An animated twin-stick shooter featuring furry felines flying starfighters. Lead the space cat navy against a tyrannical canine empire!
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Space combat with claws!
An advanced twin-stick shooter space epic, SpaceCats In Space! Follows the kingdom of Meowfyre’s rebellion against the dogs of the Grolich Empire. Bomber strikes, wingman assistance and RPG-like leveling are all tools at your disposal in the battle to stop Oberluft Kommandant Arnuld Von Schloss and the vast Grolich war machine.
Featuring animated cutscenes and full voiceover to immerse you in a World War II inspired space battle of cats versus dogs!
SpaceCats in Space! strives to be one of the best twin-stick shooters Unity developers have to offer. The game will release first on Steam for PC and OSX, and then a few months later for XBOX and PS4 as a downloadable title. Vote for us on Steam Greenlight!
Call in strategic bomber strikes to obliterate your enemies. Rely on your trusty wingman to watch your back. You are the Crown Princess, with the full might of the Royal Navy at your disposal. Don’t just fight- LEAD.
Equip countless awesome weapon, shield, and ship upgrades to put an end to the massive Grolich war machine once and for all.
Choose your destiny in a visual narrative story mode, where every decision affects your ship, enemies… and even the battlefield!
Battle the canines of Grolich solo or with a friend in local two-player co-op -- and lead Meowfyre to victory!
Explore a hand-drawn universe straight out of Saturday morning cartoons while soaking up stellar voice acting and a rockin’ soundtrack.
Brave storms of enemy fire. Angel's CAT-1 Cougar Heavy Gunship trades speed and maneuverability for heavy shields, heavy armor and heavy weapons. Why dodge when you can shoot?
Pilot multiple ships, each using a different control scheme and weapons! Fly the sturdy CAT1-Heavy Fighter, the swift Bobtail-K21 Interceptor, or the destructive Tabby "FAT-CAT" Strategic Bomber.
Fight against massive, screen filling bosses like the colossal Hundkopfpanzer -- a laser breathing death machine, that also serves as a starcraft carrier!
For the past ten years, the Grolich Empire has been invading, occupying and annexing nearby star systems. They have subjugated trillions of innocents, prey and predator alike, under their tyrannical regime.
The cunning canine Oberluft Kommandant Von Schloss and his legion of SpaceDogs have led a surprise attack on a K9’s favored enemy: the cats of the Kingdom of Meowfyre.
Now, Crown Princess Angelina Contessa III must lead the Cougar Squadron and the rest of the SpaceCats against the dastardly dogs of the Grolich Empire. Defang those dictators once and for all!
Crown Princess Angelina "Angel" Contessa III
The leader of the Cougar Squadron -- tough as nails, also happens to be a princess. Eats bullets for breakfast, enemy fighter pilots for lunch, and martinis for dinner. Can she secure her throne from the pilot’s seat?
Oberluft Kommandant Arnuld Von Schloss
Oberluft Kommandant Arnuld Von Schloss is the leader of the Hundkaiser’s 1st Expeditionary Legion and a tactical genius. The very picture of a cultured canine commandant, Von Schloss holds a Masters in Feline Studies from the University of Dusselwoof.
The music of SpaceCats in Space! is a smash hit of World War II era drum corps and Saturday morning cartoon power-rock.
Check out our Composer ALEX BRITTEN'S website for more music!
SpaceCats In Space! began one late evening on April 20th, 2015 when Alex was looking at cat pictures. He found this picture, and wanted to make a game about it.
The concept demo was built in 2 weeks with Unity. Alex took Space Cats In Space! to its premier debut at Playcrafting NYC. After rousing applause, he met composer Alex Britten.
“Meeting Alex Lau was an eye-opening experience. His presentation of the game was as bombastic as playing it, with costume changes, in-flight character vocal sparring - all done by him. I couldn’t sleep a wink that night, so I got up around 3AM and wrote/recorded the theme. I sent it to him at 7AM, and we began building from there.” -Alex Britten
SpaceCats In Space! began recruiting on Reddit. Lead artist Kim Van Deun came aboard first, her concept art leading the charge. Voice actors Callyn Dorval and Kai Kennedy soon followed, as well as Animation Director Rachel Lewis.
