The Aardvark and The Manatee is a game about a manatee who's in love with an aardvark.
Controls:
LMB + Mouse to move/interact
F1 to toggle fullscreen
By:
Liselore Goedhart (@lizzywanders)
Aran Koning (@arankoning)
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.80 |
| #9 | Mood(Jam) | 4.28 |
| #27 | Audio(Jam) | 4.07 |
| #70 | Overall(Jam) | 3.90 |
| #81 | Theme(Jam) | 4.13 |
| #144 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.68 |
| #362 | Humor(Jam) | 2.86 |
| #397 | Fun(Jam) | 3.19 |
| #1385 | Coolness | 49% |
Comments
This is so cute it hurts! Didn't quite get the protecting the food mechanic until I read the comment above, but then it all made sense. Very adorable :)
Beautiful art, great soundtrack and suitable sound, very well done!
This game made me so sad.
SO MANY FISH.
That said, it was really fun and cute and beautiful.
Well crafted ... I would keep building on this game ... Very fun and Fantastic.
So aesthetically pleasing! The mood is super mellow and along with the supposed story creates a feeling of melancholy which makes me fall in love with this beautiful dreamy experience.
Very relaxing and fun. The protect and feed phases of the game complement each other well.
This is so adorable!
The theme interpretation is the best I've seen so far as well.
This is by far the best game I've played this LD, Well done this is an amazing achievement.
Absolutely beautiful, Lizzy's art is always amazingly good.
I got to a point where I could defeat all the fish by just spinning on the spot between two of the.. pear seeds? So I let my ardvark die. :(
But yeah, game's fun, music's great, visuals are absolutely exceptional. Also, do you have some kind of obsession with Aardvarks? :P
woah nice style!! loved the unnoticed work the manatee does for the aardvark :3
v/ cute game!
Super cute! I thought it did a good job of conveying a very sad state in a subtle fashion through the gameplay. Once I figured out what was going on, and that I could never be with the aardvark, it made the whole thing really moody. It did take me a bit to understand what I was doing as the manatee. I liked how everything changed with the day/night cycle, it did great work to convey the mode shift (it would be cool if the sound also changed) Nice job!
A very impressive game. I really like all of it. The music, the sounds and the visuals create an atmosphere that is really wonderful. Thank you for that pearl.
Very lovely game. And sad, so very sad. But I guess fish need to eat too.
Looks really nice, but I was rather bored by the gameplay. There is no challenge in picking up the apples, so it rather feels like a waste of time. The mood and audio were good though.
Really great entry, we loved the graphics and really enjoyed it ;)
So beautiful and artsy. I like the idea of having it be 2 different mechanics for day and night but both are in the same screen. A bit repetitive though after a few cycles.
PLaying this game is relaxing.. I might've get stuck sometimes in the corner of the screen but overall it's good and has nice BGM
makes me want to stay there and hear it all day
Beauty screensaver. I passed few day, but see no evolution of relationship between main characters.
this is absolutely amazingly beautiful!
you have got some skills!
Beautiful game. Great art, sound and concept. Fantastic job!
I had a delay with my mouse, maybe it's pc caused.
The game looked promising but it felt later on not really challenging. The idea behind i like a lot also the graphic style looks neat. Good luck!
So cute! I love the design of the two creatures, the music fits in nicely into the overall mood
Really lovely and absolutely beatiful game! Very well done!
(Although it get`s a little bit repetitive once you get down to 2 or 3 nobs..)
Really lovely stuff! Not sure if I got the gameplay or the story completely but I just wanted to spend time listening and staring!!
This is such a cute game. I definitely like the day/night mechanics that complement the visuals as well.
Great idea and graphics. It was really wonderful to play. Took me a few rounds to figure out what the fish did though.
music is suit to mood very well. but this game is too slow for me ^__^
What a lovely and beautiful game. Relaxing to play yet still entertaining. Great job.
beautiful, though i dont quite understand how to play this xD
Couldn't emulate the executable using Wine & Linux Mint.
You used Game Maker right? ('Cabinet not valid')
I think I could emulate it if you include the related dll, had the issue with other gamemaker games before.
I liked the theme, the art, and the Idea. I got bored playing because because you are basically doing the same thing, I had to let them finish at wave 4.
I can't say I didn't enjoy it, its really calming experience, I wish there were more stuff/skills to use, for example playing with the whale was much more enjoyable since you are actually doing something and not just clicking on the apples.
Beautiful looking game that's calming to play. Loved the character designs and think with a bit more variety in the gameplay this could be something really special. Liked the movement of the sun and moon and the way it transitioned between the players.
A pleasant experience overall. Sort of funny how the aardvark just takes advantage of the manatee's hard work.
It's simple, easy enough to pick up and understand (though it took me a minute to learn the manatee was defending the food). It's also very beautiful in regards to the artwork and visuals. It works well overall, but I feel like there's something lacking and I grew discouraged after a while when I realized it was a seemingly endless cycle. So my manatee lost its will to continue defending the fruit and the aardvark ran out of food :(
This is a nice relaxing game. Until you get to the later waves! The mood and visuals are great. It's a pretty adorable game. Very nicely done.
Artistically speaking, is a really little gem.
The art is superb [but a little lacking in the animations] and the music is really relaxing.
The gameplay is the lacking part on this game.
The art is so cute and beautiful. Incredible! The art, the relaxing music and the smooth animations create a very unique atmosphere. Playing the Aardvark by day and the Manatee by night is a nice idea to do something special with the theme. I wish the gameplay had more depths, though. More exciting mechanics or an actively told little story would enrich the experience. For example, giving the Aardvark some task that benefits the Manatee would create a nice symbiosis between the two. Overall, very lovely entry.
This is really pretty and reminds me of the old Orsinal games in look and feel, so great job for that. I do wish that there were a little bit more challenge of some sort... it didn't make sense to have me collecting apples as the Aardvark and then lose the game if there wasn't any fruit left, when I could just sit there not eating anything and the game would keep going fine. A slightly steeper difficulty curve would have helped too, I think. Still, the graphics and audio are really lovely and work together to establish a mood, and I liked the way you split the gameplay segments in such a natural way. Thank you for the game!
Believe or not, when I was playing, my cat stopped wandering around and watched the screen, and when it came to the turn of the Manatee, he chased it, and stop when daytime came. He did it for 3 turn. So I guess he understood that it was some kind of fish.
Very cute, beautiful and restful ! But maybe this need more story and mystery, you only have to protect your food and you know that one day it will be over :( (this became a little bit boring at the 5th time)
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What an absolutely beautiful game! The artwork in combination with the music was perfect. The controls were easy to grasp and translated well between the two characters. Now the story at first seemed a bit odd, but after noticing that the manatee was protecting the food for the aardvark it all made sense and really sold me on the love they both have (or at least the manatee haha). Great way to represent time as well, with the little notches for each moment.
Simple, beautiful, and well designed. Fantastic job!