Speak to any cat owner, and they'll tell you that no item of food is safe if left unguarded. Speak to any cat owner, and they'll hail the mystifying pleasures of empty cardboard boxes. Speak to any cat owner, and they'll stress their love for their self-cleaning pets but wish they'd stop bringing home dead birds as "presents". Speak to Matt Wood, game director of Little Kitty, Big City and self-proclaimed "cat dad", and he'll tell you all of the above was inspiration for his upcoming open-world adventure game.
"I've had cats most of my life, I love cats. It was really important to me to make the game feel genuine," says Wood. "I wanted people who were familiar with cats to feel like they were playing as a cat. It's very easy to take the route of: here's an avatar that looks like a cat. To me, I wanted to feel like I was playing as a cat."
