Luna and Cat: Design your own is a creative design tool that lets you build interactive stories and app prototypes without writing code. Pick a main character and background, add other characters and interactions, draw or import images from your device, and arrange scenes like a visual storyboard to tell a unique story or test a concept. The app's visual programming environment keeps the experience intuitive yet flexible, so beginners and experienced creators can iterate quickly. Users can also explore and remix projects made by others to learn techniques, speed up their workflow, or find inspiration for new ideas.
Key Features
⭐ Luna and Cat: Design your own provides an intuitive visual programming interface that works like drawing and storytelling combined.
⭐ Choose from a variety of prebuilt characters and backgrounds or create and import your own images and artwork.
⭐ Assemble scenes, define interactions, and shape narrative flow to create interactive stories, prototypes, or learning projects.
⭐ Browse, download, and remix millions of community-created projects to study how they work and adapt them to your needs.
⭐ Featured community projects offer quick examples and challenges you can open, play, and modify to learn faster.
Advantages
✅ Luna and Cat: Design your own makes programming concepts accessible through visual blocks, lowering the barrier for newcomers.
✅ Flexible asset handling lets you combine drawing, camera photos, and imported images for fully personalized creations.
✅ A vibrant sharing platform encourages collaboration, remixing, and learning from real projects created by other users.
✅ Suitable for educators, hobbyists, and creators who want a hands-on, creative tool for storytelling and prototyping.
Disadvantages
❎ Complex projects can become challenging to manage and may require time to learn effective structuring techniques.
❎ Community-shared content varies in quality, so finding polished examples may require browsing and experimentation.
Development Team
The app is developed and maintained by a large group of volunteers within the non-profit open source Catrobat project. Contributors from around the world help with development, translations, and outreach, and the project welcomes additional volunteers who want to support localization or other tasks.
