PackRat

PackRat

Created by Skylar Newton

You are a mischief of rats that must navigate through the different rooms of a hoarder's house to get all of the cheese! 

Use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to "duplicate" yourself up to four times. Avoid rat traps and touch all of the cheese simultaneously to progress onto the next level!

Overview

PackRat is a cloning puzzle game that takes place in the different rooms of a hoarder’s house. The player controls a rat that can spawn up to 4 other rats that the player simultaneously controls. The goal of the game is to navigate through the house to get all of the cheese and progress onto the next level. 

The seed of the game, navigating + hoarding, works with the environment in several ways. The player navigates throughout the different environments of each level, locating the goal points and discovering what objects allow the player to move the clones into the right positions to progress. The theme of hoarding is also heavily prevalent in the levels. The designs are filled and cluttered with random items in seemingly thoughtless piles. The levels all show what allowing untreated hoarding disorder to fester can lead to in its most extremes.

Goals

•The experiential goal of the game is to call to attention the dangers and issues of untreated hoarding disorder through extreme examples. The player is able to fully place themselves in the perspective of a rat with scale and set design to create interest and add to the immersion of the game.

●The goal of the aesthetics is to target themes such as overconsumption and hoarding in society. Scale is heavily used to push the idea of overconsumption by making the player small in a large, cluttered environment.

Rat Trap asset created in Maya by Skylar Newton

level designs by Skylar Newton

Seed by Skylar Newton

Credits

Art Assets

• Wissiam El Hajj-  "3D Game Props"
• Elcanetay- "Toon Furniture"
• YGS Assets- "Cola Can"
• Dmitriy Dryzhak- "TV Set"
• Highground Assets - "Bowling: Kegel and Ball"
• Runemark Studio- "Origami Animal Pack"
• Andrey Ferar- "door Free Pack Aferar"
• Reach the End- "Food and Kitchen Props Pack"

Title Font: "Showcard Gothic"

Base code by Michael Baker