Stray
Completed
Stray is a 2022 adventure game developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. The story follows a stray cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria, and sets out to return to the surface with the help of a drone companion, B-12.
Stray was heavily influenced aesthetically by Kowloon Walled City; Koola and Viv liked the city’s organic construction, and found it interesting to approach as artists. They designed some graphical tests of the environments and buildings, and found the city was the “perfect playground for a cat” due to the various paths and views. The development team found gameplay as a cat led to interesting level design opportunities, particularly regarding platforming and puzzle elements.
They encountered artistic and technical challenges in balancing interesting game design with the open world, as typically decorative items such as pipes and air conditioning units are explorable paths in Stray.
