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A jam submission

AlienimalsView game page

A short adventure and zoo managements game!
Submitted by Bonobones — 6 hours, 1 minute before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#2203.7333.733
Innovation#2523.4333.433
Overall#3963.2783.278
Visuals#3973.5673.567
Enjoyment#4673.1673.167
Gameplay#4692.9672.967
Audio#6182.8002.800

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does the game fit the theme?
You are a xenobiologist stranded on strange planet, populated by strange animals, to build a strange zoo, for a strange guy... etc...

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Heart texture
Fence, market stall, and mountains moodels

How many people worked on the game?
1

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Submitted

Lovely, weird, odd, cute, strange lands. A lot accomplished in a week! Obviously, with a game of this complexity, there are a lot of ways you could evolve this into a more polished version!

The tutorial helps you figure out what to do, but not how to do it. It was straightforward to scan cretures and put one in the pen. At the store, you have to press E to see the menu, then buy one berry, then it falls down (can be hard to see, look down and around) and you have to use LMB to pick the berry up and go over to the creature, and when you collide the berry with the creature, the creature will eat it. 

I quickly gave up on the story and just had fun mutating my creature...


Developer

Thank you so much for playing! I'm happy to see that you took the time to play the game, and create a fun little (big) creature!

Submitted

It didnt run for me :(

Perhaps you would like to try out my game :D

Submitted

Had a blast with this one! really nice work

Developer

I'm so happy to see that you had fun creating a giant creature!

Submitted

Really impressed with getting something like this made as a solo effort. I love  the way you can mutate the animals and the impact it has on their models. It would be really cool to see these effects in a bigger farming/ranching type game.

Great job!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks a lot for playing! I don't really think the concept could be explored in a fun way sadly..

Submitted(+1)

Very fun zookeeper-esque game. Felt like feeding cows in Minecraft. The fruit looked a bit disturbingly like the animal I was feeding it to.

Developer

To be honest, the fruits are generated using the exact same system lol. Thought it was extra fun that way

Submitted(+1)

These animals are a little weird, but very charming. It was fun.

Developer

Thanks for playing, I'm happy I could give you a bit of fun :)

Submitted(+1)

Loved the art style and the mutations to the animals, i think you should add more to do in the game or being able to save your mutated creatures, and make them wild spawns

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing!
If I ever expand on this game, it'll definitely stop being an idle game and have more content that's for sure lol.

Submitted

I really like the art style. The game is nice but I wish there was a feature that lets you ride the back of the alienimals, I think that would be fun. 

Good job

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing! Maybe that'll be a feature in the future if I decide to keep going with this game :)

Submitted

concept and art style is really cute! great job and the animals were so cute lol

Developer

Having a compliment for my artstyle coming for you makes me very happy :)

Submitted

super fun!  Love the aesthetic and the  creatures are really derpy. Had a great time with this one!

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing :)

Submitted

cute and sure as fck. I love it, 5 star!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Very coolio! Loved the aesthetics and the gameplay! You should check out our game too!

Submitted

Great concept! The art and creature design is fun too.

The controls were a bit complicated and I was a bit confused by the tutorial wanting a legless creature but there wasn't a fruit to remove limb. I think this game would benefit from simplifying the mechanics and tasks a bit, like not having to pen the animals, just using the mouse/spacebar for all interactions like zoo tycoon, or even being more of a top down management vs first person.

Developer

Thanks a lot for your kind words and your feedback!
You might have encountered a bug, you're not supposed to get a quest with a legless creature... I'll look into it!

Submitted

Haha! It said something along the lines of legless like a spear? Maybe I read it wrong? 😅

Submitted

There were a lot of bugs, and it was really hard to interact with stuff. I couldn't find a creatures favorite fruit either.
Other than that, it's a pretty cool idea. Maybe you should have spent a little bit more time polishing other than working on the procedural generation.

Developer

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I noticed that the last few bug fixes broke picking up items on the web version, it should be fixed now :)

Submitted

The concept was pretty cool but there were a few bugs like picking up fruit in the web version was really difficult and a few issue with the ui like it not scaling with screen so it was really small or sometimes I can't close the shop or fence ui. Good job overall though I liked the weird creatures they were pretty cute :)

Developer

Thanks a lot! I spent time on the issues you mentioned and fixed a few bugs :)

Submitted

Couldn't really figure out what to do, but the game overall looks cute and i liked feeding the weird noodle creatures haha. Could use a little music or maybe walking sound effects or something. Not bad!

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot, worked with your feedback to fix a few things today :)

Submitted

Very nice game and idea, I had to constantly check the instructions so having them in game would come in handy. Great job regardless!

Developer

Thanks for your feedback!

Submitted

Very cute game, but I got very confused at the beginning. Had to go back to read again the instructions. Good job with your game!

Developer

Thanks for your feedback, I'll work on the game's clarity :)

Submitted

The animals are pretty cute, but I would love an in game tutorial.

Developer

Thanks! A lot of work and love went into making the animals :)

Submitted

Funny Idea.
But I miss some background music or sounds

Developer

The sound atmosphere needs work, you're right. Thanks for playing!

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