Crazy? by Danial Jumagaliyev
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:
https://youtu.be/Fvj5QZGkkM0
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:
| Link | https://github.com/danqzq/crazy |
| Link | https://danqzq.itch.io/crazy |
| Link | https://crazy.danqzq.games/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/crazy |
Ratings
| Overall | 389th | 3.75⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 208th | 3.875⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 301th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 525th | 3.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 731th | 3.325⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 440th | 3.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 59th | 4.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 81th | 4.175⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Great job!
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.
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!
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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6RDIftIjfM
**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...