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Sheep Sheep Halloumi

By dining-philosopher, Mammoet and Hapiel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7493.68105
Fun8263.51106
Innovation6443.57104
Theme3894.06107
Graphics6683.99108
Audio7913.43104
Humor4203.58104
Mood9223.55102

Comments

phantom-lab 2020-04-21 12:49

Only got to 368, it gets so brutal so quickly! :D

tommeh 2020-04-21 13:27

Amazing art style. Keep it up.

arqcenick 2020-04-21 13:28

Good game, I love the minimalist sounds and graphics. The camera movement makes clicking too hard for me, still a fun game! :D

doomshmuck 2020-04-21 13:29

Very simple concept, executed nicely. It seemed somewhat tricky to actually click on the flowers, but not so much that it was a problem. Nice job!

nicso 2020-04-21 13:29

Loved the goat animation so much

Good job

edgelord 2020-04-21 13:30

This is awesome. One, simple mechanic is perfect for a gamejam game. Love the game.

dooleus 2020-04-21 13:30

Love the art!

dm2684 2020-04-21 13:31

Art is really cool!

joewolf 2020-04-21 13:31

One of the most infuriating games I've played... it's great! I think I enjoyed it...

elq 2020-04-21 13:32

The sheep animations were perfect. Loved the artstyle and simplistic game play.

bgamedev 2020-04-21 13:33

Interesting concept. Nice game.

ben-toosey 2020-04-21 13:33

I love the animations! And it gets difficult quickly, which I really like! Makes it easy to try again and beat your high score!

elmos-minion 2020-04-21 13:34

Got to 303, the isometric style is so cool. Great game!

kaappis 2020-04-21 13:34

Got 324. I really liked the artstyle!

sadsmile 2020-04-21 13:34

Cool game idea that looks cool. The sound effects made it a bit hard on the ears tho. But overall a nice entry

sockyman 2020-04-21 13:35

L like the art a lot and the premise of the game is unique. It was a lot of fun to play.

maximbegunov 2020-04-21 13:35

Visuals and animations are very pleasant. The only problems I had waere that it is sometimes hard to click the flowers when camera moves and sometimes bad flowers would spawn right next to me so I had no time to react.

fat-cat 2020-04-21 13:35

The sheep's face and eating animation gets humor points from me haha :D This is a pretty interesting mechanic and I like the artstyle, good job!

bbapps 2020-04-21 13:35

Really fun game. I love the art style

halberd 2020-04-21 13:36

Very nice art style and mechanics, but the music seemed to pan to the left channel and stay there? (On the HTML5 version).

also the lose screen seems a little dark for the theme haha, maybe something more cartoony would fit better.

linluk 2020-04-21 13:36

i love the graphics! its really fun to play, it gets very challenging very fast

mickgerritsen 2020-04-21 13:37

Polished game, well done! Impressive jam game. The game gets difficult very fast though and I need to constantly put my mouse outside of the game window because otherwise a flower gets black and then I can't see clearly if the flower under my cursor is a white or a red one. But those are the only points of critique I can think of. So that really means that this game concept is very well executed by you in this limited amount of time !

ziamor 2020-04-21 13:38

Love the isometric style! The animations are very nice!

andro 2020-04-21 13:38

Pretty good looking and fun game.

A few things to point out : 1. The beep sounds seem to be 3D sounds. This means that you'll start to only hear them in one of the headphones as you get further from the source 2. While the game doesn't have a lot of mechanics and is pretty intuitive, you should've at least included what the player should do(if there is one and I missed it, my bad)

Apart from this you've got a solid game

wolfrug 2020-04-21 13:38

241. Nice work, quick to get into. I think it would've been better to decouple camera & sheep (or let the player control the camera, e.g. with keyboard keys) as the erratic movement of the sheep made it harder than it needed to be. Very good looking though! Poor sheep.

walkalope 2020-04-21 13:39

The tiles for this game were delightful! Very cute sheep sprite and animations.

I was only able to get about this far: Annotation 2020-04-21 083647.jpg

Each time it seemed that the difficulty REALLY ramped up around there.

