Introduction

Sheep (Mind's Eye Productions / Empire Interactive, 2000) is a puzzle game about herding. You play one of four shepherds and steer a flock across a level to its pen before the clock runs out. Sheep don't follow you: they keep away from you, so you herd by where you stand.

OpenSheep is a reimplementation of the Windows game, ported routine by routine from the original program, Sheep.exe. It isn't an emulator: the game logic runs as portable C, and it reads everything it needs (graphics, levels, movies, sound and the program's own tables) from your Sheep CD at run time. It contains no part of the original game.

• Installing: the runner and the module.
• Game data: what the CD has to be and how to hand it over.
• Playing: the menus, saves and best times.
• Controls: keyboard, mouse and pads.
• Developer options: Sheep.ini, level starts, the developers' debug keys.
• Building: from source, and the tests.

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