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PS5 MDDN 342 2016

For PS5 I decided to alter my submission for PS1. I've pretty much always loved cats, so I thought it would be interesting to make a very minimal browser "game" where you interact in some way with a bunch of stray cats. The bar over each cat's head is its "boredom" meter. It represents that cat's likelihood to get bored and leave. Petting it will make its boredom drop, and its boredom will rise over time, but slower the closer it is to other cats.

The central concept was that you can make cats arrive on-screen by filling up the food bowl in the center, and then after a while they'll get bored and leave - unless you pet them enough, in which case they might stay around for a while longer. I wanted to make the user feel as though they have some level of agency over which cats stay and which cats leave, but ultimately it's up to the whim of the individual cat (or, more accurately, the random() function).

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