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Prompt 4:

Solving the final level was an interesting twist on my understanding of the mechanic introduced a level earlier, that being chickens. The objective of the level is to, as the shepherd dog, guide the sheep to the shepherd. As the dog, the sole verb at your disposal is to move in the 4 directions, and moving next to a sheep pushes it in that direction one space. This changes slightly when near a chicken, as the sheep try to avoid staying within 1 tile of a chicken, so on the next turn, if they are near a chicken they will move 1 space away from it regardless if its being pushed away by the dog. In the previous level this mechanic was moreso an obstacle, where the only path to herd the sheep to the pens was between all the water and chicken tiles (which could push the sheep into the water and restart the level). Like the final level, the semifinal level had only one route to push the sheep, through, and once this route was understood and found it was only a matter of not misclicking and herding each sheep to the pen. Though, in this final level, there were far more routes to consider taking, and after several attempts trying to guide the sheep around the chickens between the many creeks, I found the successful route at the bottom of the level. After catching on to the chicken-sheep mechanic, I figured how to use moving the sheep to particular tiles to move the sheep to where I needed it to be so that I could push it further along the path. This indirect movement of the sheep in the last level was an interesting interaction between the main verb and new rule.