Popular Twitter account that rates dogs now has a cute mobile game
WeRateDogs is a great Twitter account to follow because it recognizes a basic truth about life: all dogs are good dogs.
Now, @dog_rates creator Matt Nelson has teamed up with the London-based Fourthwall Games to deliver a mobile game that celebrates all the lovable puppers and doggos of the world. Good Dogs is what it's called, naturally.
It's a free-to-play endless runner that will be hitting Android and iOS app stores on Feb. 3. The more time you spend playing -- or the more money you spend, if you prefer -- the more dogs you unlock. No energy bars or timers or anything like that.
As you can see in the trailer, it's a straightforward game that's about letting puppers and doggos live their best life.
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You guide your chosen pooch around and over obstacles for as long as you can while collecting bones. There are dogs and hats to unlock -- yes, hats -- and the whole game is sprinkled with the sort of smile-inducing comments that make Nelson's Twitter feed such an enjoyable place.
WeRateDogs was born in Nov. 2015, and it quickly amassed huge followings on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat thanks to its abundance of cute pup photos, quirky one-liners, and willingness to regularly assign ratings higher than its 1-10 scale technically allows (because dogs).
As the world has seemingly fallen apart in more recent months, the dog-rating Twitter feed has taken on a more willfully positive stance. Nelson has made it clear: dogs are fonts of unconditional love, and humans could stand to learn something from that.
Fourthwall's Chris Etches sums it up pretty well.
"We are thrilled to be helping Matt bring his booping and numeric quantifying of Dogs to a mobile gaming audience," he said in a statement. "And while other games may feature more high drama or epic battles, our game lets you joyfully run through a park as dogs, what more could you ask for? 13/10 would collaborate again."
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Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
