Cat Quest developer scratches the right gaming itch

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Both have since passed - Cola from a dog attack and Nachos, which went missing, was assumed to have gone the same way too. But I learned everything about how to interact with cats from them and it’s helped me appreciate them a lot more. I also came to realize that Singaporeans really love their cats, even stray ones. There was a student club called the Cat Management Network, which handled all the housing and feeding issues for stray cats at my university. And at home, there’s a network of local feeders who take turns to ensure that the community cats are taken care of. This is something that Singapore-based game studio The Gentlebros seems to have realized and capitalized on. It developed a game called Cat Quest, which has got over 1.3 million paid downloads worldwide since launching in 2017. 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