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A Shepherd's Surprise's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #963 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Creativity | #1613 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| Overall | #1707 | 3.420 | 3.420 |
| Enjoyment | #3194 | 2.815 | 2.815 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You build your snowballs uphill so they scale before hitting the wolves
Development Time
96 hours
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Love the concept, style, and sound. Do wish there was more of a level progression, even if it was like one more wolf each level. Also having a sheep counter would be nice, I think counting the sheep is a bit tedious no?
love this game art and music so much,wish for more content to play
Hello, composer from the game "Crescendo" here! Really cute characters and smooth animations. I could see this being a relaxing and chill game, especially if you have a little cabin you can go to afterwards for upgrades or to buy furniture to decorate your cabin. I could also see sheep cosmetics haha, I think that would be really cool.
Hey, hi. Your music sounds awesome by the way, great job. What do you think about the music my brother made for this game?
Hey again, I liked the music and thought it fit the game really well. Definitely get that snow vibe and chill vibe as well.
Really entertaining. I can see this being retooled into a fun mobile game or continued development on PC and add levels and obstacles, possibly different enemies. One round the wolves went down and I managed to save every sheep. If you continued development on this game I'm certain you could come up with many more fun ideas. The only one I might offer is a restricted snowball location so you have to throw it from the top to avoid clicking on the wolves. Overall entertaining and I was impressed with the wolves and sheep AI.
The game's charming art style creates a perfect winter atmosphere. The core mechanic of clicking to create snowballs and hit wolves is simple yet engaging. Expanding the gameplay with features like power-ups, obstacles, new shapes of levels, or different types of wolves could add more depth and variety. Introducing different difficulty levels would cater to players of varying skill levels and preferences (limiting snowballs, etc.). While the self-counting sheep is humorous, a hidden counter could provide a more objective measure of performance for players who prefer a more direct scoring system. Speaking of that, is 75 a good score?
A Shepherd's Surprise is a well-crafted g. While the current scope is rather tiny, its strong foundation and great idea seem to me it can be built into a full game. Keep up the great work, well done!
Short but fun game rly cool I love the art. It would rly cool if another level could have like blocks or slopes. And if there was an actual score that took into consideration the amount of sheep left, the time taken and how many snow balls were used.
Short game, but look really good.
If you like clicker and the hobbit, come here :)
funny but a little bit short for me
Short but cute! Would be nice to have a bit more challenge (looks like you can basically just click right on the wolves to hit them immediately) but it's amusing to watch the sheep running around and the snowballs rolling.
Ai, that happened because I made the snowball bigger to test the shadow of the snowball. The game is 15 times as easy as it should have been!
This is a fun little game. Obviously it could use a win/lose screen and maybe some more levels, but what's here is extremely polished and satisfying to play around with.
I love the flocking mechanics. Very smooth. And the sheep move almost like liquid once the wolves are dead.
And the expanding snowballs are nice. Interesting idea.
Cool idea, it was funny to know that I had to count the sheep to know my score
The best part about it is that it gets harder the better your score is, lol
I enjoyed playing this! I think as-is it could make a fun little phone game. I wish there were more to the game, but I'm not quite sure what direction to take it in.
I was going to add a 2 player mode where one player controls a wolf.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!