http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/magazine/why-am-i-obsessed-with-a-cellphone-game-about-collecting-cats.html?em_pos=medium?login=google
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Why Am I Obsessed With a Cellphone Game About Collecting Cats?
Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector is a cellphone game about collecting cats. It is not a complicated game. It is, in fact, barely a game at all. And yet I have become obsessed with it.
The goal of Neko Atsume is to get cats to visit your virtual home and garden. To entice them, you must leave out various foods (kibble, canned food, sashimi), toys (balls, yarn, a paper bag) and things to lie on (pillows, cushions, plush macaroons). Also: boxes, space heaters, umbrellas, pots, a goldfish bowl and a cowboy hat. The cats will visit, in varying quantity and kind, depending on what you put out for them. When the cats visit, you can photograph them and keep the photographs in your “Catbook,” a virtual photo album. The cats arrive and leave mysteriously. You never see them come or go; they are simply there, at play or at rest. Sometimes, when interacting with a toy, the cats move. Most of the time, they do not. Only one cat ever comes close to the act of eating: a fat white fluffy guy named Tubbs who lies on his back near the bowl, mouth still dirtied with food, extremely content.
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P.S. After reading your OP a month ago I downloaded Neko Atsume and - I don't know what I'm doing. I keep refilling the treat bowl and most days there are no cats. Once in a while the white one is rolling around with the red ball or the calico is under the box. Otherwise, nothing. I tap the screen here n' there and don't really know what else to do. I think i took a pic of them but what do I do with that? PLEASE HELP I'M OBSESSED NOW TOO!!! LULZ.
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