A virtual pet for Arduboy - Feed, cuddle, clean and educate your own unique cat
3 mini games, 7 food types, friends visits and presents, all on the mighty Arduboy.
Game type: Virtual Pet
Game Style: Casual Game, mild action
Players: One
Age range: 7 to 77 years old
TiMiNoo ("Tee Me Noo") is a virtual cat providing minimal distraction, fully office-compatible, simple gameplay, no sound and no death. The cat is different on each run, its characteristics (appetite, cleanliness, cleverness, playfulness) are randomly picked at startup.
TiMiNoo has been created with busy people in mind: The gameplay is very simple and fluid on purpose, as this game is meant to be enjoyed in a work environment.
TiMiNoo is a simple yet feature-rich virtual cat, a companion for busy days: Cuddle, Feed, Educate, Wash and Entertain your very own furry companion.
Tamagotchi lovers could compare it to a Nano.
Go to the casino with your TiMiNoo and do your best to win some yummy food to bring home. Press A or B once to randomly pick a food item. Beware of the ghost though !
When the fur of your TiMiNoo gets dirty, it's time for a proper toilet. Scrub scrub ! Repeatedly press A or B to get a squicky clean kitty.
Give your friends a kiss and cuss at the ghost. When a friend appears on screen, press B to give a kiss and share the love. When a naughty ghost appears on screen, press A to cuss at it and make it go away. Be careful, cussing at your friends or kissing the ghost will cause you not to score points. Every properly placed kiss / cuss will get you a sweet 1000 points bonus, so get ready and get up there. That game goes on for 10 rounds.
Your TiMiNoo will get hungry as time goes by. Feed it a variety of food including:
Grape
Strawberry
Apple
Orange
Milk
Coco cake (bonus item)
Matcha tea (bonus item)
Your TiMiNoo will want to learn new things. Call Professor Koko Le Snail, a wise teacher that will share is best knowledge with your cuttie.
TiMiNoo craves attention and love, make sure to give it plenty.
Sometimes, when the cat gets hungry, one of its friend will come.
TiMiNoo has two good friends: Sophie and ChiChi
Sophie offers either a nice Matcha tea or a generous slice of a yummy homemade Coco cake. She may look like a bear, but she has a good heart and is very sweet (except when it's full moon). She lives in a big house with two bedrooms and four bathrooms,
ChiChi loves to cook and sometimes misses an ingredient. She will ask you for help, be a good friend and give her what she needs. Occasionally, she will be sad and simply ask for a hug. She is nice, but she likes pineapple pizza, which is weird. Actually, it's kind of illegal in Italy, so she will never travel there.
Earn points every time you take action and increase your score.
- Strawberry: +30 points
- Grape, orange, apple: +20 points
- Milk: +10 points
- BAR: +500 points
- Strawberry: +300 points
- Grape, orange, apple: +200 points
- Milk: +100 points
- Dollar: Double your score
- Give a big kiss and a hug to your cat: +50 points
- Get some good wisdom from Koko Le Snail: +100 points
- Keep your cat clean: +200 points
- Receive a visit from your friend Sophie: +10000 points
- Receive a visit from your friend ChiChi: +5000 points
- Ghost encounter: -666 points
Access all the features of the game by pressing LEFT or RIGHT. Confirm selection with A or B.
Turn your Arduboy on in order to start a new game. There is no save feature, no scoring, no experience. Every run is a fresh beginning with new statistics. TiMiNoo cannot die.
TiMiNoo looks straight at you, waving its tail. It's happy, simply enjoying the moment.
The cat will look at a gamepad icon.
Press the button once to play the integrated game: Casino.
Food items will appear on the screen, press the button once to try your luck and see what you catch.
That game is how TiMiNoo gets new food into its pantry.
The cat will look at a book icon.
Press the button once to call Professor Koko Le Snail, a wise and knowledgeable teacher. He will happily share his best quotes with your TiMiNoo.
The cat will look at a pizza slice icon.
Press the button to feed your TiMiNoo with the food stashed in the pantry.
The cat will look at a half-empty heart icon.
Press the button to kiss your furry cuttie.
The cat will look at a bubble icon.
Press the button in order to scrub all that dust off its fur.
Use Arduino IDE to upload timinoo.ino to your Arduboy.
TiMiNoo is an open source project that is not meant to be sold. Please note the cat sprites and the frames are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 license that explicitly prohibits commercial use. I'm 100% OK with this.
The game is available for free on Itch.io