{"id":2127,"edition":12,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":13310,"name":"Get the Flock Outta Here","authors":[{"name":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997}],"description":"

The story of our hero Tony and they’re friends who must gather the lost sheep and return them to their home.
\nA simple task you would think but Tony wasn’t to know who they would encounter along the way or the obstacles that they would face.

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Based on a true story.

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Controls

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W, A, S, D Arrows to move
\nSpace to perform action
\nMobile touch controls

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Reviews

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‘I’ve never seen anything like it’ - The Northampton Tribune
\n‘Speechless’ - The Prescot Trumpet

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Congrats on the graphics and audio, impressive.

\n","games":["O HIII BAD SKATEPARK","EMOJIPHOBIA","GREAT PLUMBER 65"]},{"at":378888519,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"

Very nice graphics and an interesting little game.

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Once you have seen the instruction stuff and have to restart its a real pain to have to sit through all of that every time. Space bar should be present to skip all messages.

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Having said that about the overly long stuff you have to sit through, it didn’t even mention that water is not a death trap. I was doing so well until I decided to take a shortcut through a puddle.. arghhh.

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Ditto regarding the mud :(

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Pretty neat game.

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P.S. I also so desperately desired to move diagonally :D

\n","games":["Badluck Butter Chicken Goes To Outer Space","Badluck Butter Chicken Flies The Unfriendly Skies"]},{"typ":1,"at":379723741,"re":378888519,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

I remember one time when herding sheep that I was told never to go in water as its a death trap and also avoid mud or holes as they also mostly resulted in death, so I guess I took that for granted.\nThe skip counter would have been active If you played one more game I think but I will reduce it next time.

\n"},{"at":378954904,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"

Nice presentation. Controls felt stiff,and with such a relentless map, I died more times than I was expecting.

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Moving faster would had help the game to feel more fun.

\n","games":["Deep13"]},{"at":378955241,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Love the humour. This sheep are dumb as… sheep. And dong the side quests just caused me to lose most of my sheep. Fun game.

\n","games":["Thirteen Terrible Stunts"]},{"typ":1,"at":378959482,"re":378955241,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

I possibly made it a bit too difficult. The follow mechanic works once you get the hang of it but hey, theyre sheep! :D\nThe timed levels are probably too hard admitedly.

\n"},{"at":378962668,"author":"aselitto","login":"aselitto","gh":17676172,"text":"

Well done! I like being a sheep herder and I love the idea of losing the respect of the sheep. Very well done and nice graphics!

\n","games":["Dekatria Mansion"]},{"typ":2,"at":379088451,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"

Exactly 13kB, nice work! Very Minecraft vibes.

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Introduction screen is very good. Love the personification; Tony as the main character, but cool that you can change characters. Sound effects are fun and on theme, a little bit of music would make it even more intuitive.

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Love the RNG; each map is very different. I definitely lost a lot of sheep though! The narratives are really good and you out a lot of thought into this. Great work.

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“Based on a true story” - I’d like to know more 😉 Nice job on your GitHub README.

\n"},{"at":379170053,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"

I saved 10 sheep with a score of 3610. Great graphics and sound effects.

\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"typ":1,"at":379301780,"re":379170053,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Thats a good score and 10 sheep is amazing. I think thats more than Ive ever got :D. Ive never got all of them. Thanks for playing.

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Just like everyone else is saying, it’s a little painful to go through the intro everytime I replay the game. Other than that, everything is pretty cool!

\n"},{"at":379328310,"author":"Lewis Nakao","login":"lewdev","gh":1469960,"url":"https://lewdev.github.io","twitter":"lewdev","text":"

Great graphics and so many characters to play! It’s amazing that you were able to fit so much content, dialog, and great indicators when you’re near an objective. The humor is great too.

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But there’s much to be desired if you want people to play the game all the way through.

\n\n","games":["13attle TanKs"]},{"typ":1,"at":379723539,"re":379328310,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

A friendly mode is in interesting thought, will consider. Im struggling to find slow rigid and icy unless you mean Trevor, but hes in a wheelchair! he has momentum like anything on wheels.\nIm not doing diagonal movement. Its clearly crossy road inspired with its look and feel and movement mechanic and no one said that about CR. It would break the game if I did I believe but thanks for the feedback

\n"},{"at":379466778,"author":"retro-pigeon","login":"retro-pigeon","gh":157606638,"text":"

Pretty interesting, but the tutorial is really lengthy and can’t be skipped

\n","games":["Dimension 13"]},{"at":379899497,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I enjoyed playing the game

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Graphics reminded me of a crossy-road type game. Animation was good, and the 3D worked well.

