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1.4 Can I transfer my old data to my new device?.

1.3 I got fish without inputting the daily password.

1.2 The did not provide discount for me.(ver.1.5.0).

1.1 The snow has disappeared for some reason.(ver.1.5.0).

“Or I could leave it out for the backyard cats and see if it attracts any cats to play with it. I stared at the small spiky plastic dryer porcupine on the patio stones at my feet. I noticed I’d accidentally dragged along a small dryer ball: a spiky plastic porcupine meant to help jostle your clothing in the dryer. (It is possible I have it installed on multiple devices.) On a laundry break, that is to say a break from both work and Neko Atsume, I took a blanket outside to hang out to dry in the sun.

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Of course, she was only so impressed, having already spent several of her real-world dollars (the game is free, but offers an in-app purchase of extra sardines) to expand her backyard into a full on indoor-outdoor cat freaking paradise.Īnd this morning, in between working on freelance pieces and pretending I was going to go to the gym, I regularly checked on Neko Atsume. I sent screen captures of cool stuff happening in the game-like the time the “rare” baseball-playing cat came to visit the yard-to a good friend I’d also dragged down with me. I showed everyone at a Brooklyn bar my cat video game on Saturday.

In the middle of the night, waking to go to the bathroom, I wondered whether I should turn on the iPad and make sure the Neko Atsume cat food bowls were full, so that more cats could come and go while I slept and bring me more sardine currency.

Friday night I stayed upstairs playing the game-replenishing cans of cartoon tuna or trays of imaginary sashimi, setting out fake fluffy cushions-well past my real-life, inside-the-house cats’ dinnertimes, starving them within twenty minutes of ravaging my napping husband’s bones for sustenance. 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.