Happy birthday to ‘shivering kittens’ – two years old!

shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X – rescue the kittens from their icy imprisonment! Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here!^*

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!

Click to watch a video of "shivering kittens"

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Design & code by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, and music & sound FX by Ricardo Balderas.

Testing of shivering kittens 2.x by Zwilnik, igame3d, ThemsAllTook, unknown, gatti, & Malarkey of the iDevGames forum.

Testing of shivering kittens 1.x by Malarkey, hangt5, CarbonX, imikedaman, kodex, Bachus, & Byron Clarke of the iDevGames forum.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 2.2-1 released for Mac OS X!

shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X – rescue the kittens from their icy imprisonment! Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here!^*

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!

Click to watch a video of "shivering kittens"

Click to enlarge

Click to enlarge

Design & code by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, and music & sound FX by Ricardo Balderas.

Testing of shivering kittens 2.x by Zwilnik, igame3d, ThemsAllTook, unknown, gatti, & Malarkey of the iDevGames forum.

Testing of shivering kittens 1.x by Malarkey, hangt5, CarbonX, imikedaman, kodex, Bachus, & Byron Clarke of the iDevGames forum.

Changes in version 2.2-1 of shivering kittens (1^st January 2007):

• fixed a bug where pieces would not fall if they were rotating or if they were moving horizontally.

Changes in version 2.1-1 of shivering kittens (7^th November 2006):

• fixed a minor bug where the screen would be set to the wrong colour-depth when playing the game in fullscreen.

Changes in version 2.0 of shivering kittens (19^th September 2006):

• the falling blocks now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now rotate much more smoothly;
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now move to the left and right much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the highscores now show…
  • …the number of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the level the player started playing the game at;
  • …the level the player game over’d at;
• fixed a minor bug where the left-’⌘’ and right-’⌘’ keys were interpreted as a single key;
• the ‘escape’ key now pauses the game;
• the game will now pause if the player switches to another application or minimises the game to the Dock;
• the game now has multiple levels of difficulty;
• the game now has a title screen, from which the player can choose the level of difficulty to start playing at;
• the player status panel now shows…
  • …the number of kittens rescued;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued;
  • …the current level;
  • …the number of kittens needed to be rescued to advance to the next level;
  • …the player’s current position in the highscores;
• the game can now be played in fullscreen;
• implemented a dialog which is shown whilst the game is paused, with an option in that dialog to return to the title screen;
• lots, lots more.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 2.1-1 released for Mac OS X!

shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X – rescue the kittens from their icy imprisonment! Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here!^*

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!

Click to watch a video of "shivering kittens"

Click to enlarge

Click to enlarge

Design & code by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, and music & sound FX by Ricardo Balderas.

Testing of shivering kittens 2.x by Zwilnik, igame3d, ThemsAllTook, unknown, gatti, & Malarkey of the iDevGames forum.

Testing of shivering kittens 1.x by Malarkey, hangt5, CarbonX, imikedaman, kodex, Bachus, & Byron Clarke of the iDevGames forum.

Changes in version 2.1-1 of shivering kittens (7^th November 2006):

• fixed a minor bug where the screen would be set to the wrong colour-depth when playing the game in fullscreen.

Changes in version 2.0 of shivering kittens (19^th September 2006):

• the falling blocks now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now rotate much more smoothly;
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now move to the left and right much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the highscores now show…
  • …the number of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the level the player started playing the game at;
  • …the level the player game over’d at;
• fixed a minor bug where the left-’⌘’ and right-’⌘’ keys were interpreted as a single key;
• the ‘escape’ key now pauses the game;
• the game will now pause if the player switches to another application or minimises the game to the Dock;
• the game now has multiple levels of difficulty;
• the game now has a title screen, from which the player can choose the level of difficulty to start playing at;
• the player status panel now shows…
  • …the number of kittens rescued;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued;
  • …the current level;
  • …the number of kittens needed to be rescued to advance to the next level;
  • …the player’s current position in the highscores;
• the game can now be played in fullscreen;
• implemented a dialog which is shown whilst the game is paused, with an option in that dialog to return to the title screen;
• lots, lots more.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 2.0 released for Mac OS X!

shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X – rescue the kittens from their icy imprisonment! Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here!^*

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!

