In the fall of 2016, developer Neutronized in publishing partnership with FDG Entertainment released the fantastic touch-based cat platformer Super Cat Tales (Free) into the App Store. We thought it was phenomenal in our review, and so we were elated this past April when Neutronized officially announced a sequel. As part of their development process, Neutronized has been creating developer videos talking about some of the changes coming to Super Cat Tales 2 and the thinking behind them. I’ve found them really interesting, and so far we’ve posted about Devlog #1 which talked about improving how much backtracking was necessary in the first game, and Devlog #2 which talked about improving the “helper" characters and how they worked for the sequel. Since that second video was posted, Neutronized has actually posted two more videos to their YouTube channel which you can see below. The first is Devlog #3 which discusses how the sequel will better define the different abilities of the playable cat characters in the game as well as some improvements coming to the controls.
Next up is Devlog #4 which goes over making improvements to the difficulty and length of the levels in Super Cat Tales 2, which are now broken up into different “rooms" within the same level and also feature multiple branching paths to take based on which playable cat you’re using at a given time. There’s also a glimpse at how the levels are initially designed ...