PitterPatter

A group student game where you struggle and survive in a third person horror game. Play as a former human, now turned rat and be hunted down by your pet in a cruel twist of fate. Evade and distract your demise, find a solution to your affliction and try to survive the night. 

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Core Gameplay:  

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The player is a rat trapped inside their log cabin. They are being stalked by their cat and must survive long enough to assemble the ritual and turn back into a human. The game will emphasize stealth, traversal, and distraction. 

Horror elements stem from megalophobic environments, being the prey, and the cats behaviour.  

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Key features: 

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- Large and Interactable World

- Complex AI Systems

- Puzzle Mechanics

- Horror Elements 

Stealth and evading: 

● The player will need to remain hidden from the cat using small spaces, gaps in furniture, holes in walls, etc 

● The cat will have dynamic AI systems with patrol patterns, random search behaviours, and sight and sound perception. 

● The player will have different movement abilities to the cat 

● The player will be able to distract the cat by causing a commotion to catch the cats attention, and will be able to trigger the cats senses in ways that confuse the cat 

Environment: 

● Small holes and tunnels to give the player hiding places 

● Physics based obstacles like object that tip over and a lighting system you can interact with 

● Traps and environmental hazards like mouse traps that make you vulnerable to the cat 

● The mouse can climb curtains, wood, and ropes 

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Setting and environment:  

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- Location: a rustic old log cabin 

- Lighting: dark room lit up intermittently by flickering lights enabled by the player 

-  Aesthetic: Mouth-Washing-esque low poly environment with heavy emphasis on textures. 

- Audio: No background music, but besides some jumpscare noises, purely environmental sound effects. Floorboard creaks, chirping, heartbeat, etc