Science Box

CW: Loud Noises and Gunshots (in song)

You are a rat and Dr. Skinner put you in this nice box. See what all the fuss is about.

Instead of food in this skinner box, there is sound. Will you become conditioned to spam that button?? Who knows... but there are 20 sounds in total to hear.

----- Dev Notes -----

Yeah so I heard the prompt (Non-Human POV for anyone not aware of the jam) and instantly thought about rats bc I have rat brain all the time. While I came up with a few ideas, I wasn't really thrilled about any of them. Then I was thinking about game design stuff when I remembered the Skinner Box and operant conditioning. That has rats in it doesn't it. I really liked that concept because its so closely tied to games but the original concept is a non-human pov. I ran into my first roadblock with the idea when I realized that food would not be motivation enough for a player to keep playing. Sure I could make a hunger meter and tell the player to not die but it didn't seem fun. So instead, taking a lesson from clicker games, I went in the direction of discovery. Instead of a known need, I thought an unknown want might keep a players attention while still fulfilling the basic prompt. I ended up going with sound because I liked the idea of putting fun memes in my game. This class has been hard so let me have some fun with it.  Also I decided to show a possible range until the next sound "drop" because I figured while it is not true to the original skinner box experiment, it is another QoL feature for the human players.

----- Sound List  (Read after playing) -----

1. Mario Coin Noise
2. Roblox Death Sound
3. First 4 Notes of Megolovania
4. Anime Wow Sound Effect
5. Minecraft Drinking Noise
6. Intro to Money Machine by 100 Gecs
7. EA Sports but its all Es
8. JFK from Clone High saying "Damn your ass fat, whats your pronouns"
9. Gamecube Intro
10. Bass Boosted Fortnite Default Dance Theme
11. Intro to Revenge by CaptainSparklez
12. Look at this Graph Nickleback Vine
13. Clip of Two Trucks by LemonDemon
14. Miku reads the Navy Seal CopyPasta
15. Seteth (from Fire Emblem: Three Houses) McDonalds Quest
16. All Star by Smash Mouth but he won't spare some change for gas
17. Lego City commercial bass boosted
18. Remix of That's What I Like by Bruno Mars
19. Chorus of Caramelldansen by the Caramella Girls
20. Eggman's Announcement from Snapcube's Sonic Adventure 2 Real-Time Fandub

-----KNOWN BUGS-----

1.0/1.1 - Camera can sometimes flip upside-down