Click to watch a video of "shivering kittens"

Click to enlarge

Click to enlarge

Design & code by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, and music & sound FX by Ricardo Balderas.

Testing of shivering kittens 2.x by Zwilnik, igame3d, ThemsAllTook, unknown, gatti, & Malarkey of the iDevGames forum.

Testing of shivering kittens 1.x by Malarkey, hangt5, CarbonX, imikedaman, kodex, Bachus, & Byron Clarke of the iDevGames forum.

Changes in version 2.0 of shivering kittens (19^th September 2006):

• the falling blocks now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now rotate much more smoothly;
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the falling pieces under the control of the player now move to the left and right much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision);
• the highscores now show…
  • …the number of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued during a game;
  • …the level the player started playing the game at;
  • …the level the player game over’d at;
• fixed a minor bug where the left-’⌘’ and right-’⌘’ keys were interpreted as a single key;
• the ‘escape’ key now pauses the game;
• the game will now pause if the player switches to another application or minimises the game to the Dock;
• the game now has multiple levels of difficulty;
• the game now has a title screen, from which the player can choose the level of difficulty to start playing at;
• the player status panel now shows…
  • …the number of kittens rescued;
  • …the best ‘chain’ of kittens rescued;
  • …the current level;
  • …the number of kittens needed to be rescued to advance to the next level;
  • …the player’s current position in the highscores;
• the game can now be played in fullscreen;
• implemented a dialog which is shown whilst the game is paused, with an option in that dialog to return to the title screen;
• lots, lots more.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

Mewling most piteously, redux…

A few screenshots from the development of the project I’ve been working on for the last few weeks, shivering kittens^* 2.0, although it won’t be released for a few weeks more…

D20-C: the game now has a title dialog.

D24-B: it is not a new feature, but the game now displays the next piece which will be spawned under the control of the player.

D30-A: again, it is not a new feature, but the game now has a highscores dialog.

D33-A: as part of the visual polish, snowflakes now fall and flutter gently in the background.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

Mewling most piteously…

A few screenshots from the development of the project I’ve been working on for the last few weeks, shivering kittens^* 2.0, although it won’t be released for a few weeks more…

D6-J: the game is now playable; this screenshot can’t show it, but the falling blocks – and the piece under the control of the player – now fall much more smoothly (with sub-pixel precision), and the piece under the control of the player also rotates much more smoothly.

D7-B: it is not a new feature, but the status of the player is now shown.

D8-B: again, it is not a new feature, but the piece under the control of the player now has a shadow, to make it easier for the player to tell at a glance where the piece under their control is, and what blocks are part of the piece under their control.

D17-B: the game may now be paused and unpaused, and has a pause dialog.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

Happy birthday to ‘shivering kittens’ – one year old!

shivering kittens is a panic-inducing puzzle game for Mac OS X – rescue the kittens from their icy imprisonment! Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here!^*

If you have any feedback for shivering kittens, please email me!

Coding and design by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, & sound by Ricardo Balderas.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 1.4-2 released for Mac OS X!

Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here^*.

shivering kittens is a cute little “falling block” puzzle game for Mac OS X, where you must rescue as many kittens as possible before the time runs out – for every kitten you rescue, the time before the inevitable gameover is extended by a few more seconds…

If you have any feedback for shivering kittens, please email me!

Coding and design by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, & sound by Ricardo Balderas.

Changes in version 1.4-2 of shivering kittens:

• the shaded blocks introduced in version 1.4 to make it easier to tell where the blocks will land if you press the “fast drop” key are now turned off by default; to turn the shaded blocks on or off, press the “g” key.

