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Fake Zoo

By v3games

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation124.15
Humor104.21
Coolness1100
Audio1783.49
Overall1913.48
Fun2383.23
Graphics3053.55
Mood3213.14
Theme4163.06

Comments

xrxr 2014-04-29 16:04

I like the voice effecting, and the *chi*s in the background. Cool concept. The art is nice too!

mrexcessive 2014-04-29 16:05

Hi. You have made a really weird game... Congrats!

zedutchgandalf 2014-04-29 16:10

I really like the concept. And it's one of the most original things I've seen on here :)
But it does feel a lot like just randomly clicking on stuff and hoping they get happy...
It would have been better if the buttons actually said what they control (the only one that does this effectively is the sound one).
Also, I couldn't find how to control the shifting gear(?) thing. Clicking didn't work, nor did any key I tried...

ultimatewalrus 2014-04-29 16:11

Haha, this is pretty silly. Five stars for humor. It was difficult to make a connection between the controls and whether or not I was winning/losing, but I suppose that's kind of the point.

yword 2014-04-29 16:13

Interesting! The art is not bad, but it need some explanation about the functions of the buttons and levers.

zupoman 2014-04-29 16:13

Great graphics and audio, and very original. I don't see the theme in here, though.

paperblurt 2014-04-29 16:19

This truly is innovative!
Impressed beyond impressivness

shigor 2014-04-29 18:15

I have no idea what I'm doing with controls, but that was a really good idea :D

nnnnneeeedddd 2014-04-29 18:15

Pretty funny. Didn't mach with the theme very well

stuffie 2014-04-29 18:15

Lol, I have no idea what I just played but it was hilarious !

sink_t 2014-04-29 18:17

An original game with potential, but again, the realisation failed. More precisely, the controls are extremely poor and pretty much random in their functioning. Of particular note is the constantly flicking volume meter, which is not only very annoying but mostly useless.

dusho 2014-04-29 18:17

that is some idea :)

mimic 2014-04-29 18:18

Pretty silly game you got here. Nice art and sounds. Wish I knew what the heck I was doing tough! Hahaah

fib 2014-04-29 18:20

This game is very original... and hilarious! I don't understand the controls, but it's hilarious to experiment and see how the animals react. The art and sound are fantastic. Great job!

mrshortee 2014-04-29 18:21

Weird, funny and well made. cheep cheep cheep.. :D

shivur 2014-04-29 18:22

Cheep Cheep ! (Love it)

gertjohnny 2014-04-30 21:07

Great concept and use of the theme. Randomly mashing the controls was fun at first but got boring quickly.

supermsp10 2014-05-01 01:44

funniest concept!

drnick 2014-05-01 02:07

Interesting game. It's a great accomplishment to have controls that are so random :P Unfinished though. Needs more polishing.

marcus_siactro 2014-05-01 12:24

Really nice game. I laughed a lot and found the idea to be very creative. Good Work. Also: My giraffe was flying and all the people got upset while I was laughing like crazy ;)

lukepilgrim 2014-05-01 15:56

haha, the people are happy but Im not sure if a realistic giraffe moves like that... xD had a lot of fun!

drstahlbart 2014-05-01 21:45

Haha, I've never seen such a game before, that's why it's so damn funny. I love to play with your ragdoll mechanics, but I think the red button could be a little bit crazier. :)

mrbungle 2014-05-01 23:03

Hilarious! Cool idea and like the graphical style. Fakeness like this is a unique take on the theme for sure.

javifugitivo 2014-05-01 23:08

I dont have idea to control it! But the doplphics looks nice every time! Lol Nice idea

fritzendugan 2014-05-02 09:35

No real strategy, no correlation between buttons and actions, totally nonsensical controls.......

....and yet, a smile to my face, laughter, and genuine fun. Congratulations, you managed to make the weirdest game I've played so far and yet probably one of the most fun. I genuinely feel like some idiot mashing controls for a mechanical zoo fooling other idiots into giving me their cash.

So, yeah, not exactly your typical game by any means, but I guess that's kind of the point, right? I had fun. Cool game, guys.

shadow-dreamer 2014-05-02 16:43

This was a weird, yet oddly entertaining game :/
I kinda liked it, hahha! Good job ;)

jamcount 2014-05-03 13:44

Like it, but wouldn't be able to sit and play it for hours

christinaneofotistou 2014-05-03 14:04

haha so innovative! I felt immersed and invested from the first moment!

crocantidepollo 2014-05-03 17:24

This is completely insane and I love it! I made that giraffe fly for a bit. Maybe that was what tipped off the visitors because they all left :P

alvarop 2014-05-04 19:20

Great idea, really funny game.

hbocao 2014-05-04 21:54

Well.. mission accomplished guys: I LOLed. Multiple times. Awesome job with the sounds and the graphics are very pretty. Fun and weird entry.

joe40001 2014-05-05 10:13

I think I might have "won" this game because I found a way to never lose anybody at the dolphin. He's got 11 people who haven't moved and I'm raking in the cash. My pro-fake-dolphin-strat: (spoilers to those who want to discover their own strat?)

Never click Red button or sound thing.
Yellow dial set at like 11PM (This might be the default)
Lever all the way up (This might be the default)
6 Green Buttons: This is the important one... I'll get back to it
And Red shift thing in 4th(bottom)

All you have to do to keep your guests infinitely entertained is alternate between green button top left and green button mid-left. Just do like 10 taps on one and then switch to the other and repeat forever. This alternates the dolphin spinning and then just moving forward, the spinning combats boredom but the moving forward combats suspicion it's fake. So just leave everything the same, the flying giraffe is a lost cause, and just entertain the heck out of those 11 or so people and get rich beyond your wildest (see what I did there?) dreams!

Creative idea for a game, I liked it.

katamori 2014-05-05 11:51

What the...?!

v3games 2014-05-05 17:02

@joe40001 We looked at the code and that will indeed keep you alive indefinitely, so you have earned the Fake Dolphin Master Strategist Trophy. Thanks for playing you magnificent dolphin master.

conormn 2014-05-09 05:09

Holy Moly. I LOVE everything about this. Please keep going with it, please :)

jujule 2014-05-14 19:31

I really like it. I sucked at playing the dolphin but the girafe was great fun. The graphics are good too. It is a very tongue in cheek yet very consistent experience.
Fantastic job.
I'm sur you can add some more animals ( monkeys, sloths, spiders, snakes, birds, elephants ( the trunk!!! )).

misterwalter 2014-05-19 05:43

I spun the dolphin until children cried. It was the only way I knew to make money. Now the crowds have vanished, and I am alone with my fake animals.

joe40001 2014-05-24 12:53

@v3games
It took me a bit to realize you awarded me this trophy, but now that I know it, I feel extremely grateful, is it sad or amazing that this is one of the biggest accomplishments of my life?

I'll go with amazing. Anyway thanks for the trophy and take comfort, I'm very stubborn about "solving" games so it's not like your game is flawed or anything, I played so many games this LD29 (I'm releasing a video soon about my effort of playing/beating 350 LD29 games) but this was one of the more memorable ones I played, clever and inventive and good humor.

Thanks very much for the trophy. :D