The D&F game Essen 2005.
The Expansion is available Essen 2006.
Coproduced in English by Riogrande Games.

You might ask, "Hey, shouldn't you have done another evolution game?" Let me tell you, in times of christian religious fundamentalism, this is an evolutionary game. You might want to use it in the class in Tennessee.

What was the design principle of this game? Well, to give Doris as many nice animals to draw as possible!

Noah is tearing out his beard and the time-pressure is difficult. Clouds are gathering and the rain could come anytime. The weather forecast is not good. Meanwhile, animals are gathering before the ark.

Now, a handful of people are offering to help, but they look like gamblers and game players!

The animals slowly drag along and nothing can be said to speed them up. Fortunately, the helpers manage to keep the animals from attacking each other. And, now someone has cleverly stored 2 loads of grain with the Tyranno. His reasoning was that there was room AND the animal would not eat it as it is a meat-eater!

Now, if only the ark can be launched without capsizing......

New Essen 2006.

There were too many endangered species left and a few helping hands from fellow artists from ... so we put it out another deck of arround 20 potential inhabitants of the Ark topped with a rule quick reference card.

The helping Artists (in no special order) are:

Christoph Tisch, Harald Lieske, Viktor Boden, Oliver Freudenreich.

2011 July 15th: There is now also a Chinese edition of Franks Ark. They have also produced the Expansion immediately.

Due to repeated request: A picture of a little big fan of Doris artwork with a huge little Lemming.

New Essen 2012.

Another bunch of friendly species hoping you save them from extinction.