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Hi everyone,

I made a browser extension called Ark Nova Ambience that adds animal sounds to Ark Nova games.

Install it, start an Ark Nova game, and every time an animal card is played, you hear the real sound of that animal. That's it.

- 100 unique animal sounds (154/160 cards covered)
- Hear all players' animals or only your own
- No impact on game performance

Warning
Keep the volume low on your first play — some animals can be surprisingly loud and startling!

Install links
Chrome — https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... defhpfcjnh

Firefox — https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/ark-no ... mal-sound/

Safari — https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759719001

It's open to feedback — if something doesn't work right or you have ideas, let me know!

I mused about this possibility with my play group and tried playing YouTube videos for some animals, especially if they were unfamiliar. There are some good songs there too such as "The animals went in two by two..." I shall now try your mod -- thanks for making it.

Two questions though:

1. Does this cover the Marine expansion? I guess not.

2. Which cards were omitted and why?

Thanks for trying it out!

1. Yes, Marine Worlds is covered. All 32 marine cards have sounds underwater bubbles, splashes, penguin calls, etc.
2. 6 cards without sounds -- Wombat, African Spurred Tortoise, Common Agama, Veiled Chameleon, European Pond Turtle, and Gould's Monitor. These either have no distinctive recognizable sound, or I couldn't find a clean audio sample (with a free license).

I'm planning to replace some sounds with cleaner versions and will try to find the missing ones as well.
Everyone who has the extension installed will get an update automatically.

If you have bubbles and splashes for underwater animals, why not have some leaf rustling, sand scratching, or whatever sound for other silent animals? Splashes would be good for the pond turtle too (especially that's often how you realize they were there: you hear them dropping into the water)

That's a really good point. Some sounds are shared between similar animals, and I didn't want to overuse that, so I left a few cards for later. I actually spent a lot of time listening to hours of animal recordings to find the right ones, haha.
Your idea about environmental sounds is spot on. I'll probably go with that approach, so the next update should cover all cards.

By the way, what do you think would make sense to add a sound library for Sponsor cards as well, with a separate toggle for that category?

I love this so much

hi, rly want it, but chrome says it unavailable? dont u know why?
unavailable even with VPN

try another browser. This is my first experience publishing extensions, so I cannot answer your question yet

This is great. How about a pouring coffee sound effect for the break!

Also blocking sound of snakes for those that block the snake images. Sounds for sponsors?