AlleyRat
For 2019 I ran two prototyping classes – one in Pico-8 for the undergraduates and a graduate version with no platform constraint (which generally means they work in Unity). So this year I hid the same prompt…
AlleyRat is an indie developed by Bennett Foddy, released 31 December 2019 on Web browser.
What AlleyRat is
AlleyRat is an indie game developed by Bennett Foddy and released in 2019. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on PICO-8.
The premise, in the publisher's words
For 2019 I ran two prototyping classes – one in Pico-8 for the undergraduates and a graduate version with no platform constraint (which generally means they work in Unity). So this year I hid the same prompt in two different interpretations of the same idea. I tuned the Pico-8 game for the youthful reflexes of the undergraduate class, but I did not count on the fact that none of them would have ever played a bullet-hell game, and as a result, only one of them was able to reach the end and find out what the assignment was. I instructed that person that they could keep it a secret if they wanted to.
What it launched against
AlleyRat launched on 31 December 2019, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.
Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.
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