ben-heil 2023-10-02 19:12
Nice job! Instantly fun
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → disembARK
By KingCookie95, bumble, crygos and bardicmischief
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 225 | 3.92 | 86 | |
| Fun | 114 | 4.00 | 86 | |
| Innovation | 280 | 3.70 | 86 | |
| Theme | 131 | 4.29 | 86 | |
| Graphics | 533 | 3.67 | 86 | |
| Audio | 396 | 3.48 | 86 | |
| Humor | 27 | 4.38 | 85 | |
| Mood | 403 | 3.72 | 84 |
Nice job! Instantly fun
Really well done. Initially i thought it would be easy, but it got well out of hand. One of the animals had a speech bubble, but i was so stressed that i only realised the speech bubble as i threw the animal overboard. I LOVED the ending screen when i failed!
It's really funny!))
Took me a little to understand the concept of the game, but it was quite fun. Maybe a little too hard to keep track of everything, but that's the point of the Jam.
This war very fun! Nice premise, execution, visuals and audio! I hope no animals ware harmed during the development of this.
I doomed us all and no one survived! (Did that elephant blow it's nose? 😃) Fun, simple and entertaining. Great entry!
This was very unique and humorous. The audio and graphics fit the game well. The game gets pretty hectic and I really liked both the lightning when you throw an animal off that there's not two or more of as well as the water-line of the ark indicating how close you are to sinking. Overall, I think this was really well done, great job!
This was very unique and humorous. The audio and graphics fit the game well. The game gets pretty hectic and I really liked both the lightning when you throw an animal off that there's not more than two of (yeah, I tried just hucking every animal off the boat at one point) as well as the water-line of the ark indicating how close you are to sinking. Overall, I think this was really well done, great job!
I really like the idea. Game is fun and mechanics seemed to me simple and well rounded, didnt actually tried to break the game :)
I LOVED everything in this game, the music, the superb sound effects, the graphics, the idea... except from unexpected difficulty ramp on the 20th day (normal difficulty). Before it was 1 animal in 2-3 seconds, and then it was 2-3 animals in one second, or at least it seemed just like this... I was throwing away one animal, and already got like 3 or 4 more of new ones :(
Anyway, thanks, a solid entry and a really nice and funny take on the theme!
Damn, it's hardcore. Choosing hard on my first time was a mistake XD
@nozomu57 thank you for the feedback regarding difficulty!
The spawn timer gradually becomes faster with time, so the sudden spike mostly results from the bigger waves. We wanted to create some frantic ramp up moments - maybe we overdid that here for normal :sweat_smile: Overall we expect everyone to be able to finish easy quite well (without it being boring). Normal to be a challenge to survive but easy to get a good score once the survival is no problem anymore and hard to be challenging in both regards. But then, it is not like we play-tested with others :smile:
The game is a little too frantic for its own good. Fun to play though.
not sure what i did wrong, i tossed out every animal that came out, and the boat sank. rip :D it felt pretty satisfying to launch the animals into the ocean though.
@jcmonkey well, if you remove every animal you are not keeping two (of every species) :wink:
The animals sinking when you don't make it is so funny. The chaos is also good. I like the game a lot.
What in the magic hell of feverdreams have I just played?!?! Unfortunatelly I lost, after my eyes filled with tears when I clicked on the elephant for the first time and I couldn't see the difference between a goat and a cat anymore... BY FAR!!! the best game I played this jam so far. 5 Stars all the way. I hope you win and this masterpiece will end up in some sort of museum.
The game seemed easy at the beginning, but it got out of hand as the days are counting down! Really well done!!
The art work is great, and the game is well organized so that I instantly understood how to play the game without reading the spoiler
Absolutely hilarious concept and tone. Also quite fun to play. Great submission!
Solid entry, I loved the sound effects even though they got quite loud nearing the end! Great artwork and all around design, good job!
On my first playthrough I was able to beat the easy level. Then I read the spoilers and wanted some lightning action, and mannn that's a high quality sinking animation there XD
I threw all the animals overboard, and the elephant sank my ship, and then I realized what I had to do. Conclusion: murder is bad
I have found my favorite game of the jam so far, this was such a wacky game, it's really difficult on top of that, the sprites for all the animals are really hilarious and the sounds were top tier hilarious. The entire premise of the game is just so stupid and funny I hope this game blows up in popularity! Good job!
This game was so funny throwing animals off the ark. Do different animals weigh a different amount?
Awesome job, one of my favorites so far!
Absolute chaos, was a fun game and a hilarious take on the theme, great stuff :)
well it's definitely animal abuse but hell you have to do something with them. btw, why there are lions but no lionesses? well done tho
Nice Game overall, it's and absolute chaos and I love it, i don't know why but de sound was bad, probably for the html version, congratulations on the work!!
I love that concept, so funny ! I was a bit unsure about the rules though, I first expected to lose if I didn't manage to get less than two animals of the same type at the same time, but it seems to be the ship that slowly sinks. It's cool but I noticed that only at the end of my playthrough, maybe a bit of feedback would have been good. The gameplay itself is simple but works pretty well, I like how it's quite manageable for some time, but at the end the only strategy is to throw as many animals overboard as possible to survive. That was genuinely hilarious !
@hangovergames Thanks! We are fully aware that there are only male lions. Captain Noah has to manage so many different species and is by no means a trained zoologist. He can only care about physical similarities. My headcanon is that he's got a pair of female lions somewhere else.
About to play the game. Just saw your notice about macos problem. There's an [open Godot issue](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691) about it.
I haven't tested this fix myself, but from what I've learned, for chromium browsers at least, it seems one has to switch to the metal graphics backend. Either with the command-line flag --use-profile=metal, or switching to metal for the angle graphics backend in chrome://flags.
