Doo-Daa
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Play as astronaut cat Ulysses and deliver informational pamphlets marketing Earth to the residents of an alien planet inspired by the 1920s Dada movement. Nearly every asset in the game was made using traditional collage from books and magazines trash picked off of the streets of Brooklyn.
Doo-Daa is my solo-developed Senior Thesis for my BFA in Game Arts at Pratt Institute, which was published as a full game in May 2026, with a (free) full art book detailing the extensive research into the Dada movement currently in development. Made in RPG Maker MZ 2003. Some artworks referenced in this game may contain artistic nudity or explicit language.
CONTROLS:
Controls and sound can be viewed and changed in the 'Mission Options' menu.
Default controls are: 'Z' (Confirm/Interact), 'X' or 'escape' (Menu/Cancel), 'shift' (run) and arrow keys to move. Animations/Cutscenes cannot be skipped, but can be paused with the pause button on your keyboard. The game can also be played entirely as a point-and-click.
On some devices, the game defaults with sound at full volume! I recommend checking the sound settings and turning them down in the menu.
Music by Benny Brewer and Miles Pride. Check out the soundtrack here: Doo-Daa Soundtrack
50 pages of the Doo-Daa Art Book have been released, available in the "Demo" section!
Doo-Daa has showcased at: Boshi's Place 2025, PAX East 2026, TooManyGames 2026, MCM Comic Con 2026, and Wonderville 2026.
If you encounter any bugs, please don't hesitate to reach out!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $6 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
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My boyfriend and I saw this game at TooManyGames, and though we didn't play it there, he bought one of your pieces! It is all together such a cool piece of art with so many more gems and pieces hidden inside it!! The music is also great and sets the tone really well :) After playing it, I wish I could buy the "Food for Modern Women" piece.
Thank you so much! I'm glad that the artwork was such a success, at the next con I'll be sure to sell some of the in-game posters ;)
Hello, I dont know how you wrap your RPG Maker 2003, but on my MacOS it's not working.
https://imgur.com/BAuY3Yn
Error Please move the Game.app to a different folder
Hi! I'm sorry you're experiencing this issue, I tried downloading and running this version and was able to open the game without issue. When you unzipped the files, did you alter the folder's contents in any way? I can post this issue on the RPG Maker forums to see if anyone else has encountered this issue, because I wasn't able to find this error online.
Hi again, try moving the application outside of the downloaded folder and onto the desktop! (Found a reddit post with a similar issue)
hey again, apparently it's because macOS will run it in a read-only mode. I had to modify """extended attributes""". But now it's fixed :-)
the
.apphas thecom.apple.quarantineflag from Chrome's download. The error is triggered by macOS's Gatekeeper Path Randomization (App Translocation) — when you run a quarantined.appdirectly from where it was downloaded/unzipped, macOS runs it from a randomized read-only path under/private/var/folders/..., which would prevent the game from saving.The cleanest fix is to strip the quarantine attribute.
xattr -l /Users/omshinwa/Desktop/DooDaaMAC/Game.app 2>&1; echo "---"; xattr -l /Users/omshinwa/Desktop/DooDaaMAC 2>&1
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Users/omshinwa/Desktop/DooDaaMAC/Game.app && echo "OK — quarantine removed"; xattr -l /Users/omshinwa/Desktop/DooDaaMAC/Game.app
Played the demo at PAX, loved it! Excited to play more!
This was my highlight of pax East! Looking forward to playing the finished version in May
This looks awesome!! Best of luck from a fellow BFA Senior at LIU Post!!