CatGame: A Flash-animated Action Game

Timothy Liu
CatGame is a Flash-animated action game created by Newgrounds.com artist Yotam Perel (LazyMuffin) and Newgrounds.com programmer molkman. Tracks used in this submission include - Aftermath - by SinJim, UboLINC .feat MC Kasajoseph by LazyMuffin, Cat Game Music by LazyMuffin, and Shoppy Times by molkman. CatGame was submitted to Newgrounds.com on October 21, 2010 and won a Daily 3rd Place award on October 22, 2010. It currently holds a score of 3.83 out of 5.00 based on votes by the Newgrounds community. It also was featured on the front page of Newgrounds.com [last checked October 22, 2010].

Gameplay

CatGame is an action game that involves using a slingshot to fire ammo at incoming cats. Pull back the slingshot to fire at incoming cats. When you have successfully defeated a cat, you can click on the cat's corpse to add to your ammo collection. You can then use the cat corpse as a source of ammo. Food items can also be used to upgrade your cat corpse-based ammo. Just drag the food item onto a cat, thus upgrading the cat according to the type of food item you have fed it. You can feed up to three food items to the cats. If you want to feed more than one cat at a time, you can place the food object on the middle circle under the slingshot. This will feed all of the cats. Load up your upgraded cats on your slingshot to fire the upgraded version of the ammo. Different combinations of food items result in different types of ammo.

You can press spacebar to pause the game. When the game is paused, you can drag food items onto cat ammo to upgrade them. This is useful when you feel you do not have time to upgrade as cats start approaching you too quickly. Keyboard shortcuts can allow you to load your slingshot with cat corpse ammo faster. Use QWE and ASD to load your slingshot using keyboard shortcuts.

Defeating cats will also earn you cash that you can use to purchase a variety of useful things. These include:

-chance: upgrading this ability will increase your chance of obtaining drops when defeating cats

-cat storage: adding points to this ability increases the number of cats you can hold on to for ammo

-barricade: upgrades your defensive barricade

-heal: heals up your defensive barricade

-slingshot: improves your current slingshot

The main menu can also take you to a settings section, where you can toggle sound and music, as well as change the video quality.

Published by Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT with a B.S. in Biochemistry with General Honors. He enjoys writing and blogging on a part-time basis about anything from food to video games.  View profile

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