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No Country for Troll Men

By aberdeenphoenix

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness285
Theme1163.96
Mood2283.35
Overall2573.41
Fun2663.32
Humor3153.05
Audio3183.05
Innovation3543.18
Graphics5682.89

Comments

raspadsistema 2015-08-24 02:50

Love the GTA1 feel, and how daynight cycle is important part of game, but player often dies from sunlight even tho he is in shelter, probably standing on wrong pixel, would be great if you fix that and add more fences and maybe a bridge to troll.

thx4nothing 2015-08-24 07:16

I died after 9 days and ate 115 sheeps :D
It was fun playing this game^^

jod 2015-08-24 19:06

I ate 78 sheep, broke 16 fences, defended myself against 13 soldiers and mistook 5 villagers for sheep.

Loved the growth in each level! Slowly there are more houses and more soldiers. Very well done!

I had fun!

mrsylar59 2015-08-24 20:09

It's a very good game! congratulations ^^

guru-guru 2015-08-24 20:57

Died on day 9. Neat

ithildin 2015-08-24 22:03

Nice take on the theme! Gameplay was simple yet effective and both mechanics and controls felt pretty smooth.

Great job!!

P.S: I died from sun exposure T_T

gigaraptor 2015-08-25 00:09

I like the graphical style and action, however I feel the controls could be improved a little.

aberdeenphoenix 2015-08-25 01:05

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I'm going to go play all of your games.

justinooncx 2015-08-25 04:17

Pretty fun game overall! However, on Day 11, I finished the level, and was promptly told I died. Is that a bug, or does the game end at Day 11?

warxen 2015-08-25 14:33

Nice little game, good controls, good feedback, altough I was stuck at the start because it wasn't clear for me if I could cross the river. I discovered that you can cross the river by going over dark parts. While the other way around makes more sense, darker = deeper.

peterkirk 2015-08-25 14:42

It was nice when they started putting up fences. Made it easier to eat sheep without spear men poking me.

aberdeenphoenix 2015-08-25 16:16

Justin - darn! I was hoping no one would be able to beat level 11. Yeah, the game ends there because I didn't have time to make more levels.

Warxen - you're absolutely right about that. Didn't occur to me until after I had submitted, though.

local-minimum 2015-08-25 17:00

It took me one try to figure out I needed to fill up hunger completely. The thing with hunger going up when eating was confusing in general. I so wanted to eat a villager, but never managed, but playing was kind of fun. It was interesting how humans made it easier to find food, yet more dangerous. I didn't really understand how the defense worked, if there was some way to be smart about it or if you just had to take some damage each encounter. Nice game though.

x70x 2015-08-25 17:22

Really solid little game. Only took me a few seconds to get the basic premise which is great.

chadivision 2015-08-25 22:32

I find that most games do not have NEARLY enough bloody sheep carcasses, but this game did not disappoint!

Seriously though, I really enjoyed this one. The music set the mood well, and the graphics are nice. I thought it was pretty well balanced also. The first couple tries took me almost exactly one day to get 10 sheep.

This only suggestion I would make is to make the river crossing graphics stand out a bit more. At first I was confused by why I could cross the water in one place and not in another.

Nice work.

minionstudios 2015-08-26 04:03

Haha nice! This is a really fun game! I got 39 14 11 10. Good job!

dsoft20 2015-08-26 07:58

It's very nice and plays well, simple & entertaining mechanics

bitdecaygames 2015-08-26 15:05

I like the game progression of difficulty. And the title made me laugh.

orion_black 2015-08-27 02:32

It'd be interesting if you had to manage different stats(aside from hunger and health) and the humans put a bit more resistance.

flygamer101 2015-08-28 12:21

Really cool graphics. Loved it :D

bombjack 2015-09-02 16:11

fun little game with an original gameplay. Graphics could be improved. god job anyway :)

bombjack 2015-09-02 16:13

forgot to mention that I liked the title a lot :)))

flaid 2015-09-08 02:12

I really liked this game! Even though it was a web game, while in full screen mode it felt like it was running from my desktop.

The controls were pretty fluid, although I found myself getting stuck on some of the fence edges. I think I managed to survive for 10 days before there were a TON of guys with spears that kicked my butt.

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-08 21:17

Cool game! I included it in part 22 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/CgBnxdy5Yfk

anglerteamgames 2015-09-10 17:01

I really like the idea, but I started on a corner island with 6 sheep, no fences, no bridges, and no idea how to do anything else! Would have liked to have seen the rest of the gameplay.

aberdeenphoenix 2015-09-11 13:18

Thanks, Jupiter_Hadley! I appreciate it!

aberdeenphoenix 2015-09-11 13:19

Anglerteam, you can cross the rivers at the dark parts!

blackquiltro 2015-09-11 20:10

Liked it a lot!
Loved the progression of the levels and the difficulty curve.
Graphics are good, but background could use more variety.
Had a lout of fun. Very good game!

mase 2015-09-11 20:12

Nice title.
I survived 10 days… bit of a difficulty spike there :D

It was fun seeing the human settlement become more elaborate.
I enjoyed the audio; the ambient background music was complimented nicely by the abrasive sound effects.

The controls/collisions could use a bit of tuning.
The fords could be clearer as well… maybe some little rocks would make them more readable.

kugrou 2015-09-12 02:44

Fun game, and I really liked the progression between levels.

This might of been from how the game ran in my browser, but I found the soldiers fairly slow and easy to outmaneuver, so I was able to beat level 11 without killing any of them.