A Horse Called Nothing by jefvel
You're a sheriff in a town infested with bandits. The patrons of the saloon will help get in control if you give them booze.
Controls:
Click/drag to shoot.
Dodge the bandits' shots. (Red line means a bandit is aiming).
Collect from dead bandits.
Drop them off at the saloon.
Make the green guys reach the right side of town.


| Youtube | https://github.com/jefvel/ld-45 |
| Youtube | http://horse.jefvel.net/ |
| Youtube | https://jefvel.itch.io/horse |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/a-horse-called-nothing |
Ratings
| Overall | 215th | 3.823⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 60th | 4.042⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 184th | 3.729⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 859th | 2.885⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 374th | 3.802⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 456th | 3.188⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 42th | 4.063⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 329th | 3.633⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 54🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
feels good to explode haha
Great job!
Excellent leg animation!
Excellent concept!
The gun sound a little bit annoying, maybe you can put range in his pitch to feel less repetitive ?
Good job :slight_smile:
We didn't have enough time to make it sound better, but definitely will if we decide to make something out of it. Thanks for playing it!
The hitboxes are kinda on kinda off, depends on how they feel. Might fix it some day. Thank you for playing it and I'm glad you liked it!
Good looking graphics, unique game play idea, entertaining sounds added and a decent playable game on hand.
The mechanic sadly looses it's appeal after a while but definitely puts a charm to the game. The sounds are a bit annoying on endless repeat but for 5 minutes it's completely fine. All the game mechanics are well implemented and I didn't find any bugs or exploits. It is a nice addition that you are getting more helpers during level progression. Sadly I never got to the end because it is somewhat hard and I hadn't had enough patients to retry it 4-5 times but I still had my fun.
Good work here!

The gun sound is a bit repetitive but the game is still quite funny and your art style is really cool :)
Great work !
@benpeterson I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for playing!
@owlannie-owl yeah we might have made it a bit too hard! But it is beatable if you figure out the right tactic. Thanks for playing it :)
@4quet Inspired by a horse with no name by america! Yeah definitely, it's the first thing I will change when/if we do a post jam version. Thanks you for playing it!
I appreciate that you made only the rider die and not the horsie :D
It's really juicy and fun to spawn helpers, makes it fun to progress and makes you want to try again and again.
A solid entry, nice work!!

Solid entry!
All around an incredibly solid entry! Towards the end of me playing it I was approaching full town control and was very jumpy when when a red line locked onto me - I literally called out when a bandit finally got me :scream: it was TENSE.
Great job to the both of you :grinning: