![]() ![]() By the end of four and a half hours of play, donations totalled $1500. "That is a poor baby," Trey said sombrely, "but we are okay."Ī $25 donation followed the fall, pushing the amount raised by Trey for the Nebraska shelter to over $100 in about 30 minutes. Moments later, a rusty pipe broke, sending the tabby down a gut-wrenching plunge into the darkness. "If I found out my cat was outside doing this, I'd be upset," Trey said, as his character jumped across a perilous distance. Last week, he narrated to viewers watching live on the platform Twitch as his cat character batted another cat's tail and danced along railings. Trey, who asked that his last name not be used, has two cats, one of which he adopted from the shelter. ![]() Stray Cat Crossing is a retro, narrative-driven adventure in the same vein as To The Moon. JustGiving, which also facilitates charity livestreams, said it identified two campaigns with the game.įor his part, Gepson from Nebraska reached out to an Omaha resident who goes by the name TreyDay1014 online to run a charity livestream. The story of a girl, a house, and a brilliant scarf. Viewers watch as players navigate the adventurous feline through an aging industrial landscape doing normal cat stuff - balancing on railings, walking on keyboards and knocking things off shelves - to solve puzzles and evade enemies.Ībout nine campaigns on Tiltify mention the game Stray, the company's CEO Michael Wasserman said. It was the fourth most watched and broadcast game on the day it launched on Twitch, the streaming platform said. Livestreaming game play for charity isn't new, but the resonance Stray quickly found from cat lovers is unusual. Annapurna Interactive, the game's publisher, also promoted Stray by offering two cat rescue and adoption agencies copies of the game to raffle off and renting out a New York cat cafe. Thanks to online fundraising platforms, gamers are playing Stray while streaming live for audiences to raise money for animal shelters and other cat-related charities. ![]() The daring orange tabby is helping real world cats as well. The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation Stray doesn't just wind along rusted pipes, leap over unidentified sludge and decode clues in a seemingly abandoned city.
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