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🐾 Cats vs Vegetables — Neon Arcade in your browser

A super-light, super-fast skill game. You control a glowing cat, keep mean veggies away, let snacks pass, and hunt bosses. Precision, timing and combos = high score & coins. Upgrade in the shop, trigger slow-mo, and reach Lionheart rank. Runs entirely in the browser.

🎮 Features

• Crisp controls: Left/Right or A/D • Space = Fire • P = Pause • R = Reset • Enter = Start

• Touch-ready: Hold to autofire, on-screen buttons for Left/Fire/Right on mobile.

• Skill loop: Shoot vegetables ✅ | Let snacks pass ✅ | Shooting snacks = penalty ❌

• Combo & Slow-Mo: Hit streaks raise your combo and grant short slow-motion bursts.

• Boss fights: Announced entries, HP bars, movement patterns; defeat 5 to win a run.

• Shop / Upgrades: ❤️ Life • 🔫 Fire Rate • 🐾 Multi-Shot (visual trails + fire rate) • 🌀 SlowMo+ • 💰 Coin Gain

• 3 modes: Easy / Normal / Hard and a Speed slider.

• Quality of life: Confetti toggle, “let snacks pass” toggle, auto UI hide on tiny screens, auto-pause on tab switch.

🕹️ Controls

Desktop: ←/→ or A/D, Space fire, P pause, R reset, Enter start

📈 Scoring & time

• Destroy vegetables → points + time bonus

• Let snacks reach the bottom → bonus points + time

• Shoot a snack by mistake → −25 points and combo reset

• Bosses → big score + big time boost

🛍️ Upgrades (coins)

• ❤️ Life+ – more lives

• 🔫 Fire++ – faster fire rate

• 🐾 Multi-Shot – stronger fire cadence + stylish trails

• 🌀 SlowMo+ – longer slow-mo reward

• 💰 Coin%+ – more coins per run

💻 Performance & compatibility

• Works in modern desktop & mobile browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Safari).

• Uses a single HTML file with Canvas; no external dependencies.

• Auto-scales to any screen; optional UI Hide button for very small displays.

📦 How to play on itch (HTML build)

1. Zip your game with an index.html at the root.

2. Upload the ZIP as “This file will be played in the browser.”

3. Add cover (≤3 MB) and screenshots.

4. Publish.

(Local testing: just open index.html or serve via a simple HTTP server.)

📝 Accessibility

• High-contrast neon palette on a dark background

• Large UI chips, readable fonts

• Optional sound toggle

• All actions playable via keyboard or touch

🐛 Known issues

• Mobile: extremely small portrait devices show a Rotate overlay; turn to landscape for the best experience.

🔄 Changelog

• v1.0 – Initial release: combos + slow-mo, boss fights, shop upgrades, mobile touch, UI hide, saves (high score, coins, upgrades) via LocalStorage.