About Awesome Rats
The site
Awesome Rats is a website for rats lovers! Right now i've only got the game and the album of pets but I plan on added more stuff as time goes on.
The album accepts photos by email. I'll add each entry manually. The rats right now are just from wikimedia
Using the site
Please click on links and play the games.
Artwork credits
Pet Store 97 background
PetSmart logo image supplied by the site owner. The original upload is stored unchanged; the game applies a randomly tinted, reduced-resolution rendering. PetSmart branding belongs to its respective owner; this fan game is not affiliated with or endorsed by PetSmart.
Pet Store 97 cat photos
Five real cat photographs with existing transparent backgrounds. Local 330-pixel Wikimedia PNG copies, rendered as lightly pixelated 56-pixel sprites with original aspect ratios. Background extraction by YukiKoKo; all five files are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- European Shorthair — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Straight runner.
- Asian tabby — Matt Buck. Zigzag.
- British Longhair — Chatterie des Millenovæ. Pursuer.
- Exotic Shorthair — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Charger.
- Toyger — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Ranged attacker.
Landscape background
Green Field Blue Sky Clouds — Sjgdzn. CC BY-SA 4.0. Real photograph, downloaded as a resized Wikimedia copy. Displayed with a CSS crop and a translucent overlay behind the mascot.
Pictures & little graphics
- Pet white fancy rat — John Ruby / Satyadasa. CC0 1.0. Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons. Displayed with a CSS crop in the sidebar.
- Rat mascot: original artwork by the Awesome Rats site owner, created in Adobe Illustrator. Exported as a transparent PNG for the website.The sourced web graphics below are saved locally in assets/web; no hotlinking.
The graphics collection
The graphics collection has been removed from the navigation. Files are retained locally. Most graphics do not have a named original creator; a collection credit is not a claim that they are freely licensed.
Files from Bonnibel’s collection
computer_12.gif, computer_20.gif, phone_1.gif, phone_3.gif, gemmini20.gif, emailme.gif, moonturn.gif, Floatie_40.gif, Floatie_43.gif, Floatie_76.gif, game_1.gif, game_3.gif, welcome.gif, guestbook.gif.
- Bonnibel’s Graphic CollectionSpinning CD (Tech collection, cdisk.gif) and archived sparkling stars (Sky collection, Floatie_25.gif). Original creators are not identified by the collection; collection links are provenance, not an authorship or license claim. Files saved locally and used unchanged.
- Lazer-Bunny’s free-to-use graphics“Proud Owner of a Pink Site” blinkie and “Please Interact” button. Used unchanged, with the creator’s permission for reuse stated on the collection page.
- Silk icons by Mark James / famfamfamOriginal 16 × 16 icons: house, heart, controller, email, world and star. Unchanged; CC BY 2.5. Original readme.
- Rotating Earth by MarvelBased on NASA imagery. Original GIF, displayed smaller without changing the file. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Photo album
Files are stored locally. The album thumbnails use CSS cropping; opening a photograph shows its full frame. Wikimedia thumbnails are resized copies; no other file edits were made.
- Pet white fancy rat — John Ruby / Satyadasa. CC0. Original file, assets/pet-rat.jpg.
- A curled up male Fancy Rat — Wikieditor019. CC0. Original file, assets/photos/curled-rat.jpg.
- 10 Male Rats — Kevin Simpson. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/rat-pile.jpg.
- Agouti pet rat — Linsenhejhej. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/agouti-rat.jpg.
- Fancy rat blaze — AlexK100. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/blaze-rat.jpg.
- Pet rat — Robin Stjerndorff (Mobileforces). Public domain, as stated on the source page. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/young-rat.jpg.
