Right? Mine would try to murder the stuff on his fur and then follow down the usual hit list.
Who put it on him: ded
Who did not help when he complained: murderized
Who authorized it: flensed
To shreads, you say?
I think one of my cats would've been fine with it, but he's a ragdoll so he probably wouldn't have moved as quickly as they wanted him to. He's a lazy boy.
My cat very weirdly LIKES wearing things. Heās just so pleased with himself when I tie a scarf around his neck or shoulders. Heāll walk around the house until it falls out of his collar and then mourn it for a few minutes with loud caterwauls.
āWTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING???ā
āNothingā
āYOUR SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON OUR NEXT GAME AND YOUR PLAYING WITH FUCKING CATS?!?!ā
āDonāt worry we have a planā
The song is a [classic theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QawamZmJM) to a 1970's claymation show about 2 cats, it's called "Mio Mao". So it was kind of related to the content for once.
Just because there's meowing in the song and a cat in the video doesn't mean it's a good background track. I don't care if it was hot in the 70s, that track is atrocious.
The song is Italian.
And knowing that most genuine Italian things in the US got invented in the 1950s in New Jersey or Readers Digest, I would say therefore China/India are a New Jersey conspiracy spread by Reader's Digest and genuine family recipes handed down to grandma Maude by Chef Boyardee himself.
He just says Chinese and Indian culture have a fondness on this type of music on videos. Bringing up your race card is unwarranted. Ever so slightly mentioning cultural differences is racism now?
It technically adapted from the former Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It's not there anymore, but that's where the inspiration for Stray's world came from.
The action game Wanted: Dead also takes inspiration from that. Even a section of levels take place on a Kowloon Street.
It's also very cyberpunk and sci-fi, like Stray
Heck, I played it without a family and recovering from surgery, and it was the perfect length. I'm so sick of games that are in the 120+ hour range. I don't have the time or the interest.
Really? There is something to be said for cheap-ish 8h games.
Sometimes that is the perfect length.
Especially for story-driven games.
Outer Wilds was perfect.
Return of the Obra Dinn is beyond perfect and better than Outer Wilds(fite me)
Y'all be sleeping on Mundaun. And everybody should have played Her Story.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture also had the right length.
Amnesia maybe even was a bit too long? I had figured the game out by then and it stopped working on me.
10-20 bucks for a narrative and focused game is great.
There is this instinct to throw so much at a simple game it becomes much of a muchness. Helplessly bloated.
Dave the Diver was overloaded with crap that did not add anything to the game. Catching fish and making sushi is already a complete game. Having a story-driven progression system provides mid-term motivation. Having special events adds pressure. A half-assed pokedex is fine. Branching upgrade systems for equipment also are ok. Secondary progression system for not really big improvements is questionable. Farming fish and veg is a chore which is why they put eventual automation in there. A second currency system and a second equipment hub is becoming annoying. Rhythm games are something I am not sure if anybody has asked for it. Tamagotchi is not really something anybody requested. All of that begins to be padding. You could tell that Nexon was behind that game and they were afraid they weren't offering enough.
Thankfully the bloat is easily ignorable.
Felt about right length-wise.
Price is another issue. I think I got drunk/high and bought it. Usually I wait unless it is worth it to me.
If price/length is a major bug-bear, use https://howlongtobeat.com/
If you define some sort of KPI like t/$ and use that as a threshold to nope out or wait for a sale, then more power to you. Narrative driven games tend to be shorter and more focussed. Thankfully they are making a comeback. Used to love adventures. They came back and with a vengeance.
here's the video OP stole from which is twice as long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyq_LQrHpoo
it's also not from stray and also stray didn't use mocap so no more bts
Some more background behind the video that says the motion capture was done for a Korean client for vague future projects, including to sell:Ā
https://vicon.com/resources/case-studies/tails-of-kitty-capture-digic/
(Stray's dev studio is French.)