Well done on such a funny and charming game!

francisco-caal 2020-04-21 13:41

It's a fun game, the art style is really cool. The camera movement paired with the "dancing" poisonous flowers maake it a bit difficult to click on them

francisco-caal 2020-04-21 13:41

It's a fun game, the art style is really cool. The camera movement paired with the "dancing" poisonous flowers maake it a bit difficult to click on them

cannocchiale 2020-04-21 13:41

Funny game!! Loved the art and the design!!!

shayan-ebz78 2020-04-21 13:41

it looks pretty and it gets so hard so fast, fun game.

shadowcast 2020-04-21 13:42

+ Great art works & gameplay + Actually putting effort to writing a path finding algorithm + Cute ded goat pic - A little fuzzy on indicating which flower is selected. Would prefer stronger color. - Some flower sprites clipping through the map tiles on the upper right corner of the map. Not sure if you want the sheep to be able to go around the corner and get covered by the walls.

Overall nice and polished. GJ!

Got to 491. Didn't took long for me to start doing some hard flicks to get the red flowers xD

tatetate 2020-04-21 13:43

So cute! Really fun to play! Could definitely see myself pulling this up to de-stress when I have only a few minutes to play

marco-schneider 2020-04-21 13:43

Nice little game, fun to play.

louhunni 2020-04-21 13:43

It's a bit difficult to click the flowers when the camera jumps around quite a lot. Not sure if intentional? Very cute game though, both style and music, could probably play for hours! :D I agree with what someone else said about the 'lose' screen, it doesn't quite fit, but very good game for a gamejam :)

staircase27a 2020-04-21 13:44

Fun little game, however the camera movement makes clicking on anything very very hard. Maybe leave camera control to the player and they have to follow the sheep themselves.

desertmaw 2020-04-21 13:44

This is actually a really good game. It has the perfect amount of simplicity / minimalism and challenge. The Art (visually and musically) is nice and coherent.

despediteerik 2020-04-21 13:45

A cute little game! It was a bit hard to understand at first, I thought I had to command the sheep with the mouse or whatever, but it ended up being a nice game about restroying red flowers... until one spawns a few steps away and your sheep dies. The game over screen pushes it up a few points in the Humor category, it was unexpected to say the least. Great use of isometric perspective as well!

elendow 2020-04-21 13:46

At first I was "that's fine". But things escalated quickly. The game is fun and it becomes very challenging. The only thing is that my sheep kept going in circles on the same spot, but that was only in one run.

poupi 2020-04-21 13:48

293 , stupid sheep ... The camera movement is probably a bit too jerky, making the selection of bad flowers hard. Very fun arcade game !

roz 2020-04-21 13:48

375! :D I agree with the comment above, it's hard to click on plants, but i guess that's the point.

adsilcott 2020-04-21 13:49

Love the art and I get marble madness vibes from the background, which is great. Nice simple gameplay.

vignesh-raj 2020-04-21 13:50

Can't get past 321. You should try slowing down camera movement since it is hard to click on the plant with the goat running here and there. But great concept and great implementation.

steve-dragon 2020-04-21 13:51

The game is really fun to play. The music and graphics are really charming. The difficulty ramps up very quickly, and the challenge is really refreshing. Overall, a really solid game!

sunnray 2020-04-21 13:51

I enjoyed playing it, but it seems like it got really difficult really fast. The flowers are bit hard click too, bc they are small and moving. I loved the simplicity in the art style and music, it brought out a bit of the console feel.

kara 2020-04-21 13:52

Really fun to play, this is the best sheep animation I've ever seen!

I've played with headphones, the sound keep moving away from the screen. I think you used an "AudioStreamPlayer2D" where the simple "AudioStreamPlayer" would have done the job.

hiisileiri 2020-04-21 13:54

Very good concept and easy to play (while tutorial were missing). After 400 steps i really would need a some sort of grass cutter. As a matter of fact, i would like to there to be different levels and able to have the progress of the game process. Different missions would include more instances and tools (more sheep, fences & cutters, etc.) and the plants should visually grow up first, rather than just spawning into the random places (or even unrandomed, while the game mode is based on planting on poor nutrition biomes in the future buildups).

Anyway, even while *the shepherd were not included*, the game concept is very enjoyable and isometric sphere works well on this game! Really suitable concept for a successful mobile game!

zachary-rodrigue 2020-04-21 14:26

the isometric art is lovely despite the wierd face of the goats ;) and I love the animation on the flowers

miki-keyo 2020-04-21 14:29

Good art style, good animation. The gameplay is simple but solid, good work!

burg113 2020-04-21 14:36

Great art and animations good gameidea well polished. It was just a lot of fun to play.

finnthepirate 2020-04-21 15:02

wow very cute game and can be improved and turned into a mobile game , it was fun to play, good job

crispy-chicken 2020-04-21 18:55

Very Fun and quick game. The only problem is that the screen moves to much so I always miss where I click, but great game overall.

papaver 2020-04-21 21:07

Nice game, I enjoyed playing it! I like the cute isometric pixel art and I enjoyed how the flowers go with the beat of the nice music at the start. :smile:

I found that it was not that easy to pick the red flowers (papaver? :rose:), firstly since the sheep is in control of the camera, and secondly because I wanted to click on the flower head in stead of the square. Maybe it would be nice to visually help the players by highlighting the square that your cursor is on.

