Press - Cats & Foxes

Cats and Foxes is a startup founded in Nancy by Nicolas Gauville and Jimmy Etienne.

After completing their theses in computer science, Jimmy and Nicolas decided to create Cats & Foxes to develop games aimed at promoting positive and caring social relationships and creativity.

Our studio is built on five ethical pillars. We consider inclusivity to be the central pillar of our project, as we aspire for every individual to feel represented and fulfilled within our virtual world.

This means that we are committed to providing the opportunity for everyone to freely express their sexual orientation, skin color, and disability, whether visible or invisible, without fear of judgment or discrimination.

We also aim to make our games accessible to everyone, including support for controllers adapted to motor disabilities, dyslexia-friendly colors and fonts, and more.

Helping our players establish social connections and overcome loneliness is also one of our main motivations, and we strive to design games that promote social interaction and compassionate interactions, particularly through our research activities.

We firmly believe that video games are an exceptional tool for promoting health and education, and we emphasize hidden learning, an effective pedagogical method that integrates perfectly into the context of video games.

We also have a responsibility to protect our players, especially the younger ones, from inappropriate content or interactions and addiction.

Finally, we aim to develop fun and educational games without creating platform-based purchases, and we commit to never including cryptocurrencies and NFTs in our games.