A day of the priest by SayuriNyooko

made by SayuriNyooko for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Your tribe's God is getting angry! How could you forget to pray to Him constantly?

You and only you, the tribe's priest, can make the God satisfied. You should make Him pleased before the God destroys plants and barns full of corn. Grab a sheep and make a sacrifice on the altar!

Every 10 seconds the mood of the God changes: he's happy, sad, angry and punishing. You better not to make him punish you.

Warning: game might lag at first. Also, we didn't have time to fix all bugs, but nothing gamebreaking should happen.

How to install: download the ZIP file, extract it to a location of your choosing, and run LD51.exe inside of the extractedfolder. Note that if a blue Windows Defender SmartScreen window pops up, you must click “More info” and then “Run Anyways” to start the game.

Controls:

W,A,S,D - movement

Space - jump

E (hold) - grab the sheep

P - pause

You better hurry because of the changing mood of the God! In order to make a sacrifice you need to put a sheep to an altar.

Our team:

@ckipen: Game design, level design

@stupidhobbit: Programming, VFX, 2d art prompting

@sayurinyooko: 3D art, UI, sound design, 2d art prompting

2d art was generated with AI (DreamStudio's StableDiffusion, neural.love) Music composed by AIVA - Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist (https://www.aiva.ai)

Please, rate Graphics only for 3D art, because it's what we did ourselves. Thank you!

Gitlab repository	https://gitlab.com/StupidHobbit/ld51
Google drive	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ajDzQEIlIPhI0ahFhp-qgHQ3S2h-LYnU/view?usp=sharing
Yandex drive	https://disk.yandex.com/d/MNqZdvV8vT4_Dg
Google drive (Linux Arm64)	https://drive.google.com/file/d/14nl4gFkVdLEAOF5OtMH1A37KnUhzZZ-T/view?usp=sharing
Yandex drive (Linux Arm64)	https://disk.yandex.com/d/tK-RraXx1oqccw
Google drive (Linux)	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1efkcJA3HovZcCGK36gLsTHsUX7pBDfuW/view?usp=sharing
Yandex drive (Linux)	https://disk.yandex.com/d/cCSuj0goLD9VpQ
Itch	https://sayurinyooko.itch.io/aday-ofthe-priest
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/a-day-of-the-priest

Ratings

Overall	826^th	3.27⭐	63🧑‍⚖️
Fun	783^th	3.156⭐	63🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	892^th	2.958⭐	61🧑‍⚖️
Theme	957^th	3.22⭐	61🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	702^th	3.452⭐	64🧑‍⚖️
Humor	220^th	3.568⭐	61🧑‍⚖️
Mood	906^th	3.07⭐	59🧑‍⚖️
Given		74🗳️	106🗨️

Feedback

Ineso

04. Oct 2022 · 11:32 UTC

This game was awesome ! It was really fun to run to catch the sheep as quickly as possible.

Chocolat-Endive

04. Oct 2022 · 11:50 UTC

Your 3d art is good! I feel that your game would have been better without the 2d screens: maybe some simple 3d render of your assets with some text overlay would have been sufficient.

I'm not sure about the difficulty and the mood of the god. It seems that you really have to wander around for a long time without doing anything to loose. And when you play "right", the mood of the god don't have any impact.

Also, it seems that we can clone sheep by pressing E several times near a sheep!

Good job!

LDJam user 0

04. Oct 2022 · 12:00 UTC

I like that there is giant dick on the first picture

dod108

04. Oct 2022 · 12:26 UTC

I have no idea what the mood does, except that if the mood is puishing and you don't sacrifice the sheep for too long you lose. Graphics is cool but text could be prettier. Movement feels good.

🎤 SayuriNyooko

04. Oct 2022 · 15:01 UTC

@ineso Thank you very much for playing our game!

@chocolat-endive Yeah, maybe it happens to be not so difficult as we thought of the game originally. It's for future improving. Thanks for playing our game!

@dod108 The mood is an indicator of how much time do you have until the punishing. It doesn't do anything. Thanks for playing our game!

Moonblast

04. Oct 2022 · 16:04 UTC

Good creativity. I like 3D art of the game. It looks beautiful！

jirrev

04. Oct 2022 · 18:12 UTC

A creative use of the theme, I like the simplistic but nice 3d aesthetic. And although bugs were found, nothing game breaking which is to be expected from a gamejam after all

Rayne

04. Oct 2022 · 19:10 UTC

I really liked the effects! Nice game :)

FernandaBatista

04. Oct 2022 · 19:15 UTC

I liked the narrative and the mechanic! Good game!

Pete Thorne

04. Oct 2022 · 19:21 UTC

Do you have the ability to release a Mac or web build? I’d love to play!

StupidHobbit

04. Oct 2022 · 19:26 UTC

@pete-thorne Sorry, but we don't have a Mac, and, unfortunately, it seems there is no cross-compilation for mac

Cowgummiboy

04. Oct 2022 · 19:35 UTC

The Environment is really nice, the 3D models in general are super cool. The gameplay itselfe is not very chalanging sadly, but i really liked the concept and story

Whitenoize

04. Oct 2022 · 20:10 UTC

The game is a little too much laggy but the concept is fun !

Lorwon

04. Oct 2022 · 20:54 UTC

Hi, good job for making this game!

What I liked :
- The graphics.
- The soud design.
- The sheeps !
Improvements:
- I had some performace issues running the game.
- It would be even better with some random events to disturb the player!

Good Job !

