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A jam submission

Herding for DisasterView game page

Help the cows escape the tornado!
Submitted by jhanson — 5 hours, 29 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#33.5563.556
How well does the game fit the themes?#44.3334.333
Overall#43.8703.870
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#53.5563.556
Visuals#53.8893.889
Gameplay#63.6673.667
Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default)#114.2224.222

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
3:28

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Submitted

just like the sheeps in Red Dead Redemption 2. Mastapiece!

Developer(+1)

Haha.  Thanks!

Submitted

I love the way the cows were so unpredictable, made it really fun. I also liked the difficulty, found it hard, but I liked that. I did find a bug however where the Tornado got stuck at the corner of the fencing. (yet the cows still all walked into it)

Developer

Thanks!

Yeah, sometimes the tornado spends way too much time against the fence, unfortunately.  I need to tweak its AI.  Eventually it will find its way out - you just might have already saved/killed all the cows by the time it decides to.

Submitted

Well done 

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

I like the name :D. Anyways great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Nice little game. Could only save half the cows at my best, at least the stubborn half are gone! I was half expecting a UFO to come along and abduct some cow, I think there's a lot of potential for future expansion.

Developer

Ha!

Maybe I should use a UFO to teleport the stuck cows. :)

Submitted
Deleted 1 year ago
Developer(+1)

Thanks!  

When I started, I was making a game where you were trying to suck up the cows intentionally with a tornado that you control, but they were so cute that I felt bad.  So I scrapped the original idea and made it so you try to save them instead.

Developer (2 edits)

The best I've managed so far is saving 16 18 of the cows.  I also played it evil a few times and managed to have the tornado suck up all 20 of them.

Just a few notes:

  • You might occasionally see the tornado seemingly get stuck in one spot, usually along the fence.  It's not really stuck.  Sometimes it just decides to wait there for a while.  Tornadoes are unpredictable like that.
  • Herding isn't an exact science, and some cows are more stubborn or panicked than others.  But in general, if you position yourself on one side of the cow, it will try to go in the other direction.  Unless it gets distracted and decides to follow another member of the herd instead, of course.
  • The cows are dumb.  They don't know what a tornado is.  Some of them might go check it out.  Most of them don't seem to know it's there.  None of them run from it.
  • There's a teleporting cow bug.  It doesn't happen often.  If I wasn't over time I would have fixed it.  It's actually a very rough error correction routine - if a cow gets stuck in one spot for too long, instead of risking you ending up with a cow that you can't herd because it's stuck, it just moves the cow to a clear spot to keep the game moving.