Stack-a-Zoo 🐻🏠

Stack-a-Zoo is a cozy, one-tap tower-stacking game for young kids (ages 2–4). A colorful animal house swings gently from a crane — tap anywhere to drop it onto the tower below. Stackit straight and the tower grows tall as the sky drifts from day to sunset to a starry night.

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Summary

Stack-a-Zoo is a cozy, one-tap tower-stacking game for young kids (ages 2–4). A colorful animal house swings gently from a crane — tap anywhere to drop it onto the tower below. Stack it straight and the tower grows tall as the sky drifts from day to sunset to a starry night. Lean too far, though, and the whole tower comes crashing down.

Description

  • Core mechanic — a house swings side to side; a single tap drops it. Perfect drops snap flush and score bonus points with a confetti burst; off-center drops leave an overhang that tilts the tower a little more each time.
  • Real consequences — lean accumulates honestly. Precise play can climb forever; sloppy drops visibly tip the structure, and a bad miss sends it crumbling down, piece by piece, with physics.
  • Day-to-night sky — the backdrop drifts from blue sky, to sunset, to a twinkling starry night as the tower climbs, with a sun that becomes a moon.
  • Sound — light synthesized sound effects and a gentle looping background melody, both toggleable.
  • Menus — a start screen with a "How to Play" guide, a pause menu (resume / restart / home / sound / music), and a game-over screen with a saved high score.
  • Installable — Stack-a-Zoo works as an installable app. Open it on a phone and use the browser's "Add to Home Screen" option to pin it like a native app, complete with its own icon and an offline app shell.

How to Play

  1. Watch the house swing side to side.
  2. Tap anywhere to drop it.
  3. Land it straight to keep your tower tall.
  4. Lean too far and — crash — it tumbles!

Files

  • index.html — the game. Open it directly in a browser, or host the whole folder.
  • manifest.json, sw.js, icons/ — installability (Add to Home Screen) and offline support.
  • cover-wide.png, cover-square.png — cover art for sharing/store listings.

Tech notes

Single-page HTML5 canvas game (no build step, no dependencies). Score and sound/music preferences are saved locally on-device.