Google is celebrating Halloween with an interactive game about a spell-casting cat who uses her powers to defeat ghosts after they invade the Magic Cat Academy.
The Google Doodle follows Momo the cat as she casts spells to defeat the school's attackers and recover a master spell book over the course of five levels. Players vanquish ghosts by drawing symbols that appear over the phantoms' heads.
"Doodling for a whole Doodle game was very exciting for us," the team behind the Halloween Doodle wrote in a blog post. "We had so many ideas for elaborate symbols to draw, like a witch's hat that would appear on the character's head after it was drawn! In the end we decided that for a short game against the clock, simple was better."
The feline protagonist was inspired by Momo, a real-life black cat owned by one of Google's Doodlers. Originally, developers envisioned having a magic cat make a soup so good it raised the dead, but they opted instead for a cat at a magic school.
"Connecting soup to Halloween proved too abstract, so the team shifted to the idea of a wizard school," the team said. "This opened the door to a more robust world filled with interesting characters and paw-some themes."
Magic Cat Academy can be played on Google.
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