Why Mineko’s Night Market took 8 years to make
Mineko’s Night Market first started to spread around social media in 2015. I remember one of the first clips I saw: a video of a person clicking around a screen to play a bunch of cats like a keyboard, each boop met with a new tone of meow. Eventually, a truck rolled past with cats piled up in the back. It looked instantly alluring. I didn’t know exactly what this game would become, but its charming art style — with cats rendered like a vintage cartoon — wiggled its way into my brain. I’ve kept an eye on its development since its debut, watching from afar as increasingly adorable clips rolled by on my Twitter feed — and as the years went on and on.
About eight years later, Mineko’s Night Market is finally ready for release; it’s coming out on Nintendo Switch as well as Mac and Windows PC on Sept. 26. Developer Meowza Games co-founders Brandi Kobayashi and Brent Kobayashi told Polygon that Mineko’s Night Market has been through several iterations before becoming the game that will be released on Tuesday: “The current [version of Mineko’s Night Market] was in development for the last two years,” Brent said. “We signed with Humble, our publisher, very early in the process — we didn’t even have much of a game at that time.”
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Brent and Brandi came up with several small versions of what could have been Mineko’s Night Market, but scrapped them two or three times, Brent said. “We were almost at the point of burnout,” he said. “Mentally, it was rough,” Brandi added. At that point, they took some time off from the game, which
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