Oddling Ranch

Oddling Ranch is a short puzzle/strategy game about controlling the population of little fuzzy creatures called Oddlings. 

Move them around and help them multply! Spread around joy, love and grumpiness!

Controls:

• Mouse only.
• Click and drag to move Oddlings around.
• No gamepad support (for now).
• Restart a level with "R"
  
• Click on the Sound icon on the top left to increase or decrease the volume.

Dev commands: You may skip a Level with "Enter" or go back to a previous level with "Backspace".

Theme:

• Theme: "It's spreading" in  this game applies to the Oddling population and the emotions these creatures can transfer to one another. Its a game about how emotions are contagious.

Notes and Suggestions:

• Full-screen mode is only available in the Windows version.
• If the game window is too small for your screen, try zooming in a little bit and refreshing the page.
• If you are having trouble with a level but want to see what's ahead, don't hesitate on skipping that level, you can always go back to it later.
• If for some reason you can't control the game in the web version, try reloading the page!

Lastly, here are some lessons I learned while making this game:

• Make a good Game Design Document. (And make it digital if possible). I struggled a lot to keep myself organized during this Jam due to a lack of time and direction.
• Try you best to keep a clean and organized code base. I had to refactor my code multiple times due to inconsistent naming conventions and sloppy code.
• Keep your scope small. I couldn't add everything I wanted  to the game  (like controller support and color-blind mode) because I kept implementing systems that didn't even make the final build.
• Even if you have very little time, you can make something. This game took a total of around 15 hours to make spread over 2 weeks (Thats only 2 hours a day).
• And the most important thing I learned is that I love making games!

Credits:

• Music and most of the audio by Kenney (https://kenney.nl/)
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/music-jingles
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/ui-audio
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/rpg-audio
• Food sound by Jazzvoon (https://freesound.org/)
  • https://freesound.org/people/jazzvoon/sounds/186547/
• Potion break sound by JohamDeecke (https://freesound.org/)
  • https://freesound.org/people/JohanDeecke/sounds/368329/
• Art by Kenney (https://kenney.nl/)
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/tiny-dungeon
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/tiny-town
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/tiny-battle
• Oddling sprites made with "Creature Mixer" by Kenney (https://kenney.itch.io/creature-mixer)
• Made wiwth GameMaker
  • https://gamemaker.io/

Feel free to leave any and all thoughts or recommendations in the comments below, hope you enjoy the game and have fun!

*Sorry for any technical problems*

Patches:

A patched version of the game has been uploaded. This new version fixes some bugs: 

1. You can now resize the game window in the downloadable version.
2. Fixed an issue that made certain levels unwinnable.