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The music did become a little repetitive, the sound effects were good.

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Love the credits and that all the sheep have names.

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The sheep would get “stuck” behind trees really easily, which made it a bit frustrating.

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I didn’t realise that the first time you go to the home space the game would end, I think it could be better if you could go out to pick up more sheep because otherwise the following flock grew so large that it was hard to navigate around obstacles without losing them

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Overall a fun game.

\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":1,"at":379908661,"re":379899497,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Interesting idea about the home. I never even thought of it but depositing them in batches is an idea to consider. I was too single minded about herding them all up and bringing them home 😃 It sort of makes its own difficulty in that the more you collect the harder it is to navigate. Thanks for the feedback

\n"},{"at":380189149,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

Oh those dumb sheep… pathfinding-skills: zero. I guess thats the point of shepherds and shepherd-dogs… :-)

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Nice game, with cool 3d graphics! And pretty fun!

\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"at":380328729,"author":"Benjamin Boyd Austin","login":"bbaustin","gh":18755168,"text":"

Low-key the most stressful game submitted this year, haha. I drowned so many sheep :(

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Very impressive, though. Cool graphics, very funny story elements, lots of interesting mini-games. The main “sheep herding” concept, with lots of sheep following your character is really cool, too.

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Also nice that you can choose from a bunch of characters.

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I agree with some others that a “restart” feature would be nice. Kinda rough to start the game over when you die

\n","games":["PicoBuddy"]},{"at":380351740,"author":"Eoin McGrath","login":"eoinmcg","gh":96340,"url":"http://eoinmcgrath.com","twitter":"eoinmcg","text":"

Love that voxel style.

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Great sense of humour too!

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I never imagined sheep herding could be such an ordeal; catching thieves, evading crazy mobs. This was tricky and a lot of fun!

\n","games":["Gecko Blaster"]},{"typ":1,"at":380405766,"re":380351740,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

That’s only the half of it! I had to remove some mini games. Luckily i managed to recover them for some sort of directors cut! Strap in, life on the farm is hard. 😉\nThanks for playing 😃

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":380367126,"author":"Richard Davey","login":"photonstorm","gh":164476,"url":"www.photonstorm.com","twitter":"photonstorm","text":"

One of the earliest “home micro” games ever was sheep herding - and still this concept appears constantly. Thankfully, this version is no wolf in sheep’s clothing and has seriously cute voxel / Crossy Road style graphics and a nice English sense of humor (I especially loved the “Pair of nickers” mini game).

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Your task is to round up all the sheep and guide them to the home pen. When you get there, it’s game over, so you have to get as many as you can rather than doing them in batches (which, honestly, would have been significantly easier!). As you traverse the grassy landscape you’ll encounter other characters that invoke mini-games that you play with your sheep in tow. These are sure-fire ways to accidentally kill off the entire flock as they dumbly plough themselves into tiny puddles and ditches.

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Easy, this game is not. I enjoyed playing it a lot though. I liked the humor, I loved the credits roll at the end, I liked the graphics, and honestly, even after several attempts and despite feeling extremely guilty at all the deaths on the way, I did manage to save Pattie, Colin and Jimmy, and for that, I will be eternally grateful.

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":380521922,"re":380367126,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Thank you, and the sheep (that survived) thank you.\nDifficulty, is something ill take away from this year. I make stuff far to difficult.\nIm glad you got the ‘nickers’ level. I was worried it might not translate that well. ☺️🐑

\n"},{"at":380418373,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

good graphics and 3d game very mc like

\n","games":["The 13 Invaders","Cookie Maze 3d","Maze Runner vs 13","Tower Defence Walking 13s"]},{"typ":2,"at":380494860,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"

This is a very good looking game full of humor! It took me some time to become good at it, though. The music could be better but the sound effects are really good. And thanks for adding mini-games here and there. Overall, it is a cute little game (but not an easy one!).

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":380522214,"re":380494860,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Thank you. Gauging difficulty is a true art, which ill take away from this years competition. I think its a muti play game to get good at it, which perhaps doesnt work that well in this sort of competition. Thanks for playing 😀🐑🐏

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