Bulba the Cat preparing to pounce onto iPhone

C4M’s latest iPhone title Bulba the Cat opens with our purple-furred hero having his carefully prepared sushi stolen by a bird - an astonishing liberty given the relative positions of birds and cats in the food chain.

Rather than fling Bulba at the bird while it hides in a variety of unstable towers, Angry Birds-style, Bulba instead needs to bound across islands in order to reach the little parcels of fish the flying thief has carelessly dropped.

Control is handled solely through the accelerometer, with Bulba jumping automatically in a constant rhythm.

The tricky part, therefore, is timing the tilts, as moving during the highest point in a jump is almost certainly not going to be enough to pass many of the watery gaps (and, as everyone knows, cats instantly perish when they land in water).

Alongside the standard jumping, there are a number of other obstacles that can either hinder or help progression through each of the levels.

The windmill, for instance, sends Bulba flying (as long as it’s turning), while the annoying wooden platforms collapse with one touch, making jumps even more perilous.

It’s fairly traditional stuff, but it's wrapped up in family-friendly colours and features some tricky bits of level design.

Bulba the Cat has been submitted to Apple and should be hitting the App Store any moment now.