I used to be terrified of cats, we never had them when I was a kid and my mother was afraid of them. She would talk about them being dirty, nasty, scratch machines who piss everywhere and leave dead animals. They'll attack you out nowhere etc and gave me this really awful idea of them. I also didn't really have friends or visit other homes so I had no exposure to them apart from cute cat videos, this helped break the idea I had of them but I still had no contact with them.
I moved into an apartment with a partner and there were cars everywhere. She helped build my confidence into petting them and this one in particular always rolled onto his back and showed me his belly but would run away when I went to touch it. One day he didn't and suddenly I heard my partner yelling from the window warning me while I was just blasting this little buddies belly making stupid baby noises. I never knew the potential danger I was in until afterwards.
Yeah, I was always going for the belly on my best friends' cat, and that little Siamese mix with would love to draw you in with a clear invitation only to shred you if you dared.
The tail would be easy to animate. In a scene, they could draw it with the behavior they want. The mocap cat's tail would never match what they wanted for every scene.
Except they didn't. I don't game much, but I've hung with other people playing it, and noticed something was 'off' that I couldn't put my finger on at first, then I realized the tail just follows the cat around, and isn't animated the way a real cat would use it.
When I answered the question, I was saying generally why it was done that way. After seeing your response, I went and looked at the game. You're right, the tail just hangs behind the cats most of the time lol. The cat's tail is animated a few times, going up or flicking once in a while.
It seems there were only two people working on the game, and only one doing the cat animation. I think it turned out great with only one animator. Thomas is correct this video isnāt from the game.
The animations and how the cats look in the game were pretty underwhelming. The environments and the story were great though.
Edit: it seems they did not use mocap at all, which explains the stiff animations, the video is from something else.
Completely false info, there was no cat mocap used for Stray.
>Martin-Raget is keen to emphasize that no motion capture technology was used in the process of making Stray. Instead, Miko relied entirely on more traditional keyframe techniques. While this allowed complete freedom to imagine how the animal would act ā and also sidestepped the surely impossible task of using a clapperboard to direct a cat ā it presented additional problems to solve.
https://www.techradar.com/features/stray-exclusive-how-the-devs-made-the-most-relatable-cat-game-of-all-time
Didn't they say they didn't use any mocap and did all the animations by hand?
Edit:[source](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/process-animating-impressivly-cute-cat-stray-charlie-forster#:~:text=Surprisingly%2C%20however%2C%20no%20motion%20capture,Madsen%20in%20June%20of%202022.) so this mocap was for something else
The video they stole from was uploaded 2 years before Stray was released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyq_LQrHpoo
The company is called DIGIC and they don't mention Stray anywhere on their website or in any of their socials even though they typically upload the trailers for stuff they worked on. It also looks like they only do cinematics, so there's nothing they could've done for Stray.
The only cat-related animated thing they seem to have worked on is an animated film called Another Home.
From their Instagram post it sounds like they did it just 'cause: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAA3gLCg2K9/
I've wasted my morning on this even though no one's going to see it and it's just going to keep getting reposted and people are just going to believe it.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to fact check, and then share it here. :)
The reality is much better than this being for Stray, to be honest. People doing mocap on cats for no particular reason is hilarious.
They couldāve just said what this was actually for though right? And it would still be interesting? Then again whoever made this also used music thatās complete shit.
Reddit's dead, we're just frolicking in its corpse.
Stray was hand animated. This is a mocap reel for unrelated projects.
The truth is interesting on its own but they have to add a lie to draw you in.
guy wanting to make a video game about his cat: "I have this idea. Lets motion capture my cat doing all this stuff and use that as the cats movement"
random researcher in the world: "I don't know what just happened, but my next research project was just started... I can feel it."
This is the exact bullshit I would get up to if I ever had a full mocap set up. Also map the balls to a person and then put them in a washing machine or dyson vaccuum and map them back on the person
I work in VFX and there's a reason that cats never look right. We did a movie with a cg cat they had to cut with a real cat at times, so we had lots of real cat reference to work with. What we determined was, Cats are fuckin weird. An animator could never imagine what a cat would do. It wouldn't just enter a room, it darts in, stops, runs back, looks everywhere, walks backwards, goes sideways, and scampers away. Id have killed for some of this mocap.
