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Narcoleptic Chicken Kid

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall84.12
Fun153.87
Graphics174.57
Audio74.20
Mood134.12
Coolness279
Theme323.80
Innovation363.80
Humor423.73

Comments

deusroffe 2013-08-26 23:58

Intresting concept and lovely music :)

misfitbyte 2013-08-27 00:31

Bug: After playing a few levels, dying and hitting enter with the BBBB password to go back to the start..

All that is present is the wolf, chicken, and chicken coup, which makes it impossible to reach because there is no shadows on the way.

bradleysmith 2013-08-27 00:32

Oh my lord, beautiful and cute artwork, rated very highly! Fantastic piece of work. :)

mventurelli 2013-08-27 00:38

Beautiful graphics!!!

disease 2013-08-27 00:38

Excellent music and graphics!

kacperski1 2013-08-27 00:39

Really good, but I also had the bug that MisfitBYTE wrote about.

ddionisio 2013-08-27 00:40

Wow, great artwork and music! Solid presentation. Also good use of the theme. I purposefully let the chick die just to see what's up with that wolf. :P

Yup, there's a bug when restarting, no safe place to sleep! I cried.

mtrc 2013-08-27 00:40

Brilliant! So packed with visual detail, and the concept was pretty funny. I really enjoyed playing it.

farfromsleep 2013-08-27 00:41

This is definitely something special. Beautiful graphics and atmosphere, simple mechanics nicely executed, and all finished off with an impressive degree of polish. Loved it.

feysoura 2013-08-27 00:43

Being a fan of poultry I am awarding this game 5/5 on every category.
With that said, I got a bug not even 5 seconds into the game:

"ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Animation End
for object ob_wolf1:

Error in code at line 14:
global.CornPercentage = global.CornGot/global.CornTotal*100
^
at position 48: Division by 0."


You may now check on your exploding-of-the-universe-due-to-game-maker-trying-to-divide-by-zero-saved-at-last-minute-by-awesome-poultry

fireblend 2013-08-27 00:46

Really, really digging this one. The concept is really neat and the execution is brilliant, not to mention it's seriously polished. Really nice game!

hbocao 2013-08-27 00:48

This is so cool, so beautiful and calming... until I slept in the sun. Poor chickens. Loved it!

clurect 2013-08-27 00:50

I loved the music. Really weird though, every time I died I got put in a world with no shade.

mrcdk 2013-08-27 00:50

Lovely game (and a bit gore-ish :D)
The concept is nice, graphics are awesome and music is beautiful.

There are a few bugs :(

liannethy 2013-08-27 01:05

Thanks for the bug reports guys, checking them out now. Looks like Game MAker is playing a bit naughty with resetting ;)

liannethy 2013-08-27 01:24

Ok, new version uploaded. Problem should be fixed, or at least most of the way fixed! :)

saintheiser 2013-08-27 01:37

Good work =)
It's interesting game mechanics.
Only audio is terrible for me, sorry =(

tony-pe 2013-08-27 01:39

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that there is different music that plays each time it launches/when you play again.

This is absolutely gorgeous, the mood here is great. Well done.

teejay5 2013-08-27 01:40

Flawless music, and a brilliant concept! Love the art, too.

oh and i don't love baby chicken death as much as it may seem

link2x101 2013-08-27 02:08

Fantastic job!
A solid game with a simple idea and wonderful execution.
The only off-putting thing is the mix of older-style sounds with newer-style music.

theholychicken 2013-08-27 02:17

It's.. it's beautiful...
The dreams are really cute. There's carnage and death all around but the chicken sleeps sound...
It's NOT OK to punch baby chicken to death though.

crowbeak 2013-08-27 03:23

I love the graphics, but feel like the blood on the happy thoughts instructions was a unnecessary. I like the game a lot, but felt its hold on the theme is pretty tenuous.

crowbeak 2013-08-27 03:24

Oh, and the music is lovely. <3

deammer 2013-08-27 04:03

Loved the death screen :D Tight concept and great execution!

liannethy 2013-08-27 05:17

@link2x101 it was probably around the time I held the 4th broken body of a dead chicken in my tight fist that I realised it's actually really difficult to record realistic noises of a chicken having its skeleton punched through its body. Also expensive. Very very expensive.

@Crowbeak luckily there's at least 300 games about the end of the world to satiate the blaring obvious unimaginative interpretation of Ludum Dare themes to play, for those users with a more discerning taste :)

stevesalmond 2013-08-27 05:44

A. Awesome game name, B. Awesome music, C. Awesome art. D: Awesome awesomeness. I especially liked the artful juxtaposition of cherry blossom petals floating over a sea of blood and gore!

stevesalmond 2013-08-27 05:45

PS: I found the wolf nipple ring highly disturbing!

ratalaika 2013-08-27 08:03

Nice concept! Great music :)

megamasterx 2013-08-27 14:58

Cute graphics, interesting concept, and a great music/SFX setup makes for a very fun time. Loved it!

killmonday 2013-08-27 20:15

Wow and awesome, really nice! Super sweet :(

2013-08-27 22:34

Just beautiful.

meta87 2013-08-27 22:36

Great job! Love the unique concept and the art is hilarious and top-notch :)

ramoncb 2013-08-28 03:00

very impressive!
well polished and with an interesting approach about the theme
nice graphics, audio and presentation! congratulations!

