
Momo is silent (makes sense, since cats don’t talk), but she’s still a charismatic character who faces her spirit adversaries with a grim little frown of determination, and celebrates every completed level with a cocky little wand-twirl and grin.

In that game, you fight ghosts by drawing the symbols above their heads, which translates to Momo waving her wand in the appropriate gesture and firing off an anti-ghost spell. This year’s Doodle is a direct sequel to 2016’s playable Magic Cat Academy Doodle, which sees a small black cat named Momo defending her school and her classmates against a series of ghosts taking over the classrooms and kitchen. Okay, that didn’t actually take very long. There are ghosts, and you fight them with magic. The 2022 version includes new characters, game maps, special power-ups and more.Strap in for the extensive backstory on Google’s latest playable Halloween Doodle, which has a history stretching all the way back to the long-ago before-time year of 2016. The new multiplayer Doodle is the sequel to Google’s “Great Ghoul Duel Doodle” from 2018. Google often uses its Doodles to commemorate historical dates and figures, but sometimes uses the feature to add a bit of fun when it comes to holidays. The team utilized Open Match, which is an open source matchmaking framework co-founded by Google Cloud and Unity. Google says the team that developed the Doodle built several systems to enable this multiplayer gaming, all running on the Google Cloud Platform.

You can host a game and invite up to seven friends to play with you via a custom invitation link or choose to play with randomized players. Ghosts that collect the most spirit flames will also unlock special powers, such as speed boosts and night vision. Here’s the catch: opponents can intercept spirits from one another as they bring them back to homebase. After time’s up, the team that has collected the most spirit flames wins. The goal of the game is to collect as many wandering spirit flames as you can in two minutes and return them to their homebase. The search giant has launched a new Halloween-themed playable Doodle that opens up to a Snake-like game that you can play with your friends or random players from around the world. If you want to take a break from work or the never-ending news cycle, Google is here to give you an escape.
