Lofi Hip Hop Adventure
A lofi cat band walks Southern California, and every shot it fires is a musical note.
Title
Jazz Paws
Developer
Tech TigeR LLC
Platforms
iOS · Android
Genre
Action · Adventure · Casual
Release
To be announced
Price
Free, with one non-consumable purchase. No subscription.
Controls
Landscape, one thumb
Engine
Flutter + Flame
Bundle ID
tech.techtiger.jazzpaws
Website
The city used to sing. Get it singing again.
Jazz Paws is a one-thumb side-scrolling adventure set in a Southern California where the music has been switched off. Wind-up robots called Hush-Bots have gone block by block with little SHH signs, and a white cat named Zoe is walking the county to find eleven scattered bandmates and get one last set played at the Blue Moon Jazz Club.
It ships with 70 hand-drawn terrains built on real neighborhoods, 40 playable cats each carrying a skill nobody else has, 130 story levels across 13 chapters, 13 boss machines, and a 24-track lofi soundtrack. Every weapon in the game is a musical note.
Three ways in. Main Story walks the thirteen chapters and brings a bandmate home at the end of each one. Band Story gives every cat its own chapter set, its own corner of the city and its own reason for coming back. Play picks a route for you: five stops in about three minutes, seven in about four and a half, ten in about six, or endless until the hearts run out.
Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Olvera Street, Koreatown, Angels Flight, the Observatory, Grand Central Market, the Harbor, the reef, Joshua Tree. The setting is a place people recognize, not a fantasy.
Pick five and the first one leads. Every cat carries a skill nobody else has, and none of them is an invisible stat buff. If you cannot see it happen on screen, it is not in the game.
Thirteen chapters, thirteen machines, eleven bandmates to find, and one last set at the Blue Moon Jazz Club.
Twenty-one flight paths, one signature per terrain: skipped across the harbor, lobbed over a balloon basket, played out an open chopper door, chopped out of a spinning propeller. Nothing here fires a bullet.
Convertibles, motorcycles, karts, monster trucks, sailboats, kayaks, balloons, gliders, parachutes, helicopters, airplanes, surfboards, skateboards, scuba gear. Every mount wears the band's colors, one seat per cat.
Every chapter ends standing over the thing that took the music off that neighborhood, and the cat it was holding walks out with you.
Every cue is on screen, so nothing in the game requires you to hear it. Which is exactly why the 24-track lofi soundtrack is worth turning up.
Ads are removed by a single non-consumable: Bebop, the winged kitten. He is not a receipt. He flies along with the band, fights, mends, and fetches loose notes off the pavement. That is the whole store.
City map, 70 terrains
Street play
The Blue Moon Jazz Club
Main Story
The open road
Boss machine
The surf break
Olvera StreetDownload the trailer (1920x1080, 50 seconds)
Tech TigeR LLC is the independent studio behind Jazz Paws. It builds small, hand-made games for phones alongside its client work.