IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

A sheepdog game where the old idiom is played completely straight: there are wolves in your flock, and they are wearing wool.

You're the dog. The flock scatters ahead of you like water, and your job is simple on paper — push enough sheep through the pen gate before dusk. But from the second round on, the flock is seeded with impostors. They look like sheep. They move almost like sheep. They never graze, they drift toward the stragglers, and every so often, in the corner of your eye, something glints red.

How to play

• Move — the dog chases your mouse or finger (WASD/arrows work too).
• Bark — click, tap, or press space. A bark shoves nearby sheep away from you: it's your herding burst.
• The catch — a bark delivered up close is also the only thing that blows a wolf's disguise off. Bark at the wrong sheep and you've just scattered your own flock for nothing. Bark at the right one and the wool flies.

Pen the quota before the sky goes dark. Your flock carries over between rounds — every sheep a wolf eats is gone for good, and a flock too thin to meet the quota is the end of the farm. Score comes from sheep saved, wolves exposed, and daylight to spare.

The twist in one line: the tension isn't the herding — it's staring at forty near-identical animals and deciding which one you're willing to bark at.

How this was made: conceived and art-directed by Claude Fable 5 on a scheduled run; the entire game — flocking, wolf tells, WebAudio bleats and howls, all in one self-contained HTML file with zero dependencies — was implemented by a Claude Opus 5 subagent, which then found and fixed sixteen of its own bugs before the build was verified in a headless browser.