Global Game Jam 2025 | Rat Attack

A game created by Tim Beatham and Billy Rooke for the Global Game Jam 2025.

We participated in-person in Edinburgh.

Mechanics

Controls

• WSAD to move
• E to change equipped item
• X to use equipped item (swing stick, plant seeds, scythe grass)
• T talk to a nearby NPC

Farming

• ; is a grassy square (default)
• Use a scythe on a grassy square (next to water) to get a cleaned up square !
• Use seeds on a cleaned up square to get a planted seed `
• Use the scythe to harvest the plant once grown $

Rats

• Rats will come and eat your wheat
• TODO describe pathfinding algorithm
• TODO describe rat bars

Digging

• Use the shovel to dig channels through which water will flow

NPC

• % is the Farmer
• Move to a spot next to him and press T to converse
• You can sell wheat to him for quids

Install

TODO