Save the Sheep by Laien Pathfinder
Story:
You have a long journey ahead of you, Shepard! Bring your sheep safely to their homes. Beware of the wolves coming to you from this mysterious forest. Your dogs will protect your sheep if placed between the sheep and the wolf. If you are overrun by wolves, you can SACRIFICE a sheep to distract them.


Controls: - Right click to move - Left click / drag to select sheeps / dogs / player

Tools used: - Visual Studio 2017 - C#, XNA - Aseprite - Gimp 2.0 - FL Studio 12 - sfxr
Known bugs - Sometimes sheep die randomly - Music volume doesn't reset more than one time
Credits: - Graphics by Nicolas Fischer - Programming & Audio by Leon Steinbach
Ratings
| Overall | 740th | 3.152⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 920th | 2.636⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 627th | 3⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 632th | 3.288⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 635th | 3.288⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 376th | 3.288⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 788th | 2.258⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 525th | 3.303⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 55🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
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 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.
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.
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.
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.