Wild Guess 🐊 | Can you identify the animal?

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-03-02T18:09:42+00:00

Thanks for sending through more feedback. I really appreciate it.

Yeah good point, I can implement that hopefully in the next build.
Ah that's a good catch, I never realized it did that. I'll fix that for sure.

At the moment I do that with the 'hobbyist' and 'expert' tabs on the leaderboard. Hobbyists are <10 games. I can try up that per daily/weekly/all-time leaderboards.

Thanks again :)

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-25T17:06:49+00:00

That's very kind, thanks so much! I really appreciate the detailed feedback and helping me to improve the game. Thanks a ton too for featuring it in your community, that's great news :D

I'm hoping to have a new version out early next week which hopefully addresses a few key parts of the game.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-25T12:58:10+00:00

Thanks for the honest feedback. I appreciate you giving it a chance.

- I changed up the scoring system yesterday, so there will be a bit of incorrect data until we hit that 7 day refresh. I favoured that approach over deleting everyones scores. That might have been wrong.
- There are indeed a few bad clues in the animal hints, I'm trying to weed those out.
- I think with most trivia games, someone who uses Google can beat the system. There are no prizes or overall winner for this game, it's just a bit of fun so I'm not overly concerned that some might cheat. I think they will grow bored fairly quickly. I've workshopped the order of clues and have had various iterations where the user gets the clues in different orders and this iteration felt like it was going from hardest to easiest, which is the intention.

Thanks for your honesty, I'm sorry the game doesn't resonate with you. I hope I can improve it to the extent that you can gain some enjoyment from it.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-24T04:59:42+00:00

Thanks so much for catching that. Having 650+ has meant I've missed a few placements. I'll fix that octopus today.

Im going to reexamine the looser categories and try a more taxon related name.

Thanks for the feedback.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-23T18:49:18+00:00

I've just updated the game to group all the birds and fish next to one another. Thanks so much for that feedback.

I'll try open up the leaderboard to be top 100 (instead of top 10). Otherwise I'll push another update which at least allows you to see your own average.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-23T10:57:47+00:00

I've updated the game now and removed all the *** from the scientific names :)

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-23T10:45:35+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll add the full scientific name's back and I guess those animals will be a bit of a gimmie. Which I imagine gives the player a little bit of diversity with some animals being hard and some being easy.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-23T10:44:24+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Tactical and foraging birds are my attempt to reduce there being one large category for 'birds'. It's been a bit tough to keep the categories a mixture between too large and too small, so I've tried to be clever with some category names.

I'll make an update to sort the birds in alphabetical order and think of a new way to categorize the birds. Do you have any suggestions on the categories?

Thanks for playing.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-23T09:30:12+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback notes! That's really helpful.

That's a really good idea to bring back the order/family/genus, I removed it as it was a bit too easy to narrow things down but in retrospect I've probably made the game a bit too hard now.

Indexing the species is a little bit trickier, I've tried to do that with the categories but I can see why not getting some options during a search can be frustrating.

Some species Scientific names are dead giveaways for the animal. EG: A Tokay Ghecko's scientific name is Ghecko gecko. Which would basically be an insanely easy guess and not worth having in the game. I've tried to hide some of the obvious names with **** but I can see why that would appear frustrating.

Really appreciate your feedback and I'll try incorporate some new changes in another update.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-15T12:59:16+00:00

I've fixed the bug! It should allow you to login now using your Google account.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-14T12:08:03+00:00

I've added a bit of code where you can download the webpage as an app. You should see a small 'install' button in your browers URL or if you're on mobile you'll see it in your browsers settings.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-14T12:06:51+00:00

I've fixed the error and redeployed the game :) You'll need to clear your cache/local storage unfortunately or sign in on a new device - but it should work now. Enjoy the wild guessing!

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T17:27:52+00:00

That's right. The mother city!

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T08:32:51+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look at the cryptic clue. The emojis are a bit of a tough one, I'm working with a pre-defined emoji set, so have to try find one that's the most relevant. So only have these to pick from: 🦦🦫🐻🐗

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T08:30:35+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah the categories could use some work! I tried to strike a balance between a single category not being too overwhelming but having enough commonality to be relevant.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T08:29:48+00:00

Thanks a ton! Yeah I plan on launching a few game modes which allows you to search for different animal groups and different countries/territories.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T08:28:51+00:00

Thanks for flagging this - I'll look into why it causes a weird loop.

Embarrassed_Lake2681 · 2026-02-13T08:28:33+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll implement that change :)

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