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Pawborough is an upcoming cat-based rpg game that’s currently in development. You can find all their upcoming previews and sneak peaks from their staff here.
The game’s homepage’s
description can be found below:
PawBorough is an interactive cat-based RPG currently in development. PawBorough invites users to collect felines of all different stripes, lineages, and colors, breed them together to discover exciting new combinations, go on quests with a unique dungeon crawling system, and build a web of relationships to personalize the player experience.
Players are encouraged to express creativity as they complete quests by embracing and expanding on the story provided for them. PawBorough uniquely incorporates adventuring elements into its gameplay, including inspiration from community storytelling and tabletop adventure games. You as the player will help decide the direction of the sitewide campaign, collectively interacting with our NPCs and driving the story through everyday play.
*Note for development transparency: PawBorough has twenty breeds planned for the site's lifetime. During production, accessory items will be illustrated on all twenty breeds, regardless of the breeds currently available to the player base. This method of production is to ensure an efficient release of breeds, as well as to avoid severely hindering future development!
Because of this, accessories will be relatively limited at the start. We hope extensive decor and backdrop options will help tocompensate during this period. Thank you!
A cat's page will also feature highly customizable "role" and "relationship" options!
A cat's role in your territory can be custom written and featured on the page! Options such as "loner," "leader," and "camp member" are available to foster a player's own ideas.
For the relationships tab, players can add their cats and, with permission, other players' cats! Relationship groups and individual titles are entirely customizable. Options such as "enemy," "mate," and "family" are available to foster a player's ideas.
However, in Paw Borough, a cat can have "primary" and "secondary" breeding characteristics, meant to reference the existence of dominant and recessive genes.
If a cat has a previous ancestry, there is a 20% chance that the color and gene option will be chosen from either the dam or sire's grandparent range.
The site library will trace a cat's genetic characteristics and history. We hope this mechanic can encourage new and creative breeding strategies for players to obtain their perfect family!
And if you'd really like to take matters into your own hands, you can create an "unclipped" pelt, giving you free rein to illustrate over the lineart and shading of the cat (so long as the illustration remains within the cat's silhouette.)
The world is your oyster!
You will be able to sell your pelts and other art you make by setting up a shop in the Monarch Gallery! Skip out on buying the supplies and printing pelts yourself; we'll do it for you. You take the profit!
The Monarch Gallery will also feature site-assisted commission listings. Advertise your portfolio, list what you will create, and the timeframe, and choose how many slots you wish to fill.
Players can now commission artists with a site-facilitated delivery system, encouraging users to discover, value, participate, and appreciate the community's art.
Note for clarity: to discourage players from expecting instant gratification from artists,not appreciating that labor takes time, and to dissuade artists from engaging in said unhealthy culture, artists are not allowed to set the timeframe under three weeks, regardless of suspected delivery. This limit is subject to extension depending on player feedback.
During a thread, invite other players to join in, spectate, or keep it to yourselves for secret story elements!
Worn recipe pages can be found throughout Mewmoia... Oh, what's this? Each recipe seems to be handwritten with personal notes; perhaps collecting enough will start to reveal some Mewmoian history...
In our example*, players must collectively donate 500 Wicker Baskets to aid the Luna Borough in solving tensions with the Sol Borough. Should it succeed, tensions will lift, and all Sol Borough cats will receive a free feeding! Should it fail, the feud will worsen, and characters will begin discussing battle.
Help NPCs form relationships, start fights, usurp leaders, destroy characters, and experience an ever-growing story through the generations of Mewmoia.
Task requirements will range in variety. Site-wide NPCs and borough-specific NPCs will have major and minor storytelling tasks.
*This storyline example is purely for proof of concept and is not necessarily indicative of canon tasks that will be presented on the site.
And there is much more in preparation for the lifetime of the game! To remain honest and transparent, we chose to share today only the features that the funds from a successful campaign will actively contribute to finishing.
However! Successful funding opens the door for us to do even more! We certainly won't be stopping here, and you can look forward to more developments in the future. 😸
The game’s homepage’s
description can be found below:
PawBorough is an interactive cat-based RPG currently in development. PawBorough invites users to collect felines of all different stripes, lineages, and colors, breed them together to discover exciting new combinations, go on quests with a unique dungeon crawling system, and build a web of relationships to personalize the player experience.
Players are encouraged to express creativity as they complete quests by embracing and expanding on the story provided for them. PawBorough uniquely incorporates adventuring elements into its gameplay, including inspiration from community storytelling and tabletop adventure games. You as the player will help decide the direction of the sitewide campaign, collectively interacting with our NPCs and driving the story through everyday play.