TeaWhyDee

04. Oct 2022 · 21:46 UTC

Pleasuring god brought pleasure to myself. I am in love with the aesthetic of this game, with every image and texture, with every sound and every sentence. Praise the mighty god!

cottonfloweryellow

04. Oct 2022 · 22:00 UTC

Good idea. I like this concept.

shogeku

04. Oct 2022 · 23:14 UTC

Love the confirmation when I went to replay. lol, like yes I'd love to remurder all my sheeps. The environment was good and I tried roaming around after completing everything.

LangiT

05. Oct 2022 · 03:24 UTC

Never loved sacrificing so much after I play this game. lovely concept, and I loved god's hearty laugh.

🎤 SayuriNyooko

05. Oct 2022 · 05:54 UTC

@cowgummiboy
@whitenoize
@lorwon
@teawhydee
@cottonfloweryellow
@shogeku
@langit

Thanks to all of you for playing our game and feedback! We appreciate that! :heart:

ritz1231

05. Oct 2022 · 10:07 UTC

This was surprisingly tense when I was on my 10th sheep and almost lost. I love the animation of the sheep incinerating and the usage of Ai generated art

GordienkoGames

05. Oct 2022 · 12:56 UTC

Hey, I played your game on the stream - twitch GGame86
Game has a lags

Please give my game a try if you have some time!

StupidHobbit

05. Oct 2022 · 15:43 UTC

@gordienkogames Thank you for the report

Decipator

05. Oct 2022 · 15:52 UTC

The premise of the game is nice, altho I did not really found where the theme was. I felt like the map had more attention than the actually design, It was hard to get sheeps at a certain point and the god got angry very fast...

Great effort! Keep up the work!

Sito

05. Oct 2022 · 16:19 UTC

Fun premise, and there is some inherent fun to carrying the sheep to the altar and watching them burn, but I feel like it could use some more going on. There's no real obstacle stopping you from bringing the sheep other than a very generous timer.

Bluesand

05. Oct 2022 · 16:58 UTC

I really like the low polygon sheep you have made! With the sound effect when I press E to lift it, it is really cute! The overall style of play is very humorous and light-hearted, I played it twice, I really enjoyed this game!

I think if you consider continuing to develop this game in the future, it would be very interesting to add interaction with the surroundings as the number of sacrifices increases, such as changing the environment, tribe size, adding different land types or geographical setting.

Sk Katea

05. Oct 2022 · 18:38 UTC

I like your 3D art style and the concept is great.

woahitsjeff

05. Oct 2022 · 21:40 UTC

Poor sheep! I felt bad. I think it would be interesting to add some disturbance to the player's ability to fulfill the objective. For example, maybe the sheep break free if you hold onto them too long. Either way, solid entry!

StupidHobbit

06. Oct 2022 · 05:37 UTC

@decipator Hi, the god is getting angrier every every 10 seconds, so that's the theme. Maybe we should've add some kind of countdown to make it more clear

LDJam user 290219

06. Oct 2022 · 06:27 UTC

Nice concept!

BayLock

06. Oct 2022 · 13:27 UTC

Great game !! really good concept. Got stuck in middle for a while but figured out the way later. Awesome work for a limited time jam. You shoud go with this concept further. Please do check out my submission as well.

Plepletier

06. Oct 2022 · 17:04 UTC

ehehhe the sounds FXs is very good. The god getting angry sound is very hilarious! Good job!

someone

06. Oct 2022 · 17:05 UTC

The 3D art is great. The intro sequence was good.
Very easy to win with so many sheep nearby. I never even had to cross the bridge.
A bit disappointed the lose is just a game over screen, I was hoping for some smiting effects.
My game is also about keeping a god happy with sacrifices, nice to see similar ideas.

leekanarchism

06. Oct 2022 · 21:20 UTC

Funny game! Poor sheep :(

I liked the world you built -- it's a shame I didn't get to explore it very much, would've been nice to have a few more alters!

LDJam user 263763

06. Oct 2022 · 21:40 UTC

The graphics are very pretty! nice water shader, I like the mechanics to and the sounds, the laugh of the god is funny lol, the problems I see is pressing E while the wasd to move was a little hard and a turn-around camera it would be nice but in 3 days this is a great work, it really feels like a game and have a a lot of engagement, congrats!

🎤 SayuriNyooko

07. Oct 2022 · 13:52 UTC

@ritz1231
@woahitsjeff
@sito
@bluesand
@sk-katea
@flowerbadger
@baylock
@plepletier
@someone
@leekanarchism
@dreamerflow

Thank you guys! You are amazing! Thanks for your time and feedback! :heartbeat:

jk5000

09. Oct 2022 · 09:33 UTC

A very funny little game. I love it.

Weirdly the first game I made in unreal was a game about collecting sheep.

LDJam user 298734

09. Oct 2022 · 15:40 UTC

strange but fun!

Harry Alissavakis

10. Oct 2022 · 08:09 UTC

Cool little game with some pretty environment vistas! Nice work there =]

LDJam user 238700

10. Oct 2022 · 09:34 UTC

It was sad to have to disintegrate all those poor sheep to appease god, but I still had fun making it through the game. Great work for making the game look so nice and play smoothly. Nice work!

Code Ripple

10. Oct 2022 · 15:50 UTC

I really liked the artstyle of the graphics.

Vodzik

10. Oct 2022 · 21:27 UTC

Nice game. Love its graphic and humor. Remind me one of my previous games.

There is a bug, where you can pick up again sacreficed sheep before it disappear, and it is still counted, so game can be compleated just one sheep.

luqas11

12. Oct 2022 · 04:30 UTC

Nice!

I liked the 3D visuals and the humor. Sadly, in my case the game ran lagged most of the time, so I couldn't get the full experience.
Besides that, the concept is simple and funny.

dzolkin

18. Oct 2022 · 06:49 UTC

I liked the style of graphics in which the game is made.