i am not your cat (DEMO)
A downloadable recess game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
This projects includes flashing images, dithering/noise textures, and low contrast visual elements. It also contains a stylized font which may be difficult to read. I intend to add font options in a later build.
This game is intended for a mature audience, please take care while reading.
'Why doesn't H-llo Kitty have a mouth?'
"It's so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad. For this psychological reason, we thought she shouldn't be tied to any emotion — and that's why she doesn't have a mouth."
- Yuko Yamaguchi
a bootleg doll abandoned on the playground whiles away the afternoon.
toys are meant to be played with, and girls are meant to be loved. so a girl unloved is the same as a doll on a shelf. sometimes i still think that i was made to be hurt by you.
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>1k words (~5min playtime)
ft. found dolls, string figures, paper & clay textures
Please see CREDITS.txt for attributions
Special thanks to Forespi for allowing me to use their music for this project.
Photo credits to doggiewoggiez
Additional audio credits to ROHHSA and Rrrrrose Azerty
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CREATOR NOTE: The build released for MIXED MEDIA QUEER VN JAM 2026 is incomplete. I hope to add more to this project for NOISE JAM 4: A GIRL SHAPED HOLE
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I love the clay sculptures and descriptions of the clay made for this!! I like how you worked the mediums themselves into the story, and used them like props; the craft of playing, the playing by crafting, and where the self lies. The soundtrack (and lovely main menu music) has a nice melancholy feel to it.
from the very first peek into the main menu, i am greeted with a nostalgic sense of comfort. the music is slow and melodic, the chalk paints this gorgeous silhouette against the warm yellows, reds, oranges. moving forward, i am welcomed into a childhood summer, the sun slowly setting - and then interrupted all at once.
i love the textures, the physicality that reaches out to me from behind the screen, the scrawled notes on ripped pieces of paper, the gorgeous animation of cat's cradle. the clay gives me this sense of a game like hylics, which you use just as well in a sense of creepiness but also peculiarity that draws me in wanting more.
i so wanted to this be longer - i will really eagerly be looking forward to the extended version. such a lovely little piece of art <3
thank you so much for such a thorough comment <33
YES hylics was a big touchstone for me in this project. I love how that game presents a bizarre little world and asks you to move through it, even when it doesn't make logical sense. And I think the tactility of that game is what helps ground it and keep it from flying too far off into the unknown.
i will try to deliver more when my army of small dolls return from the clay mines 🫡
the color, the symbolism, the warmth, the emotion ... !! a really delicate and special piece of art. i feel like warm clay. thanx for including my tunes ^_^
I really loved the characters in this - especially faith and chance. I want to know what happens to the dolls next!!
amazing!! fantastic!! beautiful and bittersweet and hurting and so so so tactile. this game is squishing me up and reimagining my form and pulling out my string by the arm-length. Astounding work! I want to eat this and for it to make me sick
Really stylish and intriguing! I'd love to see more of this when it fully releases!
i was way entranced on this one, i can't wait to see how it expands with the extra time from noise jam :DD
OMG YOU'RE SO FAST THAT's amazing thank you so much !!! Yes I had a lot of fun with this project so far and am excited to work more on it >:3
hehe i saw it on the homepage because i follow you :D all the mixed media games so far are so fun !!