Howard Cheng |
Game Designer / System Designer / Level Designer
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
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2 Days
Unity
C#
Team Size
6
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.