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Game is gorgeous, wow! Love all the parallaxing effects and tilt-shift. Animations were smooth, title screen looked great.

Really enjoyed my time defending my flock, controls were intuitive and I felt like I picked up on the gameplay quickly. Brilliant idea to let you keep your spear if you get a direct hit on an enemy, it feels very rewarding for playing skillfully.

Day/night cycle seemed a bit slow to me, Day/night 1 was brutal on my flock and I didn't make it much farther; perhaps a more granular scoring system would be better than such large steps between 0-1-2, etc for newer players.

Overall, excellently done!!

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WormyMaple2 days ago(+1)

Thank you!

Yeah, I think the key here would be two reduce the time of the day/night cycle. Unfortunately, we decided early on to make the music tracks 2 minutes each, and I wanted to keep their full duration in the game

We were also very near changing the point system so that it would value how long you kept each individual sheep alive. However, we couldn't figure out how to keep players from quitting once they got down to 1-2 sheep because there would then be very little value in continuing. We supposed that adding some way to rebuild your flock would solve this, but we didn't have much time to add that. If you have any insight on this design issue, I'd be curious to hear!

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FalconDevelops2 days ago

That totally makes sense! The music is great too, it's a nice touch.

My gut tells me maybe 1 pt per hour, instead of 1 pt per day; you could still display which day was reached at the endslate (i.e. "You survived to day 3! Score: 70")

Rebuilding your flock is interesting. Perhaps +1 sheep returned, up to a max, as a reward when each day/night cycle is completed?

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