Lost and Tiny - Devlog #002 news

06.12.2023 - 08.12.2023

I didn’t do much these past days. I looked up some codes to make the player move. I added a few assets into the project, and attached them to the character. I just did some very basic stuff to allow the player to move left, right and jump. Nothing more. My next step is to try to program the inventory. I’ve been looking for many tutorials, and implementing some things of my own, but nothing seems to be working. So instead, I will focus my energies elsewhere for now

I had a weird dream ( And believe me, you're gonna hear this a lot ) where we had a deal with someone. Some Mafia guy or whatever. I was in the car with a few friends, and right next to us, is one of the goons driving at full speed, but he was all twisted up, his body was facing backwards as his hands were extended to the front and driving the car. He had his head completely turned and twisted, with some little tentacles coming out of his mouth. I made a drawing below just so that you can have a better visual of what was going on in my dream.

His eye sockets were empty, and we just knew he was dead. And then he crashed, and died. We stopped the car to watch as his car burst into flames, and before we knew it, we were surrounded by more zombies or whatever. But we noticed that all the zombies had some sort of thread that would connect them to this massive ball of accumulated undead bodies, and we realized they were being controlled by this weird thing. And then I woke up and had an idea.

So, the way that this idea came together was by taking inspiration from what I saw in my dream, looking for the cordyceps virus that attacks ants in real life, and decided to also take inspiration on a phenomenon called Rat King. This Rat King phenomenon, for those who don’t know ( Don’t google it seriously. It’s very gory and disgusting ), happens sometimes when many rats are around the same place together, and their tails get intertwined. You know, like your earphones when you put them inside your pocket, or the Christmas Tree lights that get all tangled up. In any case, the center of those entangled rat tails, is called the Rat King, and it’s a phenomenon in which the rat's tails stay stuck on each other, and they are unable to escape, doomed to live the rest of their lives entangled to one another. In many cases, some of them don’t have the best partner next to them, and they end up fighting to the death. Or some of them were simply right at the end of their lives and ended up just dying there, leaving the rest of the rats submissive to diseases. And honestly, if you ever encounter one, just run the other way! It’s not worth looking at or staying close to. These rats are stuck with each other, some of them are bad roommates, others are extremely sick, others are dead and there is no way to escape them. It’s just an absolute walking bomb of deadly diseases and infections.

But anyway, I think you get it. This is what I did this week basically. I am still not sure if I only wanna add 1 Ant King to give it a bigger impact and make the players fear him, or if I wanna add many of them, to make the players feel unsafe at all times, like the nightmare never ends. It is still a decision I am yet to make.