Carnivore! by CatTrigger Handle a Biological Anomaly. Know the basic critical systems, understand the causes of mutation, and how to interact with it to survive.
Carnivore! is a virtual pet simulation with psychological horror elements. The game is developed by CatTrigger and has a retro OS interface where the player manages the vital signs of a living organism.
The main game cycle revolves around an ongoing monitoring of the entity’s basic properties.
Feeding Protocols
Users have to manually deploy meat to refill the hunger meter. Biological termination is immediate if a species does not sustain enough saturation. Overfeeding squanders available resources.
Hygiene up Keep
As time passes, waste accumulates automatically. The cleaning function should be run to empty the interface grid. Failure to keep clean increases the decline of the entity’s health.
The entity experiences an evolutionary cycle with time. Successive time milestones are reached through different structural mutations that help survival. The organism develops from an elementary biological material into complex anatomical shapes. The more biological mass there is, the more it consumes, and the faster it produces waste.
The visual architecture is designed with high-contrast pixel graphics to emulate an old computer terminal. The auditory framework is maintained by generated ambient noise and mechanical interface clicks. The app does not contain classic visual jump scares. Psychological terror is strictly based on the increasing difficulty of managing resources and the disturbing physical changes of the entity.
The interface paradigm is mouse-driven and based on typical point-and-click functionality.
Left Click: The only way to get input. Used to select UI components, deploy food, trigger the cleaning process, and browse the OS.
The best advancement has exact input timing. To optimize the value of their sustenance, users have to work out the exact speed at which the hunger meter is emptied. The software interface needs to be constantly monitored to prevent terminal failure at critical mutation periods.
