GAME OVERVIEW
“Cheesescape” is a simple multiplayer game designed for casual entertainment among friends.
You can play as a mouse who is raiding a fridge for food or as the family cat that is trying to catch him.
Playing as the mouse, you run upwards through the fridge to avoid the cat, jumping from level to level.
You need to avoid obstacles that will slow you down, collect items that affect your movement, and
interact with certain items to aid your escape. But watch out! The cat will keep swiping at you trying to
knock you out of the fridge. Make it to the top of the fridge to escape a feline demise.
Role
Lead Game Designer
Gouda Sea Studios
2021
Genre
Co-Op, Platformer
Contributions
Combat Design, Ability Design, Technical Design
GAME DETAILS
As the mouse, your goal is to traverse the fridge while attempting to run away from Player 2’s
Cat Paw and getting your hands on the Big Cheese at the end of each of the three levels. Utilize the
trampoline-like tupperware and other objects in the area to aid you in reaching your goal. The
tupperwares are super bouncy and help you reach new heights. Beware of the leak in the fridge! The
water level in the fridge starts low but is constantly rising. While you’re in the water, your speed is
reduced and ability to jump is reduced. Stay in the water for too long, and you will drown!
Player 2, your goal as the cat is to locate the mouse and catch him in your paw or cause his
demise. As the cat, you do not have as much refined control of your character as the mouse does, but
you are able to cause some real damage. Your main goal is to kill the mouse, you can achieve this in
more ways than one. You may click to use your paw to hit the mouse directly, taking away one of his
three lives. Alternatively, you may click on the environment to knockdown the platforms so that the
mouse has nowhere to go and to cause chaos in the level. You are more easily able to capture the mouse
in the water, so do your best to force him in there, as he cannot quickly get away
MAIN FEATURES
Multiplayer
Players will have the option to play as cat paw or mouse
○ The goal of the cat paw is to catch the mouse, which hovers over the mouse in a screen
overlay and attacks on click
○ The goal of the mouse is escape the cat and get the prize at the top of the fridge, using
the WASD keys
This game is 2.5D, with a 2D character and movement scheme, and a 3D background and
obstacles. The camera will loosely follow the mouse throughout the level, lagging behind its movement
speed by a certain amount to make it more difficult for the cat to aim. The camera can also zoom out to
allow the cat to see more of the level and make a strategy to block the mouse’s path.
Power Ups
Cheese collectables that grant the player with a special power
○ Level 1: Speed Cheese – increases the speed of the player for 10 seconds
○ Level 2: Gravity Cheese – Flip the gravity upside down or rightside up again, allowing you
to traverse the stage dynamically. BEWARE, shifting your gravitational pull ATTRACTS
Molded Cheese, which debuffs you of all your stat buffs. Lasts for about 10 seconds, and
the gravity switch can be toggled as many times as requested within that time. Use LEFT
CTRL to activate it.
○ Level 3: InvisiCheese: While Invisible, you are immune to cat paw attacks, you can now
also DASH to traverse more of the level at once. Dashing increases your speed, but
makes you able to be hit by the cat paw again while dashing. Lasts for about 10 seconds,
use LEFT CTRL to activate the dash.
● Moldy Cheese: Stuns the player by slowing their movement speed and removing any special
ability the player may have currently active.
● In each level the game gets gradually harder, with longer distances for the mouse to traverse and
more difficult obstacle paths.
Reactive & Fun Environment
The rising water that forces the mouse player to always be on their
feet or face their fate
Tupperware surface is bouncy, increasing jump height. Hitting the S key will send the mouse
player downwards at a faster rate, then allowing them to bounce higher off of the bouncy
tupperware. Doing this a few times in a row will increase the mouse’s jump height each time.
The cat can knock down the mouse player or other environmental objects to block the mouse’s
path with the left click.
Once water reaches the objects in the fridge they will float around, possibly obstructing the
mouse’s path.
Increasing Levels Of Difficulty
ALL levels will have the same mechanics, just increased difficulty. The next level will begin
automatically but the player can select a specific level on the start screen.
Each level will also be designed to allow for the mouse player to take multiple routes through the
level, as well as including false routes with dead ends.
