YESSSS! I've been looking forward to this! :D

@pandademic42 I'm glad to hear that. Hope you like it! :)

The graphics really cute! The sfx were... interesting. Did you make those using your mouth?
In this level I used all the animals but didn't fill all the spaces.

This plays very well, and a nice challenge. Nice work.

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Cool puzzle game with cute animals.

This game is so cute and I love the Kindergarten feel to it. So much joy in the level end.

Don't be deceived by the innocent theme, the puzzles can be challenging, but in a very balanced way.

I enjoyed playing.

I cannot embed twitch video into the jam page but here is your game on the stream!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/296647577?t=00h29m19s

Nice sounds, legitimately fun and challenging puzzles

@tigerj Thanks for playing it!

What a cute puzzle game!

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This is amazing!

Well, this is adorable. The animals are so cute, and theres a good puzzle game here too, some of the level design is really clever. I had a lot of fun playing it, and cleared all the levels!

I don't love the "yay" sound effect when you clear a level, it's a little harsh. Also, I sometimes had a hard time telling what shape the really big animals were, but these are minor complaints about a good game. Well done!

@squirmonkey Thanks for the feedback! A lot of the sound effects aren't amazing, I tossed them together with half an hour to spare. And I agree about the large animals. I tried to limit their inclusion while still giving them a brief cameo appearance.

Thanks for playing!

Love it! The animals are very cute and the visuals are super relaxing. The sound effects are a little quirky too. The game looks very polished and quite professional. Great work!

I really like how each animal type has a unique sound effect when you pick them up!

Awesome creation :) !! Though I'm not to keen on puzzle games this one really hooked me ! The simple vector art style is superb, and the story, theme of the jam and gameplay all fit together very nicely ! A big well done :) !

I like good puzzle game. The graphics are nice and the sound effects are kinda funny. Nice job.

Amazing graphics, and great polish. Sfx is really funny and great, it might have a soft piano background music. The way your tutorial works is just amazing. Every game should have their tutorial like that, not with a piece of long and boring text. Nice game :smile:

I liked the good feeling or the game, with the happy little animals. Some times it was a bit annoying that you couldn't stack pieces temporarily over each other, when you have to swap out pieces. But there is a lot of contents and it's not too hard so I could complete it. My entry is a bit similar, but much darker ...

Nice game, enjoyed it very much. Keep it up!

Really nice! Awesome and challenging.

Really cute game! Love the graphics, although I think the background color blends in with the water a bit too much. The audio could use some work, but overall, solid entry! Thanks for creating it, hope to see more from you in the future.

I streamed it here, gameplay will be accessible in the VODs: https://www.twitch.tv/ildfuglen (Time is around 1 hour)

Wow! It's awesome! I like that there is a double-feature of the theme because you are running out of space on the island and on the ark too. I had a lot of fun going through all the levels. I wish my game was more like this.

By far the cutest game I've played in this LDJAM so far.
It also taught me I'm super bad at puzzles.

@reuno Thanks for giving it a shot! Puzzle games aren't for everyone. To be honest I'm pretty bad at some of the game's puzzles myself!

I made it to the 3 giraffes and 5 lions level. That was a lot of fun, really nice sounds and graphics - felt like a professional game.

@deathray Thanks for playing deathray! A lot of people get stuck there, but it's weirdly more straightforward of a level than it seems initially.

This has everything I love in a game. I think it goes without saying that the graphics are SO CUTE. The puzzles were challenging without feeling too frustrating. The gameplay was seamless as well. Really, really nice game! Probably in my top 3 that I've reviewed so far. :)

@katie-dover Thank you Katie! I really appreciate the kind words. It's not the style of game for everyone, but it's really satisfying to hear from those who enjoy it. Thanks for playing!

Very nice simple polished game, I don't think there is anything I can criticize, the graphics is very lovely and the sound effects really work great with that. The game idea is that you fit all these animals to a space, but its not really running out of space because you know you have that amount of space. The "running out" here is during trial and error that you dont have enough space and have to rearrange things. Its a clever take on the theme, I love that! Very good job. It tells me that you can just take a simple idea and make it clean and polished and there you have a good game!!

The presentation here is lovely and it really fits the theme well. There isn't a lot of innovation with the mechanics but I enjoyed playing it nonetheless.

Fun and nice game, I liked the clean graphics a lot. Looks really polished, that's great!

I absolutely love this game ! The graphisms are soooooo cute !!! And i really do enjoy the gameplay ! As Katie Dover, it was challenging but not frustrating, wich is to me the key of a great puzzle game

Wonderful job on the game! The art style is absolutely lovely and the sound effects are very charming. It has a good array of easy to challenging levels - I actually managed to complete them all (although I'm pretty certain that giraffes are my new least favourite animal). It would have been cool to have a bit of peaceful music playing in the background and a bit more game feel with the animals -e.g. when you pick them up they scale in size slightly and then shrink back down (adds a nice popping effect that would be good for placing them down on the board as well). There's also a slight issue with the order of the sprites (you should have the animal that's being held at the front, currently some hide behind other animal sprites). Overall, a really great game!