pereubu 2013-08-28 16:18

My screen is vomiting cuteness.
I love the idea, the game have a really good pacing (even if death was painful because the game had to reload everything)

PS : I love the art <3

flyingbear 2013-08-28 18:14

I love the theming on this! Surprising amount of strategy to it, too. Awesome job!

pighead10 2013-08-28 18:43

Fantastic audio and graphics. The z to wake up was a little odd. You might want to consider turning the audio down, it is extremely loud compared to other appliations.

psychomonster 2013-08-28 18:59

Nice Idea... but I'm dying all the time... have to stop kill all these cute little chickens :) Love the game art and the controlls. Enjoyed playing the game. Thanks for submitting :D

psychomonster 2013-08-28 19:00

Nice Idea... but I'm dying all the time... I have to stop playing and killing all these cute little chickens :) Love the game art and the controlls. Enjoyed playing the game. Thanks for submitting :D

roguenoodle 2013-08-28 23:47

Really great entry - a little darker than I was expecting (though not sure what I was expecting looking back on the screenshots). The level of polish in such a short amount of time is pretty amazing :)

diogomuller 2013-08-29 00:57

So... sad... ;_;

lzavsek 2013-08-29 01:16

Was a fun game, really enjoyed playing it. The music felt so sad, it really created a mood. The restart button was annoying slow. Also is it even possible to get all the corn in some levels, it just doesn't seem possible to get some and then get back in a shadow. Also ran into an error on the Wolf Wolf Wolf Wolf level, when 2 of the wolves would notice me, it would error and I'd have to abort the game. Also is that level even possible, there doesn't seem a way to get behind the bush or the haystack, and no exit, where do I go? Are you just trying to make a hopeless statement with that level?

bipolarmike 2013-08-29 01:39

Super well polished game, holy crap. Excellent design all around, with a touch of gruesome horrible imagery. Dang buddy, well done.

zathalos 2013-08-29 04:41

Create mood and sweet art. There was a few bugs and I wish there was an immediate restart room button. Barring those two things, the game was great. Good job.

ravetcofx 2013-08-29 07:07

A poop on a popcical stick, there is no Linux Version <:*(

bitserum 2013-08-29 09:59

Really awesome game. I liked every aspect of it and had fun playing it.

p4nurge 2013-08-29 14:32

Great game. Superb art style and music. Poor chicken kid...

garethiw 2013-08-29 16:07

Exceedingly well polished, lovely art and all-round mood.

wally2069 2013-08-29 17:48

Not sure I like this interpretation of theme

edocentrique 2013-08-29 21:05

Excellent as always !

christinaneofotistou 2013-08-30 00:11

Very very beautiful. Seconds used to measure distance, that's a good take on the theme!

The graphics are *adorable*, they really shine.
Music rocks as well.
And the demon wolf is so scary.

Kudos!

codifeye 2013-08-30 09:01

Nice job, great idea with the theme and lovely music/graphics. Well done!

erhune 2013-08-31 16:23

Interesting concept and very nice realization!

GreyShock 2013-09-03 11:28

Very nice game!! Is there a way to pass the WWWW level? I get stuck in that one and I want to keep playing :D

s0larcode 2013-09-06 22:25

Is there anyway to get a hold of the soundtrack? I really like it :D

bassarisse 2013-09-09 03:54

Amazing game, but... OMG, that poor chicken, I let it dieeee! =(

cosr 2013-09-12 02:53

Beautiful game, just wonderful all around. I especially love that wonderful contrast between the cute and the gruesome.

Noticed a few bugs. If you press the arrow keys fast enough, you can do extra moves (and if one of those extra moves takes you into a wall, your used time will go down leaving you with an unused move when you shouldn't have one). Also, if you continue (password) on the wolf only level (which I assume is the last level, and if so I love the bleakness there), you get a divide by zero error when you inevitably lose (presumably because you've collected 0 out of 0 corn?).

Also, I think the music/audio might be mixed a bit too loud. The audio kept clipping on certain songs (more so when other sounds were layered on top).

josriley 2013-09-12 04:29

Wow, this is absolutely gorgeous. Probably my favorite looking game so far. I thought the game was too easy at first, but it picks up a bit as you go along. It's really sad/funny when you're in the shadow a turn early. Nothing you can do but press the button and watch the inevitable blood bath.

I like the music, too, but I can't decide if it fits or not. Not really a complaint, just an observation, I guess.

Great job!

juniorus 2013-09-14 14:06

Pretty funny!

lordjosephdeburg 2013-09-14 23:52

This game is brilliant I really love the detail! 5/5

towanime 2013-09-15 04:46

Pretty fun and lovely graphics!

withoutpillow 2013-09-15 14:47

fantastic graphics, sound and concept, but it gets a little tedious having to restart the game over and over as this takes a while.

5outh 2013-09-16 20:32

I just now got around to playing this, but I love it! At first I wasn't sure how to not get murdered but quickly learned. It's an interesting strategy game wrapped in a nice art style / story, which is cool!

xhunterko 2013-09-16 21:22

Not a fan of the blood and gore. Music was fantastic. Very good on the mood. Well done!