Artfight Warriors

A Short Point-&-Click video game made over 2 weeks for Artfight 2024 for Team Stardust, themed around Warrior Cats fan characters coming together for their own version of the art event.

Welcome Warriors... 

You have traveled far, sent to this gathering spot by Starclan themselves. They offered a message... a mission that could gather clans all around the world (and realms) to compete in a strange game: ARTFIGHT!

Now, you simple clan cat might wonder, "What is Artfight". Well - look around you! Some cats have brought cool twoleg trinkets, some are managing to carve into bones, and others are drawing in the dirt or using flowers/branches to craft beautiful pieces of "ART". Starclan! There are even cats showing off their hunting trophies and the stories behind how they artfully caught them. 

As you settle down at this gathering, you are introduced to the goal: Cats have been classed into two team "Team Bird" and "Team Lizard".  This is not a competition of skill, but of a competition of points that the art cats gathered here can contribute to. Only one team will win - but which one? 

This game page is made to have the game available for owners of the characters in question (as well as general audiences) to enjoy the game these characters were featured in. 

The game is short, at most 25 minutes long (if you stop to read each line out loud), but it can be finished in less than 5 minutes if you choose to skip talking to cats to trigger the end announcements.

TRIGGERING THE FINALE:
The event triggers to bring up the finale are centered around visiting each map once + returning to your starting map a second time. If you start in the leader's area, this means visiting that spot twice (and the same scenario for the medicine cats area). 

I have made sure that you can pick the option to keep exploring if this event pop-ups before you've spoken to every cat you want to interact with.

DISCLAIMER:
This game was built on sticks, tape and wet glue lol. In all seriousness, it was done on Mac using RPG Maker MV. While playtesting this game I would encounter inexplicable crashes & bugs (the screen goes black, the game closes for no apparent reason, and a beta tester experienced freezes on their windows playthrough).
I could not work out the reason why this happened and couldn't find any way to fix it online. My theories for why this happens are that it is either an issue with one of the plugins (all of whom I need to run the game), an issue with using art as parallax backgrounds, or a matter of MV itself not being supported on Mac anymore.

My advice if you encounter/want to avoid being affected if these crop up is to do the following:
1. Save after the opening cutscene (when you have named your cat, picked and rank & team, and are left to roam) - this should let you skip that part when restarting.
2. You can restart the game after it crashes and there's a strong chance it will work smoothly! My personal experience (at least on the Mac end) is that it can be wildly unpredictable when this happens. You can play the game for half an hour, reach the end, and never encounter a crash or bug, and other times it closes upon opening. 
3. Don't worry about losing progress! Nothing is tracked for the cat interactions, just based on visiting all maps. As long as you save after the opening cutscene, you can quickly visit all maps in a couple of clicks to get back to where it left off.