RATAZ
Game Design
Set in a dystopian future, "Rataz" is a thought-provoking console game that plunges players into the treacherous underbelly of New York's subway rat society. This game is an allegory for social struggle, illustrating the grim realities of social class disparities and tyrannical regimes. As a common rat, players scheme to infiltrate and ultimately topple the rat mafia's power structure in order to dismantle it from the inside. Throughout the game, the player will have to collect different items; trash, food, and other miscellaneous things, which will add or subtract points, in this way helping the player on getting closer to the rat mafia's inner circle. The challenge intensifies with the unpredictable dangers posed by the human inhabitants and the subway's hazardous environment. The player's journey is not solitary; exiled "outrats," seeking redemption and sustenance, offer their aid in the form of riddles. The game reaches its climax in an intense showdown where the player must confront and defeat the rat leader's twelve followers before dethroning the rat leader in a final fight, symbolizing a fight for justice and equality.