Unstable Stable by Flaterectomy

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made by Flaterectomy for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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What are all these sheep doing in your stable? You must apply some Hind Leg Justice™ to their fuzzy little faces and get them the heck outta there!

While we've made a good number of Ludum Dare games before, they were nearly always made in LibGDX featuring 2D pixel art. Unstable Stable is our first awkward venture into Unity 3D/Blender.

🎮 ➡ PLAY UNSTABLE STABLE (Web)


:joystick: Controls/How To Play

  • WASD or arrow keys to move
  • SPACE to kick
  • TAB or P to pause

A horse's life ain't easy, especially when sheep come and disrupt the status quo. Out the door or out the windows, you have 3 minutes and 30 seconds to return this place to the stable stable it once was. (Don't mind the battle axe.)

And do let us know your highscore in the comments!

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:family_mmb: Credits

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:notebookwithdecorative_cover: Blog Posts

Ratings

Overall 1098th 3.241⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 778th 3.397⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1136th 2.929⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 984th 3.278⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1027th 3.293⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Audio 450th 3.556⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 111th 4.034⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Mood 769th 3.407⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

Substain
05. Oct 2021 · 09:04 UTC
its actually pretty hard trying to drive backwards and kicking the sheep out... I did not make it :(
cituchi
05. Oct 2021 · 09:15 UTC
this is a very funny game! I took the horse outside the barn and miraculously brought it back)
Malte Hedenstrom
05. Oct 2021 · 09:20 UTC
A very unstable stable indeed, Had a little hard time manuvering the horse when it's going backwards or facing the camera. But I liked it!
ChillerTyp
05. Oct 2021 · 14:55 UTC
Good old Resident Evil 1 controls. ^^
Hobzone
05. Oct 2021 · 15:05 UTC
Funny little game with a car ... I mean a Horse !
TheGrandpa
05. Oct 2021 · 18:42 UTC
Fun but really hard to control
GodDoesPlayDice
06. Oct 2021 · 10:19 UTC
It's fun, but too hard! :)
The audio work is very good.
tetrapteryx
06. Oct 2021 · 13:49 UTC
Hilarious take on the theme, I loved the sound effects and animations. I didn't mind that it was absurdly hard to play, the controls and ensuing chaos just added another layer of instability!
Bobi505
06. Oct 2021 · 19:38 UTC
This is a very strange but funny game))
PeachTreeOath
07. Oct 2021 · 06:28 UTC
Always good to keep pushing your jam limits. I know you guys have a very high bar set so it feels bad if you don't feel like you met it, but we're all in that boat here. I spent a ton of time with multiplayer and photoshop tutorials myself.

My playthrough of this game was in phases:
1. Learn to move backwards and kick like crazy. While the least effective phase, it was certainly the most fun.
2. At some point I realized I could just hold down space and put my horse in a permanent planche position (lol). This was a bit more effective as I didn't have to worry about timing and the knockback force seemed to be more controllable.
3. Finally, I accidentally pushed in a sheep driving forward, and it dawned on me I could just push all the sheep into the goal much easier... I ended up doing that and won pretty easily.

I'm curious what the planned version was going to be like. I'm sure that pendulum axe was a sign of things to come.

Overall it was a fun concept that immediately interested me as soon as I got in. Hitting the sheep the way you want was challenging, but hey, all the games this jam are. Great work for using so many new tools :)
Cemre
09. Oct 2021 · 07:27 UTC
I love the music. but when I go out of the house, I can't come back and I'm lost. It could be nice maybe if you restrict the horse to go out of the bounds of the house(or barn is the word I guess). The rollers on horse's feet is cute :D I like the graphics too. Music is very good.
Inokentii_Best
12. Oct 2021 · 18:48 UTC
I could not drive the sheep out of the barn in this game) I think in real life this is 10 times easier to do. fun game)
ZacharyPinkham
12. Oct 2021 · 22:14 UTC
Surprisingly difficult and awkward in the best possible way, it was a lot of fun! Turns out that 3 minute time limit was pretty accurate for how long it would take (though admittedly I didn't QUITE accomplish getting them all out). All in all, nice work and I hope you expand on it further!
Dunk
14. Oct 2021 · 11:19 UTC
![UnstableStable.png](///raw/950/24/z/4823c.png)
Wow, it was very awkward to get all the sheep out (and what's with the sheep sounds!), but the overall mood is fun so I persevered. I appreciated the end game art, and I liked the wheels on the horse (presumably to save animating it!)
Papaver
19. Oct 2021 · 17:07 UTC
Hilarious and difficult! I had fun playing the game, but I was very bad at it. My high score was 5 :sheep:

The controls were a bit unstable too, I am not sure if that was on purpose. Sometimes the horse wouldn't rotate? It seems that I can't rotate after a kicked.

I enjoyed the music! But the sheep sound like ducks? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: