Normally, an email whose subject line contained the phrase “shivering kittens” would go straight into the big mailbox labeled “spam.” But out of some strange curiosity I clicked on it and found that shivering kittens is not, as I had thought, an attempt to get me to buy an amazing stock deal, but in fact a Mac shareware game (named, apparently, by e.e. cummings) in which you rescue—you guessed it—shivering kittens from a fate roughly equivalent to death. In this case, death by freezing.
The description I received is too precious to not repeat here:
shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X, where you must rescue kittens from their icy imprisonment! A block-matching puzzle game, shivering kittens tasks you with forming lines of frozen kittens to release them from their icy imprisonment, and then with forming groups of those thawed kittens to rescue them!Version 2.0 has just been released, of which the changes are “too many to mention.”
And here I was lamenting the lack of good games on the Mac. Anyways, I decided to see how good I was at feline finagling and downloaded the demo. Not half bad, it turns out, once I understood how the game works. It’s kind of a cross between Tetris and Dr. Mario. A not entirely unenjoyable time-killer; it’ll run you $9 if you want to register. Could this be the next game to appear on the iPod?
