Blast Annual


Sheep Is A Key

Author: Andrew Fisher
Publisher: Rafaelle Formato
Machine: Commodore 64/128

 
Published in Blast Annual 2020 Volume 1

Sheep Is A Key

There was some controversy on CSDb as to whether this was a completed game, but the itch.io page has stopped updating at V1.19.

The aim of the game is to guide Molly the sheep (a charming little sprite) through ten levels of obstacles. Each level has three platforms and Molly moves down them, from left to right then right to left and finally left to right. She must jump over obstacles without touching anything; any death sends her back to the start of the current platform minus one of her nine starting lives.

Some dodgy collision detection spoils what could have been a fun game (it is in the vein of Simon Pick's Dare Devil Denis or his iOS adaptation Flippin' Sheep). The biggest problem is that, if Molly does die mid-jump, the game restarts her in that position, making everything considerably more difficult on subsequent attempts!

Andrew Fisher

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