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Little Sheep

By alex-k

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness374
Mood723.21
Audio993.08
Theme1013.12
Humor1072.50
Graphics1273.27
Overall1323.00
Innovation1372.85
Fun1722.56

Comments

kutuup1989 2012-04-23 23:38

I can't find an executable in the folder :(

alex-k 2012-04-24 08:43

I forgot to put a readme file in the archive, thanks for the notice!
You have to launch littleSheep.jar to start the game

evilseanbot 2012-04-24 12:13

I really dig the spooky fable vibe. The third planet ran dog slow for some reason.

davedobson 2012-04-26 17:46

Neat game - but I had trouble figuring out what to do. Very whimsical; using the platformer format for an artsy fable-style story is a cool idea, and I like the way you used the planet theme.

tlaine 2012-04-28 15:37

I agree with Dave in all aspects. My sheep got stuck in the roof of the bunny cave though, that wasn't cool :/

refreshcreations 2012-04-29 12:45

Nice, restful game, glad I explored to find the extra bits. Music and sfx add to the general flow of the game. Nice ending also, yay!

sanguine 2012-04-29 12:46

Played it and liked it, a bit short though

sfbtom 2012-04-30 14:10

I really really enjoyed this game, thanks so much for making it!

jeffalisk 2012-04-30 18:12

Nice atmosphere in this! As others have said, something very restful about it.

ragnister 2012-04-30 18:30

I was liking, but like tlaine, my sheep got stuck in the roof of the rabbit's cave!!!

triplevisiongames 2012-04-30 18:54

Hi I really like the graphics they're really cute and the world is laid out nicely.

andrew-2 2012-04-30 19:58

For some odd reason the game was really laggy on my machine, but I assume that's my laptop's fault. It was a cute and clever little game.

chriswhitman 2012-04-30 20:45

I also suffered from the ceiling bug. Cute little game, and the music was nice. Bounding boxes seemed a little mis-sized, which made some of the jumping a little tricky. The conversation system could use some visual/usability improvements, but it's nice to see an LD game with a little more narrative.

jezzamon 2012-05-01 08:49

Oh no! When I tried to run it on my mac, it didn't work! I got this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1758)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1045)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:95)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:112)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:135)
at org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer$1.run(AppGameContainer.java:39)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer.<clinit>(AppGameContainer.java:36)
at test6.LD23Main.main(LD23Main.java:55)


...does that mean I have to download LWGJL to run it? If so, that's a bit annoying.

blackbulletiv 2012-05-01 08:56

Quite short, but interesting. I did like the peaceful chiptune music in the background.

There were some issues with the conversations; for example, when we'd migrated the bird indicating we were still migrating when I asked where we were going.

Finally, there's a typo in the main screen. It says "press espace to interact;" I thought it meant escape at first.

alex-k 2012-05-01 11:22

@Jezzamon Thanks for the bug report! You should not have to download anything to run the game, I'll try to look into it!

@BlackBulletIV Thanks also, I did not realize that! I'll correct it in the post-compo version soon

ryana 2012-05-01 12:24

super cute

dainvadda 2012-05-01 12:29

It does not seam to work for me (Mac OS X 10.7.3)

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: //littleSheep/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ..littleSheep.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

beerman 2012-05-01 12:49

Very nice. Really chilled out and relaxing, the way the night/day transitions follow you around the planets was really effective :)

jeffz 2012-05-01 14:09

novel idea, nice little story.

netmute 2012-05-01 18:58

Crashes on Mac OSX :(

moonkid 2012-05-02 10:57

Adelaide?

cantorfew 2012-05-02 20:22

I also got Jezzamon's error at first. I think its because java doesn't add lib to its classpath by default. I tried copying the base littleSheep.jar to lib and running it from there but got a different error now.

I'm not well versed in java but will be back if I figure out how to make it work (I'm on Linux). Leaving this unrated for now.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/newdawn/slick/state/StateBasedGame
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.newdawn.slick.state.StateBasedGame
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
... 12 more

cantorfew 2012-05-02 21:01

I figured it out. There were some .so files in lib/native/linux. So running

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib/native/linux

before the usual

java -jar littleSheep.jar

worked. I'm assuming Mac users would need to somehow use/link to the files in lib/native/macosx/

I'm out of time now and will play and comment on the actual game at some later time.

cantorfew 2012-05-03 14:54

Nice atmosphere, though it was a bit short. I didn't find anything on the second planet (but I assume I'm supposed to?). So I only found two end states.

Also, the rabbit came with me even our conversation suggests that it would not (I don't know if this is a bug).

someone 2012-05-03 16:01

Interesting game.
You can also get it to work by defining java's library path:
java -Djava.library.path=./lib/native/linux/ -jar littleSheep.jar

alex-k 2012-05-06 15:58

The updated version should run on linux and MacOS without special manipulation. Thanks for the bug reports!

nehmulos 2012-05-06 17:57

This is amazing! The music, the atmosphere, especially the characters! Also some very nice graphics for the sun and a cool way the different planets feel (gravity, day/night shift aso.) I surely enjoyed it.

I'm on Linux and it didn't run using the graphical (open)java launcher but it worked by starting it from comandline with:

java -jar littleSheep.jar

(using openjdk java)

jfroco 2012-05-06 18:25

Not my kind of game, sorry :( but it looks great and have a nice music.

free_napalm 2012-05-06 18:31

Great mood in this one, every planet was different in its own way, so I was quite excited where I'd float next.
More events would have been nice though.

datw 2012-05-06 19:39

Pretty Graphics & Sound, they made up to a great "mood". The game itself isn't that much fun (well, at least for me), but besides that it is quite good :)

jedi 2012-05-07 10:47

Graphics, sound and mood are all really good. The gameplay, however, is almost nonexistent but almost in a good way. The lack of risk seems to fit the mood but at the end of the day it barely feels interactive.

caranha 2012-05-13 01:04

I really liked the sound effects, and the graphics are not bad either. The minimalistic planet + the spooky music made me expect something sinister to be going on in the background :-) Controls were nice too.

That said, for a "story" game, it feels a bit short in content -- suddently "your journey ends here!". Also, there are a few bugs in the script - the rabbit on the third planet told me he was not coming, but then he showed up in the sheep planet. Uh, ok.

hamburger 2012-05-13 21:51

Nice atmosphere :)

crhallberg 2012-05-13 22:23

Adorable! Nice concept, good exploration and maps.