Ludum Dare #2compo
Sheep Strike
Protect the baby wolves from an Air Strike of Sheeps.
In construction mode you have to build a defensive out of Tetris like blocks in order to protect the babywolves.
Move the pieces with either the arrow keys or W,A,S, and D (like default controls in a 3d shooter). Rotate the piece with either Space/Enter or Q and E (respectfully).
Durring Construction mode you may have received some cannons. Use the mouse to move the cursor. Left click and the next cannon will fire. Right click and all cannons will fire.
If you run out of wolves, you lose.
Construction Mode
In construction mode you have to build a defensive out of Tetris like blocks in order to protect the babywolves.
Move the pieces with either the arrow keys or W,A,S, and D (like default controls in a 3d shooter). Rotate the piece with either Space/Enter or Q and E (respectfully).
Combat Mode
Durring Construction mode you may have received some cannons. Use the mouse to move the cursor. Left click and the next cannon will fire. Right click and all cannons will fire.
If you run out of wolves, you lose.




Comments22
Not only is it fast and stable (even on Win2K!), it also has gameplay which blends two classic game concepts into one that is both original, highly enjoyable and in perfect line with the theme.
The few pixels are used skilfully, although I miss an explosion sprite, even a crappy one.
The (relatively) low cosmetic vote is because that although it looks nice (already covered in the graphics vote), the cosmetics don't affect gameplay at all. But flying sheep are always nice, so it's a solid 3.
Completeness - not much to say, really. Aside from the balance issue (which imho deserves a voting category of itself), I only found three minor bugs (single-fire, building too high and bombing away half turrets).
All in all, very nice work! By far the most impressive yet.
The game is not much of a challenge though. Just stacking some blocks on the wolves head is too easy, you can even cover the canons under thick layers and they can shoot nevertheless. Why not allow building only at the borders to be forced to shoot down every sheep instaed of just digging in?
Cute graphics, especially the wolves. It has the same flickering problem my allegro game does. When will they release an improved version of allegro!?!?
The game balance is a little off. Sometimes you get a turret right of the bat, and sometimes it takes 3 turns until you get one and then you get three. Also I want points for killing sheep. :D
Still vote on the this version, but if want more out of the game, A new version that fixes just about every problem mentioned here is avaialble. Hop over to this thread ( http://ludumdare.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=169&forum=1&1 ).
Collision detection was a bit off (sheep flying straight through chunks of blocks), as was the turret-pointing code (try aiming below a turret).
Otherwise, an ok game - and it's not like I can knock people's collision detection routines, really ;)
Bug: if you get to the top of the screen where the figures appear, you only have to push the down button and get as many points as you want.
Anyways, absolutely great game.
Breakdown:
Overall - 3 - Pretty fun, I weigh heavily on fun
Gamplay Innovation - 3 - About average for the competition
Fun - 3 - It is pretty fun, but can get old if you are too well fortified
Graphics - 4 - The sprites are cute and well done
Sound - N/A
Technical - 3 - Nothing earthshattering, but it seems to work well enough
Gameplay Theme - 5 - Construction is there and so is destruction.
Cosmetic Theme - 4 - You have sheep and they aren't wallpaper
Completeness - 4 - Extra point for a title screen and general polish.