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Shepherd Saga by LittleDaimon

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made by LittleDaimon for LD 38 (JAM)

Links: - Game and source code on itch.io: https://littledaimon.itch.io/shepherdsaga

Made in 72 hours by @littledaimon , @viskyg and @serenis

You are a shepherd, who travels the through a dangerous land with his sheep towards a mysterious goal. Protect your sheep, avoid or lure predators into traps. Your loyal dog will attack predators on sight, but he is not really fit for battles, so...

Use Arrows to move Use Space to shout (it scares the sheep and predators away for a bit) Use R to run Use S to light up your staff (does nothing)

Thoughts: - lots of things don't work, or were cut, like burning bushes, eating berries to resore health, being able to command the dog, story that evolves through multiple runs... - theme - I am not sure if a shepher's journey fits into the theme of "small world" but you you reach the end you might find out more... - sound/music (there is none, ran out of time) :cry: - optimisaiton - game is quite laggy at the start due to loading a **ton of objects on the long (probably too long) level.

Screenshots: Screenshot<em>9.png Screenshot</em>7.png Screenshot_8.png

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/shepherd-saga

Ratings

Given 5🗳️ 2🗨️

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PeachTreeOath
05. May 2017 · 08:02 UTC
Those predators are actually pretty scary! Mostly cuz I would die if I was mildly reckless. I could see where you were trying to go with the game and the dog as a weapon/tool is a pretty neat idea. Health would've helped a lot with the difficulty, though it sounded like that was planned but nixed.
feltip
05. May 2017 · 22:12 UTC
Work on it some more and it could be a nice little game. Needs some sound and more feedback as I couldn't really work out what was going on lol Good entry :)
zgragselus
06. May 2017 · 14:45 UTC
Nice game, few points I have:

- the controls doesn't feel natural to me (and it looked like there is some reaction time), although this might have been due to WebGL/browser
- Predators can be bugged, and get basically stuck at some places
- Dog can run away from you and never return, which is somewhat problematic
- You can kill predators and then go back for sheep (at least to some extent
- Predators should in my opinion focus sheep and not you

Thanks for uploading and making the game. Good job.
Skosnowich
13. May 2017 · 01:26 UTC
I like the game idea. It is cool that you can lure the predators into the holes. The graphics style is somewhat inconsistent and that irritates me. The shepherd, the predators and the sheeps fit together, but the rest seems strange. The movement doesn't feel good and I bugged myself a few times, so I couldn't move anymore. Anyway nice job.