God said to Noah (you) "I am about to destroy the world with a flood. Build an ark, a large boat, to save you and your family and anyone else who wants to come with you."
NOTE - click play button in video about to play the first prototype of the game. Sound starts at the 27 second mark.
Hearts show lives left. Blue circle counts down seconds left for this life. Number shows the level. Green filling white centre shows percent of the level completed thus far.
Minimap Monitor
Displays the entire 3 floors of the ark. The red rectangle shows the portion of the ark that is visible in the main screen area. The whie numbers to the left of the ark show the number of animals that remain to be placed in pens on each floor. The black rectangles (NOT YET Seen in this screen shot) show the suggested pens into which the animals should be placed.
Animal Monitor
Displays the currently selected animal with an image of the animal, the name of the animal and two scales. The bottom horizontal scale shows the relative speed of the animal. The farther right the pink marker is on the scale the faster the animal will move to it's assigned pen. The left vertical scale shows the size of the animal. The higher the yellow marker is the larger the animal is.
Pause Icon
Click this icon to pause the game and bring up the options menu. From here you can save the game, purchase items from the Google play store to help you with the game, read the "Privacy" and "Terms of Service" policies.
The Game
Overview
You are Noah, the Noah in the Bible. The time is shortly before the “Inundatio” – the global flood, so around 2500 BC. God speaks to you and tells you the world is wicked and He is going to destroy everything and everyone in a global flood. He wants you to build a boat, the ark, in which people can be saved from the flood. Over the next 120 years you, your 3 sons and those you hire build the ark according to the design God gives you. You also tell people what God is going to do and invite them into the ark with you. At the end of 120 years God says time to go into the ark, the flood is coming very soon. The game begins!
Objectives
Phase 1: Get all the animals whom God sends to you into the ark, into their pens, before the flood begins. You have limited time.
Phase 2: During the first portion of the flood you steer the ark as the waters lift it off the ground and it floats. You steer it as it moves in the current, to avoid hitting mountains. You steer it to avoid being impacted by falling comets and meteors. You steer it to avoid running the ark into lava flowing from volcanoes.
Phase 3: During the second portion of the flood, when the water stop rising, the comets and meteors and volcanoes stop, you take care of the animals in the ark. You must feed then, water them, clean their pens, all fast enough so they do not die of hunger, thirst or disease from unclean pens.
Phase 4: During the final portion of the flood, when the water recedes you steer the ark so it avoids hitting mountains as they become visible in the lowering waters. You bring the ark to rest on a flat valley floor.
If you accomplish all these levels you survive the floor and are listed in the Bible, in Hebrews chapter 11, as a hero and all people living on earth today are your descendants.
The Rules
The following rules are not finalized, nor are the game controls
Each level has a predefined objective. There may be more than one way to meet the objective but selecting a way that works may cause problems in later levels. Thus, completing a level does not guarantee it was done properly.
Each animal has a size. Each pen has a size. Animals can only go into pens that match their size or go into a pen larger than the animal size.
Each animal has a speed at which they move. As animals walk to their pens from the ark door they move at their predefined speed. Animals cannot pass each other. Thus, a slower animal will block a faster animal.
The user uses 1 finger to drag across the smartphone screen to move the viewport to display a different area of the ark.
Double tap on the ark to bring up a zoom window. This will show the area where you tapped zoomed-in and from an angle. It will be easier to select small animals in this view. Double tap inside this zoomed-in view to close the zoom window. When the zoom windos is open you can double tap outside the zoom window to move the zoom window and also to switch the main view with the zoomed-in view. Thus double tapping cycles through the two viws.
The user uses a single finger tap on the smartphone screen to select an animal and then select a pen into which the animal is to go.
The user can select an animal in transit to a pen and then select a different pen to have that animal change course and go to the newly selected pen.
When a user selects an animal, the user is automatically selecting all 2 or all 14 of those animals. The same kind of animal always move as a group and always go into the same pen together.
Each level of animal boarding has a time limit. If the animals are not all in their pens when the time limit is reached Noah losses a life, indicated by an animation showing the flood coming and the ark door being open and getting flooded.
Noah starts with 3 lives. Once all 3 lives are lost the game ends.
During the flood stage of the game the user tilts the smartphone in different directions to have the ark change course towards the direction of tilt.
Health Monitor
Minimap Monitor
Animal Monitor