The project really heated up in 2016. After successfully showing at MAGFEST, Rachel decided to move from her native Sydney Australia to New York City to work on the game!
Thanks to the help of many contributors, friends and family, the current version of the demo came together.
Download the demo and see the results of all our hard work
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Our demo might look polished; however we have only done one-sixth of the work required to make the whole game. We have spent all of our financial resources developing the technology, getting the team together, and building a fan-base.
Now we need your help so we can do a full content push. We’ll make more levels, weapons, enemies, bosses and cut-scenes to turn SpaceCats In Space! into a fully featured video game experience.
There aren’t any other games out there like SpaceCats in Space! We have a unique theme, gameplay mechanics; Kickstarter is the perfect place to find the funding we need.
The Robotic Potato Games team is composed of professionals who have over 30+ years experience in software, business and science. All of us are huge fans of games. Our top directors, Alex, Rachel and Kim have all sacrificed $100k+ jobs in lucrative industries, and moved from one continent to another in order to make SpaceCats in Space! We are dedicated completely to the project. Possibly a little TOO dedicated.
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Our budget is for making SpaceCats in Space! a complete game -- specifically that means:
We plan on heavily adding additional animations to our ships, enemies and environments as well as upgrading our VFX. The gameplay graphics and UI shown in the trailers are still in pre-alpha state.
We're going to add things like
We are going to stick with 2D and our existing ships and enemy designs. In the completed game they're going to have more 'life', but the art will still retain the same style.
SpaceCats in Space! is ultimately a labor of love. Most of our budget goes into paying animators, programmer, audio engineers, and musicians who make the game great. We devote a small amount to the friends and family that assist us with getting the word out and making sure we keep our eyes on the ball. And of course, we must always pay the middleman and the taxman.
Our primary risk is our goal. We understand it’s a very high ask for a 2D game -- but there have been very few other games, AAA or otherwise, with this amount of 2D animation, music and audio talent.
SpaceCats in Space! is our first major commercial title. We are new to the game industry, but we have spent a combined 30+ years delivering solid results in sectors like advertising, business, and science. While most would see this as a liability, we come from industries where contracts and promises mean something. That’s not something “veterans” in the game industry have been well known for.
The leaders of Robotic Potato have all held management positions and we are familiar with keeping people's money, lives even, safe. We have the financial acumen and business knowledge to manage our investments wisely.
Be assured, we will marshal our every resource and follow best practices in order to deliver the best game about SpaceCats shooting SpaceDogs you have ever seen.
Learn about accountability on KickstarterUnfortunately that isn’t planned due to complexity and time requirements. We didn’t want to promise more than we can be sure we can deliver. We do support local co-op, where the second player can take control of the wingman.
This is something we would like to do and have tossed around ideas for a sequel or DLC, but we wouldn’t begin work on it until after we’ve successfully completed this project. We have a lot of ideas we would like to pursue in this universe, but Space Cats in Space! is our focus.
Linux support is not currently planned due to the wide variety in distributions and hardware involved. We like Linux, and we’ve considered some options to explore in the future, but it’s not a platform we’re equipped to support right now.
Yes, we will have at least three difficulty modes, probably more, including “Super Easy Mode” for people who want to blast their way through the story, music, and atmosphere of Space Cats. We will have a variety of ships for people who might prefer, for example, a more nimble, less sturdy ship over the default heavily armed, somewhat slower “space tank.”
Not at this point! We are very happy with our current composer, Alex Britten. Check out his page!
We are not hiring any additional voice actors at this time. If you'd like your work to be featured, donate to our Leopard, Jaguar or Tiger Commander tiers and you'll be able to create custom characters voiced by you!
We plan on adding a slider to adjust or eliminate screenshake.