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A jam submission

Animal ShikakuView game page

GMTK 2025
Submitted by orkhann, hilala17 — 6 hours, 58 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#15093.7633.917
Creativity#31633.4433.583
Enjoyment#40052.8823.000
Narrative#52002.0822.167
Audio#82011.5211.583

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player is given an endless loop of Shikaku puzzles, and within the puzzles they are "looping" the animals by placing down fence.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All art was created by us.

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Comments

Submitted

Great art style! Bit confusing at first but very good idea

Submitted

a chart of what animal need what would help, did you do the art?

Developer

Yes, we did the art!

Submitted

I was bulding the fences but couldn't seem to progress sometimes, I get that the animals needed different enclosure sizes according to the comments and page but couldn't ever seem to get it right?

Art style is cute and works well! I feel like it would of been nice to have it so when I click to place a fence down the fence appears to show it responding to my click, and I slowly drag out to make the fence appear.

Well done!

Submitted

This is a really fun concept but I wish it were a little easier to tell how many squares each animal wants.

Really nice game, but as others already said, there should be some kind of indicator on each animal to tell how much space it needs. This was a lot of trial and error and eventully frustration. If you don't want to show the exact numbers, maybe just have some smiley faces next to each animal which would show how close you are for them to be happy. Eg.:
:-( you are more than 2 squares off
:-| you are 1-2 square off
:-) the size is right

Submitted

Solving this puzzles was really fun, I just wish that the UI showed the required fence size for each animal. I had to do some trial and error because the fence size for the animals was unclear. I would definitely add that, because it is a really fun concept.

I actually really enjoyed the game! This is a cute twist on the original game.  However, it is really hard to learn.  If i could hover over the animals I've already used and it tells me its number, that would have made this game much easier to get into.  Part of the fun was discovering the values of new creatures, but it didn't feel good when I forgot the values of old creatures and felt like I had to restart or trial and error my way to a solution.  But nice job, overall in making a functioning, polished-looking game!

Submitted

Neat little puzzler. I’m not sure if there was an end point or not, because I was playing for a good while and the puzzles just kept coming (not really getting any easier or harder, or even introducing new animals at a certain point…), but I enjoyed my time with the game overall. I had trouble remembering the sizes wanted by each animal, and it was a bit frustrating having to figure those sizes out initially - sometimes process of elimination was enough, but a few times it felt like my only option was trial and error.

This was neat, but it was really hard to figure out which animal needed how many empty squares, especially since in some levels 2 new animals were introduced at a time, i love the idea and the art though, so cute!