- Jumping Jazz Cats - Experimental Beta Branch - Out Now ๐ฎ๐ป - 4 July 2025
Hello feline friends! ๐ Today, we're happy to announce that we've released a Experimental Beta Branch for Jumping Jazz Cats on Steam! This Steam Beta Branch is accessible to all, allowing you to playtest on a branch with Steam Deck Additions and Bug Fixes. โ How do I access the Experimental Beta Branch? You can play the Beta Branch in a few simple steps, which are listed below: Head to your Steam Library and find Jumping Jazz Cats. On the Jumping Jazz Cats page in Steam Library, select the Manage menu (Settings like toggle icon โ๏ธ). Select Properties. Select Betas. On the Beta page, click the dropdown under Beta Participation. Select the 'experimental - PUBLIC - Experimental Branch' to opt into the Beta Build. Your download of the new branch should start to download automatically. If not, close and reopen the Steam client application.On this branch, you may experience some bugs. We havโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats is OUT NOW on Steam! ๐๐ฅณ - 20 May 2025
Hello feline friends! ๐ We're thrilled to announce that Jumping Jazz Cats has released for Steam! ๐ฅณ Play, race and hang with your feline friends in our online platformer party game! Learn more about Jumping Jazz Cats by watching our new Launch Trailer! ๐ Are you ready to purr-fect your pussycat parkour as you sprint, jump, bounce, swing, skid and slide through a collection of collaborative and competitive mini-games set in a grandiose cartoon mansion. Get jumpin', jazz cats! ๐ธ Jumping Jazz Cats - Key Features: ๐ต 2-9 players online ๐ต Up to 4 local players can join via split-screen ๐ต Singleplayer Trials ๐ต 6 levels across the mansion to discover ๐ต Unlock Collar Tags for buffs across mini-games ๐ต Customize your cat ๐ต 6 cat-GIF inspired mini-games ๐ต 10 original jazz tracks that influence gameplay during the choruses ๐ต Mix and match levels, mini-games and songs for immense varietโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats Dev Blog Q&A with Dan from Le Catnip Collective - 16 May 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐ In today's Steam post, Team17 sat down with Jumping Jazz Cat's development team at Le Catnip Collective to bring you a two-part Dev Blog! ๐ฅณ Before jumping in with the Dev Blog, earlier in the week we announced our new Steam launch date for Jumping Jazz Cats - 20th May 2025! We're super excited for you all to experience our kittycat party game on May 20th ๐บ In part two of our Dev Blog series, we'll be chatting with Dan, Le Catnip Collective's Director & Co-Founder, to discuss Jumping Jazz Cats' origins, gaming inspirations, the party game's cat animations, and the upcoming launch on Steam! ๐ Dev Log Q&A with Daniel Harris How did the concept of Jumping Jazz Cats come about? "The concept was inspired by my love for cats and their fascinating movement. As a veteran animator, Iโm constantly captivated by the way cats moveโthereโs such an elegant yet quirky flโฆ
- Mini-Game Deep Dive | Rodent Rumble & Shadow Cats | Jumping Jazz Cats ๐ - 14 May 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ We're hope you're excited for Jumping Jazz Cats' launch on 20th May! ๐ผ In today's Steam post, we wanted to reveal more details of our final two minigames in our online cat party game! Watch the full Mini-Game Deep Dive video here: โฌ๏ธ ๐ Rodent Rumble In Rodent Rumble, the aim is simple: Catch that rat. The longer you or your team hold onto that pesky rodent, the more points you earn! The longer you hold onto the rat, the more it vibrates and wriggles away until it's out of your kittycat paws! Combat this by throwing the rat to your team mates to hold onto the toy for longer and scoring even more points in Rodent Rumble. ๐ฆ Shadow Cats Shadow Cats is a variation of tag, with a feline twist! You and your team can either be a Shadow Cat or a Lion. If you are a Shadow Cat, you'll want to run fast and hide. The Lion team are tasked with capturing the Shadow Caโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats ๐ | Launches 20th May 2025 for Steam! - 13 May 2025
Hello feline friends! ๐ We're excited to announce our new Steam release date for Jumping Jazz Cats, which launches on 20th May 2025! It's not long until you'll be jumping into the kitty parkour party in Ellington Estate and battling your friends across our six online party games! ๐ฅณ Jumping Jazz Cats launches 20th May on Steam! Jumping Jazz Cats - Key Features: ๐ Explore six varied levels: Jumping Jazz Cats blends co-operative and competitive strategies together, to create a cat party game like no-other! Each level has different objectives, some requiring you to work together with your team mates and others to get the highest score possible to claim a victory over the other team. ๐โโฌ Customise your dream kitty: In our customisation menu, youโll find Pussycat Presets to select from and play as! Thereโs 40+ cat breeds/designs to play as, so many purr-fect cats! Once youโve selected a pโฆ
- An update on Jumping Jazz Cats' Release Date โฌ๏ธ๐ - 7 April 2025
