🐭 Terminal Rat

A cute interactive rat that lives in your terminal!
Built with Rust, ratatui, crossterm, and rodio.

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🎮 Features

• Pet the rat with your keyboard or mouse
• Rat squeaks with sound effects
• Happiness & energy bars
• Multiple ASCII art skins
• Random starting skin each run
• Switch skins live with the keyboard

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⌨️ Controls

• p / Space / Enter / Mouse click → Pet the rat 🐭
• s → Cycle through skins
• 1 / 2 / 3 → Jump directly to Classic / LongTail / Chubby
• q / Esc → Quit

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The Rat in its Natural Habitat

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🚀 Running Locally

Make sure you have Rust installed (install Rust here).

📦 Dependencies

ratatui – terminal UI

crossterm – keyboard & mouse input

rodio – squeak sound playback

rand – random skin picker

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/michellekylehennessey/Terminal-Rat.git
cd Terminal-Rat
cargo run

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⚠️ Loudness Warning

This project plays short squeaky sounds when you pet the rat.
If you’re wearing headphones or have speakers turned up, you may want to lower the volume first.

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