Boomba Cat spins the Roomba kitty meme into a competitive multiplayer game

This past weekend, thousands of people gathered all over the world to develop games in the span of 48 hours during the annual Global Game Jam. It’s an event where people drink a lot of coffee, cry while debugging, and come out on the other side with weird, wonderful little projects. Boomba Cat is one of these — a multiplayer competition to see which Roomba reigns supreme and earns the right to have a cute kitty sitting on top of it. It’s available for PC and can be downloaded from the Global Game Jam website, and the developers are working on releasing a full version.

Four players can play Boomba Cat at once, and each controls a colorful robot in an arena that floats in space. The countdown starts with a minute and 40 seconds on the clock, and the goal is to knock other robots off and fill up a white meter by avoiding damage. Whoever fills up their meter gets a reward — a cat dropping onto their Roomba from the sky with a startled yowl.