FlatPonies - 🐱Wishlist Scratch The Cat Now!

🎮 Meet Jeppe Faber - programmer at FlatPonies! From audio systems to camera controls, he helps bring ‘Scratch the Cat’ to life 🐾

“Scratch is such a throwback to the games I played as a kid!”

👀 Read more: www.flatponies.com/news/behind-...
#indiegame #Platformer #ScratchTheCatGame

Step into a symphony of platforming! 🎧😼
In Scratch the Cat, each level is a musical world - 
🌴 Bounce through Arpeggio Archipelago
🏺 Swing through Rhythm Ruins
🌾 Strum through Bluegrass Fields
Jump to the beat - Land on the groove 🎶
#IndieGame #Platformer #ScratchTheCat

Welcome to The Hub - where beats power the city 🔋🎶
Scratch’s club connects to the heart of the world 🌎
As the music pumps, energy flows to all of Melotropolis 🌆
But when Snatch stole his records, the power cut out 🪫
Time to get the groove - and grid - back online 😼🎧
#gaming #gamelevel #3Dplatformer

🎮 Meet Christian Weatherley — Art Director at FlatPonies! From concept to level design, he shapes ‘Scratch the Cat’ 🐾

“At the start you aim for the stars. Once you prototype, you realize what’s important - and which ideas to keep or cut.”

🔗: flatponies.com/news/behind-the-screens-christian/

Style it up with Change the chameleon! 🦎
Unlock outfits 👕🩳 🎧 Show your vibe ✨
#ScratchTheCatGame #GameCustomization #IndieGame 🎮

You’ll meet a myriad of bosses in Scratch The Cat - but no one will be as noisy as King Gong 🐒🥁
Can you match his rhythm and outsmart his moves? 🎶 #indiegame #scratchthecatgame #bossmoves

Meet Nanna Lundin, the animator behind our game's expressive characters 🐎🎶

“Getting to animate for a world inspired by music is super exciting!”

🎮 Check out the full interview to discover why her pony is holding a leek 👀

🔗 www.flatponies.com/news/behind-...

#indiegame #animator #gaming

Jump, spin, scratch, REPEAT 🔁😼

#game #indiegame #ScratchTheCatGame

He’s optimized, stylized, and loyal to Skåne 💥
Meet the FlatPonies tech artist shaping explosions, splashes, and smoother gameplay!
🎧 Full interview: www.flatponies.com/news/behind-...
#GameDev #ScratchTheCat #IndieGames

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You can also wishlist on
🎮 PlayStation Store: store.playstation.com/concept/1001...
🐱🎧 Xbox Store: www.xbox.com/games/store/...

*record scratch* 💿
*taps mic* 🐾🎤

Hey #PitchYaGame — here’s: Scratch The Cat 🎧😼

🎮 Vibrant 3D platformer
🌍 Explore a musical world
💿 Collectathon fun!
🐾 Expressive feline moves

🧡 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/858200/S...
#IndieDev

😼 Get cat-apulted by fire geysers
🌱 Plant seeds to grow claw-mbable vines
🧶 Swing with purr-cision from ledge to ledge #scratchthecatgame #indiegame #catcore

Programmer Jesper Andersson (@bunkssss.bsky.social) helps bring Scratch The Cat to life - one bug fix and boss battle at a time 🎮💥

What excites him most?
“Playing the levels once they're finished! I'm also looking forward to working on more bosses.”

👀 www.flatponies.com/news/behind-...

Lots of other work went into this announcement (website, presskit, press release & reachout) but this thread is probably too long so just to wrap up - we couldn't have asked for a better reception for #ScratchTheCatGame and we're excited to show more of it in the coming months. Thanks for reading.

Another highlight has been getting help from Miya from Neon Noroshi, who we’ve met 3 days before the announcement at Copenhagen Matchup and who agreed to do a social media post for us to their Japanese, Korean & Chinese communities and it's been the best performing social media post for us ever.

As we were closing in on the announcement date, we’ve also been lucky enough to get help from their respective marketing teams and that’s how we’ve ended up on both the PlayStation (16.3M subs) & Xbox (5.58M subs) channels. Huge shoutout to them for featuring the trailer.

A separate shoutout to Laura (2D Artist) and @alandryl.bsky.social (Art Director) for creating the awesome key art in a 100 different variations needed on the different store pages.

In parallel to all these festival applications & trailer work, I’ve been progressing with setting up the store pages. We already published games on Steam, so it was a matter of getting everything together, but for PlayStation & Xbox we needed to learn all the requirements, steps, processes.

This was very important, because we didn’t know which showcase we’re going to get into and we didn’t want to crunch to be able to get everything ready. Once we've accepted, it was still plenty of work (especially with the added work on the featurette), but it less stressful than previous deadlines.

By the time we got an offer from Six One Indie, we already had a rough edit of the announcement trailer ready - amazing work from the level design & art team getting stuff ready, Casper (Sound Designer) & @felixsherar.bsky.social recording the footage and Felix doing the editing & music.

Second, we applied to a bunch of showcases & festivals starting already in November, because we knew that’ll be our best chance of standing out. We got some declines (it’s super competitive out there) but we were pitching a world premiere for a new game which we knew is enticing.

First, we started by making a high-level marketing plan - major beats, timings, etc. We knew that we’ll have a Steam page, but because 3D platformers are very popular on consoles, we also wanted to see if we could get store pages ready - we focused on PlayStation & Xbox for the initial announcement.

After we launched Rebots in 2024 November, we sat down a made a marketing plan for the next title. Last Thursday, our announcement trailer landed in the awesome @sixoneindie.com showcase along with our team featurette. We couldn't be more happy with the process of the last 6 months.

Screenshot of a tweet for the Scratch The Cat announcement trailer

Screenshot of video thumbnails on the PlayStation Youtube channel

Screenshot of video thumbnails on the Xbox Youtube channel

First some neat numbers:

- 47k views, 470 likes & 160 reposts on a tweet by our friends from @nnoroshi.bsky.social
- 33k views on @playstation.com YouTube channel (8k more than a Call of Duty trailer)
- 11k views on main @xbox.com YouTube channel (same amount of views as a Sea of Thieves trailer)

Positive comments plastered over Scratch The Cat key art from the announcement

"Oldschool 3d platformer vibe LETS GOOO!"
"MASCOT PLATFORMER’S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!!"
"The only game I’ve immediately wishlisted."

These are just some of the comments we’ve gotten from our announcement of #ScratchTheCatGame last week. This thread is a small retrospective at how we got here. 🧵

This was very important, because we didn’t know which showcase we’re going to get into and we didn’t want to crunch to be able to get everything ready. Once we've accepted, it was still plenty of work (especially with the added work on the featurette), but it less stressful than previous deadlines.

By this time we already had a rough edit of the announcement trailer ready - amazing work from the level design & art team getting stuff ready, Casper (Sound Designer) & @felixsherar.bsky.social recording the footage and Felix doing the editing & music.

PaperKlay is awesome - we played the demo recently and had a great time. Can't wait to jump into the full game. Congrats on the launch @anderssonkev.bsky.social 🎉

「こんなゲーム、昔どこかで遊んだ気がする――」
N64〜GC時代の“あの感じ”を思い出す3Dアクション『Scratch The Cat』。
ジャンプ、スライド、スピン…しなやかな猫の動きでステージを駆け巡ろう。
ぶっちゃけると、昔のレア社ゲー好きによるレア社ゲー好き向けのヤツ。なつい

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