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Faster Pussycat, Eat, Eat! Time4Cat

By Alec Meer on August 27th, 2010 at 5:04 pm.

No time2play? Try Time4Cat. It’s an over-in-minutes, single-mechanic flash game that’s about as much like a flash game as you could ever imagine, at least in terms of controls. It’s also about a cat eating untold amounts of food on a busy crossroads and helplessly controlling time as it does, so you’ll want to play it anyway. The faster you move, the more you score from each food-munch – but the faster the pedestrians storm about the place and the more danger you end up in. But what does it all mean? Well, it’s a metaphor for a time-controlling cat eating icecreams in the middle of road, silly.

It makes no sense whatsoever but it’s charmingly-drawn and, as Kyle Orland observed, it’ll devour your afternoon. Not quite this month’s Robot Unicorn Attack – no Erasure, for a start – but definitely sporting some of the same brain-cuddling compulsion.

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  1. 27/08/2010 at 17:23 Fumarole says:

    I’d buy a Russ Meyer game.

  2. 27/08/2010 at 17:25 fuggles says:

    Fun times, really enjoyed that, it was soothing to the soul – thanks :D

  3. 27/08/2010 at 17:25 rfry11 says:

    Awesome, 92,528 on my second try. #34 on the leaderboards.
    Had to brag. ;)

  4. 27/08/2010 at 17:32 Deacon Blues says:

    It would need to be directly based on another, more original game to be this month’s Robot Unicorn Attack.

    • 27/08/2010 at 19:08 Starky says:

      Don’t forget though it would need vastly superior and fun gameplay than that first and more original game too.

    • 27/08/2010 at 20:49 Deacon Blues says:

      I suppose it’s a matter of taste, but removing the obstacle variety then adding a dash button, score boosting pickups and an amusing song didn’t quite do it for me.

  5. 27/08/2010 at 17:33 Brumisator says:

    Hmmm, it reminds me of one “episode” of the Animatrix, with the missing cat, and the strange warehouse full of matrix bugs where the kids go to play.

    Nice little time-waster, but now I’m back to mafia 2 :3

  6. 27/08/2010 at 17:50 lumpi says:

    No offense, but you grant this shit a whole post on RPS?

    This isn’t “a creative indie game”, this is just a stupid flash game, not standing out among the millions out there. This is really bad. No more please.

  7. 27/08/2010 at 17:53 pupsikaso says:

    I am offended. No cat would eat up any scrap on the street. That’s what dogs do.

  8. 27/08/2010 at 17:56 Your opinion says:

    I don’t matter until you learn how to properly bold things.

  9. 27/08/2010 at 18:02 CMaster says:

    I’m sure I’ve seen this on RPS before.
    Must have been somewhere else.

  10. 27/08/2010 at 18:08 golden_worm says:

    I liked it. Literally, pressed the like button for FB. And I never do that.

    • 28/08/2010 at 03:09 bill says:

      AHA! Working replies!!

      Out of interest, what happens when you press that FB “like” button? I’ve always been too scared to do it, as I assume it will be something scary, unwanted, irreversible – or apocalyptic.

      Does it immediately send a message to all my (3) contacts?

  11. 27/08/2010 at 18:14 Tom O'Bedlam says:

    Isn’t this game a few years old? Still, its good fun.

  12. 27/08/2010 at 18:23 Ricc says:

    Sweet game. For some reason it reminded me of Inception.

    :3

  13. 27/08/2010 at 18:26 Noyb says:

    105,991 before I was flattened by an errant cyclist. Had two Force Push powers in the bank, too.

    I really liked how the design actually lets the player set his own pace. It could either be a relaxing zen game or a frantic bullet hell depending on how much you want the time bonus on each pickup.

  14. 27/08/2010 at 18:44 Cooper says:

    RE: Robot Unicorn Attack,

    Check out:
    The Legend of Cheetocorn

    I didn’t feel dirty playing it, even though it is an ad game, as said cheese flavoured corn snacks are unavailable for me to purchase, so it could never work on me [evil laugh]

  15. 27/08/2010 at 21:32 NekoDaimyo says:

    It has a cat, man. That’s all the internet needs.

  16. 27/08/2010 at 21:55 Tei says:

    This two streets cross is normally used to denote the ills of modern society and existentialist.
    But cats are way beyond us. Cats laugh at our existentialism.

  17. 27/08/2010 at 22:20 Arathain says:

    115729. Double-cyclist pincer ended it.

  18. 27/08/2010 at 22:38 LionsPhil says:

    “Game loading, please wait.”

    Odd how it can do that with no network traffic. Goddamnit, I understand that the marketroids may wish to subject me to N seconds of supposedly gawping at their inane nonsense so that an appropriate pittance may make its way to the developer or at least cover the bandwidth consumed, but it’s just unsporting to lie about the cause of the delay.

  19. 28/08/2010 at 03:02 bill says:

    Dear RPS website pixie – I would like to reply to a post above. Please grant me this wish.

  20. 28/08/2010 at 03:07 bill says:

    Darn you pixie!!!

  21. 28/08/2010 at 13:50 Pianosaurus says:

    117,553 on first try. I didn’t even realize what those globes did until I read the instructions afterwards. *bragbragbrag*.

  22. 28/08/2010 at 13:54 Pianosaurus says:

    Well, I see now that the top dogs have the maximum score (2147483647, aka. 0x7FFFFFFF), so I guess it’s no big deal.

  23. 28/08/2010 at 15:30 zapatapon says:

    JIG. (January 2009)

  24. 28/08/2010 at 21:31 dadioflex says:

    You win IF you leave the cats alive and nobody wants to remove your goldfish.

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