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Inadequate Ark

By sean-turner and Tyler Martignetti

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3783.5839
Fun2793.5639
Innovation5773.1839
Theme4273.7039
Graphics5443.5139
Humor873.8138
Mood3513.3935

Comments

thatsommes 2018-08-14 13:46

Haha.. So Russia is not gonna be flooded? or will the bats stay on the boat until I eventually go to Russia? Quick and funny game with a lot of heart! Thank you

rother-games 2018-08-14 13:47

This is a really nice game, but it was harder than I expected. I also took me some time to read and understand the rules. Simple rules, but not that simple to win.

niarkou 2018-08-14 13:48

Nice game. I enjoyed the music, the humor and the realization. The game design is not very original though, but apart from that it was nicely done and well balanced!

tgb20 2018-08-14 13:49

Game was enjoyable. Reminded me a lot of Papers Please. Game was really hard, or maybe I am just bad.

monkosum 2018-08-14 13:49

this is an interresting concept you have. the execution is also pretty solid.

distorter 2018-08-14 14:00

Great game! I love the concept and the difficulty was just right imo. The flavour was also on point and I loved the different descriptions for the animals.

distorter 2018-08-14 14:00

Great game! I love the concept and the difficulty was just right imo. The flavour was also on point and I loved the different descriptions for the animals.

2018-08-14 14:07

Fun Game! I liked the idea and it followed the theme nicely!

roronoacherry 2018-08-14 14:23

The game remind me "Reings" and it's perfect for the theme! Nice job!

whitepoulpe 2018-08-14 16:26

Great game, I like this type of gameplay. I appreciate the humour present in the game.

ryanjs 2018-08-18 15:39

well done! well polished game! the amount of UI feedback is great

bennyqbd1 2018-08-18 15:43

The concept behind this is genius! Love the idea, and the game is a lot of fun as well. It's surprisingly well balanced, and the touch of humor is well done. Outstanding entry!

arch 2018-08-18 16:50

Excellent execution and awesome twist on the theme. Simple music provides a good backdrop. I love it. I cant beat it. I would suggest some quality of life changes. It would be nice to be able to see either what the acceptable ranges for 4 resources are in some graphical form, or maybe even seeing how a creature's *given* stats would effect my levels.

astralore 2018-08-18 20:54

This took us a lot of attempts (damn liars kept tripping us up!) but we did finally beat it!! Very amusing and well-balanced game, I can think of nearly nothing to critique! Perhaps turning the "Space" indicator green once all the other criteria are in the green? So that all icons can be green when you win, which feels satisfying to the player. (Though this is more of a style choice than anything else.)

ryanjavanshir 2018-08-18 21:14

Nice game and decent polish on the UI. Art is fantastic - really like the portraits!

c0nst4ntin 2018-08-18 22:20

Neat little game! I liked the Graphics and the overall Idea!

carlos-giraldo 2018-08-18 22:54

Love the humor, the portraits, and the music. Good balance. Good job!

djack-d-donovan 2018-08-18 23:13

A very fun and funny game! I really like all of the individual pictures for the animals. Especially the giraffe.

piscythe 2018-08-19 00:16

Really interesting balancing act happening here. It took many attempts and some knowledge about what sorts of animals to prioritize to succeed, and I lost a couple runs due to the few liars that slipped through. It did seem a little strange when I got the "turned too many animals away" ending after losing my last morality point to a liar - perhaps that should be its own ending condition. There is a little bit of luck-of-the-draw with the animal types - bees, for example, always seem to be amazing. Also is it really lying when a chicken or dodo claims to be a 'bird'? Good work!

volt450 2018-08-19 00:51

This was a neat little game, took me a while to finally beat it, but I managed to create a sustainable ecosystem!

baronb 2018-08-19 01:09

This game was cool. I loved the papers-please inspirations, the humor and balancing my ark was a challenge.

iluvatar 2018-08-19 06:22

LoL, I really dig the idea. So funny. The graphics are awesome, and game itself is very entertaining and hilarious. Great entry.

zicboy 2018-08-19 06:23

Awesome game. I was pleasantly suprised with the overall mood of the game. Hope you develop a post jam version for this!

awesomealliterationalliance 2018-08-21 19:35

And so they lived happily ever after.. That was a way better take on the whole ark thing than that million dollar theme park they built in Kentucky :D It took me a few tries to finally beat that game but on every restart i've discoverd new species and very well written statement from them. The art, music and the level of detail was very impressive! The humor is on point and the whole concept and game design well balanced. Very nice job!

zoltancoccyx 2018-08-21 22:35

Cool. Feels like a fusion between reigns and papers please. It would be interesting to add interactions between animals (like ants preferring to drown rather than ambarking with an anteaters, stuff like that). I enjoyed it :)