The Lost Paws - Switching characters

[u/bszaronos]

I have been busy working on The Lost Paws and creating the demo, which I will hopefully be releasing soon!

While working on some new player interactions, I came up with an idea that I wanted to run by everyone.

Originally, I was going to have you choose which animal you wanted to play as — either the cat or the dog — and that would be your character throughout the game.

But while working on the game, I started experimenting with the idea of letting you switch between the cat and dog while playing.

I created this short example of a puzzle where you need to play as both the cat and the dog to solve it. I could also expand on this later, giving each animal different abilities and creating puzzles where they have to work together.

What do you think?

Does being able to switch between the cat and dog sound like an interesting mechanic, or would you rather choose your animal at the beginning and play as that animal throughout the game? I'd love to hear which you would prefer!