Today, we have some difficult news to share, as we've made the decision to delay Jumping Jazz Cats- stay tuned for our new release date soon. In the meantime, we have returned our free-to-play demo to Steam so you can get your paws into our cat parkour levels and experience some of Jumping Jazz Cats' features! Our demo includes two of our six mini-games in online play, the first chapter of our offline play game mode in Solo Trials, and more. Our aim for Jumping Jazz Cats has always been to provide you with the best online party game experience, and we need some extra time to deliver this to you. We are deeply sorry to delay your Jumping Jazz Cats party invite for a little longer! Our team are focused on polishing the game before setting a new release date. When we have news to share about the release of our cat party game, weโll update you on our @LeCatCo X account and on Steam! We apprโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats Dev Blog Q&A with Arun from Le Catnip Collective - 2 April 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐ In today's Steam post, Team17 sat down with Jumping Jazz Cat's development team at Le Catnip Collective to bring you a two-part Dev Blog Q&A! ๐ฅณ In part one, we chatted with Arun, Le Catnip Collective's Co-Founder, Music Composer & Sound Designer, to speak about the game's Jazz references, music inspirations, sound effects, and how Arun's feeling in the build up to Jumping Jazz Cat's Steam launch! Dev Log Q&A with Arun Sol Do you have a favourite piece of music youโve created for Jumping Jazz Cats? "Lights Out was my favourite piece of music to create for Jumping Jazz Cats! Itโs one of the ten fast-paced, jazz-inspired songs I wrote for the game. Across the 10 songs, I took a fairly loose interpretation of the genre โjazzโ. With Lights Out, for example, itโs a kind of acid jazz with a Mission Impossible-style melody. Beneath that melody, there is a thumpingโฆ
- Mini-Game Deep Dive | Fat Cat & Gimme Yarn | Jumping Jazz Cats ๐ - 27 February 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ We're back again this week, this time with our third Jumping Jazz Cats Deep Dive! ๐ผ In our previous deep-dive videos, we've covered some of Jumping Jazz Cats' mini-games, alongside our cat parkour party game's kitty customisation options! Today, we'll be covering two more of our mini-games which you can play now in our Steam Next Fest demo! Watch the full Mini-Game Deep Dive video here: โฌ๏ธ ๐๐ป Fat Cat In our minigame Fat Cat, your objective is to collect as many fish as possible to earn points! But beware, the more fish you collect, the more your stamina bar will fill up with fish, causing you to tire easily and stop you from sprinting. The fish will continue spawning in all sorts of quirky areas across the map, and you can get lucky and have one appear right in front of you! This helps you when your stamina bar is jam packed full of fish. If you are lucโฆ
- Demo OUT NOW for Jumping Jazz Cats! | Play our demo in Steam Next Fest ๐ - 24 February 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐ Our demo is now live for Jumping Jazz Cats in Steam Next Fest! ๐ธ Play our kitty parkour party game today until March 3rd. In our demo you'll find and experience two of our six mini games in Fat Cat and Gimme Yarn, three Song Events which change the choruses of rounds, the first chapter of our solo-trials game mode for offline play, and more! Join our Discord server! โ
The best way to keep up to date with Jumping Jazz Cats is via our developer Discord! Join the Le Catnip Collective server today ๐ธ Wishlist Jumping Jazz Cats today! ๐๐ผ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951780/Jumping_Jazz_Cats/ Keep up to date with Jumping Jazz Cats! Follow Le Catnip Collective on X Follow Le Catnip Collective on TikTok Follow Le Catnip Collective on Instagram Join our Discord server
- Launch Price Announcement | Jumping Jazz Cats - 12 February 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ In today's Steam post, we're excited to reveal the price of Jumping Jazz Cats. At launch later this year, our kitty party platformer will cost $/โฌ/ยฃ8.99! ๐ป As we revealed earlier in the year, we'll soon be releasing our free-to-play demo of Jumping Jazz Cats. This demo will allow players to experience some of Jumping Jazz Cat's content before you can get your paws on our full game! ๐พ Next week, we'll have more demo news to share! This will include information on the content available in the demo and the dates the demo will be available for, so keep your eyes peeled on our Steam News page... ๐ Join our Discord server! โ
The best way to keep up to date with Jumping Jazz Cats is via our developer Discord! Join the Le Catnip Collective server today ๐ธ Jumping Jazz Cats | Key Features ๐ป 2-9 players online 4๏ธโฃ 4 local players can join via split-screen ๐ 6 lโฆ
- Kitty Reveals | Jumping Jazz Cats - 3 February 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ We're back with another Steam post, this time based on our Kitty Reveals. These assets showcase some of the 40+ cat types and breeds you can play as in our online party game! Before jumping in today, we've just posted a Discord exclusive, revealing one of the cat types in Jumping Jazz Cats in our Discord server! ๐ Want to see what breed of cat is below? Join our Discord server and head to our announcements channel to see more! ๐ผ Since December, we've been posting our kitty cats to our Le Catnip Collective social media channels. Today, we'd like to share all revealed cat types in Jumping Jazz Cats with our Steam community! Let's get right into it, with... Fred Cat ๐ Fred Cat, welcome in! ๐งก All ginger cats are tabbies ๐ Ginger cats are a symbol of good luck Did you know, ginger cats can have a unique feature - an M-like marking on their heads? Just lookโฆ
