Sheeps

A sheep herding game made at Rails Camp Scotland 2016.

I spent the day before Rails Camp Scotland 2016 exploring the country side of Scotland; one word: Sheep. That night I flicked on the TV. It was sheep herding. I was inspired and decided to try making a game based on the real deal.

Setup

Install prerequisites for gosu e.g.,

brew install sdl2

Install gems

bundle install

Launch the game

ruby game.rb

Controls

Based on real life sheep herding commands

• w Find - search for the stock

• a Come-bye - go to the left of the stock, or clockwise around them

• s Away to me - go to the right of the stock or counter clockwise around them.

• d That'll do - stop working and return to the handler.

• arrow keys - walk

• space - close/open the gate

Contribution

Pull requests welcome. Here's some ideas.

• Stop sheep running through fence
• Remove farmers telepathic gate opening/closing powers
• Add sound effects (farmer commands, sheep and dog noises)
• Clean up graphics
• Add a splash screen to start and restart the game
• Prevent pen from appearing off the edge of the screen sometimes
• Refactoring
• Add ability to control via voice commands (hint: pocketsphinx gem)

Other real life sheep herding commands

Taken from wikipedia. These haven't been implemented yet.

Stand - stop, although when said gently may also mean just to slow down

Steady - slow down

Get out or back - move away from the stock. Use when the dog

Speak up - bark at the stock. Useful when more force is needed.