No rats were harmed

No rats were harmed A game about observation and cheese.

Built for Bevy Jam 3.

Welcome to "No Rats Were Harmed," the puzzle game where you play as a lab researcher tasked with identifying the positive effects and side effects of unknown medicines. To do this, you'll need to carefully observe the behavior of a test subject - a lab rat - after giving it a medicine and releasing it into a labyrinth to find cheese. Use your critical thinking skills to identify the properties of each medicine. If you label the medicines incorrectly, the lab will be threatened with a class action lawsuit by unhappy customers!

Test your problem-solving skills while keeping your conscience clear. Disclaimer: only one experiment is available at the moment.

No rats were harmed in the making of this game.

Hints

• Lab rats don’t have great vision and rely on memory and smell.
• Cats are scary even when they are not real.
• Not all cheese smells good.
• Uninterested rats will generally just roam around.
• The hungrier a rat is, the more actively it searches for food.
• A lazy rat is a poor source of insight.
• Not all medicines have side effects.
• Some medicines are nothing but side effects.
• Effects of one medicine can be compensated by another.

Credits

Built with Blender, Bevy engine, and lots of joy.

Visual design and assets by Christina K. https://chrisk123.itch.io

Code and direction by Roman Bardt https://bardt.itch.io

Ideas by the universal field of consciousness

Source code available at https://github.com/bardt/side_effects

Thanks to Mozilla for Fira Sans, Bevy engine maintainers and community for bevy_asset_loader, bevy-inspector-egui, and bevy_rapier3d.