The grass is always greener in the sky by nopogo

made by nopogo for LD 40 (JAM)

This game was made by two people over the span of two days.

You control sky farmers in their quest to make big bucks sheering sheep way up in the clouds. But fences are a luxury and of course totally unnecessary.

Sadly the webgl version is bugging out due to a physics bug. Hence we only have a windows build available.

Things we've planned but didn't implement due to time constraints: - sheep dogs - seasons - feeding the sheep hay

The tools used were: - Unity - Photoshop - Audacity - MagickaVoxel

Controls: - Rightclick a farmer to select it - Default leftclick is walk, change the leftclick in the farmer popup menu to grab a sheep, or send the farmer on a patrol - Deliver the sheep to the barn to sheer it.

Programming by Thijs

Graphics by Cenna

Audio curtsy of Freesounds.org.

Windows	http://popogames.net/Demos/skyfarm_pc_x86.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-grass-is-always-greener-in-the-sky

Ratings

Given

9🗳️

10🗨️

Feedback

Jakers

05. Dec 2017 · 10:32 UTC

Pleasant theme and the audio sounds quite nice, but I'm not really sure how it ties into the theme. After shearing 3 sheep, I wasn't really sure where to go from there.

A good effort, though!

Decipator

05. Dec 2017 · 10:40 UTC

I've played for about 15 minutes and enjoyed it. But after I bought all money in sheeps and they do never grow the pelt again, I've decided to stop. So I felt that the game was promising, despite a bit of frustration on the commands on the start, until passed 5 minutes and I couldn't buy any sheeps nor cut their pelt. I feel that the game can be more fast, rushing the player to make every thing work.

Beebo Studios

05. Dec 2017 · 10:44 UTC

Style and ambiente are very great and sounds fit nicely. The gameplay is missing some goals.

GoldRanger

05. Dec 2017 · 10:55 UTC

Cool casual game and nice grahics style! Feeling relax during the game time.

If there are some hints for what I am clicking on / the farmers can directly pick up a sheep by one clicking, that will be more comfortable to play with.
Seems the sheep can't grow their wool back? That will be sad.
BTW nice name of your game, sounds like a beautiful poem :D

🎤 nopogo

05. Dec 2017 · 15:28 UTC

Thanks for the feedback everyone :), I've fixed the regrowing of wool bug. Sadly there wasn't really time to add more agency to the game. The idea was to have maintenance costs on your farm so the goal would become to make enough money to pay your bills by the end of each season. But due to time constraints that had to be cut from development.

Don Fouts

05. Dec 2017 · 18:28 UTC

I like the idea of the game, however with now way to lose the game moves it away from the theme a little bit. I didn't see any downfalls for having too many farmers or sheep. Would be neat if the sheep could walk off the ledge, it would make having too many of them hard!

🎤 nopogo

06. Dec 2017 · 16:26 UTC

The sheep can walk over the ledge though :) Whats missing right now is an incentive to actually make money. The plan was to have a papers please style system were you have bill to pay or its game over. However there wasn't enough time to implement such a system

FrozenCow

06. Dec 2017 · 19:58 UTC

Very nice style and looks. Especially the clouds and flowing water add quite a lot. I shaved some of the sheep and killed one or two in the process. Bought a few workers, but micromanaging it all became a bit of a burden.

... adding MagickaVoxel to toolbelt