elderdeveloper 2018-12-04 00:33
Interesting idea but the sacrifice doesn't do much I guess it scares the wolf but it only does loose 1 instead of 2
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Save the Sheep
By laien-pathfinder and Nicarden
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 740 | 3.15 | 35 | |
| Fun | 920 | 2.63 | 35 | |
| Innovation | 627 | 3.00 | 35 | |
| Theme | 632 | 3.28 | 35 | |
| Graphics | 635 | 3.28 | 35 | |
| Audio | 376 | 3.28 | 35 | |
| Humor | 788 | 2.25 | 33 | |
| Mood | 525 | 3.30 | 35 |
Interesting idea but the sacrifice doesn't do much I guess it scares the wolf but it only does loose 1 instead of 2
Game felt pretty polish for the most part. If you had more time I would make art for the finish line. The checkered pattern wasn't that exciting. I enjoyed the audio and art. Sometimes I had a hard time selecting the unit I wanted because they would clump together.
Cool game and idea - I truelove felt connected to the little sheep and was sad when they died! I made it to the End. Good Stuff!
I like the game, but it wasn't so challenging. The music fits well with the game tho :)
Nice game! Especially I liked the art: it's kinda pixelate but balanced on the same time. The gameplay is nice too, I really wanted to protect my sheeps! The weak side is a soundtrack, it's too repetitive.
A bit hard to control. You need to drag your mouse over all entities you want to move, then right click on them and only then drag them to their new location. I think it would have been easier if the sheeps followed you automatically and you had only the dogs to place correctly. This way, progress would have been faster and less tedious.
With that said, the atmosphere is quite peaceful, and the core gameplay in itself is interesting. A bit short, but in 72 hours, hard to not make trade-offs, right ? Good job for what you've done, guys!
I liked the game, but found it a little bit too easy.
It is a simple game that works well with the theme. We graphics are cool and the sound adds a lot to the atmosphere of the game. I found it a bit too easy for me. Once I understood how to move the group all together I had no problems winning the game.
While it did feel a little too short (and relatively easy?), the atmosphere was a killer! The game looked and felt amazing, really great job.
Nice game here, I like the rts tutorial concept (I give you this troup, go here).
I had some troubles on the selection because you pass maybe to easily from the single selection mode to the window selection mode, a limit between those can be a good idea (dont print the window before it get a minimum size maybe?).
When you select something the previous selection count to, which is a bit annoying without pressing any additional key like shift.
The sound design works pretty well and give to the player the necessary feedbacks and the graphics works. Maybe more challenges can be a good idea, like triggering the wolf barking on a key with a cooldown or something?
Nice job guys, realy enjoyed this rts like game.
I like the graphics and the mood set by the music. While it's a very functional game the controls are very clumsy. As someone else mentioned, it would be nice if the sheep would automatically follow the shepherd to some degree.
Great atmosphere in this game, the music was a banger and giving all units responses gave them personality. While it wasn't very difficult it did show some nice ground work for a game with more levels. Good job!
A simple and cool looking game! I liked that the sheep and the man and dog have different movement speeds, forcing the player to slow down. I think one improvement would be the sacrifice mechanic. I personally feel it didn't have a huge impact and wasn't really motivated to use it as I led the entire group to the finish line without using it. Nevertheless, it's a great game and keep making games! Oh, I also loved the addition of sounds which adds to the atmosphere. :) Oh another nice touch is the click and drag to select all the units. It's definitely so much better with it than selecting one by one manually. I appreciate the nice quality of life thought put into the design.
good idea. Simple but nice nice graphisms
Liked the graphics, sheep sounds made me laugh. would have been nice to have some hotkeys. Felt difficult to control the units. At one point my dog got off the screen and I guess I needed him to get to the finish line so I lost.
Nice to see an XNA game, pretty rare for LD and a game featuring fellow adorable animals :)
I had to sacrifice my sheep once but it didn't feel like it did too much so I never did it after that. Nice art style by the way.
Excellent game! I only had issue with the controls, but the concept is brilliant. The issues with the control is that it's not easy to select the dog, sometime it selects the shepherd instead, Also, the trees block a lot of your view and it makes it hard to control. Also I would like the dog to someone go in the pace of the sheep. And right clicking doesn't always work with the dog.
Neat game, wish the sacrificing aspect was more central to the game rather than something you did as a last resort. Awesome graphics and audio, really evocative of the mood you wanted.