{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tdotsshot.thumbnail.gif","local":"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/bd8f2f8e1f551218f5bea0b82e52c27e.gif"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tdotsshot.gif","local":"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/e902136ee0b9b1e16e7975d2da367926.gif"}],"author_link":"author\/jolle\/","author_name":"jolle","cat":"LD #02 - Construction\/Destruction - 2002","categories":["LD #02 - Construction\/Destruction - 2002"],"comments":[],"epoch":1196163000,"event":"LD2","likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"75773","p_author":"jolle","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"283464","p_title":"The Destruction of the Sheep","p_cat":"LD #02 - Construction\/Destruction - 2002","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1196163000","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"source_url":"2007\/11\/27\/the-destruction-of-the-sheep\/","text":"

Having learnt some great lessons from my previous LD48 entry, Save The Hut<\/em><\/a>, I decided to not include as much boringness, confusion and frustration in my next game. Together with the theme Construction\/Destruction, and a cosmetic theme of Sheep, it all became so obvious: I was to make a game where you construct traps to destruct sheep. And lo and behold! there was The Destruction of the Sheep<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I decided to use pretty much the same tech as for Save The Hut<\/em><\/a>, but used it better to get some fancier stuff, like sub tile precision movements, rotated sprites, pseudo 3D particle gibs, and paintable background.<\/p>\n

The game was supposed to be a puzzle game, but in the end only a few levels were puzzly, the rest was just mindless, but entertaining, sheep destruction with lots of gore. All in all, it worked out very well, making me a winner in \u2018fun\u2019 and \u2018complete\u2019 categories, and third in \u2018gameplay (innovation?)\u2019 and \u2018overall\u2019.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an improved version available, adding some fixes, and a 2x time speed-up button (but there remains at least two bugs and a lot of spelling errors). You can get this version of The Destruction of the Sheep<\/em> as a .zip archive<\/a> or as an installer<\/a>. They\u2019re for Windows.<\/p>\n

The original compo version is also available, both for DOS<\/a> and for Windows<\/a> (the Windows .exe was kindly provided by Hamumu<\/a> during the compo). There\u2019s also the source<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tags: 2D<\/a>, allegro<\/a>, building<\/a>, C++<\/a>, complete<\/a>, construction<\/a>, destruction<\/a>, DOS<\/a>, explosions<\/a>, farm<\/a>, final<\/a>, fluffy<\/a>, fun<\/a>, gore<\/a>, puzzle<\/a>, sheep<\/a>, tiles<\/a>, traps<\/a>, Windows<\/a>, winner<\/a><\/p>","time":"November 27th, 2007 11:30 am","title":"The Destruction of the Sheep"}