{"id":1309,"edition":7,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":12751,"name":"Zooback Rider","authors":[{"name":"Curtis Robinson","url":"https://curtastic.com","twitter":"curtastic","login":"curtastic","gh":1654160}],"description":"<p>You work at a zoo where the animals get to roam free in the fields during the day. But when a storm is coming, you have to bring them back into their pens. You can chase them back or ride them back.</p>\n<p>All graphics are emojis.</p>\n<p>On desktop: arrow keys to move, space to pick up item / drop item / dismount. Phones: hold to move there, tap yourself to pick up item / drop item / dismount.</p>\n<p>Works on iPhone, but not so much on Android because they don’t have all the emojis with color built in.</p>\n<p>The JavaScript is minified, but there is a link to the TouchBasic code in the github.</p>\n","source":"curtastic/zoobackrider","stars":1,"comments":[{"typ":2,"at":221285850,"author":"Kevin Whinnery","login":"kwhinnery","gh":29193,"url":"https://twilio.com/quest","twitter":"kevinwhinnery","text":"<p>Hah! This was pretty adorable. You could imagine coming up with some pretty fun “towers of Hanoi” style puzzles where you have to capture the animals in a certain order. Needing to use the octopus to flush out the pig was genius.</p>\n<p>Worked:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having the octopus capable of swimming was a great touch. If the game were to be built out further, having different animals capable of different traversal techniques would be great.</li>\n<li>The pig was super frustrating to catch, but it felt appropriate! I could hear the squealing in my mind.</li>\n<li>The visual of riding the different animals was hilarious. Much comedy to be found there when building out this concept.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>!Worked:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why could I pick up the plants? I didn’t discover a purpose for this feature, felt like a red herring.</li>\n<li>The pig was faster than the horse?</li>\n<li>It seemed like the octopus was the only animal which had the traversal upgrade that I loved so much</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":221463037,"author":"Abiyasa Suhardi","login":"abiyasa","gh":1072047,"url":"https://abiyasa.com","twitter":"abiyasasuhardi","text":"<p>Good:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent use of the competition themes!</li>\n<li>Quite a big world to explore</li>\n<li>The use of emoji for all game assets!</li>\n<li>Simple but well-done game mechanics</li>\n<li>Several NPCs with funny dialog</li>\n<li>Each animal has its own ability (e.g swimming) or behavior (e.g walk really fast)</li>\n<li>Good game progress indicator, it’s easy to see which animals are missing or have been collected</li>\n<li>Able to pick any items or drop them anywhere. Fun :-)</li>\n<li>Good game mechanics, player movement, love the back riding part!</li>\n<li>Works on iPhone!</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":223700148,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"<p>This is such a clever and cute little game! It’s really great to play through.</p>\n"}],"results":{"primary":{"i":45,"n":200},"label":"Overall"}}