RAT RACE
Rat Race portrays the experience of young adults' relationship with mental paralysis caused by fear of failure. The game's title is an English idiom which refers to the competitive struggle towards success. Highlighting the journey of overcoming obstacles and negative thoughts, it offers a platform for players facing mental paralysis to feel understood while providing insight to those who are unfamiliar to foster understanding of the experience. Using the visual language of 80s arcade games, it emphasises the value of learning from failures, positive self-talk, and trying again.
CREDITS:
Character & Asset Design, Animation, Game Design & Development by Punnapim Punnatheepitak
Music is ‘The Spider’ by Kansas
Fog, Utility Pole Asset & Pixel Art Fonts by Pixel Overload
City Background Pixel Art by CraftPix
Pixel Speech Bubble by R. Stevens, inspired by the style of Diesel Sweeties
Pixel Icons by streamline
SFX from Freesound
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This is so cleverly made! I really like that the other rats weren't as ambitious to get all the things as I was, but didn't run into the roadblocks (at least they didn't when I was playing), so over and over again I ended up getting ahead, then cleaning the way for them by running into obstacles first, and then falling back to the very end because of "burnout". Absolutely loved the game, amazing work! Very cute art too. I don't know if there's an end to the race (never managed to get to one) -- I hope not, that definitely adds to the whole experience.