I want a game where just moving around the map is, in itself, fun. If you’ve ever played any of the 3D Mario games, you’ll probably remember the sheer joy of just running around a map, doing triple jumps and just generally bouncing off the walls shouting “ya-hooooo!”. We’re not quite going to get there - this is a Commodore 64 game, remember? But I do want the player movement to be fun.
Cats have a lot of potential here. Have you ever seen a cat jump in a window you thought was too high for it? There’s a sort of wall-run boost technique they use. We can do that:
And even though I’ve never seen a cat jump back and forth from wall to wall, I’m sure they do that too, right?