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Lonely Shepherd by shawn42

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made by shawn42 for LD22 (JAM)
Take on the role of the Lonely Shepherd; manage your flock by day, devour them by night.

"I've never used the term frantic mating before playing this game"


Huge thanks for the art from Justin @ www.justinmayle.com
Programming by:
Jason Porritt
Karlin Fox
Shawn Anderson

Windows https://github.com/downloads/shawn42/ludum_dare_22/LonelyShepherd.exe
OS/X https://github.com/downloads/shawn42/ludum_dare_22/LonelyShepherd.zip
Source https://github.com/shawn42/ludum_dare_22
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=571

Ratings

Coolness 0% 685
Overall(Jam) 3.00 43
Audio(Jam) 2.67 66
Community 1.71 632
Fun(Jam) 3.07 27
Graphics(Jam) 3.50 39
Humor(Jam) 3.54 6
Innovation(Jam) 2.86 40
Mood(Jam) 2.25 76
Theme(Jam) 2.00 120

Feedback

Milo
20. Dec 2011 路 03:46 UTC
I think that this game would do better if it had more decisions to make - there is really only one choice you have - which is to drag a male sheep onto a female sheep, and it's not very engaging to do that repeatedly. The graphics are some of the best I've seen so far though.
Sanguine
20. Dec 2011 路 08:58 UTC
Wow, those graphics were really awesome, really liked the style of the game. Just like the 'olala' sound of the sheep :)
I did think the game was a bit too easy, but still an awesome job on the concept.
馃帳 shawn42
20. Dec 2011 路 12:45 UTC
Milo: I agree. Some sort of power ups that need to breed into the sheep may come in a post-compo version.

Sanguine: Thanks! How far did you make it? It gets really hard around day 12-15.
Benjamin
23. Dec 2011 路 21:27 UTC
my score : 12 days ! It seems that sheep gender are randomized on the morning ? I can't understand why because one part of the strategy is to ensure that you have an equal number of male and female.
I like the graphics but I think the wolf animation could have been better. Animate the mouth could have help to figure where's the eat bounding box.
nice entry :)
summaky
24. Dec 2011 路 19:07 UTC
13 days for me!

I really like the 'olala' sounds :-)
caranha
02. Jan 2012 路 16:53 UTC
Oh la la!

The idea of this game is pretty neat. That said, it needs a lot more complexity for it to work.