A few short weeks after its release, a Japanese mobile game featuring a traveling frog has become a hit in China. The game is called TabiKaeru, or Travel Frog. It was created by Hit-Point, the Japanese company that released the popular game Neko Atsume, or Kitty Collector, in 2014.It is played like this: A frog sits in its stone hut, eating and reading, while you collect clover from the front yard. The clover is used to buy food, which the frog takes on a journey. (China Embraces a Game About a Traveling Frog, by The New York Times)
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