#Catnip One of our cats REALLY likes to chase the mouse cursor on the screen. It can be very hard to use the computer with a cat in front of the screen so I made this game for her to play, preferably on a screen other than the one I'm using.

Play

If you want to try it out go here.

Installation instructions

Copy the contents of public to a web server and then navigate to index.html in a web browser

Usage

• After the page loads you can a change the sliders to control the number of birds on the screen at a time and the speed that they move
• To start the program click the Start button at the bottom of the options window
• To play/pause the animation click the button in the left of the toolbar
• To show or hide the options click the button in the left of the toolbar
• To enter/exit fullscreen mode click the button in the right of the toolbar

Todo List

• Multiple backgrounds and a way to select them
• Add a start page with instructions
• Merge the show/hide options button into a single component
• Make the loading page prettier
• Animated loading image
• Button for fullscreen mode
• Button to play/pause the animation
• Make the toolbar and the buttons in it pretty
• Add a countdown to start the program and hide the options
• Create functions to start/stop/pause the animation
• Create functions to show/hide the options
• Move the sprite handling to its own namespace
• Have the birds change direction once in a while
• Have different paths that the birds can take while moving
• Sound effects
• Add interaction with the birds so that cats can whack them on a touchscreen

Version History

Version 0.2.1 - April 19, 2016

• Moved the sprite handling to a separate namespace
  • This is using the DOM instead of a canvas so that it fits in better with React.js/Reagent
• Put all the possible sprite components into an atom on load so they don't need to be calculated each frame

Version 0.2.0 - April 9, 2016

• Created a toolbar
• Replaced the text based show/hide options button with a toolbar
• Added a proper full screen mode instead of just having text saying to press F11
• Added a spinner to the loading screen
• Added an icon to the options window
• Added a start/stop button to the options window
• Added a close button to the options window
• Fixed a bug in the slider that was causing them to be stuck on the left and could only make the values higher

Version 0.1.1 - April 6, 2016

Refactoring the code to make the source more readable

Version 0.1.0 - April 4, 2016 (initial release)

Game is working.