Fun game, I enjoyed playing it, I especially love the art style, and the rare big animals.
I love it!

Yeah i was waiting to play it! I've seen a lot of visuals on twitter. It made me want to play it x) Really fun and so cute. The design works really well. The gameplay is simple and effective.

Original idea and colorful art are next level. Great work!

@nam-nguyen @kodiqi @mortus @hishicorne @rob-white @noam @whitepoulpe @slojanko

Thank you all for the kind words and feedback! I really appreciate it. It's always scary wondering if people will like your game, even for a gamejam, so it's great to hear from people who do like it.

@rob-white I like your gamefeel recommendations, I definitely agree the game could have more gamefeel. It's quite stiff feeling at the moment

Great game! Super cute animal graphics and a fun puzzle. I liked the sound effects. I managed to complete the game (yay!) but that last level was pretty tough. A couple of animals shapes were difficult to see - perhaps the squares that would be filled could be highlighted when you drag the animal over them? :thumbsup:

@andy-d Thanks for playing Andy!

I agree with your feedback, and I wanted to implement the exact thing you described but ran out of time! :( If I revisit this game in the future I'll definitely do that or something similar!

Oooooh, such sweet art, great game!! At first it seemed easy to me, but then everything turned out to be not so simple! Crocodiles were too complicated, although they look so simple :) Very cute dino, thanks for him and for this game !! She really is very cool and sweet! Good work, but I would add levels number :)

What a stellar game, I like it! And appropriately challenging at the end too. The animals look surprisingly nice in a grid-like manner, well done with the art!

To improve, highlighting the squares that you are dragging an animal over would make the game more readable, as would some scaling animations for lifting and placing the animals. Minor things really, it's in a very good state for a Ludum Dare game already. Very good job!

As a devloper too, I know it's not easy to create good looking graphics, and you did this very well for this entry, I love this style! :heart_eyes:

It's was also a good idea to associate each animal to an instrument, it's little details like this one that change a normal game to a good game :thumbsup:

Very nice game! I saved all the animals :) I think you nailed everything about this, and I could imagine spending hours trying to beat this if you expanded on it and released it for mobile.

Such a cute game! I really love the artwork of the animals and the theme's pretty solid here. The different sounds the animals make when you pick them up was a nice touch too! I'm currently on the 3 giraffes and 5 lions level and it currently has me stumped, but I'm gunna go back to it now to finish it up. Super relaxing game, easy to lose track of time playing. Lovely game!

@sveta @devastus @noxalus @jasperarmstrong @ossi

Thank you all for the kind words!

@sveta Level numbers would definitely be a good idea!

@devastus I definitely agree about those recommendations for making the game more easily readable.

While it's fun and the graphics are really fitting, it's nothing very new, when i first played it looked like something i see my baby brother play on his ipad. still though, good job on completing it in time, it was entertaining for what it was!

Very nice and colourful game. I really appreciated the cutesy art style. Took me a while to work out the animals had to go on the grid. I spent far too long on the first level trying to find the giraffes _around_ the grid instead!

@digital-bacon Sorry it was confusing at first!

I thought it was clear, but some people have not been getting it immediatly.

I've been thinking about ways to change the tutorial text language, or perhaps a visual animation of the giraffe being dragged in could have been better?

Either way, thanks for playing!

I really enjoyed this game. I love the animal artwork and the puzzles are simple and satisfying to solve. I particularly like the puzzles where there are two animals that are chiral but look really similar - great fun to spot the symmetry and work out where to put them.

My suggest would be to add an indicator for which level you're on.

Love the art and love the concept!! I could use infinitely more penguins though lol

The art is a very strong point of your game. It's very likable. You should have put more visual feedbacks so the player doesn't get lost, trying to move the giraffe on the boat like i did on the first level.

Super cute! I really like how well the simple graphics and minimalistic sound meshed really well together to make a nice cohesive aesthetic. Gameplay was pretty straightforward, but the themeing was a cute spin on it. Rockhopper penguin was immediately identifiable. I think if you do want to make this into a full game for mobile or whatever, consider ramping the difficulty and the introduction of shapes more slowly. Nice work!

This is such a cute game. It looks great, it plays great and the puzzles prove a fun challenge(those crocodiles can be surprisingly difficult to place). I liked the addition of dinosaurs! If you work on it a bit more after this, it would be nice to see the animals blink, I think — it would add a bit more life to them :smile:

Puzzles are very nicely done with the right level of challenge, and the animals are so adorable, great work! Was a little harder to see the hitboxes for the bigger animals.

i really liked this game - it could really do well in the younger kids market i think - thanks for making it

So adorable, beautiful visuals! Reminded a bit of Hey Duggee, a show I watch with my daughter. The game itself was also really good, a tried and tested idea but well implemented. I think just a bit of work on polishing and updating the UI and you could release this as fun mobile game.

A very cute game! I really enjoyed saving the animals!

Simple but fun! Yay~