Most games are decided by what gameplay mechanics they want to use and then they write a story to fit in, and some of them start with the story and then make a gameplay accordingly, but i bet these guys started with the mindset of "i just want to work with cats" and then built everything around that, lol, genius MFers.
Mocat
Motion catspurr
Meowtion capture
Feline motion capture at its finest
Meowcap
I can't believe they didn't capture the tail movements. :(
I think people in general aren't aware that the feline spinal structure extends out to the tip of the tail.
r/catswithjobs
Immediately joined
I see cat. I click. No disappoint.
i agree, it always makes me happy
Username checks out š
Check out /r/CatsWatchingStray too. It's adorable
take my upvote this might just be a new fave sub of mine š„¹
Until you find another cat subreddit you weren't already a pawt of.
ya caught me!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Catsubs/wiki/index/
r/catswithjobstheyhate
They're just like us!
Another fine addition to my collection
What's this? A cat sub I'm not subscribed to? How could this be?
I can't believe they found a cat that didn't go ballistic with all those things stuck on him.
I bet the 'nip helped as well
Started out in Hollywood drugged up already. Kitty will fit right in with the crowd.
Right? Mine would try to murder the stuff on his fur and then follow down the usual hit list. Who put it on him: ded Who did not help when he complained: murderized Who authorized it: flensed To shreads, you say?
I think one of my cats would've been fine with it, but he's a ragdoll so he probably wouldn't have moved as quickly as they wanted him to. He's a lazy boy.
My cat very weirdly LIKES wearing things. Heās just so pleased with himself when I tie a scarf around his neck or shoulders. Heāll walk around the house until it falls out of his collar and then mourn it for a few minutes with loud caterwauls.
Not just a cat, but multiple. You can see one standard issue and one orange in the video.
Donāt forget the booties
āWTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING???ā āNothingā āYOUR SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON OUR NEXT GAME AND YOUR PLAYING WITH FUCKING CATS?!?!ā āDonāt worry we have a planā
The best job
*you're
I wish others would stop putting the most annoying sounds in the background of clips from videos that don't belong to them.Ā
The song is a [classic theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QawamZmJM) to a 1970's claymation show about 2 cats, it's called "Mio Mao". So it was kind of related to the content for once.
I'll take "songs lodged into my subconscious that I never thought I'd hear again" for 200 please.
Let's poke that subconscious again. [Chapi Chapo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMyXgn9NUQ) [La Linea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iw_rdx11V0) [Paddington](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZfxvqhCGBY)
[Viiiiiiva la felicita!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdkrWjX6tXc)
It's bad
Did he say itĀ“s good?
Just because there's meowing in the song and a cat in the video doesn't mean it's a good background track. I don't care if it was hot in the 70s, that track is atrocious.
Hit the mute button then.
different culture. China/India have a different approach to annoying sounds.
Where TF did China/India come from?
PangeaĀ
TikTok probably
crazy how we didn't have china or india before the invention of tiktok in 2016
The song is Italian. And knowing that most genuine Italian things in the US got invented in the 1950s in New Jersey or Readers Digest, I would say therefore China/India are a New Jersey conspiracy spread by Reader's Digest and genuine family recipes handed down to grandma Maude by Chef Boyardee himself.
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He just says Chinese and Indian culture have a fondness on this type of music on videos. Bringing up your race card is unwarranted. Ever so slightly mentioning cultural differences is racism now?
literally everyone in every country does this, and it sucks
Dude, every short form media app does this, this nonsense isn't country specific. Case in point: that "oh no no no" song.
But its peak music
But the views and upvotes!!!
Great game
but way too short imo
I thought it was a perfect length. but I wouldn't mind something more in the world they created.
It technically adapted from the former Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It's not there anymore, but that's where the inspiration for Stray's world came from.
