Design a zoo of dominoes together, but make sure your animals are well-fed, in the right biome, and actually behind a fence.
Zoo Parque
Design a zoo together and make sure the animals are well-fed. A Domino Diaries game.
Background
When I invented the Theme Park-related game in this collection, my mind immediately added the Zoo-related one as well. Those two are just inextricably linked in my head, after growing up on games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon. After a few days of passively brainstorming, while I work on other things, I figured out some unique approaches to really make this one feel different and more like a real zoo.
It ended up being one of the hardest to figure out in terms of rules and logistics, but one of the easiest to code and create a graphical style for. Perhaps because I’m a natural/animal person myself and have always preferred those kinds of color schemes and illustrations.
The game is a unique mix between cooperative and competitive play, while using dominoes in a few ways I’ve rarely seen before :p It turned into a warm and cozy little game about building a zoo, with more than enough strategic depth to want to keep creating new zoos.
Credits
The fonts used are Ceviche One (headings) and Noticia Text (body text). Some generative image AI was used. Everything else (code, idea, rules, illustrations) is entirely mine.
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