Sheep Sheep Halloumi
You play as a shepherd*, chasing your sheep and preventing it from eating the poisonous red flowers!
Instructions
Click on the flowers to make them disappear.Your sheep loses health by walking and eating red flowers, and gains health by eating the white flowers.
High scores
| 1. | @sheepycrunch | 540 |
|---|---|---|
| 2. | @zanthous | 532 |
| 3. | @shadowcast | 491 |
*Shepherd not included
Comments70
Good job
also the lose screen seems a little dark for the theme haha, maybe something more cartoony would fit better.
A few things to point out :
1. The beep sounds seem to be 3D sounds. This means that you'll start to only hear them in one of the headphones as you get further from the source
2. While the game doesn't have a lot of mechanics and is pretty intuitive, you should've at least included what the player should do(if there is one and I missed it, my bad)
Apart from this you've got a solid game
I was only able to get about this far:
Each time it seemed that the difficulty REALLY ramped up around there.
Well done on such a funny and charming game!
+ Actually putting effort to writing a path finding algorithm
+ Cute ded goat pic
- A little fuzzy on indicating which flower is selected. Would prefer stronger color.
- Some flower sprites clipping through the map tiles on the upper right corner of the map. Not sure if you want the sheep to be able to go around the corner and get covered by the walls.
Overall nice and polished. GJ!
Got to 491. Didn't took long for me to start doing some hard flicks to get the red flowers xD
I agree with what someone else said about the 'lose' screen, it doesn't quite fit, but very good game for a gamejam :)
The Art (visually and musically) is nice and coherent.
The camera movement is probably a bit too jerky, making the selection of bad flowers hard. Very fun arcade game !
I loved the simplicity in the art style and music, it brought out a bit of the console feel.
I've played with headphones, the sound keep moving away from the screen. I think you used an "AudioStreamPlayer2D" where the simple "AudioStreamPlayer" would have done the job.
Anyway, even while *the shepherd were not included*, the game concept is very enjoyable and isometric sphere works well on this game! Really suitable concept for a successful mobile game!
I found that it was not that easy to pick the red flowers (papaver? :rose:), firstly since the sheep is in control of the camera, and secondly because I wanted to click on the flower head in stead of the square. Maybe it would be nice to visually help the players by highlighting the square that your cursor is on.
I would like to play it on a touch screen! But till then, my highscore:
Thanks for all the feedback, there are some bugs (like flowers staying black, undesired audio panning and incidental clipping) which would be easy to fix but are not game-breaking, so we'll leave them in. The camera movement is very deliberately following the sheep (we threw out the keyboard controls quite late) to make it a simple mouse-only game and as an (admittedly infuriating) mechanism to challenge the player.
The concept of the game actually changed a lot, especially in the last few hours. At first we wanted to create a "herding simulator" and then a puzzle game, but that did not feel very fun in the end. After turning up the speed for debugging we noticed that that actually made the game better - so we threw out the initial pathfinding, made the water non-lethal and in the last few hours turned it into a clicking-action game.
Did anyone find the easter egg we put in the game btw?
I'd just criticize the camera bouncing around with the sheep kinda made me sick.
Also, there was directional sound for the music haha, dunno if that was intentional? I thought my headphones were broken/ not plugged in properly until the sheep went centre on the map again.