The same spot, every day for two weeks

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

This is the first post of the devlog. The plan is a short one every few days, about whatever is easiest to show.

I started Tabby Trails on September 21. Back then it was a cat in a field, in a window 256 pixels wide, with a rock to dig at.

I wanted to see what two weeks of work looks like, so I wrote a script. It checks out the last commit of each day, starts that version of the game, drops a new cat into the same world and takes a screenshot. The world is generated from a seed, so the same seed gives the same place every time. Mostly.

The clip above is those screenshots in order. About a week in, the field turns into a village, because villages got added and this cat happens to wake up in one. On October 4 the houses turn into acorns, and I'm keeping those.

The street lamps and windows turn on at night now:

And there are seasons:

It's an early beta and you can play it in the browser. If something's weird or broken, I'd like to hear about it. No rush.

Also lately

Crickets purr instead of click.
Caves have springs, lifts, ferries and crumbling bridges.
You can craft a raccoon suit. Also a frog suit.
Sproutlings: little wind-up helpers you program by stacking pieces.
No more ghost cats after a server restart.

Tabby Trails devlog

The same spot, every day for two weeks

Also lately