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Some Seriously Screwed Sheep by PixelFormedStudios

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made by PixelFormedStudios for LD 40 (COMPO)

Have you ever wanted your own herd of sheep? Too bad! Now you have one!

Manage your very own herd of sheep, keeping them alive to keep expanding your sheep population. But beware, as great danger lies ahead! Who would possibly want to harm a sheep? Play for yourself and find out.

Collect BaaaBucks (pun is very much intended and regretted) to buy more sheep and ensure all of your herd stay alive. Protect them from threats, stopping them from dying. The more sheep you have... the more intense the game becomes!

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Controls: Only your mouse is needed, no fancy keys or gamepads. Your herd will automatically follow your mouse, and you can use left click and hold to make your herd run faster towards the mouse.

NOTE: The executable version is much more stable and of better quality. The HTML version has poor sound, poor texture loading, the absence of particles, end game glitches and some methods for randomizing lists and collision checking are different in javascript. I strongly advise playing the executable version.

Windows https://pixelformedstudios.itch.io/some-seriously-screwed-sheep
Windows https://gamejolt.com/games/ssss/301543
HTML5 (web) https://gamejolt.com/games/ssss/301543
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/some-seriously-screwed-sheep

Ratings

Overall 196th 3.63⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Fun 212th 3.537⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 178th 3.509⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Theme 169th 3.796⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 195th 3.667⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Audio 178th 3.38⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Humor 84th 3.602⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Mood 182th 3.396⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Given 63🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

Adrien Dittrick
04. Dec 2017 · 12:36 UTC
I reached 75 sheep and then the ark showed up and I had 6 X)
MachoCodes
05. Dec 2017 · 16:34 UTC
Great game I had a good time playing it
drzanuff
05. Dec 2017 · 16:37 UTC
Cool idea. I found a bug, when i lost the game, when i clicked the game to play again i starter with just one bucket and no sheeps.
Logicon211
05. Dec 2017 · 16:41 UTC
Neat little game. I didn't quite get the point in buying more sheep though, since it wasn't required to progress or anything. I enjoyed the pixel art though, it looks very nice.
Amatwiedle
05. Dec 2017 · 16:43 UTC
I always managed to spend all my coins right before a freeze came and killed my entire herd, great game!
Poorwill
05. Dec 2017 · 16:48 UTC
It's pretty but the coins don't reset after starting a new game.
Gal
05. Dec 2017 · 17:14 UTC
Really enjoyd playing your game.
Good job.
Reached 32 sheep.
PoshDan
05. Dec 2017 · 22:26 UTC
Good fun! I wasn't exactly sure about the cause for the "red" death. I figured it might have been overheating from having too many sheep in a bunch but it didn't feel consistent enough.
🎤 PixelFormedStudios
05. Dec 2017 · 22:49 UTC
@poshdan Sorry about that being a little vague. That occurs randomly when a sheep mutates and inherits a virus, killing it.
farofa0
06. Dec 2017 · 16:44 UTC
I took some time to figure out where I need to click to start the game. And the game does not reset properly. But apart from that, it's a very fun and beautiful game. Good job!
Bonelazy
06. Dec 2017 · 16:45 UTC
Good graphics and good topic, but the game balance was very flawed. Sometimes I had no coins spawn at all, and sometimes it rained, but even though I lost not much sheep (probably around 40), I never had 160 coins in total to reach 80 sheep. I struggled around 25 always, and as I said, I got 100 coins at most in the whole duration of the game. And even though I ended with 30 sheep, it said I saved 80 sheep and gave me a reward. Also, the game needs to be much much shorter as it was mostly waiting for something to happen.

Don't let my whole paragraph of feedback fool you, I very much enjoyed the game overall, but it had its flaws in the balance aspect. Maybe you can tweak some values (coin spawns, game duration etc.) so it will be much more enjoyable in the end. Good job :)
Bonelazy
06. Dec 2017 · 16:45 UTC
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🎤 PixelFormedStudios
06. Dec 2017 · 17:51 UTC
@bonelazy very sorry for that, in the most recent build I forgot to turn off debug mode which doesn't set a limit for how many sheep you need and reduces coin spawning. All should be fixed now, thank you for telling me this :)
Rankaquion
06. Dec 2017 · 17:56 UTC
i wasn't able to play, (bug maybe?) but it seems that the game is great
SlavicGames
06. Dec 2017 · 18:12 UTC
It looks like your sheep game is better than my sheep game :)
🎤 PixelFormedStudios
06. Dec 2017 · 18:28 UTC
@rankaquion What message do you get when trying to launch?

@slavicgames I really liked your game, really good concept!
Pablo Abraham
06. Dec 2017 · 19:49 UTC
Art was very cool, and you can see that you gave a good attention to the details of the game, congratulations.

