Don`t Sleep by Plepletier

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made by Plepletier for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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A game about fighting sleep on a normal day.

Strike the sheep to avoid dozing off in the middle of your meeting! Control your tiny subconscious self, moving fast as you use a sledgehammer to fight against waves of sheeps trying to jump into your head!

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  • W A S D keys to move your character.

  • Space bar to attack!

  • R key to enter/exit the build mode.

BUILD MODE:

  • A and D keys to choose a location to your fence or mailbox turret.

  • Space bar to build!

OBS: Opening/Game Over theme is original. Gameplay music by Loyalty Freak Music: https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/29604/

Ratings

Overall 84th 4.1⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 82th 4.086⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 486th 3.514⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 274th 4.015⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 309th 4.121⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 192th 3.906⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 166th 3.924⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 357th 3.803⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 47🗨️

Feedback

Jungle
04. Apr 2022 · 02:42 UTC
OMG... This is a very nice game. Great graphics and very funny. I love the flip movement of the player, reminds me Paper Mario. Congratulations, 5/5
blobo
05. Apr 2022 · 03:03 UTC
Oh good lord this is absolutely hilarious. ~~Why in the world did you opt out of humor?! (it looks like you opted out of as many categories as possible?)~~

Seriously outstanding work. This was a great time. My best score was 121.

Edit: I have gone back and rated your game for the other categories. Again, great work!
🎤 Plepletier
05. Apr 2022 · 17:58 UTC
@100th-coin t was by mistake... we saw this today. we allow voting now.
exopunk
05. Apr 2022 · 18:33 UTC
That was fun, I enjoyed it a lot, loved the mix of action and tower defense gameplay. Awesome particles and juicy effects, the overall presentation was top notch.

My only slight criticism is that the difficulty spike at the start seemed a little bit extreme, compared to the first waves.

Great work overall I enjoyed it a lot.
GRAMSINATOR
05. Apr 2022 · 18:39 UTC
Great gamefeel. Animations are real nice everything is smooth. It gets a bit overwhelming a bit too fast. Movement could be improved (dash ? or something) Or the map layout on its own needs a rework.

Sound design is great. Music is fun enough (the way it sounds might become tiring since its an arcade)

The building idea is nice, but the way is implemented could be improved a lot (gameplay wise, the technical aspect is great) It feels fairly weak, canons dont do much, maybe setting some aoe dmg on imapct would make more sense since the game is about waveclear (the main melee attack says it all and feels real good) the building part of the gameplay seems seems necessary to be able to manage the waves, but it feels motly useless, which is why i only playe a single round, felt like i had no reason to try harder.

Overall the main attack and responsivness from kicking the shit out of sheeps is very well done. Nice work
Rendow
05. Apr 2022 · 18:40 UTC
Very cute sheep and player sprites, love the paper mario look. The attacking part is really polished and feels good. Great job guys!
SasquatchBStudios
05. Apr 2022 · 18:40 UTC
5/5 on the graphics holy cow, beautiful game! Reminded me of paper Mario, I instantly fell in love with your character (plus, REALLY nice effects behind the attack)
Love your take on the theme, I've been a part of many meetings and know how hard it is to stay awake!

Unless I just couldn't figure it out, an option to 'return to main menu' or 'quit' from within the gameplay would have been nice.

Honestly, my only critique is just how quickly the difficulty scales up. I found myself getting overwhelmed within the first minute or two of playing and I wasn't ready for it to be over!