- Mini-Game Deep Dive | Ring Rally & Cat Tree Capture | Jumping Jazz Cats - 31 January 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ We're back again this week, this time with our second Jumping Jazz Cats Deep Dive! ๐ผ Last time out we covered customisation in our party platformer, but this time we're going to be discussing the game mechanics of two of our six mini-games. Watch the full Mini-Game Deep Dive video here: โฌ๏ธ โญ๐ Ring Rally In our minigame Ring Rally, your objective is to jump through as many hoops as possible to earn top points for you and your team. Wow, look at all these rings! ๐ป Don't worry if you miss one, as it will disappear behind you- just focus up on the next one and keep running through the jazzy cartoon mansion of Ellington Estate! Speed is key in Ring Rally. Due to this being a race, you can utilise your Sprint to get ahead of the other kittycat players. You'll need to be careful how much you use that speed boost, as your little kitty can get tired out quicklyโฆ
- Moving & Zooming! | Feline Features 1 | Jumping Jazz Cats - 28 January 2025
Hey there Feline Friends! ๐๐ธ Today we're thrilled to begin a new series of Steam posts titled 'Feline Features', where we look into a specific aspect of our kitty online party-game's game mechanics! To kickstart this series in today's steam post, we'll be covering the movement mechanics of Jumping Jazz Cats! To have a purr-fect party experience with our game, we recommend playing Jumping Jazz Cats with a controller! However, Jumping Jazz Cats can be experienced on controller and mouse and keyboard. In the post below, we've added Keyboard & Mouse but our game can also be experienced with the gamepad of your choice. Feline Features 1 | Moving & Zooming We'll be starting with the very basic movements like Moving, Sprinting, and Jumping before venturing to the more exciting in-game actions like Charge Jumps, Nuzzles, and Pouncing! So let's begin with how to move your character: Move To moโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats - Coming 2025 - 21 January 2025
Hey all, Weโve made the decision to move the release of Jumping Jazz Cats, which will now launch later this year. Firstly, we want to apologise to our communityโ we understand this is not the news you want to hear. Releasing later in 2025 provides us with the time to polish Jumping Jazz Cats and create the best possible launch for the game weโve been developing for the past three years. This was a tough decision, but one made to ensure we provide you with the best online party game experience. Before our launch, weโll be releasing a demo of Jumping Jazz Cats on Steam, allowing you to meet our feline friends and get a hands-on experience with our online party game. Over the coming months, weโll be sharing more details about our Steam demo, the game's features, and updates about our pawsome cats in the lead-up to our launch later in 2025. We appreciate your support towards Jumping Jazz Caโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats - Cat Customisation - Deep Dive 1 - 13 November 2024
Hello feline friends! ๐บ๐ We've just posted out our first Deep Dive video, detailing our customisation menu in Jumping Jazz Cats! Watch the full Deep Dive video to learn more about creating your dream kitty below:๐บ ๐ผ 40+ Kitty Presets In our customisation menu, youโll find Pussycat Presets to select from and play as! The more games of Jumping Jazz Cats that you play, the more golden bugs youโll earn. Spend your bugs to unlock different cat customisation cosmetics or spend them to unlock a new cat preset! Thereโs 40+ cat breeds/designs to play as, so many purr-fect cats! Once youโve selected a preset, you can customise your cat in our three tabs, body, fur and face. Customisation Menu - Body In the Body section, you can adjust your cats overall size, along with tail width and length. Use this menu to create the cutest and fluffiest cat possible! Customisation Menu - Fur The Fur menu cโฆ
- Jumping Jazz Cats - Coming Soon to Steam! - 28 October 2024
Today, we're thrilled to announce a partnership between Team17 and Le Catnip Collective for Jumping Jazz Cats, an upcoming online party game with... you guessed it, cats! ๐ป ๐ Watch our new Announcement Trailer below! ๐ Jumping Jazz Cats - Key Features: ๐ป 2-9 players online 4๏ธโฃ 4 local players can join via split-screen ๐ 6 levels across the mansion to discover ๐น6 cat-GIF inspired mini-games ๐ท 10 original jazz tracks that influence gameplay during the choruses ๐น๏ธ Mix and match levels, mini-games and songs for immense variety ๐ค Blend of co-operative and competitive strategies Wishlist our game today! ๐๐ผ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951780/Jumping_Jazz_Cats/ Keep up to date with Jumping Jazz Cats! Follow Le Catnip Collective on X! Join our Discord server!