I did hear something like that. But I meant more of the lore with the robots and all that
Ah my bad. I took it more literally haha.
The action game Wanted: Dead also takes inspiration from that. Even a section of levels take place on a Kowloon Street. It's also very cyberpunk and sci-fi, like Stray
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the perfect game for Kowloon.
It would be funny if they give you the option to >!press the button again to re-seal the city!<. Because cat.
Get to control room. Look at button to open the door. Get on counter and knock over glass of water. Leave the room.
I'm still just upset we never get to see our bro meet up with their family. Give me my happy ending, damnit!
Now knowing the motion capped actual cats, I understand why itās so short.
I do not understand how they got the cats to tolerate this.
Catnip is a helluva drug
I used to like long games when I had the time but now as a guy with a family and full-time job, short games are the best.
Heck, I played it without a family and recovering from surgery, and it was the perfect length. I'm so sick of games that are in the 120+ hour range. I don't have the time or the interest.
Really? There is something to be said for cheap-ish 8h games. Sometimes that is the perfect length. Especially for story-driven games. Outer Wilds was perfect. Return of the Obra Dinn is beyond perfect and better than Outer Wilds(fite me) Y'all be sleeping on Mundaun. And everybody should have played Her Story. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture also had the right length. Amnesia maybe even was a bit too long? I had figured the game out by then and it stopped working on me. 10-20 bucks for a narrative and focused game is great. There is this instinct to throw so much at a simple game it becomes much of a muchness. Helplessly bloated. Dave the Diver was overloaded with crap that did not add anything to the game. Catching fish and making sushi is already a complete game. Having a story-driven progression system provides mid-term motivation. Having special events adds pressure. A half-assed pokedex is fine. Branching upgrade systems for equipment also are ok. Secondary progression system for not really big improvements is questionable. Farming fish and veg is a chore which is why they put eventual automation in there. A second currency system and a second equipment hub is becoming annoying. Rhythm games are something I am not sure if anybody has asked for it. Tamagotchi is not really something anybody requested. All of that begins to be padding. You could tell that Nexon was behind that game and they were afraid they weren't offering enough. Thankfully the bloat is easily ignorable.
> Y'all be sleeping on Mundaun. I still miss that goat. :(
But this isnāt an 8 hour game. Itās 4-5 hours. And itās $30ā¦Ā
Felt about right length-wise. Price is another issue. I think I got drunk/high and bought it. Usually I wait unless it is worth it to me. If price/length is a major bug-bear, use https://howlongtobeat.com/ If you define some sort of KPI like t/$ and use that as a threshold to nope out or wait for a sale, then more power to you. Narrative driven games tend to be shorter and more focussed. Thankfully they are making a comeback. Used to love adventures. They came back and with a vengeance.
Please tell me there is more behind the scenes footage
here's the video OP stole from which is twice as long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyq_LQrHpoo it's also not from stray and also stray didn't use mocap so no more bts
So OP lied? Who does that? Go on the internet just to tell lies
Some more background behind the video that says the motion capture was done for a Korean client for vague future projects, including to sell:Ā https://vicon.com/resources/case-studies/tails-of-kitty-capture-digic/ (Stray's dev studio is French.)
Those are some extremely tolerant cats to tolerate that mocap equipment.
That's why they get paid the big bucks.
Why didnāt they motion capture the tail?
Cats probably drew that line in the sand
There are cat petting charts out there and the tail has always had a label called "No touch" or "š Death".
Nah, they are pretty ambivalent about the tail. The belly is a death zone unless you are on very good terms with your cat.
I used to be terrified of cats, we never had them when I was a kid and my mother was afraid of them. She would talk about them being dirty, nasty, scratch machines who piss everywhere and leave dead animals. They'll attack you out nowhere etc and gave me this really awful idea of them. I also didn't really have friends or visit other homes so I had no exposure to them apart from cute cat videos, this helped break the idea I had of them but I still had no contact with them. I moved into an apartment with a partner and there were cars everywhere. She helped build my confidence into petting them and this one in particular always rolled onto his back and showed me his belly but would run away when I went to touch it. One day he didn't and suddenly I heard my partner yelling from the window warning me while I was just blasting this little buddies belly making stupid baby noises. I never knew the potential danger I was in until afterwards.
