Open Rodent's Revenge

About

Rodent's Revenge is a 1991 puzzle game by Christopher Lee Fraley, distributed in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2, in which a mouse pushes blocks around to trap cats. Open Rodent's Revenge is a C++ remake of Rodent's Revenge built with Qt, SFML and MicroPather, reproducing the gameplay of the original's first levels. Its latest beta, version 0.7, shipped as a Qt launcher plus an SFML game; the author describes the project as incomplete and somewhat outdated.

How it differs from the original

It adds a level editor, levels of any size, and a sprite-replacement modding system with a launcher for ordering mods. Alternate sprite sets are included that completely replace the reproduced original sprites.

Getting started

A Windows build of version 0.7 is available from the project's GitHub releases, and a Linux build and older versions are on its original SourceForge page. The included launcher configures a game or level-editing session and lets you pick and reorder mods.

History

Version 0.7 was released in 2010 and, across all versions, the game was downloaded more than 40,000 times. The author later started a 1.0 rewrite using Qt 5 and SFML 2 in a single window, but did not finish it.

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Additional notes

Gameplay

Cats can move diagonally and use A* pathfinding to reach the mouse when a path exists, otherwise they wander randomly.