Grow the herd by Jan Peter (jpdev)

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made by Jan Peter (jpdev) for LD34 (COMPO)
Grow the herd

You are Oberon and you like sheep. Sheep don't like you back.

Grow your herd (which is zero right now) by herding as many sheep into the starting area as you can within three minutes.

You can move using the cursor keys and bark using the space key.

Sheep will run from you. If you bark, they will notice you within a greater radius.

Good luck and have fun!

The last screenshot is a gif - but it will only play if you click the big picture (not just the thumbnail).

Here you can watch a timelapse of the making of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_js5MXBH-s

Obviously more then two buttons control the game - so I only chose the theme growing (as in growing your herd of sheep).

Infos:
Engine: lasted stable phaser (see http://phaser.io/)
Spriter-Engine: https://github.com/SBCGames/Spriter-Player-for-Phaser

art: Inkscape & paint.net
animations: Spriter
map-editor: Tiled
sound-editor: Audacity
texture packing: Texturepacker

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1507
Overall 3.12 585
Audio 2.72 436
Fun 3.04 567
Graphics 3.63 219
Humor 2.95 224
Innovation 3.12 512
Mood 2.80 598
Theme 3.04 869

Feedback

terop
13. Dec 2015 · 17:28 UTC
The animations are such amazing piece of work, and the sounds are great. Great work.
Adolf Jong Un
13. Dec 2015 · 17:40 UTC
amazing, love the animations!
Kouthem
13. Dec 2015 · 19:48 UTC
Love the animations on the dog! =D
Geukes Colin
13. Dec 2015 · 19:49 UTC
The artstyle is very cute, really reminds me of those books I read as an infant. Love it. Animations are awesome, but I don't think this game belongs in Growing nor Two Buttons Control
TaoPhoenix
13. Dec 2015 · 20:03 UTC
You can grow your herd!

But it's tricky, I only got a few sheep, it's really easy to get jammed into a corner (but they have bump detection) but in-game that top cul de sac next to the herd pen is really tricky.
madcoil
13. Dec 2015 · 21:19 UTC
Haha, the sounds! Meeehh.
Ovidios
13. Dec 2015 · 21:28 UTC
The art was adorable but I don't think it was really exciting to play. It's also sometimes frustrating to get the sheep out of a corner.
icereci
13. Dec 2015 · 22:31 UTC
fun game. somehow I got stuck on the top fence.
Andarilhoz
13. Dec 2015 · 23:08 UTC
Nice, but i guess its jsut too much for my gamer skills haha

loved the dog =)
SketchyGalore
14. Dec 2015 · 03:21 UTC
I herd that!... Ahem... Good job!
rantt
14. Dec 2015 · 19:55 UTC
A little tricky but pretty fun. Graphics and animations were really nice. I enjoyed it, good job :)
TomenLuca
15. Dec 2015 · 22:44 UTC
The art is very cute and the gameplay is pretty fun. If I could give one tip, it would be that this game could use some nice background music.
Jesse Freeman
16. Dec 2015 · 17:02 UTC
Great take on the theme. Sounds are really funny. Controls felt a little off, especially trying to herd the sheep where you want them to go. Great game!
PlasterPhantom
16. Dec 2015 · 17:46 UTC
Pretty cool game. Could use some more mechanics though.
Wevel
16. Dec 2015 · 21:47 UTC
Love the sounds, very funny
thelasthour
17. Dec 2015 · 20:24 UTC
Nice game. I only got 5 sheep xD.
matiz982
17. Dec 2015 · 20:29 UTC
The cutest sounds of sheep and barking <3
sergicollado
17. Dec 2015 · 20:39 UTC
nice game
NirabazGAMES
17. Dec 2015 · 20:59 UTC
sheeeeps!!! like it)
Dege
17. Dec 2015 · 21:22 UTC
Art & animation are good. Sounds are very fun.

The viewport is far too zoomed in my opinion; in fact you made the minimap a key element, and I played all the time looking at the it. That's sad because you can play (looking the map) OOOORRR you can look at the cute graphics :) Zoom out the camera, and make the minimap less important, IMHO it should be just a tool to see where are remaining sheeps when you are near the end, not the main thing you look at while playing.
Xanjos
18. Dec 2015 · 02:00 UTC
Game map is probably is a bit too big but I like the mechanics and the animations were well done.
Jakob37
19. Dec 2015 · 20:20 UTC
It has a really nice look about it! And, is that proper sound acting that I hear? If so, quite impressive indeed. One quite big issue I had was that the browser didn't capture the arrow keys for me. That, together with a game screen much larger than my laptop window led to that I moved the entire window around together with the dog. Otherwise, seems like a solid game :)
psychonull
20. Dec 2015 · 20:37 UTC
Very nice game. Great graphics and sounds. Good job!!
Larzan
03. Jan 2016 · 23:31 UTC
Haha, great idea, love the audio and gfx :D