Oh man, that nose, so awesome O_o

*drools*

Here's a grid of 262 items I have drawn for my game Words with Cats!

Played way more of this than I should have, really! It's great, super addictive, would be awesome on my iPhone for sure.

As for the timer thing, you could just have a shadow on the left, that as you get nearer and nearer, seems to form a deathly hand or the silhouette of a Reaper or something. There could be a flashing red or purple light when you're almost getting caught by it, then an animation of the hero being swallowed by it when it's game over.

Balancing seemed pretty good until after I got all doors and 2-3 upgrades, then my progress slowed down to a crawl. I'm sure you'll balance everything out in the final build.

As for teaching the player to "clean up" the board of rocks and wood, your little blurbs actually did get me to do it often, so I think you did great. If you really want to get this into a player's head, you could, I dunno, have him encounter NPCs in the first few games? Maybe an old lady with a broom saying "Love it when there's no monsters around, gives me time to clean up all those rocks and all that wood lying around!" 

Work in progress.

Love the bright blue background, it's quite neat.

Mock-ups of a card game I was supposed to do for a monthly game jam...

I keep referring to this thread, when I need awesomeness to inspire me. Even the way you're showing this art and the UI in cute, perfectly aligned jpgs, down to the perfect font for it, to the little details, man, this is SO inspiring.
/drool

 

Great logo!

From our Toronto Game Jam game Diluvium, where I spent the whole time drawing ALL THE ANIMALS. 

Some of those were made by Aliceffekt (Moogle, Pikachu and Companion Cube), so is the logo.

As for the wiki idea, I'm sure we can provide vague stats and assets for it.

Thanks everyone.

HOW was this made in 3 days!? I really dig the art style.
Does the player directly control the animals or do they have AI?

Diluvium was made by 4 amazing people, that's how! We split up the work according to each team member's strengths.
The animals have their own AI, based on their stats!

this looks great! Does the order animals are stacked in make a difference to their stats?

The order does not change anything, no.

>>>>>>

is out!

Also, we fixed up the game a bit in the past few days and it's gonna be released soon! We're demoing it on June 6th at the Mount Royal Game Society in Montreal if you guys happen to be around

Beautiful stuff.    are happy

I love how colorful you made your UI. This is definitely a game I'm looking forward to.

I love this game. I haven't won the game yet, so why am on these forums instead of in the game getting those precious dollar dollar bags??

Here's two of the secret summons [TIGS EXCLUSIVES] from Spelunky and Meatboy!



 

These were drawn digitally (my arm still hurts)!

Here's a pic of all the animals I drew for Diluvium. There's 85 animal categories (some are secret, so they don't appear in this pic), 255 animal names that you can type in and summon in the game.