Cute, <30 min. Halloween point-and-click

What more could you want from a game like “Gatuno In Halloween”, by Federico Rutenberg?

“Gatuno” asks you to explore a two-room home/potion laboratory to discover the concoction that will help turn your cursed cat from stone to flesh.

The game is short and sweet, not too complicated, and has some charming translations from the original Spanish (though I’m not going to ask about what a “male stone” is or how one might acquire it).

It’s always satisfying to reach the end of a game but that pleasure doubles when you don’t have to refer to the walkthrough. I needed a tiny hint for something I’d overlooked but the whole game was smooth sailing. Ahhh.

Thanks to Mike J. for the link! In exchange, I offer you a link to the deliciously gruesome Corpse Craft, a combo of block-sorting, Tower defense and twisted anatomy class. My favorite part is the squishy sound effect.

Cats in hats

Courtesy of the Cornish Game Hen, here’s a link to some screenshots from The Sims 2 Apartment Pets for Nintendo DS.

According to videogamer.com, the Sims move into an apartment near a pet spa. But seeing this cat’s outfit (is that a tiny bow on its tail?), you have to wonder exactly what trade these animals are getting into:

The concept of this game makes me laugh, though. Most real cats would not tolerate little hats and vests for a second before wriggling out of them and pouting for the rest of the day. Judging by the range of little caps and turbans, I doubt their Sims counterparts will be half as finicky.