* Art is a hit 🎨 – Overwhelmingly positive feedback on the art, which is huge for me as a programmer
So all in all, a very successful prototyping month! We're going to keep at it, continue to improve the game and launch more updates soon!
Check it out here - neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
* UI layout bugs – UI is a weak spot for me; some buttons going off-screen, layout issues
* Too stressful, not cosy – Game felt rushed/hard despite cosy intent; sheep too fast, needs decay too quick (mostly rebalanced now)
The Learnings/Feedback Themes
* Web launch issues – Focused testing on Mac → missed web-specific bugs (asset loading, pathfinding, sheep escaping 🐑)
* Tutorial problems – Launched with no tutorial at first (oops), then still not clear enough → 13% completion says it all
The numbers:
* 117 browser plays out of 347 views = ~33% conversion rate - pretty good
* 13% tutorial completion funnel - yikes
* 65% sessions < 1 min, 35% > 1 min (up to 20 mins) - slightly yikes, but a decent number of long sessions
* 61 unique users and 21% feedback submission rate
30 days of testing and 117 plays, what did we learn in cosy sheep land?
Check out the game here
👉 neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
And thread for details 🧵👇
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Ending the year strong in cosy sheep land 🐑
We’ve added a proper tutorial mode to make things extra cozy and welcoming, and many fixes to sheep AI, pathfinding, UI and other improvements.
Play our prototype here: neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
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🐑 [update] Tutorial improvements - Sheep Prototype
We just published an update to our prototype with tutorial improvements. Probably the last update before the new year, happy holidays everyone!
neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
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🎄 Last sheep update before Christmas
We've added a tutorial to make it easier to understand and play the game, plus various quality of life improvements on balancing and UI
Play it here 👉 neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
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🐑 Our Itch page is LIVE!
With our first playable prototype! Go ahead and check it out, it's playable in the browser, leave us feedback through the feedback button in the main menu!
👉 neonsheep.itch.io/sheep-protot...
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🐑 Sheep game exciting UI updates since last time
📐 UI layout revamp - completely re-did the layout, still some work left
💬 UI Tooltips for quick tips about the game functionality
🖼️ Better UI for inventory
What do you think?
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Cosy Sheep Game now has a title screen!
Game title still TBD so we're going with just sheep for now.
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🐑 Sheep game updates
More balancing for food/water/sleep
Adding Vitals screen to guide the player on how many resources are needed for basic needs
UI layout tweaks
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Thank you so much!
🐑 Sheep game updates
First attempt at balancing the economy
Adding fleece and milk production items
Adding build menu
Adding shearing and milk collection tools
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Lots of sheep updates since last time! 🐑
Inventory!
Grass seeds!
Tools!
Also steam page coming soon, follow me to find out when it's live!
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🐑 Unnamed Cosy sheep game updates
The sheep now can think and switch between:
* Eating
* Sleeping
* Drinking
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🐑 Unnamed Cosy sheep game updates
New item added: Bed!!
The sheep now have actions and needs, and animate according to their current action, and fleece growth.
Next up we'll work on the sheep being able to think and change their actions.
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🐑 Unnamed Cosy sheep game updates
The sheep now plan movement and move around - black dots are just for debug for now.
Next up we'll work on the sheep being able to think and plan their movements.
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🐑 Unnamed Cosy sheep game updates
The sheep now have names
We have an animated fire
Sheep sprites (and all sprites actually) now have a heading
Forgot to post this on Saturday I hope you'll forgive me.
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Nice, never played with Unreal! Wow love your setup, do you play? I can't wait to get to that part of the game making 😀
Posted a screenshot of the cosy sheep game in progress on reddit and someone said they'd love to play it.
I don't know why but it really hit me, it's so validating to know that at least one person likes what I'm building.
No one talks about how scary and isolating #gamedev is
#indiegamedev
For a second I thought you were editing a trailer, but I think it's just Unity no?
🐑 Unnamed Cosy sheep game
Not quite ready to play but at least we have a screenshot.
Let me know your wild guesses of what the game is about, and of course any feedback on the art.
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Thank you!
Thanks a lot! I'm still undecided but I haven't implemented anything functional related with the trees so I just didn't put them in the game yet, I have more time to think 😀
Working on the water tileset today. Big fan of how the cute 3px ducks turned out 😃
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Thanks a lot!
Experimenting with tree shapes, which one is your favourite?
Color scheme needs to change, the green doesn't go with the rest of the pallette.
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Oh I see, yes making a board gameyou have more real world challenges like materials and quality of pieces, etc. That's pretty cool though best of luck!
One of my favourite board games is the Exit series, I was surprised to learn it's made by a couple, started as a hobby, I guess it's doable
My thought process: the one on the left is cute but it looks more like a goat than a sheep, the middle is too chunky and the right is just perfect in terms of dimensions. I had to add a colour to the palette which I'm trying to keep a bit limited, but I'm pretty happy with it.
