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Away from those **angry dogs**!\n\n**The dogs will warm you and your sheeps**, so sacrifices must be made in order to reach your goal and guide the required amount of sheeps directly into the barn. Each sheep will follow you as soon as you get close. The dogs will attack anything that approximates too.\n\n## Notes:\n- This game was made from scratch using **Cave Engine** _(our custom made tech)_.\n- The game is available for **Windows** (64 bits).\n- I forgot to mention that in the in game tutorial, **but you can run by holding Left Shift**.\n\n--------------\n\n# Screenshots:\n\n![david-ss-06.png](\/\/\/raw\/bdc\/2\/z\/68d17.png)\n![david-ss-07.png](\/\/\/raw\/bdc\/2\/z\/68d18.png)\n\n--------------\n\n**Personal Notes:** This entry of mine is a bit (very) different from all my others, so I'll also take a section of this page to explain a bit more about **WHY**.\n\n# Why it's a \"Demo\" and why \"Extra\"?\n\nI need to explain this one. Because if you know me (or take a glance at my LD profile), you will know that I join EVERY LUDUM DARE possible! \n\nI love this jam so much that it's a pleasure for me! Unfortunately, this month I was making a pilgrimage in **Israel** and my flight back home was scheduled to the 3th, so I would arrive just in time for the Jam. Unfortunately, as y'all may know, Israel got in the middle of a **WAR** while I was there and this caught me off guard. I had to hide from the missiles in Jerusalem (literally), my flight got **cancelled** and I had to run away to Egypt to wait for a new flight.\n\n**So my LD56 participation got out of question, unfortunately...**\n\nNow, days later, I'm thankfully safe and back into my country and home, with a fresh mind and of course... I remembered the **EXTRA** category of Ludum Dare and decided to participate! Unfortunately, my job also got very delayed due to all this situation, so I didn't really had enough time to make a complete game. But I decided to do my best and come up with a minimal playable demo at least. \n\n## And here we are! :smile: \n\n_Now I know that you may look at my game and the Jam theme and think:_\n\n## \"But the Sheeps are NOT **Tiny Creatures**...\"\n\nAnd you're right if you're thinking like that!\n\nThe original idea was to make the sheeps something else (worms, to be more precise, and the internal naming for them in my project is actually worms) and the dogs too. But in the end, I remembered that I wouldn't be able to participate the ranking anyways (because it's an EXTRA entry), so that got me thinking:\n\n_\"Well, I was in Israel, so I might as well do something at least vaguely related to it...\"_\n\nSo I changed the art direction to be a shepherd and sheeps! :smiley: It's not related to the Bible or Christianity, but I got so impressed by the deserts and the customs of that place that I couldn't get this theme out of my head. 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