Baa Ram Ewe by renatopp

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made by renatopp for LD31 (COMPO)
"Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true! Baa-ram-ewe!"

Baa-Ram-Ewe is game where you must herd your sheeps, trying to keep them inside the map and away from problems.


How To Play:

- To move the sheeps: keep the mouse close to a sheep;
- To make wolves leave: just click on them;

========================= READ THIS BEFORE YOU PLAY ==============================

- Try to move all sheeps at the same time (this is the challenge).
- If you move one at one, the game is pretty boring and you won't have much fun.

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Some Technical Details:

- I used a boid algorithm to control the sheeps, following [1] and [2].
- Inkscape and Tiled where used to create all graphics and maps.
- I'm also using CreateJS and Creatine as code base


Credits to my Wife, Carolina Vidotto Pyramo for the sheep sounds and the game name. =**


[1] http://www.kfish.org/boids/pseudocode.html
[2] http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall 3.96 35
Audio 3.82 55
Fun 3.81 59
Graphics 4.04 76
Humor 3.26 148
Innovation 3.86 127
Mood 3.66 81
Theme 3.09 1026

Feedback

rogberth
08. Dec 2014 路 02:26 UTC
Cute and fun little game, but it needs more wolfs... and maybe less water haha
jfreax
08. Dec 2014 路 02:34 UTC
Nice game concept and got implementation. Graphic looks super. Sound - yeahh. UI!

Unfortunately level 3 does not start :(
Firefox 33 on Gentoo Linux.
sheigeno
08. Dec 2014 路 09:04 UTC
..i love the graphics style and the gameplay..nice :)
mrspeaker
08. Dec 2014 路 15:42 UTC
Wow! This is flippin' delightful - great aesthetic, really polished, and cohesive... this could totally a great mobile game.

I get the same as jfreax though: level 3 doesn't start, throwing some create.js error in the console. Fix it please!!!
馃帳 renatopp
08. Dec 2014 路 16:20 UTC
Thanks @jfreax and @mrspeaker. I just fixed the bug. You all can play on firefox!
gre
08. Dec 2014 路 16:33 UTC
Awesome game!
Very original gameplay. I didn't know sheeps was afraid of mouses aha.

This on mobile/tablet with multi-touch support please! fingers are dogs aha :-D
馃帳 renatopp
08. Dec 2014 路 17:47 UTC
@gre, or pigs! http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/babe-1.jpg hahha
Integershift
09. Dec 2014 路 02:33 UTC
I hate Sheep now thanks. Really great game graphics are amazing gameplay is amazing its really well done for 48 hours.
MiniBobbo
09. Dec 2014 路 02:38 UTC
This was a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of anything that uses flocking algorithms.
馃帳 renatopp
09. Dec 2014 路 02:44 UTC
Thank you all, guys
SilentNight
09. Dec 2014 路 03:06 UTC
I love this game. The sounds, graphics, and everything was great. Its really cute and simple (Not in a bad way at all). Excellent work!
error031
09. Dec 2014 路 03:07 UTC
cool game!
muramasa
09. Dec 2014 路 03:09 UTC
I found it pretty good on most aspects. Only thing was the music. It's repetitive, yes, but then it stopped and never repeated ever again. Also I find sheep sounds kind of annoying. Though you varied them.
Wolves were a nice addition! First levels were long and tedious. Wolves gave the game what it needed. Thrill.
mrspeaker
09. Dec 2014 路 03:10 UTC
Yah! you fixed it! I really wanted to click on a wolf. This should totally be a mobile game... do it, else I will ;)
馃帳 renatopp
09. Dec 2014 路 03:18 UTC
Thank you guys.

@muramasa, totally agreed, I hate my sounds and musics, I always have this same problem. I really need to study more on this topic. Agreed with you about the levels, however, the time was short to make them better =((

@mrspeaker, I'm considering this, however, I need to think in more interesting puzzles =)
mrexcessive
09. Dec 2014 路 09:42 UTC
Hi there. You made a great game, love it! Have sent it to a farmer friend for reality review, have you seen the Bill Keir LED sheep video ... ? Nice Baa sound... too your flock be true... Cool!
馃帳 renatopp
09. Dec 2014 路 13:20 UTC
@mrexcessive Cool! Let me know your friend's impression! I recorded the sheep sounds, I don't really sure if I can use sounds from videos, but I could totally use for a full version of this. Thank you!
GGraca
09. Dec 2014 路 15:14 UTC
Very nice graphics and sound. I agree that it needs more wolfs
Msquirrel
09. Dec 2014 路 15:17 UTC
Holy shit, this is like, the cutest thing ever ^^, nicely made, nice concept.
SwiftIllusion
09. Dec 2014 路 15:20 UTC
Love the idea, and the super cute art and audio goes really well with it all. Had fun playing it, great entry :)!
jonah1nine
09. Dec 2014 路 15:23 UTC
Wow! A very nice game! I'm a fan of autonomous AI! You implemented the boids so nicely. So simple yet difficult. The art is quite pleasant too. Great job!
zzq
09. Dec 2014 路 15:30 UTC
Like it. Would be fun on tablet, especially for kids.
alfadur
09. Dec 2014 路 19:12 UTC
Impressive job! I kept expecting wolves to jump out of the trees though, would make a lot of sense. :)
馃帳 renatopp
09. Dec 2014 路 20:21 UTC
hahhaha @alfadur, nice idea.

