Unstable Stable

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.41
 

What are all these sheep doing in your stable? You must apply some Hind Leg Justice™ to their fuzzy little faces and get them the heck outta there!


While we've made a good number of Ludum Dare games before, they were nearly always made in LibGDX featuring 2D pixel art. Unstable Stable is our first awkward venture into Unity 3D/Blender.

🎮 ➡ PLAY UNSTABLE STABLE (Web)


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:joystick: Controls/How To Play

* WASD or arrow keys to move
* SPACE to kick
* TAB or P to pause

A horse's life ain't easy, especially when sheep come and disrupt the status quo. Out the door or out the windows, you have 3 minutes and 30 seconds to return this place to the stable stable it once was. (Don't mind the battle axe.)

And do let us know your highscore in the comments!

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:family_mmb: Credits


- :computer: @daanvanyperen | coding | twitter | github | website
- :musical_score: @astronautmikedexter | music & audio | YouTube | website
- :art: @flaterectomy | graphics | twitter | YouTube | website | portfolio
- :warning: MisterOizo | playtesting | LinkedIn
- :warning: Rellik_pt | playtesting

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:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Blog Posts

* Pre-LD & Wallpaper
* Day #1 Progress
* Day #2 Progress
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Tools: Blender, libGDX

Comments15

Substain
Substain5 Oct 2021, 09:04
its actually pretty hard trying to drive backwards and kicking the sheep out... I did not make it :(
cituchi5 Oct 2021, 09:15
this is a very funny game! I took the horse outside the barn and miraculously brought it back)
Malte Hedenstrom
Malte Hedenstrom5 Oct 2021, 09:20
A very unstable stable indeed, Had a little hard time manuvering the horse when it's going backwards or facing the camera. But I liked it!
ChillerTyp5 Oct 2021, 14:55
Good old Resident Evil 1 controls. ^^
Hobzone5 Oct 2021, 15:05
Funny little game with a car ... I mean a Horse !
TheGrandpa5 Oct 2021, 18:42
Fun but really hard to control
GodDoesPlayDice6 Oct 2021, 10:19
It's fun, but too hard! :)
The audio work is very good.
tetrapteryx
tetrapteryx6 Oct 2021, 13:49
Hilarious take on the theme, I loved the sound effects and animations. I didn't mind that it was absurdly hard to play, the controls and ensuing chaos just added another layer of instability!
Bobi5056 Oct 2021, 19:38
This is a very strange but funny game))
PeachTreeOath
PeachTreeOath7 Oct 2021, 06:28
Always good to keep pushing your jam limits. I know you guys have a very high bar set so it feels bad if you don't feel like you met it, but we're all in that boat here. I spent a ton of time with multiplayer and photoshop tutorials myself.

My playthrough of this game was in phases:
1. Learn to move backwards and kick like crazy. While the least effective phase, it was certainly the most fun.
2. At some point I realized I could just hold down space and put my horse in a permanent planche position (lol). This was a bit more effective as I didn't have to worry about timing and the knockback force seemed to be more controllable.
3. Finally, I accidentally pushed in a sheep driving forward, and it dawned on me I could just push all the sheep into the goal much easier... I ended up doing that and won pretty easily.

I'm curious what the planned version was going to be like. I'm sure that pendulum axe was a sign of things to come.

Overall it was a fun concept that immediately interested me as soon as I got in. Hitting the sheep the way you want was challenging, but hey, all the games this jam are. Great work for using so many new tools :)
Cemre9 Oct 2021, 07:27
I love the music. but when I go out of the house, I can't come back and I'm lost. It could be nice maybe if you restrict the horse to go out of the bounds of the house(or barn is the word I guess). The rollers on horse's feet is cute :D I like the graphics too. Music is very good.
Inokentii_Best12 Oct 2021, 18:48
I could not drive the sheep out of the barn in this game) I think in real life this is 10 times easier to do. fun game)
ZacharyPinkham
ZacharyPinkham12 Oct 2021, 22:14
Surprisingly difficult and awkward in the best possible way, it was a lot of fun! Turns out that 3 minute time limit was pretty accurate for how long it would take (though admittedly I didn't QUITE accomplish getting them all out). All in all, nice work and I hope you expand on it further!
Dunk
Dunk14 Oct 2021, 11:19
Wow, it was very awkward to get all the sheep out (and what's with the sheep sounds!), but the overall mood is fun so I persevered. I appreciated the end game art, and I liked the wheels on the horse (presumably to save animating it!)
Papaver
Papaver19 Oct 2021, 17:07
Hilarious and difficult! I had fun playing the game, but I was very bad at it. My high score was 5 :sheep:

The controls were a bit unstable too, I am not sure if that was on purpose. Sometimes the horse wouldn't rotate? It seems that I can't rotate after a kicked.

I enjoyed the music! But the sheep sound like ducks? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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