GCEA, Good Cats Eat Apples :) a game about the troubles of eating apples. use the spacebar to move the cat toward the mousepointer. try to land on the apple, not the thorn. if you land on the thorn you lose health. post your highscore (and any suggestions)in the comments!
Thanks to @fallemon for the barley snout edition, some sprites are from there! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1260142784 play it there. I used @itsssgj's bread game (wip) as a ref to figure out how to do complicated things like variables so thanks for being a good coder :) music: credit to @LoudHeadphones Timeline: 11/4/25, cat eats the apple now. 11/5/25, timer added, game over screen fixed, shared. 11/6/25, thorn added,11/6/25, health variable added, 11/6/25,apple variable reset, 11/6/25,heath variable fixed,11/6/25, timer removed,11/6/25, thorn fixed,11/6/25, apple no longer spawns on thorn, apple no longer spawns on thorn system fixed,11/6/25, MAJOR REVAMP level system added, level system troubleshooted, the cat and the thorn now spawn in the same spot every time. 11/7/25, Win screen added, levels needed to win lowered to five, Cat walking animation added, Notes and credits updated, (they weren't accurate before) intro updated. ( comma added yes I know I'm nitpicking but it annoyed me so i called it an update anyway) level system fixed. 11/11/25 8-bit Music added, Game over changed to GAME OVER, 11/12/25 MAJOR REVAMP, title screen added, stop music button added, and bugfixed. 11/13/25 start music button added, music system fiddled around with, end screen fixed. 12/28/25 sprite design changed