Out To Pasture! by LDJam user 308534
A shepherd has lost her sheep. Can you help her find all 8?
W,A,S,D to move. Left Click to urge your sheep home. Full Screen preferred.
Music by Lion Free Music
itch.io link should be working now--I'd accidentally forgotten to switch from "draft" to "publish". Thank you commenters for pointing it out!
| itch.io | https://raspbarrygames.itch.io/outtopasture |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/out-to-pasture |
Ratings
| Given | 7🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
I like the art style though.
When it ended, a black rectangle appeared in the middle of the screen, and just stayed there. I played the embedded version, and no errors were logged to the console (Sheep sounds intensify.), for what that's worth... I didn't run into any other issues though, runs and plays very smoothly.
I only wish that "urging" a sheep was a bit less aggressive. They are too peaceful and fluffy, it'd be more appropriate to be gentle with them.
I think this picture sums up my experience pretty well.
I think the graphics on this game were particularly impressive, and the audio track was rather soothing. I found out that you can make the sheep float by running into them for a while, and decided to use that to do things like push them through the fence from the wrong side. Because the fence is slanted from the back, you can also easily run over it. It allowed me to get some sheep over the fence faster than to direct them around to the front.
You can also stack sheep on top of one another, as running forward seems to cause the object in front to float, and it does so in the order from front to back. I made a mini sheep tower, as well as a sheep for a hat. Had a lot of fun with this game.
Also got the black rectangle at the end.
The world is just big enough that it's easy to get disoriented. I wish it had a few more land markers or perhaps a minimap as a brute force solution. Something to help me know where I am in relation to the pen.
Nice work!
I love the spherical world idea and would recommend you to put camera higher as long as horizon line is almost all the time is at the top of the screen and it feels uncomfortable.
One of my sheeps jumped over the fence and I had to find it among other already non-interactable sheeps to push it to the enter. So it would be nice to extend the trigger zone to all the inner part of the fence.
Good luck!
Well done !

Good graphics and music. But i not find theme...
The sphere world and the shader effect look good. A bit disorienting and hard to tell where the fenced area was most of the time.
Not sure how I feel about using a cane and smacking sheep with it to get them to move...
Maybe it was just me, but I had problems starting the game, because I didn't see 'Space to begin' in the bottom left 😅
It would be nice to have more indicators of direction, pen location, and number of sheep remaining. Perhaps more landmarks too? The lake was my main navigation aid.
Winning was a little disappointing, as I was met with the black rectangle.
All in all, a really chill experience.
Super relaxing atmosphere :)
I didn't find what the 10 seconds element was, the sheep didn't run for 10 seconds, maybe that's too long too, but perhaps something else could be implemented :)