Cats are famously impossible to control on movie sets, yet filmmakers continue to cast them. They add something to a scene that a dog simply cannot, directors say: an element of intrigue or menace, a sense of being watched, and likely judged. (Click here for more on our favourite and most troublesome cat-stars in cinema.)
Night in the Woods, in which a young cat returns to a dying American town after dropping out of college, won the British Game Academy award for best narrative game in 2018.
Videogames, of course, are a different matter. See how cats are being cast at will in these worlds, and how humans are being invited to step into their boots.
* STRAY (2022)
An orange feline wakes from a nap in a post-apocalyptic world, mistimes a jump, and tumbles into an underground cyberpunk city. Injured and far from its family, it must now learn to navigate this realm, in the company of a defunct drone named B12, and ascend the three levels to escape.
Right down to the languid stretching, short napping and sharpening of claws, Stray perfects the physicality of the feline. Created by the French studio Annapurna Interactive, the art in grey and neons is effective, as is the idea of a world in which there are no humans; just a bustling world of animals and droids.
* CAT QUEST (2017)
Out on the open seas, a cat and his sister are attacked on their boat, the latter abducted by an evil white feline and the hero knocked unconscious. He wakes to find himself on the shores of the magic island kingdom of Felingrad.
Expect real-time combat, surprise dungeons and special tools and weapons, in the action role-playing game in which the player must fight to rescue his sibling. There’s a twist along the way. (He realises he isn’t just trying to save his sister but living out an ancient prophecy, as a warrior destined to fight dragons.)
Created in 2017 by the Singapore-based Gentlebros and published by PQube, the brightly coloured art is charming and light-hearted. Two sequels, Cat Quest II and III, have since been released.
* NIGHT IN THE WOODS (2017)
Set in a fictional, dying Rust Belt town called Possum Springs, populated by zoomorphic animals, Mae, a young cat, returns home after dropping out of college, to find that her best friend, Casey, has gone missing.
From her parents’ attic, she starts to observe how the town has changed, and is forced to consider that the people of Possum Springs know exactly what happened to her friend.
Explorations of mental health and the decline of small-town America follow, as Mae and her friends fight a mysterious group of cloaked figures, encounter a cult, and battle their own demons.
Created by Infinite Fall and Secret Lab and published by Finji, Night in the Woods won the British Game Academy award for best narrative game in 2018.
Down to the dialogue and rebellious-but-far-from-perfect anti-hero, the game is full of surprises, and offers an unusually emotional experience. Expect to feel all the angst of a 20-year-old trying to find something to pin hope to, in a once-booming coal-mining town.
In a rather significant plus, the papercut-style art is exquisite.
सिद्धभूमि के लेखक एक प्रमुख समाचार लेखक हैं, जिन्होंने समाज और राजनीति के महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दों पर गहरी जानकारी और विश्लेषण प्रदान किया है। उनकी लेखनी न केवल तथ्यात्मक होती है, बल्कि समाज की जटिलताओं को समझने और उजागर करने की क्षमता रखती है। उनके लेखों में तात्कालिक घटनाओं के विस्तृत विश्लेषण और विचारशील दृष्टिकोण की झलक मिलती है, जो पाठकों को समाज के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर सोचने के लिए प्रेरित करते हैं।
एक ऐसे समय में जब प्रिंट एवं मुद्रण अपनी प्रारंभिक अवस्था में था ,समाचार पत्र अपने संसाधनो के बूते निकाल पाना बेहद दुष्कर कार्य था ,लेकिन इसे चुनौती के रूप में स्वीकार करते हुए स्वर्गीय श्री शयाम सुन्दर मिश्र “प्रान ” ने 12 मार्च 1978 को पडरौना (कुशीनगर ) उत्तर प्रदेश से सिद्ध भूमि हिंदी साप्ताहिक का प्रकाशन आरम्भ किया | स्वर्गीय श्री शयाम सुन्दर मिश्र “प्रान ” सीमित साधनों व अभावों के बीच पत्रकारिता को मिशन के रूप में लेकर चलने वाले पत्रकार थे । उनका मानना था कि पत्रकारिता राष्ट्रीय लोक चेतना को उद्वीप्त करने का सबसे सशक्त माध्यम है । इसके द्वारा ही जनपक्षीय सरोकारो को जिन्दा रखा जा सकता है । किसी भी संस्था के लिए चार दशक से अधिक का सफ़र कम नही है ,सिद्ध भूमि ने इस लम्बी यात्रा में जनपक्षीय सरोकारो को जिन्दा रखते हुए कर्मपथ पर अपने कदम बढ़ाएं हैं और भविष्य के लिए भी नयी आशाएं और उम्मीदें जगाई हैं । ऑनलाइन माध्यम की उपयोगिता को समझते हुए सिद्ध भूमि न्यूज़ पोर्टल की शुरुवात जुलाई 2013 में किया गया |
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