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Changes in version 1.4-1 of shivering kittens (16^th January 2006):

• fixed a bug where pressing any key bound to an in-game action to resume playing a paused game would cause that action to occur as soon as the game resumed playing;
• fixed a bug where the game would immediately jump to the highscore screen on gameover if the player had scored a highscore – the game now politely waits for the player to press a key before proceeding to the highscore screen;
• moved the shadows projected behind the blocks currently under the player’s control closer to those blocks.

Changes in version 1.4 of shivering kittens (25^th October 2005):

• to make it easier to tell which blocks are currently under your control, shadows are now projected behind the blocks;
• to make it easier to tell where the blocks will land if you press the “fast drop” key, shaded blocks are now projected where the blocks will land.

Changes in version 1.3-2 of shivering kittens (11^th October 2005):

• a pause key has been implemented – you may now press the “p” key to pause the game (or to resume a paused game.)

Changes in version 1.3-1 of shivering kittens (27^th September 2005):

• the game now quits on command-q, like a game for Mac OS X should.

Changes in version 1.3 of shivering kittens (15^th September 2005):

• a “fast drop” key has been implemented – you may now press the “space-bar” to drop the falling blocks all the way to the bottom of the screen;
• the falling blocks now fall more smoothly;
• a “rotate left” key, and an alternative “rotate right” key, have been implemented – you may now press “z” to rotate the falling pieces counter-clockwise, and “x” (or the “up” key) to rotate the falling pieces clockwise;
• the interface to the game has been improved:
  • the game now displays the next blocks to be “spawned” at the top of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued in the best “chain” of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
• the game is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.X (“Tiger”)!

Changes in version 1.2-Interim of shivering kittens (25^th July 2005):

• the game now saves your list of highscores – you are scored on the number of kittens you rescue during a game, and the highscores list also saves the length of the best “chain” of kittens you rescued during the game;
• the “how to play” documentation distributed with the game has been improved;
• the demo of the game will now open the correct web-page when you quit the game.

Changes in version 1.1 of shivering kittens (21^st February 2005):

• due to popular demand, the difficulty of the game has been lessened;
• again due to popular demand, you can now rotate pieces counter-clockwise;
• the time you’ve survived so far is now shown at the top-right of the window.

Version 1.0 of shivering kittens released on 14^th February 2005.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 1.4-1 released for Mac OS X!

Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here^*.

shivering kittens is a cute little “falling block” puzzle game for Mac OS X, where you must rescue as many kittens as possible before the time runs out – for every kitten you rescue, the time before the inevitable gameover is extended by a few more seconds…

If you have any feedback for shivering kittens, please email me!

Coding and design by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, & sound by Ricardo Balderas.

Changes in version 1.4-1 of shivering kittens:

• fixed a bug where pressing any key bound to an in-game action to resume playing a paused game would cause that action to occur as soon as the game resumed playing;
• fixed a bug where the game would immediately jump to the highscore screen on gameover if the player had scored a highscore – the game now politely waits for the player to press a key before proceeding to the highscore screen;
• moved the shadows projected behind the blocks currently under the player’s control closer to those blocks.

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Changes in version 1.4 of shivering kittens (25^th October 2005):

• to make it easier to tell which blocks are currently under your control, shadows are now projected behind the blocks;
• to make it easier to tell where the blocks will land if you press the “fast drop” key, shaded blocks are now projected where the blocks will land.

Changes in version 1.3-2 of shivering kittens (11^th October 2005):

• a pause key has been implemented – you may now press the “p” key to pause the game (or to resume a paused game.)

Changes in version 1.3-1 of shivering kittens (27^th September 2005):

• the game now quits on command-q, like a game for Mac OS X should.

