Kitten

A jump&run puzzler written by me and my brother Alexander that we wrote initially 1986 for 8-bit Atari home computers. Now ported to HTML5.

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A jump&run—ahem, nearly, because our hero only wants to jump. But exactly that makes it a real puzzler for 1 player. With 20 Levels, and a level editor will follow soon. Many thanks to Andreas Koch, who created another set of 30 levels.

Introduction

Lead the young playful tom cat to his playmate. Collect some flowers on his way, or she will reject him. In his high-spirits tom cat doesn't want to run, but only jump. Springs bring him up. Hurdles and falling deep make him lose a cat's life; same if his playmate rejects him or the time is up. And to make matters worse, the greedy microflicros (small flying crocodiles) are out for prey.

Another tip: You may maneuver the tomcat in situations where you want to give up a cat's life and re-start the level.

Steering

Action	Key	Mouse
Turn left	CURSOR LEFT or a or NUMPAD 4	Click in the left part of the labyrinth
Turn right	CURSOR RIGHT or d or NUMPAD 6	Click in the right part of the labyrinth
Huge jump in chosen direction	CURSOR UP or w or NUMPAD 8	Click in the upper part of the labyrinth
Small jump in chosen direction	CURSOR DOWN or s or NUMPAD 2	Click in the lower part of the labyrinth
Turn left and do huge jump	NUMPAD 7	-
Turn right and do huge jump	NUMPAD 9	-
Turn left and do small jump	NUMPAD 1	-
Turn right and do small jump	NUMPAD 3	-
Pause/resume	PAUSE

Controls

Control	Action
Focus	Shows or hides everything but the playfield and controls. Hiding is useful to avoid unintended scrolling away on small screens.
Size	Set the size of the playfield. Useful to adapt to your screen size.
Pause	Pauses or resumes the game.
Sound	Turns event-specific sounds on or off.
Modern graphics	Switches between original and modern graphics.
Exit game	Exits the current game and shows the title screen.
Re-start level	Tom cat loses a cat's life and re-starts the level.
Start new game	Exits the current game and starts a new one.

Start a new game

When you start a new game, you can select which levels you want to play.

Level-Set: The game leads through those levels
Level: Starting level within the level set

The screen content

This section describes what you see on the screen while playing.

Above the level

POINTS: The number of points you already achieved through all the levels you played. You get points for collecting flowers and for finishing a level well in time.
Number of cat's lifes: The number of white cats in the upper right corner shows the number of cat's lifes you have left.
FLOWERS: The number of flowers you have still to collect this level to appease your playmate.
TIME: The number of time slices (of roughly 5 seconds) you have left to finish this level.