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Biodiversity For Beginners

By mrdanh, Samantha Keane, SnareRush and Holly Briggs

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3583.8030
Fun5903.5529
Innovation1223.9829
Theme8553.4229
Graphics674.5330
Humor6053.1728
Mood6063.5328

Comments

njs 2021-10-04 22:08

Nice little game. Very smooth and polished, plays well and looks great!

andreadbx 2021-10-04 22:10

Woah! Very nice game! I love the concept, very fresh! About the gameplay, i find that is very easy to just wait for the right animals and just drop them without caring, so i think the frequency of the boxes can be lowered a bit so the player has the need to actually engage in breeding and feeding his animals!

By the way, congratulations, amazing job! My sheeps ate the tigers 10/10

nebrazif 2021-10-04 22:10

Good game and very good graphics ! Good Work :D

2021-10-04 22:11

the graphics on this game are SO GOOD, I love the art style as well as how you made the fake 3d effect on the island! really cool game, I like the idea of balancing the ecosystem (even if I'm not smart enough to stop the sheep from dying). It creates a really cool yet hectic experience.

aldorado 2021-10-04 22:14

Well done, nice idea and a really nice game. Looks great and keeping the balance on the island is challenging

lenan 2021-10-04 22:17

A really nice little game, the graphics looked very good and it had a nice style that felt connected. It is a little hard to balance everything and the lack of sounds made it feel a little weird and lose a little of the juice it has, Overall its a good looking game with a pretty interesting mechanic and concept.

falien 2021-10-04 22:18

I honestly love this, it's so much fun. Love the graphics, love the gameplay. It's addicted. If this was on mobile I would have bought it and played it all day.

kbf123 2021-10-04 22:19

Game looks great! Love the spinning island effect.

I do feel like it's a bit punishing how it counts as extinction if you have the exact amount of animals for a shipment though. I also just find it hard to manage things in general.

robbzenone 2021-10-04 22:22

Very nice graphics! Good Work :) Also very challenging!

zyrjello 2021-10-04 22:54

This game is frantic! Could have used just a few sound effects to really polish it.

toxichouse 2021-10-05 01:45

Creative use of theme and great artwork!

zeit 2021-10-05 03:33

Nice game! I love your art style.

circle 2021-10-05 03:37

I wonder if it would ruin the game balance to just let players choose their animals? Like maybe some currency system that's used to obtain animals, and you try and manage it to solve the puzzles? Overall though really cool concept. Super original too, I'm not sure if I've ever seen anything like this before. The arts amazing too, I love the kinda 3d effect you have. Really cool idea, I think a lot could be done with this in the future with a little more time spent.

stoickekis 2021-10-05 03:42

Nice work! This concept has o'lot of potential.

mistagiggles 2021-10-05 18:15

Great looking game, and quite challenging. Good fun but would be nice to know if I have surplus of an animal before shipping

lazzor 2021-10-09 18:30

Wow, this game looks really polished! The graphics and gameplay work smoothly together with the only major thing missing being audio.

The biggest issue I have with the gameplay is that for me, I found it very hard to find out what I actually have to do. E.g. Which animal eats what? How do I complete a delivery? I figured these things out after some time but some more gameplay hints would be nice. Also maybe leave the delivery boats stable, as sometimes the boats are blocked by the mountain or the clouds and you don't see the delivery.

But as I said, I didn't expect this level of polish in a gamejam, so despite my minor issues you did a fantastic job!

life-lich 2021-10-09 22:24

That island is really good, is the ground 3d and everything else 2d also the way the water looks around the island. This is the first game that I will look at the source code, I have to see how you did this, thank you so much for uploading it.

hitchh1k3r 2021-10-14 03:39

This was a neat game. I liked that the randomized food chain required experimentation, and it was a really unique take on the theme. I got a high score of 11. It was a bit of a shame that shipping off all of a species counted as an "extinction," but I guess that prevents players from waiting to buy the exact number for a shipment. The art style was very nice, and I liked the gentle spinning with the billboarded sprites.