Cats vs Everything

Inspiration

I thought of creating a game about cats to have an excuse to use my 3 cats as models. I also wanted to pay homage to a game I played for countless hours when it came out, called Plants vs Zombies.

What it does

Cats vs Everything is a tower defense game where you help cats protect their cardboard tower from their evil everyday enemies.

Available cats

You have 3 different cats to help with your objective, each with its own abilities:

The orange cat generates fish (currency) every few seconds. The more you have, the more money it generates over time.
The tuxedo cat is your fighter, shooting cannonballs at enemies.
The tabby cat, with the highest HP, is your defense when enemies swarm in.

You will face enemies on the ground and in the air, including any cat’s worst enemy: the veterinarian with her scary syringes!

Vet attack

How we built it

Game:

Immersive Web SDK (https://github.com/facebook/immersive-web-sdk)

Assets:

Nomad Sculpt for sculpting the 3D models (https://nomadsculpt.com/)
Blender for animations (https://www.blender.org/)

Music & Sounds:

Pixabay for all the free music and sounds (https://pixabay.com/)

Challenges we ran into

The documentation for @iwsdk/core did not cover all my needs for the game, so some investigation was necessary.
Animations were a first for me, and I still haven’t grasped everything needed.

Accomplishments we're proud of

Implementing animations for all the cats and enemies :)
Creating a VR game for the first time

What we learned

Creating games for VR is possible and somewhat easy using just JavaScript with web tools! Also learned a lot about 3D game requirements and optimizations.