A super-smart chimp and a rat with a Tamagotchi on his ass leading a lab animal jailbreak: It's not a Disney movie, it's an upcoming first-person horror game

My immediate reaction to Animal Use Protocol, elicited through an image of a grim-looking monkey holding a mouse, was what you might expect: Why is that monkey holding a mouse? I was curious, as the saying goes—but after learning the game is being developed by The Brotherhood, very suddenly I was interested.

The Brotherhood is an indie studio based in South Africa whose previous releases include Stasis, Stasis: Bone Totem, and Beautiful Desolation—all of them isometric point-and-click adventures...