The prompt of the jam is a black and white illustration by artist Qiu Dandan. In this drawing, we can obviously see ants, fake mountains, mailboxes, cracks, baby beds, furniture, and a woman sitting on the chair looking at the broken ground. 

For me, this is a quite impressive atmosphere, some kind of unreal but familiar in the real world around us. In modern China, almost everyone can not live without online shopping and take away food service provided by some giant tech companies, we are surrounded by tons of boxes of garbage every day, and live alone in the tiny home in the city. Rather than say that we are living, I would say that we are trying to survive. Similar to the ant, there are numbers of people like us, It’s like everyone was a single rat, trying their best to live in the metropolitan.

Finally, I decide to tell a story from the eye of a rat, simulating the “modern life” in a big city which is a dramatic version of our real life. The purpose is to tell the sad truth that life is not easy, however, I wish players can defeat the sad emotion from the gameplay and realize that the real courage is daring to face the reality and carry on with optimism.

Ratty tried his best to live cautiously in this illusory and blurred reality utopia. In the game, players will try to see the truth and smallness of ratty from the perspective of the main character, who has a choice but is destined to repeat his life sadly.