Congratulations, really solid entry!
JOZGames
06. Apr 2022 · 00:06 UTC
I really liked this game. It uses tower defense elements, which fits the theme perfectly, and still makes the basics comfortable and fun. Congrats to the devs.
MacabreArtGames
06. Apr 2022 · 02:03 UTC
Fun gameplay. Understood at first try. Very straight forward. Well done! (poor sheeps)
Sawyer
06. Apr 2022 · 14:07 UTC
Very fun, the game looked very good, I felt bad smacking the sheep with the mallet lol.
SofiGnedova
06. Apr 2022 · 14:10 UTC
Awesome metaphor. We don't let the character count sheep. Cool graphics, cool sound. This game made me feel great. ^^
Rbn
06. Apr 2022 · 14:11 UTC
Really cool game and idea ! Love the sound design on this one. Well done to the team!
Burn Tree
06. Apr 2022 · 14:11 UTC
Wow. So cute game. I really enjoyed
DevVex
06. Apr 2022 · 14:15 UTC
Well done! I think it gets a little too difficult too quickly (very difficult to polish that in the given time though)...however I enjoyed it a lot and kept going until I finally got passed 100 points!
Erilhir
06. Apr 2022 · 14:26 UTC
Very fun game ! I especially liked the way the caracter is moving and spinning with is little cute hammer. Great job !
Str8griz
06. Apr 2022 · 16:26 UTC
Very well done and polished game! Scaling was a little hard for me, but maybe I am not quite as MLG these days haha.

Really enjoyable and loved all the feedback in the game!
C64Gamer
06. Apr 2022 · 22:20 UTC
What a cute game. :D Love it. Reminds a bit on Paper Mario :D. Really good job guys :-)
Zoeluci
06. Apr 2022 · 22:50 UTC
Great game! The graphis looks good, and they really give the "dremy" atmoshpere. A very intuitive UX and the movement of the character and the spinning of the hammer are very fluid and feels good. Very fun game, good job!
Stalemeat
07. Apr 2022 · 07:59 UTC
I really enjoyed this. It was like a well polished mini game. The entire thing looked great and I liked the mix of 3D and 2D that blended very well together. This is an imaginative entry. Great work.
Ines Brezavscek
07. Apr 2022 · 15:45 UTC
A really fun game and the theme fits perfectly! I liked the animations you used
TOminerTV
08. Apr 2022 · 12:24 UTC
Great game! :thumbsup:
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LDJam user 237588
08. Apr 2022 · 12:29 UTC
This is seriously fun. I loved slamming the sheep. The audio and visuals are very well done which contributes a lot to the fun.
BougieBirdie
08. Apr 2022 · 23:32 UTC
This game is super cute. I feel kind of bad hitting the sheep because of the sound they make, but it's just so polished!

I did run into an issue where I couldn't place structures sometimes. I'm not 100% sure why either, I seemed to have enough stars. Maybe there was something colliding and I just didn't know :shrug:

Fun game!
jelch
09. Apr 2022 · 14:46 UTC
Hilarious game! Very complete and polished!
Saryah
10. Apr 2022 · 03:47 UTC
A very well constructed game and well suited for the theme, I had lots of fun trying to maximise sheep carnage. Cute art for the sheepies, and great game overall.
JuhrJuhr
10. Apr 2022 · 17:57 UTC
Excellent mix of 2D and 3D, the controls and attack are really satisfying.
Keeping the guy awake suits the theme and the jam itself very well :)
I'd love more options of things to build though!
filgru
11. Apr 2022 · 18:56 UTC
Super cute game! My score is 80! I tried to pay attention to what was on this guy's screen, but that not the way to win :) I also like the music! Well done!
EwileCoyote
12. Apr 2022 · 19:38 UTC
Fun game! I love it !
OwlyCode
12. Apr 2022 · 23:36 UTC
This is so fun to play! It gets hard really quickly but that fits the theme well. I like the effort made on playing with no mouse at all but building can get a bit tedious. The arts are fantastic, and the sheep are really fun to smash.
Sopata
20. Apr 2022 · 13:44 UTC
Super cool game - very polished as well. I liked the core theme and idea - it is really hard to stay awake in some of them corporate meetings :sweat_smile:

I kind of wanted to have a bit more time before getting infested with sheep - maybe it can be a bit more balanced so you get the chance to play a bit more and build a bit more before dying.

All in all, I think your team did a great job! :clap: