Game Summary

Rat King is a physics based stealth game, where the player is an alien who is trying to escape from a lab by mind controlling rats. Since the alien is held down as the center of the rat king, it can’t move around by itself. Therefore needs to use the rats to pull himself and the others in order to escape from the lab. The alien uses telekinesis to control foods and move them in front of the rat and use that to move, and escape from the lab.

Role

Length

Tool

System Designer

Programmer

Rat king Movement

Rats AI

2 Days

Unity

Team Size

Controls

Physics Based movement

Player controls the rotations of the rat king, and changes the direction that they are facing. Then uses telekinesis to put the correct food in front of the rat to move around the level. The focus of the movement is to create a smooth and fast movement, and rats who are not moving towards a food look like they are being pulled along. These are achieved through giving everyone in the rat king some force that moves all of them slightly towards the alien, this makes it require less force to pull the entire rat king.