Jigsaw Puzzle - Animals

Cute and simple these puzzles, the figures are different to recreate, you can choose the difficulty by selecting how many pieces you want from 60 up to 714, and you can also vary the color of the base that serves as the final frame.
Pleasant relaxing

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The most important thing in a jigsaw puzzle game is that you can match pieces, by image and shape. This game fails to draw 1:1 matching shapes. So you have to guess and try potential matches instead of being able to identify matches.

All negatives, because in their sum they overshadow anything else:

- Unplaced pieces are bigger than when they are placed
- Pieces are only pickup-able on their central square area, not their extremities
- Some motives have one-colored/low contrast areas, making the incorrect shape displaying even more problematic
- Picked up pieces jump-centering to the mouse cursor makes lacking click-hit-detection even more confusing and irritating
- No pausing and continuing later, no saving of piece positions
- Camera dragging is slower than mouse/drag speed
- Hover-menu never disappears, stays in the way
- Reshuffle pieces button without confirmation
- Bad Effects volume mixing - default hurts my ears (volume music vs effects can be changed)

(reviewed: 2020-08-04)

Positives+++
+I like the variation in the sound effects when placing pieces on the board.
+I like that when the outline is done, the outline button is untoggled automatically and there is an animation of the pieces. =)
+I like that there is a timer at the end of a solved puzzle.
+I like the loading screen with a slidding puzzle piece. I think it's cute :)
+I like that there is a number of completion by puzzle difficulty, by image.
+Puzzle progression is saved.
+The background color choice is kept between puzzles.
+The button to move the pieces are not moving the loose pieces on the board!

Suggestions~~~
~Grey out the navigation arrow when there is no items on the side the arrow is pointing.
~The selection sound is a bit piercing compared to the relaxed atmosphere encouraged by the soundtrack. I would replace that sound for a less aggressive sound effect.
~I would add a mouse hover on button in the puzzle scene.
~It would be nice to have achievements.
~It would be nice to see best scores on each image, on each difficulty.
~Sometime, because of the color of the pieces, it's hard to see the outline pieces. Maybe have an option to change the opacity of the non-outline pieces?
~Maybe change the icons for the difficulty. For the moment, all icons are the same. It could be an icon with more and more pieces.
~I feel like the animation when choosing an image are a bit to much exaggerated. Maybe tune it down a bit?

Negatives---
-Pieces doesn't snap together.
-Reset doesn't ask for validation before undoing the puzzle.
-At the end of a complete puzzle, there is no button to go to the next image or to come back to the selection screen directly. I think it would be nice to have a button at the end instead of clicking on the menu which I feel is more when you want to quit mid-game.
-A lot of images have large portion or similar color clouds, sky or grass which make them less fun to play in higer difficulty.
-Quality of the images could be improved a bit. When playing zoomed in, you can see blurry pixels.

Conclusion

This game offers 20 realistic looking photomontage images in 5 difficulties (60, 112, 273, 476, 714).
The game is simple, but nice. I'm looking forward to see achievements implemented. Pieces only snap to board. Maybe they will implement snapping between pieces in the future. If you want a relaxing puzzle game for a small price, this game is great for that.