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Chri-Bocchi Cat
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About the game
It is Christmas Eve, snow is falling, and a cat is spending it alone. Then Santa flies past and drops a single gift box. Chri-Bocchi Cat is a two-minute juggling act: walk the cat under the falling box and it bounces off the cat's head, splitting into two boxes as it goes.
Every bounce scores a point and adds a box, so the screen fills up fast, and the further from the centre of the cat a box lands, the wider it flies. In the last thirty seconds the word "Fever!!" flashes and every bounce turns one box into three. When the clock runs out the cat stops catching, the remaining boxes fall to the ground and your score is the number of bounces.
The name plays on a Japanese slang word for spending Christmas on your own. OBONO made the game in December 2017 for the Arduboy community's Game Jam 2.0.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the Arduboy, the open, credit-card-sized handheld with a tiny black-and-white screen: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. It runs here in Ardens, an Arduboy emulator. Click Play now and choose Start Game on the title screen.
The game remembers its ten best scores in the emulated memory of the Arduboy, and that is kept in this browser automatically. F2 also saves the complete state of the game at any moment, and F4 brings it back. A gamepad works too.
Controls
| Key | Arduboy button | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Left / right | D-pad | move the cat |
| Down | D-pad | meow |
| Z or X | A or B | pause and resume; start again after a game; choose in menus |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the state |
A few things worth knowing
The first boxes matter most. Every box you lose early is a whole family of boxes you will never get to bounce. Play the opening carefully.
Catch them in the middle. A box that lands near the centre of the cat bounces high and its copies stay close together; one caught on the edge flies off sideways, low and fast.
Save something for the fever. The final thirty seconds triple every bounce, so the more boxes are still in the air when it starts, the bigger the score.
Credits and licence
Chri-Bocchi Cat was designed, programmed, drawn and scored by OBONO, who has been making small games for the Arduboy since 2016. It is free software under the MIT licence. It is built with the Arduboy 1.1.1 library (BSD licence, with music code by Len Shustek under the MIT licence). The licence texts are linked from this page, and the source code is in the author's ArduboyWorks repository.