Every rescued cat gets a microchip, a SNAP test for FIV and FeLV, and a spay or neuter. Start one, then do it yourself on the table: settle the cat, pick up the tool, hold it steady on the spot. Release the cat once it is cleared.
Adopters
Some visitors are here to take a cat home. Read what they say about their life, then recommend the cat you think fits (or set one down beside them): they go over to meet it, and the two of them decide. A good match pays the cafe; a bad one is turned down, and they tell you why.
The van · where to?
The office
The computer in the back office is where the business is run: the books, and the wings of the building the landlord will let you knock through into.
Cats in need
Word gets around about cats living rough. Visit one a day ($5, two minutes): find it, stay outside its ring, put food down and back off, lay treats for it to follow, click it when it shows a bubble. Trust is capped per visit, so it takes a few days. The trap works at 60 trust, 45 baited with its favourite, 40 at the end of a trail of three treats; at 70 you can just pick it up. Dishes and a baited trap stay overnight and work while you are away.
Controls
Youclick the floor to walk there · things need you within reach, and a far click walks you over first
Select a catclick it · click again to observe
Observe the selected catO
Laser pointer: the red dot goes where you point; lively, bold cats chase and pounce, timid ones watch warilyV on and off
Wand toy (from the pet store): the feather follows your pointer within reach of you; a catch is play, trust and a tired catX on and off
Pet the selected catP opens a close-up: stroke its head, back, belly or tail with the pointer · it squirms off when it has had enough
Pick up a catdrag it · release to set it down · some love it, some hate it
Fill a food bowldrag a can from the pantry shelf (salmon, tuna, chicken) onto it
Wash a grubby bowl · fill the water bowldrag the bowl into the sink
Brush a furry bedclick it, then stroke it
Litter boxclick each clump to scoop it · then hold on the box to pour fresh litter
Toss a toydrag the ball of yarn (or the toy basket) and let go near a cat · watch who comes
What is in a bowl, how dirty, how fullhover it (bowls, beds, the litter box)
What a need meanshover its bar on the cat card
The van out on the street: click it and you walk out to it, then choose the pet store or the rescue boardG walks to the van for the store · on a visit: L heads home
The office computer next door: the books, and the wings of the building for saleclick it
Build mode (place from the stockroom, move, sell, recolour)B
Design the base layout (admin)open the game with ?admin=1, then B: every tile of every sheet, free
Rescue cats in need (from the van)R walks to the van for the board · on a trip: E food, G treat, T trap, O observe, K pick up, L home
Adopters (a house over a visitor's head)M or click them · introduce a cat, or set one down beside them
Open / close the cafeclick the sign by the door · C
Write a design noteF
Pan / zoomdrag or WASD · mouse wheel
Save⌘/Ctrl+S · autosaves every game hour
Builddev
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Debug: spawn a cat / send the selected cat somewhereN / shift-click
BUILD MODE · click a stockroom item then the floor · click a piece to move it · Esc leaves
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Design ?admin=1 · everything is free here
Pick a tile, or drag a rectangle; pieces of the game are under Catalogue. Delete sells the piece you are moving.
Stockroom
Saved to docs/FEEDBACK.md · Enter saves · Esc cancels