Thank you all!
Germanunkol
10. Dec 2014 路 13:40 UTC
Awesoem game. The mechanics works much better than I anticipated. Very well done!!

All levels worked for me.
Budaniel
10. Dec 2014 路 15:04 UTC
Fun concept, great execution. I love the clean visuals and the controls are spot-on.
Threef
10. Dec 2014 路 15:18 UTC
Good job! That was really fun.
joshg
10. Dec 2014 路 15:43 UTC
Very nice. If you wind up working on it more, I'd say that they should stick together a little more. And the fear of the mouse starts too close and ramps up too quickly. I feel like you should be able to push them slowly from a little farther away without breaking the herd. You might search for "sheep dog trials" or "herding trials" if you haven't already, e.g. <http://youtu.be/bpjP3mxv21s?t=1m12s>. Other challeges you could add would be shedding (splitting mixed sheep into black and white groups), or singling one out. Well, you probably know all this already. Nice game. More!
allanolivei
10. Dec 2014 路 16:04 UTC
Beautiful graphics and good execution. Congratulations.
atombrot
10. Dec 2014 路 17:35 UTC
Very nice game. The connection to the theme is probably a bit thin, but other than that very well implemented. I loved the sound effects of the sheep and the wolf :D Was sad it ended after 5 levels.
redoxkun
10. Dec 2014 路 21:19 UTC
Nice graphics and quite fun, very good job!
alpha_rat
10. Dec 2014 路 21:21 UTC
Very nice entry!
I love the sound of the sheeps, very cute
dunin
10. Dec 2014 路 22:21 UTC
ok, it's a simple fun cute game... But so cute... and there baaaaaas...
relaxing cool game.
馃帳 renatopp
11. Dec 2014 路 13:29 UTC
Thank you guys!

@Joshg, WHOA! Very thanks for your tips, I couldn't really study these videos due to the time, but I watched some, only to do small adjusts the sheeps movements in game (just to looks more like a sheep and less like fishes). Your idea for puzzle is awesome too. I will save your comment to a **possible** full version of the game. Thanks again!
SoulGame
12. Dec 2014 路 01:16 UTC
Very nice and cool :) I'm especially impressed by controls. I first thought it would be very annoying to controls sheep by repelling them with my mouse but you actually managed to somehow make it smooth. It gets a little bit annoying with large amount of sheep (the level with 7 sheep) but it's really okay. Nice sheep voice acting btw :D
馃帳 renatopp
12. Dec 2014 路 02:23 UTC
Thank you @SoulGame!
JayCee23
12. Dec 2014 路 05:41 UTC
It was so cute. Just. SO CUTE. I loved it.
Lynx
12. Dec 2014 路 05:44 UTC
The amount of cuteness in this game should be illegal, post-jam more levels for sure!
Taunia Sabanski
12. Dec 2014 路 05:47 UTC
I want more of dis.

Please make more of dis.

So aesthetically cute. LOVELY gameplay. This will be perfect for touch-screen controls, guiding the little sheeps around with your finger.

This is a game that produced many high-pitched sounds from my vocal chords. It is completely adorable and I was confused and disoriented when it ended, because I simply wanted MORE. :D

Please make moar of dis.
FergusonTV
12. Dec 2014 路 15:03 UTC
Awesome audio, fun. Good job :D
klianc09
13. Dec 2014 路 18:12 UTC
Nice to see that boid algorithm being effectively implemented. Kudos for that. I now remember reading it a long time ago, but never actually got around to implement it. What I still had roughly in mind about it, influenced how I wrote that AI in my LD entry.

Besides that, the sheep are really adorable, I like how they are all basically circles. Still would have liked more levels with wolves, because they punish you, when you have your sheep scattered around the level and don't move them all at once.
Tipyx
15. Dec 2014 路 12:25 UTC
Very very beautiful and nice gameplay, awesome you do this in 48h !
6DownStudios
16. Dec 2014 路 01:56 UTC
Really clever, and quite fun! Art and sound is great too, all around a really solid entry. Kudos!
Gread72
16. Dec 2014 路 05:19 UTC
Fun Fun
janovbyrnisson
16. Dec 2014 路 15:06 UTC
99 puffy little sheep on the fields,
99 puffy little sheep,
Let one drown, pass it around.
98 puffy little sheep..

Nice game, I love it :)
馃帳 renatopp
19. Dec 2014 路 12:28 UTC
Thank you all!
PapyPilgrim
29. Dec 2014 路 20:55 UTC
only 5 levels? d'oh...