Crazy?

by danial-jumagaliyev

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.16

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.17

A game about a rubber room with rats.

This is my first game written in C, with the usage of raylib. Was going for compo originally, but accidentally ended up making a masterpiece which deserved much more love :heart: :rat: :cheese:

What's the goal?

The goal to survive as many days as you can in the rubber room!
Your only source of food is a single piece of cheese.
But don't worry you're not alone, you've got rats to keep you accompanied.
Drag them away from the cheese!

You will lose if your sanity, cheese or health are fully diminished.

*Each day gets harder with new additions to your rubber room!*

How does the game work?

Sanity, cheese and health:

The rats who reach the cheese will try to eat it up.

Dragging rats or the cheese will decrease your sanity.

Once the day ends, a fresh piece of cheese will be handed to you for the next day.
Your health will replenish based on the amount of cheese left from the past day.
Your sanity will replenish, but not to a full extent.

You will start to become *crazy* at a low sanity level.

The rats:

The rats will try to reach the cheese.

If you get in their way, they will climb on you and attack you. That's when you gotta press *SPACE* to shake them off.

Be careful not to drag a rat on a rat! Doing so will cause a fusion, forming a rat mutation. Fusing rats will give you extra score, but make it harder for you to keep the cheese safe.

Online Leaderboard

You can view the online leaderboard of scores here

Controls:

- Movement - WASD
- Look around - Move Mouse
- Grab - Hold LMB (Left Mouse Button)
- Drop - Release LMB (Left Mouse Button)

Credits:

- Programming - danqzq
- Art - danqzq
- Voice acting - danqzq (Audacity helped)
- Cutscene music - Scheming Weasel by Kevin MacLeod
- Sound effects - freesound

Tags: #cheese, #flash-like, #rats, #room, #rubber, #top-down

Genres: survival

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Audacity, raylib

Comments14

Spike Studio3 Oct 2023, 00:34

I was crazy once...

ElmoEinstein3 Oct 2023, 02:01

This weird rat game is the most fun I've had with any LD game so far. Its kinda crazy...

BlueDandelion8 Oct 2023, 13:05

This game is surprisingly fun for how simple it is. The art style is also very simplistic but very cool. I couldn't manage to get past the fat rat unfortunately... It kept damaging it even after I gave it 3 little mouse to eat.
Great job!

Danial Jumagaliyevauthor8 Oct 2023, 20:24

@bluedandelion Thanks for playing the game! You have to drag the rats directly on to the fat rat's head. On that note though, the hitbox for it is pretty small, so I'll probably increase it in size in a patch after the jam.

Ayxs8 Oct 2023, 21:25

I was really confused at first about this game. It looks very much like a meme game, but there actually is something :sweat_smile: . I think that is also the reason why you have so little reviews as of writing this review.

The game itself is quite well made (great job for making it in C). It's a bit repetitive for my liking. Although I also has issues getting past the fat rat, it kept eating me even after feeding it. Very cool you also made an online leaderboard!

Some improvement could maybe be made in the Ludum Dare page to attract some more players. Also, maybe you can highlight where the cheese is or not make the rest of the room entirely dark, the beginning of a day was sometimes very unclear.

vivid-hallucination8 Oct 2023, 21:38

I made a super rat and it was very fast. 11/10

Danial Jumagaliyevauthor8 Oct 2023, 22:25

@ayxs Thanks for the great feedback, I took a moment to improve the LD page of the game. Originally, I was gonna make the room fully visible for a few seconds before the start of a day, and I'll think about implementing that after the jam.

ffffchai9 Oct 2023, 04:42

Crazy and fun, I'm committed to fusing rats, which I think will allow me to pay attention to just one. The field of view is very restricted, which is in keeping with the theme. c writing feels like it requires a lot of technical force, very admirable. Nice work!

Alexandru Barbanoua9 Oct 2023, 09:16

the idea is good, it reminds me of the old flash games, eh nostalgia. Otherwise, it's still great gameplay and a funny story, I'd add music to make it better, but it's still great

TerminalGoat13 Oct 2023, 15:54

truly impressive by how this game was written in pure C and all aspects of the game were literally done by just one person. I kinda love the concept here which is really creative, feel like this game is so underrated. The game is so well polished and really enjoyable, you even made an online leaderboard! What a madlad.

3mpty14 Oct 2023, 23:13

Not the most fun or prettiest or best sounding LD game I've ever played. But it absolutely is the most disturbing. I'm afraid of rats now, thank you.

Very few horror games have really creeped me out from LD, but this one definitely did it which I find hilarious because the game is also hilarious. I love it.

Great work!

Tetracold15 Oct 2023, 11:41

The idea is really funny! It's pretty creative too with the use of the theme, as well as having a pretty solid atmosphere.

graphics are ok, but I will say I feel like blend well stylistically with the absurd concept.
the game controls well but gameplay wise it becomes somewhat repetitive. I struggled a bit with fat rat, I managed to overcome it eventually after a few replays, but a bigger hitbox would be really welcome!

pretty good overall!

blobo16 Oct 2023, 17:41

This was a lot of fun! I recorded myself playing to provide extra feedback:

Edit: Aaaand I just noticed the video was poorly cropped so you can't see the top of the screen. whoooops!

The difficulty curve was perfect. I only ever dropped to about half-sanity (though the cheese meter was very close to running out a few times) so I don't know what else the sanity stat does, but the cheese running away was a delightful surprise!

I love the story cutscenes, and the extra messages explaining the new mechanics as they get added. The amount of stuff in this game is crazy.

crazy? I was crazy once...