Guilty as charged.Īnd slowly I noticed, and by slowly I mean quickly, because I have only been playing this thing for four days now, that my blending of real world cat-looking-comfort-seeking and virtual cat-looking-comfort-seeking was becoming confusing. For some time now, and since last summer in earnest, hadn’t my own real life also been about watching multicolored cats show up in the yard, then leave, then come back again later? Hadn’t I, in fact, named two of the most “regular” stray visitors in my actual Brooklyn backyard? Hadn’t I, even, bought some discount storage bins, busted up some old Omaha Steaks shipping containers for insulation, and asked nicely at the local hardware store if I could have some leftover bales of decorative straw for my multicolored, real-life, non-animated visitors to have warm winter shelters? Hadn’t I even taken a trap-neuter-return training class offered by the NYC Feral Cat Initiative, in order to make sure my favorite patio chair freeloaders weren’t going to deliver me spring kittens, and then driven a depressed, caged cat to Glendale, Queens, at 7am on a Saturday, only to find out he was already neutered? And now that spring was here, hadn’t I only JUST broken the habit of looking outside the kitchen window to see if they were safely in their shelters every 30 minutes while I was trying to work at my computer? Ok. Unlike real life.Īs one Neko Atsume blogger, Kuroo, translates, the game’s self-defined focus is just this: ‘The cats that gather in our backyard, just looking at them is comforting. It is basically that kind of app.’Įxcept, wait. It looked simple enough, even if I couldn’t read any of the rules: buy some stuff with sardine currency and then watch little multicolored cats show up and play with the stuff, then leave.
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Well, I knew that I first had to figure out how to copy its Kanji name into the App Store, then try to download it.
I try not to get too many of my recreational ideas from Vice, but when I read about Neko Atsume (loosely, “Gather the Cat”), the sim kitty craze that’s brought international productivity to a near-complete slowdown, I knew I had to download it.
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