Projects
Elemental Tower Defense
Elemental Tower Defense is Heavy Cat Studios’ new tower defense game engine for the Flash® platform.
Scorpion MGAV
Scorpion MGAV is designed and developed by Heavy Cat Studios.
Rocket Fuel Transporter
In 2012, Heavy Cat Studios co-developed Rocket Fuel Transporter, producing an all-new set of color illustrations for the game engine. The object of the game is to maneuver the truck and deliver as many of the fuel tanks as possible in the shortest time. The truck can be upgraded between levels.
O’Malley’s Mudcats: The Story of the Fighting Eighth
Heavy Cat Studios’ first game in the popular tower defense genre, O’Malley’s Mudcats tells the story of Captain O’Malley’s Brown Water Gunboat Fleet and their defense of Banacek River against encroaching armor and mechanized infantry. Players can launch missile destroyers, cruisers and gunboats to stop the oncoming waves of enemy tanks and vehicles.
Strike Fleet Athena
In 2011, Heavy Cat Studios returns to the Flash game market with a science-fiction title called Strike Fleet Athena. The arcade-style science-fiction game allows players to pilot various vessels to help Commander Acey and Z-bot outfit a powerful strategic space fleet and prepare for an alien attack.
LadyStar™ Treasures of Ajanel
Heavy Cat Studios, in conjunction with Fat Panda Games, released LadyStar™ Treasures of Ajanel on the Adobe® Flash® platform in 2010 as the second major adaptation of the LadyStar™ characters for an interactive title. Treasures of Ajanel is a hidden object game which features color pages from the Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors webcomic.
LadyStar™ The Dreamspeaker
In February of 2011, Palace in the Sky Publishing released LadyStar: The Dreamspeaker in ebook format. The 79,000-word novel by W. Scott follows the adventures of Jessica Hoshi and her friends as they travel to the enchanted realm of Aventar.
In its first few months of release, LadyStar: The Dreamspeaker has earned critical acclaim from numerous popular book review sites.
Ten chapters of LadyStar™ The Dreamspeaker are available free to read on the Ajan Champions Web Fiction site.
War of Winds Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the War of Winds Spot-the-Difference Game in cooperation with War of Winds Webcomics and Difference Games.
Tales of Pylea Crux Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the Tales of Pylea: Crux Spot-the-Difference Game in cooperation with Tales of Pylea Webcomics and Difference Games.
Juathuur: Gatecrash Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the Juathuur: Gatecrash Spot-the-Difference Game in cooperation with Juathuur Webcomics and Difference Games.
The Juathuur: Gatecrash Spot-the-Difference Game has been played over 1.3 million times.
Station V3 Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the Station V3 Spot-the-Difference Game in cooperation with Station V3 and Difference Games.
E-Depth Angel Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the E-Depth Angel Spot-the-Difference Game in cooperation with Altar Studios and Difference Games.
LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors Spot-the-Difference Game
Heavy Cat Studios developed the illustrations, menus and interface for the LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors Spot-the-Difference Game in conjunction with Difference Games.
The LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors Spot-the-Difference Game was released on the Adobe® Flash® platform in October 2009, and features characters and pages from the popular Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors webcomic. The LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors Spot-the-Difference game has been featured on popular Flash gaming portals like Armor Games and Kongregate and has been played over 200,000 times.
LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors
LadyStar™ Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors successfully completed its production run in early 2010. Part One of the story included the publication of some 59 color pages, and combined with LadyStar™ Fury of the Venom Legion Heavy Cat Studios independently produced enough raw creative content to fill four complete print comic titles.
From March 2008 to November of 2009, monthly “direct visits,” (defined as readers who came directly to the site by, for example, a bookmark) to the LadyStar webcomic sites grew a whopping 499%.
LadyStar™ Fury of the Venom Legion
In early 2008, Heavy Cat Multimedia established what was to become one of the largest teams of professional artists in webcomics. By 2009, Heavy Cat Studios had grown to eight artists and animators, five of whom are college graduates.
Heavy Cat Studios was formed to develop the premiere LadyStar web comic called LadyStar™ Fury of the Venom Legion. An original script was written and the team went on to design, produce and publish a 28-page web-based weekly comic, going seven straight months without missing a single update.
LadyStar™
LadyStar™ is the story of seven girls who wear priceless treasures that turn into powerful magical weapons.
The story follows the adventures of Jessica Hoshi, a cheerful, optimistic and slightly silly 14-year-old girl who leads her friends on a journey to an enchanted realm to fight for a betrayed kingdom and search for the ancient legends of an avenging warrior.
LadyStar has been in development since 2000. The LadyStar webcomics and webnovels are read by over 15,000 people each month.
Heavy Cat Multimedia operates Palace in the Sky Publishing, an entertainment network consisting of over 20 original comic titles published on the web. Among Palace in the Sky’s membership are Heavy Cat Multimedia’s featured webcomics: LadyStar: Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors and LadyStar: Fury of the Venom Legion.
Palace in the Sky offers a webcomic anthology with continually updated content that serves thousands of readers each month.
Heavy Cat Multimedia served as an independent marketing research consultant for the English-language Sailor Moon™ television series, and developed an official English-language Sailor Moon™ web site and product catalog.
During the Tranquility and Gemini Projects, each designed to adapt the English-language Sailor Moon™ characters for the PC and console game markets, we compiled voluminous market research covering both the television and home video market for anime series from Robotech to Sailor Moon to Pokemon.
From 1999 through 2003, Heavy Cat Multimedia developed designs and marketing strategies for next-generation multiplayer video games based on the Sailor Moon™ characters for the Sony Playstation®, Nintendo Gamecube® Nintendo Gameboy® and Microsoft Xbox® consoles.
Sailor Moon™ is a two billion dollar anime phenomenon consisting of 200 animated television episodes, 52 live-action television episodes, 29 musicals, 20 video games, 40 music albums, 33 singles, three feature films and 18 manga volumes with over 100 million fans worldwide.
