Mein Sheep by Detocroix

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made by Detocroix for LD32 (JAM)
The evil sheep are plotting against you, but with your target pointer and the trusty guards, they won't know what hit them! Well they definitely will, because what hit them is their wooly companions!

Use LMB to shoot RELAX darts (or blue, whatever you want to call them!) and RMB to shoot RAGE darts (reeeed!) at sheep and make sure your targets are terminated... or we might just have to terminate all of them.

Super awesome and pretty 1280x720 builds behind the standalone links.

Code by https://twitter.com/RootLlama
Art by https://twitter.com/Detocroix

Music "Spazzmatica Polka"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

p.s. The "gold sheep" is actually called as Nugget, but we agreed to disagree with RootLlama

Small update: Bug in darts not hitting colliders fixed.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.42 337
Audio(Jam) 2.88 467
Fun(Jam) 3.41 253
Graphics(Jam) 4.32 78
Humor(Jam) 3.61 150
Innovation(Jam) 3.65 181
Mood(Jam) 3.28 369
Theme(Jam) 3.85 159

Feedback

rootllama
21. Apr 2015 · 02:59 UTC
Aiming ahead and at a point about half a sheep's height above the ground helps a lot!
XtremePrime
21. Apr 2015 · 09:59 UTC
Pretty cool game :3 I quite dig the concept of the game :3
Ed1982
21. Apr 2015 · 10:12 UTC
Hit detection was a bit tight (could be more forgiving, maybe until later levels), awesome sheep and env!, awesome concept!
raisedmedia
21. Apr 2015 · 11:41 UTC
Very cool.
DeadFragment
21. Apr 2015 · 11:43 UTC
I feel it should be easier to relax sheep, also the sheep in this game are really hard to shoot with the darts. The graphics are amazing, love the style to this game. The music is catchy also. A funny concept but could be a bit more fun if the sheep were easier to hit.

-Neith
MentalBlockGaming
21. Apr 2015 · 13:59 UTC
Love the mechanics by this one! You really made great use of the theme.

The graphics are just right.

Forgive me if I just overlooked it, but the game could really have done with volume options.

My biggest complaint is hit detection. I couldn't get past level 3 because landing a dart was so damn hard! Shame, 'cause I'd have liked to see the later levels.

On a smaller note, I found the long text on the buttons quite confusing for navigation. Maybe it was added for humourous effect, but I just found it a little distracting and less intuitive. The font wasn't impossible to read, but it wasn't the clearest either.

The only other thing is: I don't understand the title. :P

GG!
A Flat Miner Studios
21. Apr 2015 · 15:20 UTC
I like the concept but it was really hard to hit any sheep!
Elit3dGaming
21. Apr 2015 · 19:48 UTC
Font was really hard to read but loved the music and loved the gameplay. Aiming was off point a bit I hit them but at times didn't register.
rplnt
21. Apr 2015 · 19:53 UTC
Nice game, a bit frustrating, but I guess it takes skill :) Very nice graphics. Just the font is really unreadable. Coupled with the size I was redirected to a twitter two times before I figured out what to do.
kipelovets
21. Apr 2015 · 19:59 UTC
The sheep are really cute and the concept is great. I couldn't get past level 3 too
paulfysh
21. Apr 2015 · 20:00 UTC
I also think the hitboxing was a little too unforgiving. Otherwise, its good fun. The sheep look great.
SteveSalmond
22. Apr 2015 · 10:00 UTC
Took me a little while to catch on to the idea of the game, but gave me a nice 'aha' moment when I understood what to do. It's pretty tough! Graphics are great - the heavy depth of field works awesome, and I really dig the sheep models :) Great work guys.
SpringCabal
22. Apr 2015 · 17:04 UTC
Fun game, controls work nicely, gfx are good. Music is irritating.
MFEP
22. Apr 2015 · 19:41 UTC
it took some time to figure out how to play this. anyway, well done, I really liked the blocky sheep design. Yep, it wasn't easy to hit them, maybe a resolution increase in the web player would help?
mildmojo
23. Apr 2015 · 04:54 UTC
This looks really nice. The little sheep are cute and original, and I really like how they're branded with the credits on the main menu. The DOF effect is really nice. The font was pretty hard to read at small sizes, especially in the webplayer version.

I'm not sure I quite figured out how to play. The different darts will cancel each other out, the blue darts just slow sheep down (?) and the red darts make them eat whoever's nearby? I only made it past the first level; it's pretty hard to right-click on a touchpad. =P

Cool idea. The gold sheep level might've been better with fewer black sheep so you had less chance of them going all cannibal on you. =)
nonetheless
23. Apr 2015 · 19:36 UTC
Haha, thats nice. And it's graphically stunning. Great job :)
kabutakogames
24. Apr 2015 · 08:37 UTC
Great mechanic implemented well! A really great jam game - multiplayer would be an awesome next step
runvs
24. Apr 2015 · 16:44 UTC
Nice game. The graphics were really nice but the music was a bit annoying though.
Psyho
24. Apr 2015 · 16:46 UTC
Great sheep animation and overall nice graphics. Well, except for that font. That thing was horrible and looks like tribal tattoos. It took me some time to actually see that there are instructions in each level.

Also, the gameplay is essentially just "wait for the right moment and click", which may be fine for mobile games, but on desktop it gets tedious after 5 minutes. It doesn't really feel rewarding when you correctly hit the sheep, but it's very irritating when you don't, and thus you have to restart the level.
cgmorton
24. Apr 2015 · 18:47 UTC
Possibly the best use of the theme I've seen yet.
Hambone
25. Apr 2015 · 04:19 UTC
Good lord this was beautiful!
Huo-cuo
25. Apr 2015 · 04:48 UTC
Perfect fun. I laughed a lot.
Chaoseed
25. Apr 2015 · 15:52 UTC
I'm not...really sure what's going on? I guess I have to make some sheep enraged to kill the target sheep? Then what are the relax darts for? It's all kind of confusing. Not to mention, I THINK I passed the first level, but it said the same "Try to do it better" message.

The graphics are awesome, though!
CliffracerX
25. Apr 2015 · 15:56 UTC
This is really ridiculous, and really awesome because of it.

Pretty funny take on the theme! Couldn't get past level 2 though, the white sheep kept destroying eachother and not the black sheep.
Really nice work with the graphics, they're incredibly pretty :)
oparisy
25. Apr 2015 · 16:01 UTC
Very nice rendering and animation! I'm not sure I understood how to win the levels, though.
Demy
25. Apr 2015 · 16:15 UTC
I LOVE IT, it's super fun! The graphics are really cute, music fits perfectly! 10/10 would dart sheep again!
My only complain is about font, i found it hard to read.
dos
26. Apr 2015 · 17:44 UTC
Cool concept, gets pretty challenging.
idoadler
27. Apr 2015 · 20:48 UTC
Sweet and funny
Jasonsumm
29. Apr 2015 · 23:10 UTC
Haha! really nailing the theme there :P fun game! Nicely executed!
🎤 Detocroix
30. Apr 2015 · 18:20 UTC
Jasonsumm: Love the pun! :D
recursor
05. May 2015 · 16:36 UTC
The graphics are lovely.
MrShoestore
06. May 2015 · 13:35 UTC
i like the concept. music is hella annoying, and I like polka. it would have been nice to have other sfx going on. a sheep game without sheep noises feels, well like it's missing something.
Crowbeak
09. May 2015 · 04:22 UTC
I like how you had the one injection mechanic that could be used on any of the sheep and that the objectives changed on each level. Your choice of font was really hard to read, though, so much so that it took several levels before I realized there words there rather than decoration.