Ludum Dare #48compo
Sheep Deeper
Sheep Deeper - not so easy way to count the sheep before sleep. A game which tests your working memory.
The game requires remembering a sequence of spoken colors and a colors of sheep passing, and identifying when sheep or sound matches the one that appeared N steps earlier.
You can use both keyboard arrows and mouse cursor to choose the options on the screen.
P.S. Based on dual N-back performance task.
A mini example as a tutorial:
1-back: You click 'color match' when the previous sheep has the same color as the current one. Similarly, you have a match if the audio is the same as previous audio. - * * note that, visual and sound is completely separate tracking * *
2-back: You need to remember 2 steps earlier and click if the sheep color is the same as the sheep passes two earlier. Same goes for audio.
So there are two types of mistakes; not pressing when you should have and pressing when you should not have. As you press correctly, you go into a deeper sleep, enjoy!
Other Details:
- Unity3D and Adobe Photoshop
- solo developed in about 8 hours :clock8:
- experimented with watercolors :paintbrush:
- recorded my voice on phone, sorry for that
:speak_no_evil:
The game requires remembering a sequence of spoken colors and a colors of sheep passing, and identifying when sheep or sound matches the one that appeared N steps earlier.
You can use both keyboard arrows and mouse cursor to choose the options on the screen.
P.S. Based on dual N-back performance task.
A mini example as a tutorial:
1-back: You click 'color match' when the previous sheep has the same color as the current one. Similarly, you have a match if the audio is the same as previous audio. - * * note that, visual and sound is completely separate tracking * *
2-back: You need to remember 2 steps earlier and click if the sheep color is the same as the sheep passes two earlier. Same goes for audio.
So there are two types of mistakes; not pressing when you should have and pressing when you should not have. As you press correctly, you go into a deeper sleep, enjoy!
Other Details:
- Unity3D and Adobe Photoshop
- solo developed in about 8 hours :clock8:
- experimented with watercolors :paintbrush:
- recorded my voice on phone, sorry for that
:speak_no_evil:
Genres: educational
Tools: Unity
Comments11
PhthaloGold26 Apr 2021, 07:53
It took a while to get it, but it was still challenging. I think a tutorial or how to play screen would help. Overall interesting concept and cute art.
Predominant26 Apr 2021, 07:58
Tricky to understand what to do, at first, but after some trying, it started to make sense. The link to the N-back article actually helped. Nice work!
A0m1n3Zone27 Apr 2021, 11:05
Interesting concept!
noyyyy99927 Apr 2021, 12:16
It's a fun little game with really lovely art, I like you use dream for the theme, but it's hard to understand the gameplay, overall, I like it!
vrerabek28 Apr 2021, 09:20
Took me a while to understand but once I did, I had fun.
Echo GameWorks9 May 2021, 20:42
That is a mind-bending challenge! Nice implementation. Great work!
SleepyStudios12 May 2021, 14:26
After a few goes (I think?) I got it. It really is an interesting puzzle game and definitely unique for this event. Really liked the watercolour art work too, nice job.
LDJam user 233115 May 2021, 15:36
Very interesting take on the theme! The link to the article was good for explaining how it worked, but I think it would have really rounded things out if it was demonstrated visually with some in-game tutorial/examples. Nice work, regardless :)
ColeSlaughter18 May 2021, 06:35
We played your game on stream!
This game drove us all insane, as you'll probably see in the VOD. Our working memory is......definitely something wanting. :sweat_smile: I think a more clear tutorial in-game would have gone a long way, but we eventually figured it out!
...Didn't help us and our melting brains though... :stuck_out_tongue:
This game drove us all insane, as you'll probably see in the VOD. Our working memory is......definitely something wanting. :sweat_smile: I think a more clear tutorial in-game would have gone a long way, but we eventually figured it out!
...Didn't help us and our melting brains though... :stuck_out_tongue:
Ava Skoog18 May 2021, 15:10
Really clever! 😍 I've heard about this before, great idea to make a game out of it. I got a bit confused sometimes when I would click and it said correct but then before it had given me a new sheep or audio clip it suddenly said missed, is that a bug? 😟 Other than that this was fun, once I figured out my various misunderstandings of the description and stopped trying to match audio to visuals 😅 High score on innovation from me!
Some more explanation, or a tutorial at the beggining would be nice.
It was a lot of try and error to figure out the game
Edit: Ok I get it now. It's hard