Work from home - rat battle!

by knason
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Keep IT alive - you have a critical role. Everyone is working from home and it is your job to make it possible. Fix the broken cables and make sure you're not running out of money. It's a story about survival! ;-)

Play the game in the browser


Let me know if you managed to keep everything running the whole year or when you got bankrupt, hope you enjoy it :-)


Instructions

1. Use arrows to move
2. Stand on the broken cables to fix them
3. Keep IT running the whole year

Comments23

Lepton20 Apr 2020, 17:12
Nice little retro game. Theres not much you can do, but the things you can do, work. Thats important.
Begocio
Begocio20 Apr 2020, 17:13
Omg, this game is so hard!
Really liked the idea. Nice game
technosander20 Apr 2020, 17:14
Easy to play and understand. Good idea. But I think there's not a lot to do, you just need to walk around an stand on the cables. Still like it though!!;)
Corporation
Corporation20 Apr 2020, 17:19
thats some real interpretation of stay alive) the game is hard, just like life is
AdamWatters20 Apr 2020, 18:46
While there isn't a huge amount to do, I do still like the retro feel of your game. Overall a pretty good game.
WongKongPhooey
WongKongPhooey20 Apr 2020, 20:04
Fun little arcade game! A nice way to make light of the current pandemic. Plus points for Pico-8 of course!
greizgh21 Apr 2020, 17:37
Nice little game, made it to the end of year with 200$ left.
Did not found it too challenging, it could benefit from some increased difficulty over time. different cutter pattern maybe? Like eating 2 tiles of cable?
ObscenelyTrue
ObscenelyTrue21 Apr 2020, 20:38
Nice arcade game with this good retro feeling.
Adam Clayden
Adam Clayden22 Apr 2020, 15:55
Nice game! Always cool to play something made in Pico-8. It feels like a classic arcade game, similar to Donkey Kong and is quite charming. It's missing some collision elements though, but I imagine if I had to go down each chain before going up another, the game would be a lot more difficult.

Overall it was good!
vilcans
vilcans27 Apr 2020, 20:00
What a cute little game! I survived the whole year after a while. ❤ the graphics and fun to see a Pico 8 game.

The game could need some sounds when a cable is broken, when you repair it and when a building gets or loses electricity. It would keep the motivation up.
LeviDSmith
LeviDSmith27 Apr 2020, 23:04
Neat concept for a game. Those rats are so destructive. I made it to August then I ran out of money.
meelo28 Apr 2020, 02:32
I made $290, woo-hoo! I think a greater variety of challenge would benefit this game - either new types of dangers for the cables that require a different solution than standing on them, or something that constrains where the player is (even something as simple as "oh this particular rat is super dangerous; don't touch it"). I quite like the graphical style here - it looks reasonably polished and has lots of nice touches, like the brief displays of cost or the little money signs next to the homes.
oda
oda28 Apr 2020, 20:48
Yay, I finished the year with $190!

Nice little Pico-8 game, some cheap sound effects would have been great to give it more life, but great work, that was fun playing it!
darthone30 Apr 2020, 06:32
Made it to the end of the year with 160$. Like others have said I think some simple sound effects would have really made the game pop
btnpresser2 May 2020, 16:06
Super simple, but I found this game adorable nonetheless.
I liked you theming it not only with the theme itself, but some humor about current events :)
kodran
kodran2 May 2020, 23:36
Pretty fun and cute! I found I kept trying to tease off the wire early so I'd have to re-do the whole thing which was bruutal. Had a lot of fun, good job! :)
Westmave
Westmave4 May 2020, 17:57
I like the idea and your interpretation of the Theme, especially in the Situation the world is in right now. Sound would have been nice.
Evan Minto
Evan Minto6 May 2020, 04:57
Simple whack-a-mole concept, but fun for a round or two. The simple visuals work pretty well and I figured everything out almost immediately.
bulle6 May 2020, 08:51
Nice arcade game :)! - Ended up with 445$ - like a lot that it has the arcade feeling where you look for small changes to know where to go next.
8BitCharlie
8BitCharlie7 May 2020, 12:58
I really enjoyed playing it. Good entry!
SynysterCola
SynysterCola8 May 2020, 01:49
Wow I had a lot to keep an eye on, but this was fun! Simple, yet challenging!
goffmog
goffmog8 May 2020, 16:10
Really smart use of the theme and I loved the fact that there was some strategy involved in which breaks you should fix first based on your income stream. Nailed the authentic 8-bit presentation too.
Jajo
Jajo12 May 2020, 11:57
That was aggressively old-school. Nice job :)

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