Noah's Apartment by GastricSparrow

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made by GastricSparrow for LD 40 (JAM)

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The more pets you have, the harder it is to keep them from eating one another!

banner.png Noah loves animals, but can he fit all of these pets into his apartment without losing some of them? A short and sweet puzzle game.

Controls: It's a game about animals, so use your mouse!

Made with: Godot Engine, FamiTracker, Photoshop.

My first time participating in LD. I made everything by myself from scratch, but missed the compo deadline, so am submitting it to the jam. Hope you enjoy it!!

Thank you for playing,

Duc Vu. aka GastricSparrow

Ratings

Overall 472th 3.54⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 472th 3.42⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 294th 3.5⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 491th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 666th 3.34⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 521th 3⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 374th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 716th 3.104⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

Jiri Hysek
04. Dec 2017 · 09:50 UTC
Nice puzzle game! It's simple, easy to understand and still challenging. It could also work well as a mobile game.
fiaKaiera
04. Dec 2017 · 10:23 UTC
**You made me think.** Good game. I can't really say much on your submission but I do want to point out a few things.
* Detection for the combination of animals should be better. One of the stages got me waiting for at least 20 seconds before proceeding. I am guessing you're waiting for all of their move_speed to 0? I suggest using a stack array would be better and matching it on an array you set for the level.
* Also the repeated end screen, you can just add a condition if more than one is missing then don't restart the Failed animation.
* The music is good. It allows me to think at least but it could be better if you went without a main line that stands out too much.

Other than that, this would be solid past time puzzle mobile games. If done right. Good job!
randomphantom
04. Dec 2017 · 11:00 UTC
Reminds me of tsumtsum. Pretty simple puzzle game but I like the polish - cute graphics, music and sound effects.
🎤 GastricSparrow
04. Dec 2017 · 12:38 UTC
Thanks to all the nice comments guys! Jiri, very happy to get high praise from you.

@fiakaiera - Wow, thank you so much for the super helpful feedback. I realised I still had time, so I tweaked the collision and win condition a bit, it should work better now ^^ Not good enough at music to attempt to change that now though, haha.

@randomphantom - Thanks! My hours hunching over polishing cute animals was not wasted ^^
fiaKaiera
04. Dec 2017 · 13:25 UTC
@gastricsparrow: Great! Thanks for taking in my feedback. Now surely the others would have a better time!
kezhaar
04. Dec 2017 · 14:45 UTC
A simple concept that is working good, well done.
Badly Drawn Rod
04. Dec 2017 · 14:46 UTC
What kind of battery cage living apartment does poor Noah live in? I really liked the graphics. A cute puzzler that teaches children about the food chain.
niborious
04. Dec 2017 · 22:07 UTC
Nice game! I liked the puzzles, and it was fun to complete.
I thought that filling up the animals to reach a certain line seemed a little out of place. It would have been fine to just have to use all of them without any getting eaten.
I love the title. Its a funny concept
JeromWaarom
04. Dec 2017 · 22:44 UTC
A simple, yet quite fun concept that suits the theme quite well. I really like the riddle type puzzle game. Some improvements can be made with the variety of challenges or just the variety clues even, to make it a little more engaging in the long run. I also noticed that sometimes it took a long time before my succes was detected, you might want to look into that. All in all, well done!
BenBurgh
04. Dec 2017 · 23:24 UTC
Really cool idea, I love puzzles! It seems like the actual physics determine the outcome, though, which is a bit weird.
koemeterion
05. Dec 2017 · 10:08 UTC
Well done. Simple and easy to understand. Nice sounds and music too. Great job.
Nivbeth
05. Dec 2017 · 13:54 UTC
Neat game :) The gameplay is really nice and love the art as well! Found a bug in the 4th level: my snake (which was on the 4th place) was so long, that I didn't have to add mouse and parrot o.O
Great job :)
🎤 GastricSparrow
06. Dec 2017 · 07:38 UTC
Thanks to all your nice comments! @nivbeth I actually intended the level to not need all of the animals, so ppl can have different solutions. May have done it differently now but it is how it is!
SolsForest
06. Dec 2017 · 10:38 UTC
This is a really neat puzzle game! The music and art are very cute. Well done!
Phyrsos
06. Dec 2017 · 10:45 UTC
Overall great work dude, doing all this game alone is actually insane for a first ludum, keep going !
Come and try our little game aswell https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/lamattractive <3
Hagrid
06. Dec 2017 · 11:26 UTC
This was simple yet fun. A good effort!
Megalink
07. Dec 2017 · 02:36 UTC
Very innovative and fun concept! The art was also fantastic. Great work!
Hippunk
07. Dec 2017 · 18:20 UTC
Loved playing your game :). Great idea !
Jegus9
08. Dec 2017 · 15:27 UTC
Everything in the game is so damn cute. That was pretty fun. I wish I could remember which one eats which in the randomized level, but I don't really mind. Good job.