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Games #GamingSalesOCT 31, 2016 @ 10:12 AM
It’s Halloween, and Google has the doodle to prove it. There’s a playable game at the top of Google.com today, carrying on a long and venerable tradition of little games hidden inside the search giant’s homepage. Today we’ve got Magic Cat Academy, and wouldn’t you know, it’s actually a well-conceived little game. From the creators:
“The original concept for the game involved a magic cat making a soup that was so good, it raised the dead. Connecting soup to Halloween proved too abstract, so the team shifted to the idea of a wizard school. This opened the door to a more robust world filled with interesting characters and paw-some themes. “
The basic idea of the game is that you play a black cat defending itself against ghosts at a magic school. Each ghost has symbol above its head that you need to draw in order to defeat it. It’s simple at first, but it gets challenging when the game starts throwing out hordes of ghosts at the same time, or ghosts that require a whole sequence of symbols to defeat. There’s even a bit of strategy: if you see several ghosts with varying symbol sequences above their heads, you can sometimes work it out to defeat them all at once. There are five levels in total, and the later ones will prove challenging, particularly the multi-stage boss encounters. I more than once found myself flailing to get a lightning bolt to work.
A few tips: always start by attacking multi-symbol ghosts. You’ll probably be able to knock off a few other enemies, or at least weaken them, in the process. Never miss the little heart ghost that appears on the left, unless you’re already at full health. Stay calm, but don’t hesitate: if you see a symbol, just draw it. This is a game that rewards speed, and time spent deciding which course of action to take is time wasted. And always do a lightning if you see one show up, and a trackpad is probably a better way to play than a mouse.
As I said, this is far from the first little game Google has inserted into its services: it’s worth remembering that even Pokémon GO started as an April Fool’s joke inside of Google Maps. Something tells me that Magic Cat Academy won’t become the next international megahit, but it’s an excellent way to avoid work for two or three minutes. Or more.
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