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I made a video game. For cats.

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MrBitter
Profile Joined January 2008
United States2940 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-09-22 16:27:27
September 22 2022 15:59 GMT
#1
Hello! I’m Ben, co-founder and day-to-day business leader of Kitty Arcade. A few short years ago I was the “hotshot esports exec” with the corner office in New York City. Now I’m the bootstrapped, ramen-eating startup founder, and I have to confess - this is the most fun I’ve ever had working.

https://imgur.com/a/py43MlL - the view from my old office in NYC

In late 2019, at a small house party in Newport Beach, I had a conversation that completely changed the course of my life and career. I was halfway joking when I told the group about my idea: videogames for cats. But not like the half-baked tablet games that millions of cat lovers have already tried - a good game that encourages cats to interact with their humans in a new and completely novel way.

To my surprise, this small group of successful video game professionals thought my idea was worth developing. Delighted and inspired, I rushed home and told my friend and brilliant marketer, Samira Behrouzan, that I thought we had something worth working on. To my surprise again, Samira was also stoked. We got to work right away and a few short weeks later, we co-founded our new “videogame studio” and began work on Kitty Arcade.

https://imgur.com/a1atq1m - Sitting around Newport Beach in 2019, imagining new ways to play and interact with our pets

Sam managed to quickly pull together a small team of developers (who are now also close friends and business partners) to build us an alpha. A couple months after that, we made our way to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to have our first real investor meeting.

https://imgur.com/a/sjCix9k - A little jet-lagged and scruffy on our way to convince our first investors to take a bet on our small team

Almost three years later, here we are.

Kitty Arcade has been an absolute labor of love. I am supremely confident that no team in the world has spent as much time or energy on understanding why and how cats play, and then translating that to a cooperative video game that humans can take part in too. Our most exciting innovation is the creation of the world’s first “Kitty Controller”. A “smart wand toy” that lets your cat play video games like never before.

We have tried every idea there is. And the product we’re unveiling today is something I know cats and their humans will enjoy.

Today we are in a pre-release state. Our toys are only “prototypes”, and our game is best described as “in beta”, but over the course of the next several weeks, we will be hosting our first public playtests at a handful of small venues across America and collecting the last bits of consumer feedback we need before making the final push to our full launch in early 2023.

There’s still a lot of work to do. But the game is fun, our connected toy is awesome, and the pawsibilities for where we can go from here are truly endless. I am tremendously proud of our team and the work that has gone into getting us here.

Welcome to our small, but growing community. In the weeks ahead we will have many more exciting updates. For now, please engage with us on socials and in our Discord. We would love to hear from all of you, and we are so open to sharing and discussing ideas.

Thank you for reading, and stay tuned.




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Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
September 22 2022 16:49 GMT
#2
Fun idea! Good luck with the release!
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
Magnath10
Profile Joined February 2020
Egypt33 Posts
September 23 2022 05:29 GMT
#3
Super cool idea, can't help but wonder what next iterations would look like.
Schelim
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria11528 Posts
September 26 2022 08:40 GMT
#4
Seems great!

Where can we find out more about the game?
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MrBitter
Profile Joined January 2008
United States2940 Posts
September 28 2022 12:42 GMT
#5
On September 26 2022 17:40 Schelim wrote:
Seems great!

Where can we find out more about the game?


Best places are our website, our newsletter and our socials.

You can get to them all from https://kittyarcadegame.com/

I will also be posting lots in coming weeks.

Thanks for the love guys 🙏❤️
ExpatRightsCN
Profile Joined October 2022
1 Post
October 17 2022 12:29 GMT
#6
cool
annajono1
Profile Joined May 2023
1 Post
Last Edited: 2023-05-20 11:14:18
May 20 2023 10:43 GMT
#7
hi I think the kitty arcade game is a really cool idea! I can't wait to see what future versions of the game will look like. As a cat owner, I have a website www.learnaboutcat.com/ that I use to share information about cats. If you would like, I can recommend your video game to my site visitors. This way, you can get more feedback and exposure for your game.
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