Labrats

My entry to the Ludum Dare 43 Jam, made in 72 hours over a weekend (jam entry page)

Help advance science by solving puzzles and conducting exciting experiments! You might have to make a few sacrifices to succeed.

Keypad or wasd to move. R to restart a level if you’re stuck. Pause with P or ESC.

This is my second game jam (my previous game was Pyramidion, which I made for LD42).

There are overall 8 levels in the game.

Important Information

• The missing cheese on level 4 is not a bug! If you’re stuck, you can watch a playthrough of the game here.
• Sadly, I am pretty sure the game is not color-blind friendly. I realized this too late. I wanted to upload a post jam version that doesn’t rely on color indications the weekend after the jam, but I caught a flu and couldn’t really get any work done. I will still try to fix it in a post jam version!

Credits

I’ve used some music from opengameart.org:

Catch me if you can! (Created by poinl)
Bittersweet (Created by Emma_MA)
A Tricky Puzzle Loop (Created by Pant0don)

I’ve used some sound effects from freesound.org:
ratty-squeaks.wav (Created by Reitanna Seishin)
rat-gnawing-a-rusk.wav (Created by zabuhailo)
burning-match-into-water.wav (Created by trngle)
woosh.wav (Created by lebaston100)

All graphical assets were created by me using Procreate / Gimp / Aseprite. The game was created using Unity.

Walkthrough video