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Those of you familiar with my endless pile of pipe dreams may remember a decade or two gone when I wanted do develope a video game platform similar to the wii, and foremost in my mind was a world filled with post-apocolyptic anthropomorphic cat ninja and samaurai, and I was constantly asking random people I met what kind of cat martial artist they’d be, what colour fur, if they’d use weapons or claw and tooth, what sort of martial art style, and so on. Ever since I read the Tao of Pooh in high school and got turned onto the Taoist school of thought, I knew I wanted to make a book illustrating the great truths in the Tao Te Ching through cats, and call it the Meow Te Ching. 15 years, a degree, and a programming job later, I now have the skills to start to put that dream together, perhaps not on the grand scale as I might have initially invisioned, but that’s all right. The past few weeks, in the spare time between when the boy’s asleep and I am, I have been hacking away at teaching myself some Adobe Flash Actionscript, and here is about where I’ve got to, so far. This demo is just the mechanics of moving this cat around with the left and right arrows, and jumping using a mouse click coz kittehs have very precise jump mechanics that I felt should be reflected in the game. Anyway thought I’d share, this is exciting for me (I coded it all up myself from scratch) but really the first hurdle of many to come: make a cat jump and run about. This is literally the cornerstone of this project (technically that little white ball is the cornerstone but that’s neither here nor there). But this is fun(ish) for me and I have a lot of serious work to do for serious projects before I can go squander more time on this, but it’s very satisfying to get my foot in the door!

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