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?
Play shepherd game
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
Comments
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.
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 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.
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



Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.