece. Then, using another combo with his fighter, he was able to hit his own unit wearing that armor combo with a mega punch, essentially doubling his damage and spreading it out across the whole map with a single attack.

Mewgenics is cool. I’m excited to see what you guys do with it!

See you Sunday!
–Edmund

You guys wanted a video preview of how the game plays, well you got it!

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I think he liked it! Please go spread the word! scream it from the mountains!

We are slowly moving up the Steam Wishlist ranks, in the 170 range, so if you are seeing this and haven't wishlisted the game yet please do! We'd love to get into the top 100 by the end of summer so do us a favor and wishlist, it helps a ton for placement and pushes the game into the algorithm.

Next month we should have a release date locked in and hope to reveal it with the help of a very Meaty buddy of mine.. no not that one.. the other one!

See you soon!
-Edmund

Well hello again! it's been an interesting month on the dev side of mew! 

So the big news is that IGN came out to my home office last Friday to record footage for a "First Hands-On Preview". So the last 2 weeks of dev we pulled everyone off what they were actively working on to have them work on polish instead. Since this will be our first actual gameplay footage, we wanted it to look as smooth as possible. That meant tons of smooth and updated transitions, animations, UI polish, and short animations to establish the start and end of a run. 

Many of you may have noticed in videos and gifs, each run your team will be assigned a name, like The Fighting Fatties, or Tom and the Nerds. Well with the addition of the adventure intro, you now get to see its big reveal!



And if you happen to just take one or two cats out, the titles will change accordingly.



And like the boss vs screen, one cat will randomly say something from a pool of many things depending on their class… just for fun. 

The way we do team names depends on two cats the game feels best represent your team, then will assign an adjective and noun based on those cats' classes to become your official team name!
In testing we saw a lot of positive response to the team names, things cats say, and even the randomly chosen cat names. It's kind of crazy what a few names and words will do to paint a fun little picture of the cat's personality or the team's general theme.

Like the time Little Toad the dwarf finally got with the lady he was courting back home.



Or that time the "Untamed Backstabbers" all went insane and turned on one another...

Polish is fun, and we have a ton more to add, but I'm quite happy with what we got in for the IGN preview. Speaking of the preview, be on the lookout for it in the next 7–10 days! I'll toss it up where/when it's live. They played the game for almost 5 hours and it was extremely fun to watch, so here's hoping they enjoyed it as much as we did watching it!

our press/marketing strategy timeline is as follows (subject to change).

- May: IGN hands-on preview!
- June: A mini release date trailer.
- July-Aug: Tyler and I start doing monthly streams of the game.
- Sept+: Press pushes and maybe I'll remake the old mewgenics comic to hand out at cons?

Speaking of timelines, where are we now? here is a little list of the major things still on our plate for this year.

- Final boss is now fully drawn, and designed! just needs to be animated and implemented.
- 1.5 other bosses need to be fully animated and implemented.
- 1 late game boss needs to be implemented (otherwise complete)
- Rare alt furniture needs to be added (art is done, just needs to be added and tested) This will bring the furniture count above 1200.
- One late game core mechanic still needs to be implemented and tested (it's loosely implemented, just needs to be polished and heavily tested)
- 4 major cutscenes need to be animated and 4 minor ones.
- Cat mutations are nearly finished! (should be 100% by end of month)

Now it's time to address the big question on most of your minds.. is mewgenics releasing this year? if so what quarter?

So, just to be transparent this is our current thought process on a release.

Since late last year our target release was always going to be mid-late oct 2025. we hit a few minor snags along the way and at this point it's looking like an oct release is still possible if we crunch for the remaining months and maybe just push localization to post release.

BUT, what if we run into an issue?
What if multiple huge games release in oct and just suck the wind out of everything?
What if we crunch and a few people break and we can't make it?

As many of you know I've had a few rough launches and they were all tied to locking down a release date too early and then something bad happening that made crunch so grueling release became impossible... So while an Oct release is possible, I really don't think it's smart and I don't wanna risk 6 years of work on the possibility of a bad release...

So if not Oct then when? 

That's kind of where we are at this point... but in 30 days we have a much more clear picture of what's possible, lock down a hard release date and pop it in at the end of our next trailer!

i gotta get back to work!
see you next week with a much cooler update!

-Edmund

PS: i'll leave you with a few shots from our tester discord. we have a new channel just to show off your cats.. here are a few I can share.