Save the Sheep by Laien Pathfinder

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made by Laien Pathfinder for LD 43 (JAM)

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.

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

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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🗨️

Feedback

ElderDeveloper
04. Dec 2018 · 00:33 UTC
Interesting idea but the sacrifice doesn't do much I guess it scares the wolf but it only does loose 1 instead of 2
Brandio
04. Dec 2018 · 00:50 UTC
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.
JustWall Games
04. Dec 2018 · 01:05 UTC
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!
Sauili
06. Dec 2018 · 02:13 UTC
I like the game, but it wasn't so challenging. The music fits well with the game tho :)
DeXP
09. Dec 2018 · 15:22 UTC
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.
Quasar47
09. Dec 2018 · 16:15 UTC
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!
rhewid
09. Dec 2018 · 16:32 UTC
I liked the game, but found it a little bit too easy.
Pedro Rosa
09. Dec 2018 · 16:38 UTC
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.
Doey
09. Dec 2018 · 16:40 UTC
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.
Carbonara
09. Dec 2018 · 16:51 UTC
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.
TheCrittersCove
09. Dec 2018 · 18:06 UTC
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.
GettingRekt
13. Dec 2018 · 20:05 UTC
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!
YYZ
13. Dec 2018 · 21:13 UTC
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.
shubart
13. Dec 2018 · 21:56 UTC
good idea. Simple but nice nice graphisms
wowbagger
14. Dec 2018 · 01:14 UTC
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.
aurel
14. Dec 2018 · 18:58 UTC
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.
Pompi Pompi
15. Dec 2018 · 11:01 UTC
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.
huf0001
18. Dec 2018 · 03:49 UTC
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.