Hello there kiddies! It's me again, a monthish older and a monthish closer to this game's release and my eventual demise! But before either of those things happen I should probably do a blog update explaining a MAJOR aspect of the game that we have glossed over for the last year or 2... furniture!

We have alluded to the fact that Mewgenics takes inspiration from Animal Crossing, and many of you asked how the hell that's possible... well, for one, there are currently over 700 unique pieces of furniture to decorate your ever-growing house with. These pieces range from large, sprawling bedframes to collections of rare bottles and taxidermy animals. I tried my best to make a range of flavors to allow players to express themselves as they wish... but as you might assume, most pieces lean towards the odd and mysterious.

"But what is the point in all this!?" you ask... Well, in the world of Mewgenics, each piece of furniture is special and imbued with special stat-boosting goodness!

The comfort level of your room affects the odds of your cats getting it on. Comfort also affects the general mood of the room, making aggressive cats more manageable... but keep in mind a crowded room or dirty room will also lower this stat. Comfort also raises the odds of cats birthing multiple kittens.

Affects how well your kittens inherit the higher stats of their parents as well as any mutations they may have. Stim also affects the odds of a kitten inheriting a classed ability from one of its parents... the key to multiclassing in Mewgenics.

Appeal affects the overall appeal of your house as a whole. A high appeal house will raise the odds of stronger strays with special inborn active and passive abilities to appear more often.

Now let's look at a few examples of how these stats appear in set pieces.

Microwave: +1 Comfort

Toxic Waste Barrel: +4 Stimulation, -2 Comfort

Touched Toxic Waste Barrel: +8 Stimulation, -4 Comfort

Oh wait, what was that... Why, that last piece of furniture looks a lot like the one before it... and its stats are all wackadoo!? Well, that's because all 700+ pieces also have a rare alt version with boosted stats and a unique and usually animated or spiced-up look!

You can find random pieces of furniture on your many adventures, but the best way to start your hoarding is to visit Jack's Shack.

Jack starts out selling 2 items every week, refreshing his shop on Sundays, so be sure to check his shop often. Jack also collects cats with injuries (he feels kinship with them), so sending him your injured masses will level up his shop over time.

The furniture aspect of Mew was a hard nut to crack, so we didn't want to force its design. We had originally assumed each piece would have unique stats and effects that would have a small % chance of affecting cats born in the room with them... but this was not only a ton of work (1400 unique designs) but also it became obvious that making specific pieces with specific stats would mean there would be an ideal number of set pieces to place in your main rooms and everyone's house would end up looking the same. I really wanted people to have some creative freedom with how their houses looked, so using a more generalized stat setup felt not only more elegant and less work but also would allow you to express yourself!

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General updates:

Our goal of having a content-complete build by New Year's is looking very good. I'm currently finishing up the 3-4 "final bosses" art-wise as our animators churn out the remaining enemies/bosses. Outside of the game dev side, we have commissioned a filmmaker to start working on a little teaser trailer for the game's "rerelease press push" late this year that I'm quite excited about, and we hope to start testing the game on Steam with friends and devs. Once the trailer launches, I hope to replace these monthly blog posts with "let's play" gameplay videos of the early game chapters so you can get a real feel of how everything works.

See you next month! -Edmund

So a while back, we did a post on disorders. It's been so long I'll do a quick recap of what disorders are and how you acquire them.

Disorders are passive effects with major negative aspects but always feature a silver lining, some even have equal negative and positive aspects. Disorders can be acquired via events, combat, random strays, abilities, and even via birth and can't be removed by any normal means.

For ages, we only had a handful of disorders, rabies being the most noteworthy, and back then, rabies runs always ended in chaos and made for very interesting and tragic runs.

(usually acquired via critically failing events)
Your attack becomes a melee attack, at the end of each combat you lose 1 intelligence but gain 1 strength, making you slowly stronger and dumber. Once your intelligence becomes 0, you become AI controlled and have madness (view your allies and neutral creatures also as enemies).

I have had some epic rabies runs where my rabies beast would go on to kill his whole team and continue on alone. I just watched as he destroyed hordes of enemies only to lose to the final boss of that chapter... tragic. But that isn't to say it always needs to end that way. I've had rabies runs where I started dumping items on the cat in question that buffed their int to keep them from losing their minds, or even simply killing the rabies cat off before he turned on his team, allowing the rest of my team to gain his level ups!

A few weeks ago, Tyler put his head down and started burning through our list of disorders with a goal to hit 100. In the middle of this, we started doing Twitter polls asking for feedback on what disorders people want to see in Mew. This quickly became, "Can you add my IRL disorder to the mix!?" and I totally get this. The first few disorders I designed for Mew were my own (ADHD and OCD), and I honestly thought the idea of "representation" was funny, cool, and a really neat challenge to design these disorders in respectful, funny, and smart ways...

So, as you might assume, we added autism to Mewgenics!

-2 Charisma, +2 Intelligence, the spells you are born with cost -2 mana (can't go lower than 1 mana) but all your other spells cost +1 mana.

Socially awkward but intelligent, very very good at one thing from the start but has a hard time with most everything else. (Note this design is actually based on what used to be referred to as Asperger's or high-functioning autism, now included in the autism spectrum.)

As assumed, autism is a disorder you are born with and can be passed down in the bloodline. We joked about having it also be given when giving cats booster shots but were worried people wouldn't realize it was a joke... :|

I'll spoil 2 more since both of these have been spoiled on Twitter...


Start each combat with a mega fart queued up for the end of the round, at the start of your turn let her rip blasting everything in a considerable aoe backwards and dealing 10 damage to all hit.

At the end of each of your turns, summon a random illusionary enemy with madness. The illusion takes its turn immediately and vanishes, attacking anything in its range.

Both of these disorders have a huge upside if you are able to play around them, having schizophrenia on a thief for example would allow you to hide behind the enemy frontline unleashing your illusionary horde upon them, or finding some kind of explosion combo to go off with bad gas (the fart counts as Explosion element, which has some synergies with things).

Ok... one more...


Your spells cost no mana. When/if you cast your 13th spell (across all fights), you die, and your body is destroyed. (You gotta keep track of how many spells you cast on your own!)

This post has covered 4 of 100 current disorders in Mewgenics, and I have a feeling we might be adding more before release.

I look forward to finding out how best to use your autistic bloodline! Now let's close with a status update.

- Only 10 enemies and 9 bosses remain!

- All furniture is finished, including giving each one an alternate "shiny" version. More on this next month.

- All music tracks are finished, though Ridiculon will probably add a handful of jingles to cover transitions.

- Items are 1/4th finished (100s more to go, but 1/4th sounds better to me).

- Events are getting there. Our bonus programmer Graeme has been chipping away at them, and they are also about 1/4th of the way finished.

- NPC favor unlocks are all in, they just need finalized dialogue and polish.

- We have hired someone for our announcement trailer we hope to premiere in late Nov. / early Dec. ... exciting :)

It's getting close, dudes! Stay tuned and make sure to wishlist the game!
-Edmund