D.O.K

D.O.K was a video game series I developed with various versions of Scratch. The first was created when I was 6, the last when I was 10/11. Their genres ranged from platformers to RPGs, cooking sims to point-and-click adventure games. None were ever released, and I have only a few newer ones saved.

Writing

Most of the writing in this series was cobbled together from elements of the extremely limited range of media my Christian parents would permit my exposure to, and it shows in the summary of the story concept: a spy organization of anthropomorphic dogs who worked to foil various evil plots concocted by the megalomanical king of cats, alongside his science-cat who was colored green due to an experiment gone wrong. The three lead characters of the games were Jimpuppy, Superdog, and Keebee, a cat who was on the dog's side for some reason.

Superdog and Keebee were explicitly based on my brothers, given traits (I thought) they had. However, Jimpuppy was a bit different. He was (theoretically) supposed to be based on me, but nothing about him was really similar to me. This was because I made him a remote-controlled flesh machine protagonist in the vein of Mario. Therefore his abilities and personality just consisted of whatever (I thought) (male) video game protagonists were supposed to be like. I don't know how to fully articulate it, but I'm pretty sure this had something to do with me being trans.

Visual

The art from the earlier games was scribbled within Scratch 1.4's primitive bitmap editor, with later entries switching to Scratch 2.0's vector editor.

Jimpuppy's character design was meant to be reminiscent of the leading mutt from Bolt, which was one of my 6-year-old self's favorite movies when she first designed him. Superdog was intended to be a Dalmatian, which I believe was the favorite dog breed of the brother I based him on. Keebee was an orange cat, who was originally supposed to be a tabby, but I gave up on drawing stripes because I simply couldn't get them to look good.