Ludum Dare » gore http://www.ludumdare.com/compo A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Destruction of the Sheep http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/27/the-destruction-of-the-sheep/ http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/27/the-destruction-of-the-sheep/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:30:58 +0000 jolle http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/27/the-destruction-of-the-sheep/ Having learnt some great lessons from my previous LD48 entry, Save The Hut, I decided to not include as much boringness, confusion and frustration in my next game. Together with the theme Construction/Destruction, and a cosmetic theme of Sheep, it all became so obvious: I was to make a game where you construct traps to destruct sheep. And lo and behold! there was The Destruction of the Sheep.

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I decided to use pretty much the same tech as for Save The Hut, but used it better to get some fancier stuff, like sub tile precision movements, rotated sprites, pseudo 3D particle gibs, and paintable background.

The game was supposed to be a puzzle game, but in the end only a few levels were puzzly, the rest was just mindless, but entertaining, sheep destruction with lots of gore. All in all, it worked out very well, making me a winner in ‘fun’ and ‘complete’ categories, and third in ‘gameplay (innovation?)’ and ‘overall’.

There’s an improved version available, adding some fixes, and a 2x time speed-up button (but there remains at least two bugs and a lot of spelling errors). You can get this version of The Destruction of the Sheep as a .zip archive or as an installer. They’re for Windows.

The original compo version is also available, both for DOS and for Windows (the Windows .exe was kindly provided by Hamumu during the compo). There’s also the source.

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