@nyxkn Thank you for the information!
Sadly, it looks like the only real options to fix this are at the end of the player right now. I don't think that we can expect anyone to start Chrome with experimental flags just for our small jam game - but good to know that fixes are in the works, thank you!
Game is pretty cute! The animal sounds are brilliant :)
I played on easy mode but even then at the end it's massive chaos and the amount of animals is overwhelming. So much so that I felt like giving up at some point and just waiting for the last few days to pass. Also nothing seemed to happen regardless of how well I was doing so it wasn't immediately clear what the game win/lose conditions were. Regardless, the core mechanic works well and I feel bad saying this but I smiled as I dropped the first few animals :D Maybe music could have been a bit more interesting and less repetitive.
Fun game, love it! Scored 75 points on normal and 90 on easy :D
Easy wasn't that easy not gonna lie, but cool concept overall I had fun playing it! It becomes very hard around the end (last 10 days or so) where there are so many things to keep track of!
Very interesting game, the theme was perfect in this context and even in easy mode the player has to think and be quick in making decisions.
What a hilarious concept. I love all the animal sounds your team put together! I recorded myself playing to deliver maximum feedback!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCpGOQwIhzI
@100th-coin After seeing the video I realize that next time we have to test our game with some people who did not participate in building it :smiley:
Very interesting to see all the interpretations of the gameplay and graphical effect, which I would have never thought of! But this is how we learn to create the right learning curve for our players next time! If you want to know how the game actually tallies up points and win condition then the text in the description under **Gameplay** will clear that up - it is definitely non-obvious :sweat_smile:
Thank you for playing it and giving us valuable input for the next time we participate in a jam! :smile:
Hi, a great game - everything clicked really fast, althought at the start i didnt know at what pace did my ark sink and if it actually does sink, id might be a design decision to not say anything which is also valid, overall great title as well as the page :)
Haha such a fun game. I love the sounds you made. It's very simple and clear what to do. I played on normal and the ship got so crowded quickly, so I can't imagine what hard looks like. Great job
Fun and surprisingly challenging (on normal) game!! At some point an animal I was throwing overboard had a textbubble, but I spotted it too late. Liked the drama and chaos.
So much chaos ^^ I like the contrast between the silliness of presentation and the act of drowning hordes of animals. And don't tell me you can get a perfect score on this, no way xD
It is a cool idea that not limit the map space but limit the weight I guess, and the background of the story with is ARK, that's great!
This Noah guy is really bad at math
I played on easy mode and still it was hard :D But I really enjoyed it. I am going to try something harder but I think that I am not that good in throwing animals in water :/ :D
I like to throw little animals overboard. Thanks for the game. *Don't kink shame pls.*
Best one yet, had so many laughs
This is so fun and interesting I liked all your game hah
Decided I'm a badass and went for hard difficulty blind first attempt. Went from laughs and giggles to panick tossing animals overboard very fast. Absolutely hilarious game, and a great execution of the theme. Fantastic work!
That was quite the interpretation of a classic story ha! Game ramped up in difficulty quickly. I liked the fact that the player was punished for tossing off the wrong animal. Good job, funny and entertaining!
Omg it's so funny, love the humour! The artstyle goes really well with the idea. The end credits were also great, first I thought it was a bug but when the animals started to come I both cried and laughed at the same time. Very good work, one of the greatest games I've played during these jams
Nice game! I like how chaotic it gets towards the end
Great humor, a lot of fun, easy to understand and quick to play. Even though the game is super challenging, especially once there are so many animals on the screen that they start to overlap. Potentially, some of the animals could be a bit slower, but the chaos made the game all the more fun. A strategy I used was to constantly move all animals I want to keep to the front of the boat and try to keep them there while mercilessly throwing every other animal off the boat. Did it go well? Not really, but I did beat the game like that anyways (with severe casualties), so that is a win in my book!
It was heartbreaking to throw those cats but their sound was perfect.
Very interesting idea, fits the theme nicely. I love the sounds the animals are making :D
Loved the sinking animals in the game over screen :joy:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH great and fun game! They all scream so much, there are so many of them, I have paniс. I chose the easy difficulty, but I still found it difficult
That was so intense , I love the sounds. Funny cute game
Oh my god what id I do :'D
Very enjoyable game! Got a bit too hectic for me at the end, but that might be because I focused too much on trying to keep 2 of every animal instead of just yeeting as many animals I can overboard to avoid sinking.
The game had me laughing the whole time - especially with how derpy all of the animals looked as you went to grab them and toss them off the ark. Thank you for the humorous and clever take on the limited space idea - this is one of the funniest games I've seen all jam long.
One of the most fun ones out of the ones I played so far. Absolute recommendation.
Enjoyed this game, super fun, got totally overwhelmed every time, I'm clearly not a good Noah Adonis. Love the graphics and the sounds effects.
interesting game !! so funny ,spent a lot time to keep this ark not sink
The game is a lot of fun and I had a great time playing it. The voice acting is fantastic and adds a lot of enjoyment to the game. However, as mentioned in the description, it doesn't run smoothly on Mac. Every time I finish playing, it causes my browser to become unresponsive. But overall, it's still a really great game. Well done!
ha ha, these sounds at the end :D
Really fun, great sounds and very challenging.
they won't tell you about this in the bible.
very funny concept and very confusing.. by the end I'm throwing whatever I can get my hands on :D
Super fun and quite hard! I really love the art especially the splash screen with the sassy lion. Stunning sound design! And great details like the animals in the water at the end. Congratulations!
Simple but funny game! Congrats!
Easy to get the hang of and totally hilarious. Great jam game for sure. Well done!