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The tweet gained over 3,800 retweets and 7,000 likes. On May 7th, 2018, Twitter user DitzyFlama responded to Twitter user GIF of an animated cat slapping a table by posting a video in which he'd edited the GIF to include bongos and added the song 'Athletic' from the Super Mario World soundtrack. After the original video grew popular, people made different versions of the video showing the cat playing other instruments or a variant of the cat with muscular arms banging on the table.

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The lectures, labs and videos he provided prevented hours and hours of trial and error, in addition to giving me a greater perspective on how both challenging and rewarding making a video game can be.Cat, ditzyflama, remix, instruments, bongocat, anon eats crayons, garinbadger, kirk keely, bananamanplays, cat banging table, cat hitting table, muscular cat pounding on table, gif Aboutīongo Cat refers to an animation of a cat appearing to play the bongos that has been used in various remix videos to make it appear as though the cat is playing along to different songs. I would never have been able to learn this all on my own, so I give a great thanks to Professor Grewell.

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Working on Bongo Cat: The Game has challenged me in unanticipated ways, in learning how to create a desired effect in Unreal Engine and creating an interesting idea within my ability to execute it from start to finish. But for right now, the priority is to cut down on the existing blueprint clutter. This idea suits the blueprint refactoring well, so it would probably be one of the first future updates to the game. It would be relatively easy to create a “Song Select” menu, where players can choose from a list of songs to play. While the idea worked in a vacuum, transitioning the blueprint into the main game proved too difficult with my current set of skills. This is similar to how other rhythm games such as Osu! include timing-specific points and popups: “Perfect, great, good, ok”.

One feature implemented in a demo that was scrapped because of time had each note individually keeping track of a point value from 0 to 100 back to 0 as it changed proximity to the hitzone.

Another relatively simple idea is to create multiple note spawners, so each note spawns from a random spawner. Namely, flashing lights and screen shake seen in many Bongo Cat videos. I am still interested in implementing ideas from the initial design pitch. Refactoring all the blueprints into the player caused it to become a bit bloated, but it accomplishes the objective in a centralized manner.Ĭlick to Zoom - Viewport for the multiplayer object. But for now it works, and that’s what counts.Īn initial implementation of the single player mode segmented the song, player action, and note-point values in individual blueprints, but this implementation caused too many headaches syncing the data up and casting from one blueprint to another. The blueprint has ballooned to the size of roughly four single player blueprints, and as I learn more about Unreal Engine I am positive it could be minimized greatly. As for the multiplayer blueprint itself, it admittely needs some reworking. This design decision came as a happy accident as I was planning how to implement four players without shrinking the player character’s model. Single player has the notes moving only along one axis towards the bongo drum, while in multiplayer the spawners are positioned to shoot notes that go through the player blueprint. The keys Z, Q, P, and M are used to activate the players in the respective quadrant.

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