Changes in version 1.3 of shivering kittens (15^th September 2005):

• a “fast drop” key has been implemented – you may now press the “space-bar” to drop the falling blocks all the way to the bottom of the screen;
• the falling blocks now fall more smoothly;
• a “rotate left” key, and an alternative “rotate right” key, have been implemented – you may now press “z” to rotate the falling pieces counter-clockwise, and “x” (or the “up” key) to rotate the falling pieces clockwise;
• the interface to the game has been improved:
  • the game now displays the next blocks to be “spawned” at the top of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued in the best “chain” of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
• the game is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.X (“Tiger”)!

Changes in version 1.2-Interim of shivering kittens (25^th July 2005):

• the game now saves your list of highscores – you are scored on the number of kittens you rescue during a game, and the highscores list also saves the length of the best “chain” of kittens you rescued during the game;
• the “how to play” documentation distributed with the game has been improved;
• the demo of the game will now open the correct web-page when you quit the game.

Changes in version 1.1 of shivering kittens (21^st February 2005):

• due to popular demand, the difficulty of the game has been lessened;
• again due to popular demand, you can now rotate pieces counter-clockwise;
• the time you’ve survived so far is now shown at the top-right of the window.

Version 1.0 of shivering kittens released on 14^th February 2005.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩

‘shivering kittens’ 1.4 released for Mac OS X!

Download the free demo of shivering kittens for Mac OS X by clicking here^*.

shivering kittens is a cute little “falling block” puzzle game for Mac OS X, where you must rescue as many kittens as possible before the time runs out – for every kitten you rescue, the time before the inevitable gameover is extended by a few more seconds…

If you have any feedback for shivering kittens, please email me!

Coding and design by Mark Bishop, art by Alexander Goulkin, & sound by Ricardo Balderas.

Changes in version 1.4 of shivering kittens:

• to make it easier to tell which blocks are currently under your control, shadows are now projected behind the blocks;
• to make it easier to tell where the blocks will land if you press the “fast drop” key, shaded blocks are now projected where the blocks will land.

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Changes in version 1.3-2 of shivering kittens (11^th October 2005):

• a pause key has been implemented – you may now press the “p” key to pause the game (or to resume a paused game.)

Changes in version 1.3-1 of shivering kittens (27^th September 2005):

• the game now quits on command-q, like a game for Mac OS X should.

Changes in version 1.3 of shivering kittens (15^th September 2005):

• a “fast drop” key has been implemented – you may now press the “space-bar” to drop the falling blocks all the way to the bottom of the screen;
• the falling blocks now fall more smoothly;
• a “rotate left” key, and an alternative “rotate right” key, have been implemented – you may now press “z” to rotate the falling pieces counter-clockwise, and “x” (or the “up” key) to rotate the falling pieces clockwise;
• the interface to the game has been improved:
  • the game now displays the next blocks to be “spawned” at the top of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
  • the game now displays the number of kittens rescued in the best “chain” of kittens rescued at the bottom of the screen;
• the game is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.X (“Tiger”)!

Changes in version 1.2-Interim of shivering kittens (25^th July 2005):

• the game now saves your list of highscores – you are scored on the number of kittens you rescue during a game, and the highscores list also saves the length of the best “chain” of kittens you rescued during the game;
• the “how to play” documentation distributed with the game has been improved;
• the demo of the game will now open the correct web-page when you quit the game.

Changes in version 1.1 of shivering kittens (21^st February 2005):

• due to popular demand, the difficulty of the game has been lessened;
• again due to popular demand, you can now rotate pieces counter-clockwise;
• the time you’ve survived so far is now shown at the top-right of the window.

Version 1.0 of shivering kittens released on 14^th February 2005.

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As of November 2008, shivering kittens has been acquired by Information Appliance Associates, Inc., who have discontinued the Mac OS X version of the game, and released an iPhone/iPod touch version of the game; shivering kittens for iPhone/iPod touch can be found here, whilst a video of the last update to shivering kittens for Mac OS X, 2.3-1, can be found here.↩