PastryCats ~Teasers~

Hey there~ We’re baking PastryCats, an upcoming browser-based sim & pet site featuring pastry-inspired, cat-like beings set in a whimsical, bakery-themed universe!

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We have a waitlist of ~150—join us! Reserve your bakery 🐾🧁

Our main blog is at pastrycats-game, but it’s totally empty (want to finish painting the cocoa-cozy header art first!)

Trying to capture the egg-cat’s sense of wonder! Two from purchased references to prepare for the final pose.

I’m still not feeling it!—tone-wise, aesthetically. The sleek shapes and colors remind me of a spaceship-shark hybrid.

resting—think "resting the dough" and its opposite "restless." This skill describes patience and perhaps even stealth when hunting (which is more of an activity than a simple skill). Then again, resting can also be considered an activity in which the structure of the picat develops—so could be aging faster, allowing taste to develop, or the trigger for producing harvestables. So this one's about self-care and self-development.

prepping—more baker than feline. This skill involves being orderly, prepared, and precise. Planning for the long term.

kneading—perfect thematic link between cats and pastries. This skill is about manipulation with the paws and revolves around acts of nurturing, creation, and shaping. Like the milk treading in kittenhood.

foraging—scrounging for treats or items. Somewhere in-between manipulation with paws and harvesting—more of an instinct. Press, pin, ply—some moves for them to hone with foraging puzzles.

harvesting?—but is this more of an activity, such as hunting? I imagine that harvesting (as opposed to foraging for food or items) requires knowledge and experience of the particularities of various picat breeds. Or perhaps "harvesting" can stand in for all intellectual skills (think acquisition of knowledge).

Cats! Pose studies for the egg cat

Concept art for the "egg cat" (proper name pending!) breed

My design notes-to-self:

a golden head suspended in an egg jelly, like the globular helmet of an astronaut—explorative, curious

each ear a large concave fragment of egg shell

skin like molten lava, encased in smooth egg shell, whose edges are rounded and nibbly

a gravity-defying tail encircling the body

Gotta draw a lot of cats!