A kitty muse for the great masters

Published 3:31 pm Friday, November 13, 2015

Michael Frith spent the bulk of his career working with the Muppets, but his latest project has him reimagining history in the world of mobile gaming.

“Leonardo’s Cat,” released last week by StoryToys on Apple’s app store, is a child-friendly game with an educational bent, grown-up-worthy brainteasers and the voice of “Star Trek’s” Patrick Stewart as Leonardo da Vinci. Using Frith’s animated designs, twhe game imagines an alternate history, one where Da Vinci and Michelangelo were thieving rivals and a cat was a muse.

The game costs $2.99, for iOS.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times