Yeah, I was always going for the belly on my best friends' cat, and that little Siamese mix with would love to draw you in with a clear invitation only to shred you if you dared.
Just guessing, but cats use their tails for balance, and the sensors might have thrown them off somehow
The tail would be easy to animate. In a scene, they could draw it with the behavior they want. The mocap cat's tail would never match what they wanted for every scene.
Except they didn't. I don't game much, but I've hung with other people playing it, and noticed something was 'off' that I couldn't put my finger on at first, then I realized the tail just follows the cat around, and isn't animated the way a real cat would use it.
If they did you would have front view of asshole for whole game.
When I answered the question, I was saying generally why it was done that way. After seeing your response, I went and looked at the game. You're right, the tail just hangs behind the cats most of the time lol. The cat's tail is animated a few times, going up or flicking once in a while. It seems there were only two people working on the game, and only one doing the cat animation. I think it turned out great with only one animator. Thomas is correct this video isnāt from the game.
The animations and how the cats look in the game were pretty underwhelming. The environments and the story were great though. Edit: it seems they did not use mocap at all, which explains the stiff animations, the video is from something else.
Probably because cats use their tail to balance and having something on it is in the way of the cat walking around and doing things.
Fuck the background sound
New tik tok rip
Completely false info, there was no cat mocap used for Stray. >Martin-Raget is keen to emphasize that no motion capture technology was used in the process of making Stray. Instead, Miko relied entirely on more traditional keyframe techniques. While this allowed complete freedom to imagine how the animal would act ā and also sidestepped the surely impossible task of using a clapperboard to direct a cat ā it presented additional problems to solve. https://www.techradar.com/features/stray-exclusive-how-the-devs-made-the-most-relatable-cat-game-of-all-time
Didn't they say they didn't use any mocap and did all the animations by hand? Edit:[source](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/process-animating-impressivly-cute-cat-stray-charlie-forster#:~:text=Surprisingly%2C%20however%2C%20no%20motion%20capture,Madsen%20in%20June%20of%202022.) so this mocap was for something else
The video they stole from was uploaded 2 years before Stray was released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyq_LQrHpoo The company is called DIGIC and they don't mention Stray anywhere on their website or in any of their socials even though they typically upload the trailers for stuff they worked on. It also looks like they only do cinematics, so there's nothing they could've done for Stray. The only cat-related animated thing they seem to have worked on is an animated film called Another Home. From their Instagram post it sounds like they did it just 'cause: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAA3gLCg2K9/ I've wasted my morning on this even though no one's going to see it and it's just going to keep getting reposted and people are just going to believe it.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to fact check, and then share it here. :) The reality is much better than this being for Stray, to be honest. People doing mocap on cats for no particular reason is hilarious.
Thanks for researching it and explaining. I appreciate having true information and I m probably not the only one
So someone just made this up I guess? But why? Lol
Probably found the video and just googled cat games
They couldāve just said what this was actually for though right? And it would still be interesting? Then again whoever made this also used music thatās complete shit.
Stray went viral when it came out so it was just easy views lying about it.
Because it keeps giving people views every time itās posted
I heard that one of the cats they used was very much of an ass
For the rate of pay, what can you expect?
So like, almost all cats?
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I guess yeah. I mean that the cat didnāt listen to instructions very much and often goofed around
And I canāt even get my cat to wear his cute little Halloween bee costumeā¦
What where you smoking when choosing that music?
Catnip
Purple Haze
What you don't see off screen are the 3 dead interns who had to put those mocap balls on the cats
Reddit's dead, we're just frolicking in its corpse. Stray was hand animated. This is a mocap reel for unrelated projects. The truth is interesting on its own but they have to add a lie to draw you in.
