Lonely Shepherd

by shawn42
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Community★★★★★★★★★★1.71
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

Comments6

Milo
Milo20 Dec 2011, 03:51
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.
Sanguine20 Dec 2011, 09:03
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.
shawn42author20 Dec 2011, 12:50
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.
Benjamin23 Dec 2011, 21:32
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
summaky24 Dec 2011, 19:12
13 days for me!

I really like the 'olala' sounds :-)
caranha
caranha2 Jan 2012, 16:58
Oh la la!

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

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