bcollins0000 2022-10-03 14:51
Love the concept, and everything feels smooth. A second mechanic would keep the game more interesting, maybe the ability to push the rain back somehow?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → The Flock and the Flood
By vgel and Linnea Isaac
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 227 | 3.86 | 28 | |
| Fun | 466 | 3.51 | 28 | |
| Innovation | 52 | 4.13 | 28 | |
| Theme | 123 | 4.19 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 362 | 3.92 | 28 | |
| Audio | 256 | 3.69 | 28 | |
| Mood | 44 | 4.28 | 28 |
Love the concept, and everything feels smooth. A second mechanic would keep the game more interesting, maybe the ability to push the rain back somehow?
I really liked the athmosphere in this game! Something about the combination of art style, rain and music is just very calming. It is also pleasing to watch your flock grow.
Something I found a bit confusing were the controls. They were pretty standard top down mouse controls but it was quite annoying that all actions also place a rally flag for sheep. So even if I rotate and zoom the view, the flag gets placed and sheep move somewhere I did not intend them to move. I would only allow placing the flag with left or right click and dedicate other mouse buttons to camera controls.
But overall, a simple but solid (and relaxing!) jam game! Good work!
The aesthetics here are great, extremely simple but very relaxing to play. I wish the rain sound effect was a bit louder as it adds a lot of atmosphere.
Devastated! I had 60 sheep and got greedy trying to eat a dark green patch by the water, the rain came in and I lost more than half. A fun game, though! Quite calming, especially with the music.
Everything felt like it belonged together and felt relaxing, I got to 60 sheep. I think it would be nice if right click only moved the camera and didn't make the sheep move.
Had a lot of fun with this . rising sea levels was a cool mechanic . Sad to see the heard go. good music!
Very vibey! Super duper technically impressive, at first the graphics didn't seem very good but I started to like them later on, nice job!
I was soo sad to lose all my sheeps 😥
absolutely beautiful, everything runs smoothly, it's great to play and to look at the only issue i found is when i move the camera while my mouse is on the land, it makes the camera AND the sheep move
A very soothing game, nice and intuitive.
Best I got was just a touch more than 60 sheet. I really enjoyed leading them around the island, though the lack of smart pathfinding got in the way a bit. I also found myself wanting to "split the flock" quite often, for no real reason I suspect. The little pixel sheepies against the low poly terrain were really cute too! Good job!
Very good concept! I loved playing the it. The game has a great atmosphere.
the best game concept I really get in the jam!
What a calm and soothing little island. It's so pretty. I got 45 sheep on first try, 61 on second try, 62, then peaked at 77. I wish the last 3 cycles weren't just me watching my sheep die without anything I could do. I wish I could have gotten more parts of the temple built but I didn't figure out the strategy I guess. Thank you for the game!
I enjoyed the game. The general atmosphere is great and gameplay felt smooth. I liked just watching the sheep find paths to their destinations. Game length felt perfect and the challenge on point. Thanks for the game!
I really love this game. Cool idea. Low poly art, calming music and rain sounds are great!
Very good game here. Cool graphics and sounds, very easy and intuitive gameplay, all with the mouse and one click. Fun to play and cool map generation. Well done!
Wow! I loved this! Creative take on the theme. This game is strangely relaxing and terrifying at the same time. It reminds me of coastal communities that are threatened by rising sea levels and climate change(like Tangier island in the USA). Love the art, music and mood as well. Congratulations!
Lovely, chill game. My only gripe is that the "lame duck" period arrives long before the actual end - there's no patches of grass on the peak, so when the flood reaches that point, there really isn't much you can do other than wait for death! ^_^;
Might I recommend one control tweak, by the way? There should be an option to move the camera with WASD as well as the mouse.
I like the animation when the water level rises. Really great idea