These are screenshots (and video, later edit) from my final university project, that I simply titled The Cat Game (I know, Stray just came out since).
It's a project I have been planning for a long time. I started by wondering what a cool world must cats live in, and how that feeling could be translated? How to make sure that the player identifies with the player character and not the familiar environment they happen to exist in?
Cats would experience the same world in a fundamentally different way as they don't see the same functions that our brains assign to the many objects surrounding us, but they have their own interpretation.
I decided to make the cat a small ninja warrior and see how things might look through that lens. I changed the look and general vibe of everything based on this afterwards.
I used Blender for all of the assets, Substance Painter for most of the materials and the game is running in Unreal Engine 4.