Rats Under My Skin

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.11
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.72
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★57%
Created by Future Proof Games (Melissa Avery-Weir and Gregory Avery-Weir).

This game uses free assets from the Unity Asset Store (Decal System), freesound.com, and cgtextures.com

It was made using Unity, Blender, Audacity, GIMP, and Sublime Text.

The cat controls with WASD, shift, and spacebar. You can latch onto walls for a few seconds by jumping on them. When latched onto the wall, you'll be able to jump powerfully toward the reticle.

Cleanse patches of vermin to clear the infection. When you've cleansed enough patches, the level of the infection will drop. You can then go beneath the surface to find more vermin and progress.

There are three main regions: the desert, the tunnel, and the cathedral.

Comments19

Gregory Avery-Weir
Gregory Avery-Weirauthor28 Apr 2014, 19:36
Probably not a virus? Because this is a new, little-downloaded program, many virus scanners will mark it as suspicious. Are you seeing any evidence of infection, or is your virus scanner just warning you?
CDK28 Apr 2014, 19:39
couldn't really see how it fit the theme - but it's a nice way of doing a jumping puzzle game.. but the point of the game was hard to follow.. :)

But had a couple of minutes of fun ^^
morganbengtsson28 Apr 2014, 19:41
Interesting and moody. Though the controls are a bit frustrating.
fullmontis
fullmontis28 Apr 2014, 19:53
This was very fun to play. I'm really enjoying it. There are a few bugs in the jumping mechanics but hey that's to be expected.
dsoft20
dsoft2029 Apr 2014, 15:57
Nice, with more polish it could be a great game.
The world needs more game with cats
baykush_figtree29 Apr 2014, 16:51
I like the 3d walljumping mechanics and the terrain.
Sometimes reaching higher spots is quite frustrating, but it's a good entry nonetheless.

Btw, how did you do this "low poly" terrain?
Gregory Avery-Weir
Gregory Avery-Weirauthor29 Apr 2014, 18:19
@baykush_figtree: The terrain started as a high-poly mesh in Blender. We shaped it with the Sculpt tools and then applied a Decimate modifier to drop its poly count. There's probably a better way to do it, but it worked and was fast. :)
DarkMeatGames29 Apr 2014, 20:30
Really liked the idea of a parkour cat!! It was fun when it worked the way I wanted. I think with smoothed out controls, this would be a ton of fun!
BuKaneerz29 Apr 2014, 21:16
Good mood, i like play a cat !
the controls are a bit difficult ..
Great work by the way !
blockbot
blockbot29 Apr 2014, 21:36
I got off the sand island and into the netherworld. Long live cat!
CMaster29 Apr 2014, 21:42
That was really cool.

Be made a lot neater if the mouse was locked to the game.
Gregory Avery-Weir
Gregory Avery-Weirauthor30 Apr 2014, 01:45
@CMaster, I totally agree... that was the thing I was working on near the deadline. I'm clumsy enough with Unity that I couldn't get it working right.
joe40001
joe400015 May 2014, 11:26
This game is broken in all the best ways. It could be called spider cat, or "supero-funtime jumpcat no glitch".

It did absolutely all it needed to do to be a weirdly compelling and yes fun fun game. I really enjoyed it even though some of my compliments might sound bad, I really enjoyed it. It's like a video game version of an awesome B-movie, where a lot of things are a bit off but it still comes together to be a lot of fun.
matthias_zarzecki6 May 2014, 16:19
Love the latching feature! Also neat how the basic move is "prowling" :D
noom14 May 2014, 03:30
I was a kitty, I was cute as hell. Great concept, loved the wall leaping and the idea behind unlocking new parts of the level.
DraKlaW
DraKlaW16 May 2014, 03:16
I can't play the web version (and i've not test the other)
I get stuck on the animated start screen. I can clic, press any key but nothing happend. I'm still in front of the begin button :(

From text descriptino : Very cool concept. I will test windows version when i have more time.

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