A downloadable game for Windows

COPYCAT SURVIVORS

KILL RATS -> CLONE CATS

Submission to AI and Games Jam 2023!

STORY

Crazy cat-person finds a cloning lab and clones cats to stop the ratpocalypse. Control a growing army of cats with your trusty laser-pointer.

Mutate, evolve, and fuse your cats to terrible and adorable effect. Defeat rats and gather biomass in order to grow your cat army. The rats are out for human blood, make sure to avoid them while you sick your cats on ‘em!

AI DESCRIPTION

The game's enemies, the rats, navigate using flow field pathfinding. The cats use a behaviour tree for their dynamic functionality. The cats mutating system is inspired by evolutionary computation.

HOW TO PLAY

Cats move towards the cursor and auto attack rats. Control the cursor with your mouse, so that the cats try to chase the laser. Move the player to avoid the rats and survive as long as possible. Gather biomass from the rats to level up. Each level you gain an option to clone, splice, mutate or fuse your cats. Experiment with the different combinations!

CONTROLS

WASD - Character movement

MOUSE CURSOR - Laser point (cats target to follow)

SPACE - Dash

TEAM

We are a group of five student studying the game development bachelor program at Stockholm University, currently enrolled in an AI course under Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari. This project was not part of the course curriculum and was developed after school hours. Team members:

Carl Montgomerie

Emil Lundström

Hannes Lemberg

Isabel Diaz Johansson

Jonathan Rubensson