Sheep Tunes by kazuo256

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(might not work on OSX)
Aid Maribee in rescuing sheep from danger and harm!

Through the 🎵powers of her magical maestro's cane, players are to craft tunes to soothe and aid the sheep through the perilous Valley of Shadows.
Features:
- card-based musical gameplay
- whimsical sense of humor
- magical concoction of graphics and sound
- sheep
- sheep?
- Lots of Love from the dev team! 🌟✨
Sheep Tunes is a game created for Ludum Dare 55 by the USPGameDev team.


Hotfix Patches
Patch 1.0.3
- Fix sprite artifacts
- Properly indicate each card's sound by right-clicking it
- Inform player of how many turns are left roughly
- Fix props not spawning in the respective stage
- Fix audio bus configuration
Patch 1.0.2
- Switch to Google Drive hosting because our server became inaccessible for some reason
- Tweak sheep flock spatial distribution
- Fix props showing in weird places
- Fix right-side UI being dislocated when logs shows up
- Inform players when sheep reactions are added to log
- Fix missing final score images
- Improve UX of new cards popup
- Clean up log noise
Patch 1.0.1
- Fix font in result score screen.
- Switch to self-hosted downloads because LD site is still very buggy in this part.
:warning: Please download from the LINKS section and ignore downloads (we can't update or delete them)
Ratings
| Overall | 591th | 3.557⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1028th | 2.955⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 346th | 3.629⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 354th | 3.957⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 287th | 4.132⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 125th | 4.015⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 811th | 2.625⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 428th | 3.735⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 75🗳️ | 77🗨️ |
One note for improvement (imo) is some sort of win condition or indicator of progress other than score - it doesnt feel that satisfying.
Love the art style, and it is one of the most creative interpretations of the theme I've seen so far!
Maybe a link to the how to play page from the ingame menu could have been helpful but I figured it out anyway :)
I love the game's itch page also - it's simple/minimalistic and cute, almost like a wallpaper in a kid's bedroom.
Big fan of this entry!
I don't know that I ever really 'figured it out'. I think I was sort of getting it, but with only the score in the bottom right, I didn't really feel like there was any feedback for how you were doing.
By the end I was just choosing 3 random cards as quickly as possible, and even then each turn takes about 10 seconds. I didn't necessarily dislike choosing card combos and hearing their tunes, but I didn't feel like I was given any reason to want to keep doing that for the 8+ minutes required to get to round 50. It didn't feel like I was ever rewarded or punished for my decision (though I'm guessing through the change in score I was).
Because this is a game jam, I did stick it out to see what happened. I was kind of disappointed to see it just abruptly end and display the score (that felt like I randomly) accumulated.
I don't meant to sound to critical. I think the game looks really nice, and the melodies were interesting. But I can't help but feel like the gameplay falls a bit flat. Some sort of obstacle to overcome, or reason to try to collect specific types of sheep, etc. might go a long way.
All that being said, I appreciated the game, and applaud your choice to do something different and unique!