I would like to play it on a touch screen! But till then, my highscore:

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joaquim-2009 2020-04-22 06:50

What are the rules.

jozef 2020-04-22 13:55

Very cute graphics and animations! The music seems to behave like a spatial sound coming from the starting point so while wearing headphones when sheep runs away too far to the left or right I only it in one ear which gets a little annoying. Otherwise I really liked it though :)

silasadams 2020-04-22 20:29

This was great, clicking frantically to keep that sheep from eating those roses (or whatver the poison flowers are)! Super cute art, great audio, fun game! :)

dining-philosopher 2020-04-22 21:03

Wow, what an overwhelming number of ratings and comments! I wonder why, our Karma is not that good (yet). I imagine @hapiel is very pleased with the positive reactions to his art (graphics & music)!

Thanks for all the feedback, there are some bugs (like flowers staying black, undesired audio panning and incidental clipping) which would be easy to fix but are not game-breaking, so we'll leave them in. The camera movement is very deliberately following the sheep (we threw out the keyboard controls quite late) to make it a simple mouse-only game and as an (admittedly infuriating) mechanism to challenge the player.

The concept of the game actually changed a lot, especially in the last few hours. At first we wanted to create a "herding simulator" and then a puzzle game, but that did not feel very fun in the end. After turning up the speed for debugging we noticed that that actually made the game better - so we threw out the initial pathfinding, made the water non-lethal and in the last few hours turned it into a clicking-action game.

Did anyone find the easter egg we put in the game btw?

jamesolivermusic 2020-04-22 22:05

really beautiful artwork and very fitting audio. aside from what has already been mentioned above about the sound with headphones etc, there's nothing but good things to say about this. Well done :)

aroma 2020-04-23 11:05

Nice game! but the audios are little bit disappointing

cosmiccrystalgames 2020-04-23 11:26

Simple and fun arcade score chaser! Very clever use of the theme, really liked this one. The isometric art was very efficient and super charming. However one thing I'd like see improved is definitely the sfx. Nice background music, but the sound effects really drown it out and they become repititive/annoying very quickly. Other than that though, a very good job!

sheepycrunch 2020-04-23 11:55

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It's awesome! graphic, sound, concept... I'm disappointed there is no old man in game. And I think camera move is too fit to sheep, it makes game more difficult. Although it's enjoyable!

primalshadow 2020-04-23 15:19

The artwork in this is amazing!

microchasm 2020-04-23 16:02

This is a great idea for an LD game. It's simple but fun. The only thing I want is more feedback when I click, some kind of nice crisp sound and particle effect would make the game feel better. Nice Marble Madness aesthetic.

shinlalala 2020-04-23 18:13

Very simple concept, but nicely done. Great animation too. I'd just criticize the camera bouncing around with the sheep kinda made me sick.

kunonooni 2020-04-25 01:58

What a cute and fuzzy game! The graphics were well done, and the mechanics were simple yet effective. The music fit the light and airy mood of the game. Well done!

zanthous 2020-04-25 19:47

A couple issues, the music is in 3d space so if the camera moves away it's only playing in one ear, additionally my sheep's pathing got stuck and ran back and forth until it diedsheep.PNG

lex 2020-04-25 23:52

Great submission!

savvu 2020-04-28 16:23

Such a great pixel art! The idea is awesome and I had a real fun time playing. You could add even more flowers in different colors and variations each giving more points! Overall an excellent entry!

marcusnystrand 2020-04-28 17:22

I got to 251 steps. Pretty fun and good looking game, well done!

flynn 2020-05-07 23:30

Very interesting click game. Maybe add a bit of variation along with the game progress will be even better.

johnnysix 2020-05-08 23:56

This was hilarious. Loved the sheep animations and the isometric style. Definitely would be cool if you did more levels / published for mobile. The flowers felt a bit off when clicking, dunno if it was the underlying 'squre' or the flower itself I had to click.

Also, there was directional sound for the music haha, dunno if that was intentional? I thought my headphones were broken/ not plugged in properly until the sheep went centre on the map again.