Good Dog, Best Dog

Good Dog, Best Dog was made in about 24 hours, live on Twitch, on 20th May 2023 by the two people who currently comprise our startup indie studio, Robots Make Games. The version you see here is basically the version that we ended the stream with, with a few changes to make it more playable. You can select any level you want through the main menu, your progress won't save, but you can still get graded on the levels!

Simple controls: WASD with mouse, space bar to jump. Or controller left thumbstick to move, right thumbstick to move camera, bottom face button (A on Xbox controller) to jump.

We raised over $1500 for Cure Cancer Australia's Game on Cancer campaign, thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our small Twitch community and friends. We're thrilled with how everyone came out to support us, and thrilled at smashing our donation goal.

We learned a lot about ourselves and what we do, as well as how awesome people can be. We're not sure where to go next with this, so we'd really appreciate feedback. Bugs are a given, but even if you don't like it, we'd love to hear from you in the comments, on Twitter @robotsmakegames, or on Twitch.tv/finsiftycat

So please, whether you were there or not, if you know us or not, enjoy the limited adventures of the dog called Dog as they go out into the world to bring in the sheep - not just their sheep, but all the sheep.

Navigate the capricious ovines through farmland, woodland and mountains. Shepherd them across bridges, and through mud. Get them to activate gates and swing bridges, all to bring them home safely - but they can't swim, so be careful of the water. And watch out for the landmines! They're definitely not good.

This is a very early prototype - again, made in 24 hours. There's 15 levels of varying difficulty, but some of the menu options may not work, the sheep and dog animations will obviously be glitchy, and sometimes the sheep might get stuck. It's also lacking optimisation, so although it ticks over nicely on our work PCs, if you're running very old hardware you might have an issue.

Thanks for getting this far! We hope you enjoy it.

Oh! And if you're able, why not donate to Game On Cancer and help change lives?
https://gameoncancer.com.au/donate/