Sheep Deeper by Kusaihana

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made by Kusaihana for Ludum Dare 48 (COMPO)

Sheep Deeper - not so easy way to count the sheep before sleep. A game which tests your working memory.

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The game requires remembering a sequence of spoken colors and a colors of sheep passing, and identifying when sheep or sound matches the one that appeared N steps earlier.

You can use both keyboard arrows and mouse cursor to choose the options on the screen.

P.S. Based on dual N-back performance task.

A mini example as a tutorial:

1-back: You click 'color match' when the previous sheep has the same color as the current one. Similarly, you have a match if the audio is the same as previous audio. - * * note that, visual and sound is completely separate tracking * *

2-back: You need to remember 2 steps earlier and click if the sheep color is the same as the sheep passes two earlier. Same goes for audio.

So there are two types of mistakes; not pressing when you should have and pressing when you should not have. As you press correctly, you go into a deeper sleep, enjoy!

Other Details:

  • Unity3D and Adobe Photoshop

  • solo developed in about 8 hours :clock8:

  • experimented with watercolors :paintbrush:

  • recorded my voice on phone, sorry for that :speaknoevil:

Ratings

Overall 627th 3.2⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 766th 2.738⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 178th 3.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 663th 3.2⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 506th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 550th 2.895⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 270th 2.938⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Mood 619th 2.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

dhim
26. Apr 2021 · 07:49 UTC
Ooo that seems nice. I'll play again when I have more time
Some more explanation, or a tutorial at the beggining would be nice.
It was a lot of try and error to figure out the game
Edit: Ok I get it now. It's hard
PhthaloGold
26. Apr 2021 · 07:53 UTC
It took a while to get it, but it was still challenging. I think a tutorial or how to play screen would help. Overall interesting concept and cute art.
Predominant
26. Apr 2021 · 07:58 UTC
Tricky to understand what to do, at first, but after some trying, it started to make sense. The link to the N-back article actually helped. Nice work!
A0m1n3Zone
27. Apr 2021 · 11:05 UTC
Interesting concept!
noyyyy999
27. Apr 2021 · 12:16 UTC
It's a fun little game with really lovely art, I like you use dream for the theme, but it's hard to understand the gameplay, overall, I like it!
vrerabek
28. Apr 2021 · 09:20 UTC
Took me a while to understand but once I did, I had fun.
Echo GameWorks
09. May 2021 · 20:42 UTC
That is a mind-bending challenge! Nice implementation. Great work!
SleepyStudios
12. May 2021 · 14:26 UTC
After a few goes (I think?) I got it. It really is an interesting puzzle game and definitely unique for this event. Really liked the watercolour art work too, nice job.
LDJam user 2331
15. May 2021 · 15:36 UTC
Very interesting take on the theme! The link to the article was good for explaining how it worked, but I think it would have really rounded things out if it was demonstrated visually with some in-game tutorial/examples. Nice work, regardless :)
ColeSlaughter
18. May 2021 · 06:35 UTC
[We played your game on stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1023138450?t=01h23m28s)

This game drove us all insane, as you'll probably see in the VOD. Our working memory is......definitely something wanting. :sweat_smile: I think a more clear tutorial in-game would have gone a long way, but we eventually figured it out!

...Didn't help us and our melting brains though... :stuck_out_tongue:
Ava Skoog
18. May 2021 · 15:10 UTC
Really clever! 😍 I've heard about this before, great idea to make a game out of it. I got a bit confused sometimes when I would click and it said correct but then before it had given me a new sheep or audio clip it suddenly said missed, is that a bug? 😟 Other than that this was fun, once I figured out my various misunderstandings of the description and stopped trying to match audio to visuals 😅 High score on innovation from me!