Animal Ferry by Tony Li
Can you ferry everything across safely? Eleven levels to beat.
Hints: - Mouse eats grain. - Fox eats mouse, breaks vase. - Cat eats mouse. Gets bored and leaves if left alone too long. - Dog protects mouse from fox and cat, breaks vase. - Tiger eats mouse, fox, dog, and cat, breaks vase. Sleeps briefly after river rides. - Vase breaks after too many river rides. - Elephant eats grain, breaks vase, is afraid of mouse.
| Link | https://pixelcrushers.itch.io/animal-ferry |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/animal-ferry |
Ratings
| Overall | 422th | 3.722⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 285th | 3.759⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 444th | 3.519⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 170th | 4.315⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 686th | 3.556⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 459th | 3.407⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 552th | 3.146⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 847th | 3.241⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 36🗨️ |
Look at that gang! All on the right side of the river too.
Great job!
I had a good time playing!
It would be nice that after each level hints would be added on screen of what you learned from the previous levels. Start with no info, then after the first level is complete have a reminder that mouse eats grain, after the second level fox eats mouse would be added and so on. That way you can look at it and not have to memorize it all.
Specially for a game jam having to memorize things is hard if you are testing multiple games in a row.
Other than that, I kept accidentally clicking on the sail for the trip back when I wanted to unload what I was carrying because the boat flips when it arrives to shore. Maybe making a boat design that has the sail in the middle so that it doesn't change places would be better. It's just a small detail though.
Either way great job!
There are only 2 minor things: 1) I would have liked a hotkey for the boat to start sailing since it can be a little crowded on the boat with one of the larger animals which makes the sail harder to click.
2) for me it was not immediately clear the elephant can carry animals (and the vase) too, maybe add that to its description ;)
Apart from that, this game is perfect to me in its simplistic way! Thank you for having this idea, realising it and sharing it with the world (especially me)! :heart:
The music is very good, but the sound effects are a little too loud, even if it's very good too
Very funny to revisit this well-known little enigma like this, I really like it!
Music and sound effects help set the mood! The sound effects might have been a touch too loud on default, but thanks for adding the options sliders to tweak that to taste! Well done!