Three Little Pigs by Anne Ogborn

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made by Anne Ogborn for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

3 Little Pigs

We started with the theme's "Start with nothing" - we decided to make a drawing game, so we could start with a blank sheet of paper. Somewhere along the way it morphed into a game about pigs and wolves and blowing on houses, but is still a drawing game.

Instructions - draw houses! The only game mechanic is to draw houses like the example shown. A brief pause and the game scores them. The good ones become houses for piggy.

We'd like to thank Thom Fruewirth, Michael Richter, and Raivo Laanemets, who helped answer various questions.

This game was written in SWI-Prolog and the embedded language CHR. The front end web client is Snap!

Ratings

Overall 1098th 2.5⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 982th 2.688⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 534th 3.2⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 824th 2.938⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1039th 1.913⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 694th 1.771⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 401th 3.04⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1041th 2.318⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 7🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Carpin
07. Oct 2019 · 15:10 UTC
Waw hahahaha, what a fun game! I like drawing games and was good! Maybe the wolf was a bit hard hahahha! I speed up my mouse and I couldn't beat him, my max score was 9... I don't know if there is an end, if there is one, please let me know that!

Gj, in overall was so fun!
🎤 Anne Ogborn
07. Oct 2019 · 15:31 UTC
There's no real end - and for what it's worth, 9 is a really good score, I think 6 is my own top sccore
kuviman
07. Oct 2019 · 18:45 UTC
Prolog, CHR, Snap, what kind of witchery is this?!
btw I dont get what i need to do. Can I only draw lines? When does the checking happen, why all checking does is delete my beatiful painting..
PaulBrownMagic
07. Oct 2019 · 21:38 UTC
Hi kuviman. Yes you can only draw lines. The checking happens when you stop drawing (a pause of 2 seconds I believe). If your beautiful drawing is deleted that's because it's not good enough to be a house for the little piggy. Have you tried tracing the example house? That'll give you an idea of how to draw them and a piggy house should then appear. And yes, Prolog, Snap and CHR is complete magic!
🎤 Anne Ogborn
08. Oct 2019 · 01:09 UTC
pbm - I'll add better instructions to the LDJam page
Mertios
08. Oct 2019 · 01:40 UTC
Good concept, but the execution is rather poor. The music is jarring, and the drawing mechanic breaks at times. Sometimes all of the lines I drew would jump to the top right of the screen for no reason. With some better graphics and improved drawing, it would be great! Can't wait to see what you do next jam.
🎤 Anne Ogborn
08. Oct 2019 · 01:43 UTC
@paulbrownmagic I rreported in several places games not loading, but it was my local cache.
IanTyf
08. Oct 2019 · 02:13 UTC
I like the concept! At first it was chill and I was exploring how bad I can possibly draw while still being recognized, and all of a sudden I was a bit overwhelmed and my piggy was gone. Only downside I would say is that it appears to be somewhat laggy as I kept playing for a while.
Brallex
08. Oct 2019 · 03:07 UTC
What a cute little game this was! I experienced the laggy parts that some has mentioned, but I enjoyed the gameplay too much to care.
Simplistic artstyle, but fitting. A very fun game, well done!:)
mattdotam
09. Oct 2019 · 13:30 UTC
Made it to 19 max houses. That was fun. some lag issues and the music was a little painful with my headphones. However there was a lot to like. Drawing is fun. I thought it was funny that wolf set off dynamite instead of blowing the houses down. Good job.
🎤 Anne Ogborn
09. Oct 2019 · 13:48 UTC
Yeah, welcome to game jam - guess the blow animation was hard. and yes, it's laggy, the back end server has to work really hard.
HumphreysMedia
09. Oct 2019 · 16:03 UTC
Fun game but quite laggy in the HTML version, especially when draw more than one house at a time. Good audio sound effects, but maybe spawn the houses right after they are being drawn would help the game move faster.
Jake Marks
09. Oct 2019 · 16:27 UTC
Hey, did a playthrough of your game and wanted to share the video with ya! Totally unique of anything I've played yet, haha!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/492221471
🎤 Anne Ogborn
10. Oct 2019 · 16:01 UTC
Thanks for the playthough @jake-marks ! Yes, our front end is a bit of a crude Snap! game.
Sorry you had trouble, I think you popped it into dev mode.
shieldgenerator7
11. Oct 2019 · 07:54 UTC
i got real excited for this, but i was disappointed

(1) the audio is horrible. its too loud and its very grating. im surprised my ears didnt bleed.

(2) i liked trying to draw houses, but my drawings keep disappearing and nothing else happens. for a pig that needs houses you'd think hed be a little less picky (also i expected him to say something when a house wasnt good enough)

(3) the concept is cool but i didnt have fun with the current implementation

(4) itd be really cool if it used your drawings to make the house, and distorted your house image to match the user's drawing XD (i know i know, you probably wouldnt have time for that in a jam)

(5) also, this happened while drawing with a touchpad:
![ld45-three-little-pigs-line-bug.png](///raw/be7/01/z/295f6.png)
XD

overall i think its a cool idea, with a bit more work you could have a solid mobile game on your hands (id probably play this on my phone when im bored waiting in lines)
🎤 Anne Ogborn
16. Oct 2019 · 07:21 UTC
You're right about the many rough edges - the house is moved and resized to match the drawing (wasn't actually that hard). If we work on the game more we'll move away from the Snap! front end.