Mindscape

Mindscape is shelved and no longer online.

Mindscape was the weird sibling of Cats Fishing: same Unity project, very different mood. The world is The Natural World, a digital nature index that’s been rebooted ten million times and is due for deletion. You’re a cat with a magnetometer, sent in to get anything valuable out before it all goes dark. The horror is all environmental: bushes that follow you, a TV in the woods advertising a pill that takes you apart atom by atom. Clip out of bounds and you drop into a procedural maze full of loot and danger like a doom map from the good old days.

I focused a lot on the lore, the zones, the fiction and the art direction. The engineering was done by a studio team between October 2025 and April 2026. They built multiplayer networking, a one-button lobby, extraction, knockdowns, noise and threat systems, flashlights, hazards, and in-game terminals. Amazing team and work.

Around the game sat a few web pieces: a launcher that handled sign-in and booted the browser build; mindscape.software, a terminal emulator with a CRT look, a virtual file system and achievements; and a VHS-styled lore wiki, which I built myself.

We shelved it in April 2026. I took the fishing game back out on its own (that’s Cats Fishing). Mindscape isn’t live any more, but what’s left is a finished fiction, a lot of design work and a playable multiplayer prototype that I still am holding onto for the right moment, lots of experiments.

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