
Shepherd
Shepherd is an incremental game where you collect wool from your flock and spin the wool into yarn. It is my submission to the 2026 love2d gamejam.

How to Play
- Hold your mouse over a sheep to collect its wool
- Hold your mouse over the top bar to process the wool into yarn
The card system has a rough value ranking from white to green to pink. Note, sometimes the card with the highest value isn't what you need to improve your overall throughput.
The source is available on Codeberg under a GPL3+ licence. The music and art was made during the Jam. Its available under a CCBY licence.
Web support is still experimental. There may be issues toggling full screen on Firefox or Firefox based browsers, and resizing the screen on iOS.
| Updated | 13 hours ago |
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars (5 total ratings) |
| Author | Alex โ๐จ๐ฆ |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Made with | LรVE, Inkscape |
| Tags | 2D, Animals, Cozy, Cute, Incremental, LรVE, pastel |
| Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Mouse |
| Links | Source code |
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shepherd-windows.zip 6.5 MB
Version 0.1.0
shepherd-0.1.0.love 2.6 MB
Version 0.1.0
shepherd-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage 7.3 MB
Version 0.1.0






Comments
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Typo in the end screen! You call your game Sheperd :P
Maybe a little intro screen or info button to explain some of the bits that it took me a couple runs to work out, such as that it's a time bar not a progress bar, the colours of the cards are rarity, etc. Obvs not essential, but just some little QoL things.
Good catch on the spelling. I had just noticed that I had also mixed up shears and sheers in a number of places too!
cool game
love this
Very satisfying, an unlimited mode would be very nice.
Thanks for playing through! I hit some processing limits when harvesting more than 10,000 wool in 30s in the web version. Iโve been looking into how to fix the rendering and processing bottlenecks.
Simply fun, cute, and satisfying! ๐๐๐
Edit: I broke it! :)
Thanks! My goal this jam was to make something as simple as possible that was also fun.