Welcome to
Naked Mole-Rat Software
Welcome to
Note: Web page is a place holder and will become official when our first title is ready for release. (Current estimate is around the time our sun goes into its Red Giant phase). 'Til then, see below for all kinds of links to info on our species, the Naked Mole-Rat. And guard your tubers well....
Welcome to the lair of Naked Mole-Rat Software! Yes, they're real and so are we. Who are we? A freak venture dedicated to developing amazingly fun games for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. You won't hear much from us until we're in an honest final beta. Then we'll crank up the hype.
What are naked mole-rats? Freak naked critters that live beneath the deserts of east Africa, total flukes of nature that are uniquely adapted to an improbable life. Their scientific name is Heterocephalus glaber, which in Latin translates to something like "Really ugly naked wrinkly thing with nasty pointy teeth". Uglier than a warthog wearing a Keith Richards mask (well, that's a judgement call - decide for yourself...).
What makes them unique and weird? Naked mole-rats are the only mammal that live in a purely "eusocial" arrangement, i.e. a hive colony like bees or ants, with a single domineering queen, several consorts / bodyguards, and a pack of berated worker drones. Just like Mariah Carey and her entourage. A colony's members genetically are nearly clones. 25% of a naked mole-rat's muscle mass is in its jaw. They dig their extensive burrows (up to twenty football fields in size) with their teeth. Clive Barker wishes he could come up with something this weird. Make them carnivorous, malicious and the size of wolves, you'd have yourself an instant Joe Bob Briggs classic.
Naked mole-rats live most of their lives without ever seeing the sun, winding through their colony maze of tunnels as they scurry about performing the tasks of the collective. Frankly we think they're the perfect analog to the modern-day computer nerd, i.e. us. Let's face it, we're all naked mole-rats in this world, battling the endless droves of Pointy Haired Ones.
See links below for more info, and watch your tubers.
You may have noticed that our website bites. Bites hard. Relax, it took all of 3 seconds to load, right? Not much wasted bandwidth. Besides, we've provided all these cool links to naked mole-rats. Amuse your friends, worry your relatives.
So why no flashy seizure-inducing graphics? No hype? No promises of "real soon now" delivery? No trumped-up screenshots? Simple. We're not done, and we don't believe in hyping Vaporware. The Colony is in a collective work frenzy, maintained by a steady diet of caffeine and Cheesy Poofs. Code / model / render / die. Gameplay gameplay gameplay. When the game is nearly complete, we'll assign a few Colony drones to put up a worthy website. 'Til then, follow some of the links below and enjoy!
The Naked Mole-Rat Burrow (National Zoo - Includes the famous Naked Mole-Rat WebCam, FAQ, and more.)
Naked Mole-Rat Facts by Cornell researcher Paul Sherman, including children's book and "Eleven really weird things about naked mole-rats".
Naked Mole-Rat Scout Behavior, again from Cornell's Science News.
Naked Mole-Rat Species Data Sheet (Lincoln Park Zoo)
Naked Mole-Rat Scientific Data, including links to related species of mole rats, blesmols, and rats (the Bathyergidae Family).
A Traveller's Naked Mole-Rat Encounter. Hans-Georg Michna details his chance encounter with the little "overcooked hot dogs with teeth" while travelling through Kenya.
Questions? Comments? Send 'em to the WebCritter!