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Wolf Trouble by Bonelazy

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made by Bonelazy for LD 43 (JAM)

Wolf Trouble

A Survival Game

Hello everyone. After a brief absence, we (husband & wife) are back with our 4th Ludum Dare entry. We hope you enjoy our little game. Have fun :)

About LD43

This time, we wanted to make a game according to the theme, but still have some freedom if we felt like it. I think the resulting game has a good connection to theme, as the sheep sacrifice / management mechanics are central to your success in the game.

The theme "Sacrifices must be made" translates to sacrificing / selling your sheep in order to survive in our game. And believe me, you must if you want to win :)

Instructions

Every night, increasing number of wolves attack your ranch and you must survive the game for 10 nights in order to win. You can kill the wolves, or sacrifice your sheep to them (walk up to your sheep, press F to pick up, press F again to throw). Wolves are easily distracted by sheep and run away after eating their share. However, one sheep can distract and feed up to 3 wolves. While shooting your gun, beware of the crosshair size as it denotes your shot accuracy. You can fire very quick at the cost of accuracy, or take your time and be accurate.

During the day, you can prepare for the night to come. You can buy stuff from the shop, or manage your sheep. Each of your sheep generate steady income every day, but you can decide to sell your sheep for an instant income, or prefer to breed them to increase your sheep for upcoming days. If you breed them, they won't generate income that day.

Manage your sheep, sacrifice them if you must, but survive at all costs.

Notes

  • We created everything ourselves if not explicitly stated.
  • Blood effects are taken from Unity VFX pack.
  • Icons are from flaticons.com (citation incoming)
  • Sound effects are taken from various sources.
Windows https://bonelazy.itch.io/wolf_trouble
macOS https://bonelazy.itch.io/wolf_trouble
Linux https://bonelazy.itch.io/wolf_trouble
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/wolf-trouble

Ratings

Overall 256th 3.725⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 144th 3.775⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 555th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 381th 3.65⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 292th 3.95⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 671th 2.531⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Mood 169th 3.775⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

jk5000
10. Dec 2018 · 14:07 UTC
This is a pretty good little survival game. Both the graphics and the sound effects is really good, and this gives the game a scary and interesting atmosphere. Both the shooting mechanic and shopping could have worked better. But overall a fine LD game.
AFlatThrasher
17. Dec 2018 · 16:23 UTC
Would have liked a little more accurate shooting by default and a little slower difficulty curve at the beginning. Other than that, was a really fun game. Graphics were great.
tgiant
17. Dec 2018 · 16:31 UTC
Nice game. The UI was very good and the instructions of how to play was excellent.
I quickly knew how to play.
Graphics and art work was also very good.
Controls felt good.
Ommadawn
17. Dec 2018 · 16:33 UTC
Very good game. I don't understand why sometimes I can't pick a sheep tho... Still nice
picapica
17. Dec 2018 · 21:51 UTC
This was hard! I'm no sharpshooter... There were several nice details, like the breeding sheep with their hearts (and later lambs), and the spooky howling. One detail I missed was a quit-option so I wouldn't have to do it ny force.
sumathbrod
18. Dec 2018 · 10:38 UTC
I liked this game) Good graphics. Played nicely. But there were friezes on the MacBook. (maybe this is my problem)
Firesplash Entertainment
19. Dec 2018 · 18:44 UTC
I don't understand why people are adding a control input delay of about 0.5-1 second to such a game? it's hard to run away or to throw a sheep when you can't move in time.

But I liked the diea and enjoyed palytesting on twitch. Thanks for submitting!
🎤 Bonelazy
22. Dec 2018 · 08:40 UTC
Thanks for all the comments and feedback guys. Greatly appreciated.

@firesplash-entertainment I don't understand what you mean by input delay, since there is supposed to be none. Do you mean the fact that you can't act for a quarter of a second after taking a shot?
Izunah
29. Dec 2018 · 19:08 UTC
I thought the graphics and the idea of the game were great overall, however I highly disliked the shooting mechanic. I would have liked a more accurate shooting style that wasn't so bloom based. Or at the very least having no bloom at all with the first shot. I was really bad at decided whether to make more sheep or to make money; and as a result kept dieing on the 4th/5th nights. Great job on the game
lilkrit
29. Dec 2018 · 20:15 UTC
Cool game, I would just add the option to move while reloading
kiv
29. Dec 2018 · 20:19 UTC
Nice job! One tiny minus is shooting control, bat overall it's a good full-scale entry
Zxinferno
29. Dec 2018 · 22:07 UTC
Positives
- Nice switch to night
- It feels like a good challenge as you get used to the game
- Dogs going away is an interesting mechanic and almost "realistic". Quite a good idea. Some dogs not going away until they've had their "share", is also interesting.
- Excellent choice of ambient environmental sounds to go with the night but sounds a bit unnaturally repetitive.
- Good idea to have regenerative items to buy in shop. Steak probably too expensive.
- Great simple idea and good concept
- Nice choice of environment - quite "western" style
- Good SFX


Improvements
- Some sheep die too quickly, could act as fodder for next round if they only take some damage
- Game does get progressively quite difficult - maybe should have auto-reload?
- Should have a restart option or menu option
- When moving would be better if character faced direction of line of fire
- Maybe a skill boost or "perk" where you improve aiming speed
- Should be able to throw a sheep back inside
- A sheep died even though it did not get hurt
- Sometimes gun is inaccurate even though directly on target. Whilst possibly somewhat realistic, that can be a little annoying

Overall
- Seems like a pretty good game to me. Whilst somewhat innovate and different by virtue of the theme and theme of the actual environments, this game could probably benefit from some more variety e.g. mechanics and items.
- Overall, enjoyable and quite accurate game mechanics. Good vibes.

Great stuff, keep it up!
cdunham
29. Dec 2018 · 23:06 UTC
Awesome game! I love the accuracy mechanic, makes the player have to think on their feet for each wave. Had a slight bug where if I got really close to the pen the wolves wouldn't attack me(in later rounds they push eachother close enough to attack though.) The shotgun is well balanced, you can't get it until there's enough wolves to make it useful for and its spread is very helpful. Choosing between breeding sheep or having them make you money is cool too, rather than having a currency you can earn you force the player to have to choose how they earn: immediately by selling a sheep, after a round by not breeding them, or a few rounds in the future by breeding for a couple rounds and raking in money all at once.
commanderstitch
30. Dec 2018 · 02:37 UTC
Nice game. Actually Really nice game. I really really wanted to love it. I couldn't because of mechanics and controls. but the feel is great, the mood is nice, the sounds are great the icons are great the tutorial is great the game is engaging. i tried so hard to get the gun to aim better. It didn't work very well. The shot gun was nice but because if the inaccuracy i couldn't justify buying it i had to buy health every time. Good job though.
mouthlessgames
30. Dec 2018 · 17:14 UTC
I let the following image speak:

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No seriously, I really enjoyed this game. It felt extremely well made and polished. The difficulty was high for me. I think the best strategy is to get the shotgun as soon as possible and then try to focus on breeding? My old laptop had a hard time to come up with a decent fps thanks to the really nice graphics. The theme was implemented very well with the "breeding / money making" trade-off.
Last but not least the UI in this game was very nice - someone knows his stuff there. :smile:

Thanks for making this and I definitely want to see more of this in the future.
acaral
31. Dec 2018 · 12:50 UTC
It's mastered. The game is pleasant cause it's simple, addictive with the system of shop. Graphicaly it's very interesting (polished) and the audio atmosphere is great. You made a good job.