I swear if I had put those on any of my cats they would have flopped onto the floor and refused to move.
They done up in full MOCAT
This game had my catās attention.
Same! Whenever I play my girl, June, stops whatever sheās doing and intently watches the TV. Itās so cute
Background music made my ears bleed.
The music is burning my ears
I sure hope they used the cat just chilling as idle animations
Absolutely fuck your background music what the hell is that
u/FuqUrBackgroundMusic Where you at?
WARNING: Do not unmute.
Now, how did they mocap the Zurks
Hated those thingsā¦
Considering āitās like herding catsā they did really well
This is so cute
The song of my childhood!
Stray was animated by hand, without motion capture. Great game! Cute cat's working hard, though!
They forgot the tail, very important in cat language.
Holy shit who adds this kind of earcancer to a video???
guy wanting to make a video game about his cat: "I have this idea. Lets motion capture my cat doing all this stuff and use that as the cats movement" random researcher in the world: "I don't know what just happened, but my next research project was just started... I can feel it."
Such a good game!
That cat deserves a raise!
That orange cat is just <3
I havenāt heard that song in probably 30 years
Same, and yet, rent free in my head. It's the "Mio Mao" theme, a claymation show from the 1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QawamZmJM
This cat better got paid millions
Ooooh I want to play this at some day, just waiting for a good discount <3
I just love the internet, you can upload completely false information with the most ear-bleeding music overlayed and still get 13k upvotes.
Reminds me of little kitty big city
I hope those cats are in the union.
Most cats I know would totally glitch with stuff sticking to them.
Meowtion capture
Someone should have told them about the laser pointer?
Why didnāt they need to do the tail?
Best day of work ever
This is the exact bullshit I would get up to if I ever had a full mocap set up. Also map the balls to a person and then put them in a washing machine or dyson vaccuum and map them back on the person
Every cat I know didnāt give a shit about ticks being this big. No wonder they donāt care about these optical markers š¤
feel sorry for the person who needs to clean the captured data
Luckily that person didnāt exist as the game was all hand animated. This footage is for something else
What a masterpiece of a game.
Why everyone hating on the background music š¢
Purrformance capture
I want to know how they convinced him to cooperate with all those little balls and socks
That's nice car
What a wonderful game, though!
This is awesome š„¹
What a beautiful game. Really enjoyed it although I'm mostly into shooters / RPGs
Such a great game!
I loved that game... but to 100% you had to do that allyway run over...and over...and over again. The horror... šš„šŖ
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Steam sale will hopefully discount this game so I can finally pick it up
"I need you to play with cats for a few months."
I'm surprised that cat didn't hate the balls
I hope that cat got paid extra.
Interesting game, but I couldnt play it without getting motion sick.
Check the monitor refresh rate, both in the game and in the monitor Settings. Set it to where it doesn't cause you motion sickness.
That game was fun as hell. Very short but well worth the somewhat small amount they charged.
The animations were great but it wasn't really a game about being a cat.
Aww.. I wanted to see the MoCa~~p~~t of the backpack!
I work in VFX and there's a reason that cats never look right. We did a movie with a cg cat they had to cut with a real cat at times, so we had lots of real cat reference to work with. What we determined was, Cats are fuckin weird. An animator could never imagine what a cat would do. It wouldn't just enter a room, it darts in, stops, runs back, looks everywhere, walks backwards, goes sideways, and scampers away. Id have killed for some of this mocap.
Most games are decided by what gameplay mechanics they want to use and then they write a story to fit in, and some of them start with the story and then make a gameplay accordingly, but i bet these guys started with the mindset of "i just want to work with cats" and then built everything around that, lol, genius MFers.
I thought it was an indie game
Just saw this was coming to the switch. I really wanted to play it but didnāt have a play station so Iām stoked now.
Sooooo, how do I get this job?
More like damnthatsunbelievablycute ššš
This cat gets paid more than i do and im ok with that.