Create Your Founders
After choosing one of the seven Boroughs, create your camp founders and name your piece of territory!
Customize
Paw Borough is all about expressing your unique style! On top of dressing your cat up with accessories*, each cat's page will feature a customizable backdrop. Players are able to place decor items in the scene, and any image will be resizable, rotatable, and draggable, including the cat!*Note for development transparency: PawBorough has twenty breeds planned for the site's lifetime. During production, accessory items will be illustrated on all twenty breeds, regardless of the breeds currently available to the player base. This method of production is to ensure an efficient release of breeds, as well as to avoid severely hindering future development!
Because of this, accessories will be relatively limited at the start. We hope extensive decor and backdrop options will help tocompensate during this period. Thank you!
A cat's page will also feature highly customizable "role" and "relationship" options!
A cat's role in your territory can be custom written and featured on the page! Options such as "loner," "leader," and "camp member" are available to foster a player's own ideas.
For the relationships tab, players can add their cats and, with permission, other players' cats! Relationship groups and individual titles are entirely customizable. Options such as "enemy," "mate," and "family" are available to foster a player's ideas.
Breed
Cats can be selectively chosen to breed new and exciting combinations. Two parents can produce offspring that share their genes and color range.
However, in Paw Borough, a cat can have "primary" and "secondary" breeding characteristics, meant to reference the existence of dominant and recessive genes.
If a cat has a previous ancestry, there is a 20% chance that the color and gene option will be chosen from either the dam or sire's grandparent range.
The site library will trace a cat's genetic characteristics and history. We hope this mechanic can encourage new and creative breeding strategies for players to obtain their perfect family!
Create
Create "pelt" and "partial pelt" items to put on your cat! Download our lineart and illustrate your own colors and markings. If you have a specific design or character you'd like to show off, now you can! The possibilities are endless!And if you'd really like to take matters into your own hands, you can create an "unclipped" pelt, giving you free rein to illustrate over the lineart and shading of the cat (so long as the illustration remains within the cat's silhouette.)
The world is your oyster!
You will be able to sell your pelts and other art you make by setting up a shop in the Monarch Gallery! Skip out on buying the supplies and printing pelts yourself; we'll do it for you. You take the profit!
The Monarch Gallery will also feature site-assisted commission listings. Advertise your portfolio, list what you will create, and the timeframe, and choose how many slots you wish to fill.
Players can now commission artists with a site-facilitated delivery system, encouraging users to discover, value, participate, and appreciate the community's art.
Note for clarity: to discourage players from expecting instant gratification from artists,not appreciating that labor takes time, and to dissuade artists from engaging in said unhealthy culture, artists are not allowed to set the timeframe under three weeks, regardless of suspected delivery. This limit is subject to extension depending on player feedback.
Paw Borough is built on the culture of roleplay and imagination. We want our players to create their own worlds!
In addition to player-driven forums, there is a specialized mechanic for customized private, public, and spectated roleplay! Choose a cat to represent each message, including a "narrator" option.
During a thread, invite other players to join in, spectate, or keep it to yourselves for secret story elements!
Cook
Cook ingredients for food and decor items! By farming and hunting for raw food items, you can use them for cooking recipes. You may also use this feature to make incense, which can attract new cats with no recorded ancestry to your territory.Worn recipe pages can be found throughout Mewmoia... Oh, what's this? Each recipe seems to be handwritten with personal notes; perhaps collecting enough will start to reveal some Mewmoian history...
Contribute to Community Story
We are very excited to present site-guided community storytelling! With this feature, players are given choices on whether to "fulfill" or "answer" tasks requested by NPCs. Every option, including a collective failure or choice to not complete the task, will result in the forwarding of a collaborative site narrative!
In our example*, players must collectively donate 500 Wicker Baskets to aid the Luna Borough in solving tensions with the Sol Borough. Should it succeed, tensions will lift, and all Sol Borough cats will receive a free feeding! Should it fail, the feud will worsen, and characters will begin discussing battle.
Help NPCs form relationships, start fights, usurp leaders, destroy characters, and experience an ever-growing story through the generations of Mewmoia.
Task requirements will range in variety. Site-wide NPCs and borough-specific NPCs will have major and minor storytelling tasks.
*This storyline example is purely for proof of concept and is not necessarily indicative of canon tasks that will be presented on the site.
And there is much more in preparation for the lifetime of the game! To remain honest and transparent, we chose to share today only the features that the funds from a successful campaign will actively contribute to finishing.
However! Successful funding opens the door for us to do even more! We certainly won't be stopping here, and you can look forward to more developments in the future. 😸