I just loved this game, very cool!
TurbulentWinds
07. Dec 2017 · 23:00 UTC
I am a sucker for a good sheep game, and this is better than 99% of sheep games on iOS. This is nice, I want to see a full version get released.
Brainoid
08. Dec 2017 · 10:43 UTC
I had issues when restarting the game so it was difficult to enjoy the learning curve, other than that it's an amazing game!
Bartosz
08. Dec 2017 · 15:26 UTC
It didn't load for me via HTML5 version at all - it get stuck on "Loading" animation.

Pixelart from screenshots looks amazing though and i'll do exception and will download win desktop version when i'll have oportunity for sure!

For now you can check out our **Voxel Mob Arena** here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/voxel-mob-arena
jaimuepe
09. Dec 2017 · 16:53 UTC
Loved the graphics, gameplay and music. The game was too unfair sometimes, like the fact that the coin drop was very random (i got stuck at 35 sheeps because they weren't producing a single coin...). I also enjoyed the events in the game, were also unfair in some situations but were part of the theme and difficulty of the game.
Good job! Solid game overall.
The Triumvirate
09. Dec 2017 · 17:21 UTC
I really like the idea and the adorable graphics, but the background music is only playing on the left ear :ear:.
citsua
09. Dec 2017 · 17:58 UTC
Really great game! My only complaint is that I finished it with 49 sheep. I feel bad.
MestreRothLD
09. Dec 2017 · 21:36 UTC
This must be one of the best games I played on this LD. The graphics are really amazing.

What I'd like to see different:
- The "winter" screen is too bright! It got immediatelly annoying.
- An endless mode, with increasing difficulty, a la Don't Starve?
- Leaderboards.
- I didn't really understand the theme use, apart from the mutating sheep mechanic.

Congrats, a lot! It is a really great entry and you'll probably get a very high position with it.
pndaa
09. Dec 2017 · 21:48 UTC
It take me some times to find the start button (i did the tutorial 4 times, good jokes on it btw).
The game in itself is pretty good. I manage to get like 40 sheeps. But don't get really why I lost almost all of them (they turn green :(). Good game overall.
Honest Dan
09. Dec 2017 · 21:59 UTC
Really liked this, and played a bunch of herding games! great humour, and genuinely found it harder to have control over the sheep the more I had - and that was for realistic reasons too not some glitchy physics. Loved the theme and humour - made a fun game to play on stream :)
nax_89
11. Dec 2017 · 19:06 UTC
Nice Idea, and a has a lot of humor, Im gonna try the executable version now. Good job!
gnihad
13. Dec 2017 · 23:19 UTC
Well done on the theme interpretation. Aren't sheep just the best? ;)

Not really sure if I can do anything to increase the coin spawn rate at all or if moving the herd around when nothing else is going on has any effect.

I like that you found the time to even put in a quite humorous tutorial.

Expressive pixel graphics, tasteful sound effects. Nicely done game overall.
Jupiter_Hadley
14. Dec 2017 · 16:38 UTC
Nice graphics, interesting game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKeEenFsX-8
DDRKirbyISQ
21. Dec 2017 · 18:13 UTC
Damn sheep virus screwed me over at the end! xD nooooo
Billeclipse
24. Dec 2017 · 16:38 UTC
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Really fun game :D I also got really close but still couldn't do it... :P
AdroitConceptions
24. Dec 2017 · 19:59 UTC
so....

* seems that the sheep stop dropping coins about 1/2 way through... so my herd would only decrease
* wolves seem like automatic sheep loss (couldn't figure out any way to keep them from getting a sheep)
profan
26. Dec 2017 · 02:11 UTC
Solid game, it would be interesting to see the sickness part of having sheep interact with the herd in some way, i.e if a sheep died from sickness, maybe having the blood look slightly different (and it make the sheep which walk on it sick slowly as well) would be interesting, because otherwise it only feels like some random death mechanic :)

I would agree in the balance aspect it often felt almost completely random, so actually reaching the goal didn't feel so much a product of your own effort so much as ... pure luck, but my criticism aside, I thought as a whole, this entry was magnificent and made me sad I didn't have any audio in my own entry :D

Great work!
🎤 PixelFormedStudios
26. Dec 2017 · 16:04 UTC
@profan thanks for the feedback, very helpful. When testing out the mechanics I made other sheep around the diseased sheep also explode, but this caused too much death at a later stage, so I dialled it back to one other sheep dying. Thanks for playing and rating!
devmax
26. Dec 2017 · 22:05 UTC
One of my favorite games this LD! I actually thought once you reach 50 sheep the game's won but I was wrong...I saved my coin and once I had enough to get 45 sheep I did but then had like a minute left on the timer, then the winter came...
loveapplegames
27. Dec 2017 · 19:31 UTC
A fun game, perhaps took too long to complete. Not clear to me what the purpose of the ark was, overall a very nice effort!