multiplayer rattus rex

Dear internet, I give unto you, a flash game. Click the rats below to play! Beware: it’s 2 player.

“In folklore, a rat king forms when many rats’ tails become knotted together, becoming a plague-spreading horror. You are an ambitious rat prince, eager to take the throne; compete against a friend to become the greatest rat king of all!”

Play against a friend to knock your opponent out of the rat race; rats of an opposing color will decrease the number of your horde. Pick up an opponent’s color when you don’t have any followers and it’s game over!

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The Rat King came about after being assigned to make a shooter in an experimental game design class.
The inspiration has been floating around for awhile; the rats are a little reminiscent of

and rats tend to be my go-to art subject: they’re fun to draw, they have funky historical and cultural backgrounds (plague! pied piper! rat kings! Ganesha’s steed!), and they live everywhere and anywhere.

Besides, once the idea of two rats shooting out and then collecting up babies was out, there was no controlling it; a game that strange had to be made.

(if you’ve already played the game and can’t tell heads or tails what’s going on, that’s about it: your rat has babies, and you have to collect them back up in order to expand your horde and become the King Rat.)

I’m not very good with actionscript, so I ended up teaming up with my friend Tim Sherman to make two different shooters; the agreement being I cover the art for his game, and he covers the coding for mine. Our second game, entitled Happy Birthday Dear, is an arena shooter based on the music of The Residents; as soon as I grab the source files from him, I’ll have that available for play, as well.

The game itself is a little wonky, but you get the picture.

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