<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Just my abandoned blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://arseniyshved.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[arseniyshved]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://arseniyshved.wordpress.com/author/arseniyshved/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Black Cat Project 02:&nbsp;Postmortem.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>As you might be aware several days ago I have launched the <a title="Black Cat Project" href="https://arseniyshved.wordpress.com/black-cat-project/">Black Cat Project</a>. It was a huge success – <a title="Download Black Cat for Windows" href="http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/419735/Black-Cat-for-Windows-rar.html" target="_blank">Windows version</a> was downloaded  4 times (including one time by myself). <a title="Download Black Cat for Linux" href="http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/419736/Black-Cat-for-Linux-rar.html" target="_blank">Linux version</a> performed a little bit less impressive with only 2 downloads (again one of them was mine). Hardly a surprise as Linux is yet to become popular gaming platform. Anyway great success requires a postmortem so here it is!</p>
<p>But first a short list of Frequently Asked Questions!</p>
<p>Q: Really? Someone asked questions?<br />
A: No.</p>
<p>Q: Are you an idiot?<br />
A: God, I hope not!</p>
<p>Q: Are you serious?<br />
A: About being an idiot – yes. About the game – no. It’s a joke.</p>
<p>Now, that it’s out of the way, to the postmortem.</p>
<p>It’s kinda fun to look at the project and remember that distant past when it was merely an idea and everything could have become completely different.</p>
<p>Some people create game based on the gameplay idea, some prefer to make the story to become game’s foundation. Of course the best way is in between but I based Black Cat on the core mechanic. Funny story, though I instantly settled on the mechanic, it could be a game of completely another genre. It could be a tamagochi-like digital pet. It could be an illustration of quantum entanglement nature, commonly known thanks to the famous <a title="Schrödinger's cat on Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat" target="_blank">Schrödinger&#8217;s cat</a>. I chose the “find hidden object” genre though, mostly because I’m fairly familiar with its premise for every morning I have to look for my socks in a poorly lit room.</p>
<p>I figured that a game about my socks would not be an interesting one. Moreover I do not know any ancient Chinese quotes about socks so I went with cats. And this is how the Black Cat was born!</p>
<p>If for some reason you are interested here are some links:</p>
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<li><a title="Black Cat Project" href="https://arseniyshved.wordpress.com/black-cat-project/">Official Black Cat page.</a></li>
<li><a title="Download Black Cat for Windows" href="http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/419735/Black-Cat-for-Windows-rar.html" target="_blank">Black Cat for Windows.</a></li>
<li><a title="Download Black Cat for Linux." href="http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/419736/Black-Cat-for-Linux-rar.html" target="_blank">Black Cat for Linux.</a></li>
<li><a title="Make a donation." href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=29PPX3L8NL9UU" target="_blank">Donate</a></li>
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<p>Thanks for reading and have fun!</p>
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