Alien Cattle Rustlers by macaroni.dev
Orders have come from above - the mothership is hungry for beef!
How to play:
Rustle up some cattle to the rendezvous point so they can be picked up by the tractor beam.
Don't let them run off the edge of the screen - if you let three escape, you're done for!
Let us know how many you can rustle up.
Controls:
- Hold
SpaceorLeft Mouse Buttonand then drag yourMouseto move your UFO. It's alien technology, so it might take some practice! - Get close to cows to herd them.
- Press
Fto give 'em a holler and motivate them.
You can read a more detailed explanation of the flight controls here.
NEW (Post-Jam): We now have controller support!
- Use the
Left Stickto fly. - Hit the
Abutton to holler at the cows! This button varies controller-per-controller. For instance, on a DualShock 4, it isX.
About Us
We are a husband and wife studio that someday hopes to make games full-time.
Alien Cattle Rustlers was built in a custom Haskell 2D game engine. The art was hand-drawn in Clip Studio Paint. We also created the music and voice acting.
| Link | https://macaroni-static.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/LD/AlienCattleRustlers.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/alien-cattle-rustlers |
Ratings
| Overall | 871th | 3.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 954th | 2.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 567th | 3.333⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 917th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 773th | 3.333⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 587th | 3.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 348th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 786th | 3.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Maybe the controls could have been explained in-game :-)
The graphics are cute and the soundeffects are fitting. I like how the game refered as 'earth-seconds', it instantly gave me lot of ideas I wish I had at the start of the jam. Time is relative ofcourse! Never thought of that :-)
First of all, I love the idea of the alien technology tryingn to abduct cow, howerver, the way the controls are made, makes it way too hard (at least for me), so I had no Idea where i was going most of the time (some kind of arrow or something pointing in the direction the character is going would be a huge help). Other than that, the visuals are great and the sound design made chuckle a bit!
Overall, I'd say it's a great game.
We wrote up a short blog post explaining how the controls work here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/alien-cattle-rustlers/deep-dive-on-alien-flight-controls
Also, you can now enter a "flight practice mode" by hitting F1. It'll show the stick and an arrow for your direction. Hopefully this makes the controls easier to understand!
My best run was only 3 cows.
After playing with both quite a bit, I still prefer mouse controls. You can make tighter turns thanks to the ability to instantly change directions instead of having to spend frames moving the stick. But it is definitely not as intuitive!
when you use it, all cows in a radius around you will move in the same direction you are currently moving for a couple seconds. So you can use it to really control them!
It's really hard to get the cows only by moving arround but once you get how the F button works it's actually really fun to play. Good work :)