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Cute invaders

By sgadrat and mgadrat

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6173.4175
Fun8312.9875
Innovation6093.1375
Theme2103.9175
Graphics3993.7776
Audio4653.1374
Humor3993.2772
Mood6113.2272

Comments

mess110 2017-12-04 14:23

Haha a fun and challenging game. At one point I couldn't click on the chests anymore, but that was balanced by my chickens dying. Which is not a good thing. But at least I got more.

falk-bruskeland 2017-12-04 14:28

Really cool game. Reminds me of those IOS and Android games where you take care and evolve different animals (Although the gameplay isn't really the same)

matthias-schedel 2017-12-04 14:33

Nice Graphics :) - but I feel that the mechanics take away some potential of the game. 1. I would prefer it if you had to just click the chest once to not interrupt gameflow 2. It's sometimes hard to identify which chicken is most in need of something - maybe you could make some kind of exclamation mark pop up

drfallos 2017-12-04 14:44

such a lovely chickens dies cause i can't hug and feed all at one time. GOOD!!! like it

brouilles 2017-12-04 15:23

Very good graphics and i love this game ^^. And very good project description !

quaternius 2017-12-04 16:50

Really simple idea and awesome graphics, i really liked it!

eraleis 2017-12-04 16:54

How can i feed all these chickens ?! More seriously, nice game, but the chest interrupting gameplay is annoying :(

bradur 2017-12-04 18:21

Charming graphics and simple yet challenging gameplay. I think it would improve readability if the status indicators on the chickens were in the same formation as the chicken action UI is. Right now the chicken statuses are laid out as a grid whereas the actions are more like a diamond. The music was a little repetitive but not annoying.

The game gets very hard quick!

notpresident35 2017-12-04 19:17

Very fun, awesome graphics, fits the theme very well, and very innovative. But the music is a bit repetitive, and kinda loud.

tom01098 2017-12-04 19:26

Pretty fun! I agree with a lot of the other people that chests should be one click only - spent too much time reading and then half of my chickens died!

jlreymendez 2017-12-04 20:48

Poor chickens they go hide behind the loot boxes and I can't hug them there.

strelly 2017-12-04 20:59

All my precious chickens died ;;!!!!! Really cute game I love it, simple and straight to the gameplay!

noa-calice 2017-12-04 21:28

Nice creation :) ! With an interesting take on the theme ! Being a farm like game is made me think a little of Supercell's Hay Day (from an art stand point) !

sozey 2017-12-04 21:38

This is really simple and nice! I like the fact that the different actions appear after each other makes it easy to start!

mathiouza 2017-12-04 22:27

A game that is like some others in this Ludum Dare, but I found yours more well executed. Musics fits with your game, and graphisms are good ! And these hardcore chickens who eat hamburger ! xD

Cool game ! Keep coding :)

exezin 2017-12-05 01:36

A fun spin on the clicker type of games, really enjoyed the visuals on this one. Also glad to see I'm not the only one making a chicken-focused game! :D

csdoescs 2017-12-05 05:39

All my chickens died :( 10/10

svarttand 2017-12-05 14:08

Quite interesting and fun, but it got a little bit boring after a while.

dunin 2017-12-05 15:14

Nice graphics and style, but I am so sad to see all this chickens died... it is almost impossible to keep more than four chicken alive...

gerardb 2017-12-05 19:14

Today I discovered that I'm not suposed to be a chicken farme :( I really enjoyed the game though! Congrats! My only complaint is to have to click chests 2 times, other than that maybe you are sitting on a cool mobile game idea ;)

rolle 2017-12-05 19:34

No wonder my chickens starved, they don't know how to use knife and forks! ;-) Liked the idea you got going here, loved the art. Also I think I won! My hi-score: a lot! ;) Thanks for the game!

softsound 2017-12-05 21:43

Oh my poor chickens! Cute graphics. Yay it's a web game! But man I'm bad at caring for these chickens.

gozz 2017-12-05 22:27

Hey guys ! Nice work !

The graphics are really cute, the animations are funny I really like it. The little sound loop is cool but a little annoying after 10 minutes playing :) Maybe you could have add shortcuts for the different action to combine keyboard and mouse ?

I did not manage to get a unicorn so I am a bit disappointed :(

Beau travail en tout cas :) a bientôt !

potatolain 2017-12-06 00:18

Fun little game - I liked the music and sound. I only skimmed the text at first and was surprised when I couldn't lose or get a score, but you kinda already said that, soo, not really an issue. I kept it going a couple minutes. Thanks for sharing!

reality-blind 2017-12-06 19:10

Chickens are always hungry, help me ^^ The theme really match !

notpresident35 2017-12-06 19:23

Fun, but impossible to lose, and kinda boring.

xahell 2017-12-06 21:43

Not bad, but it lacks content I think.

The implementation is smooth, everything work wells, good graphics.

The unicorn is a lie :(

marta 2017-12-06 22:10

I like the simple idea. ^^ But it is quite borring without a goal. Mayby you should add one?

nilsson 2017-12-07 02:20

Innovative idéa, i haven't really seen this kinda game before, simple game, simple music, kinda relaxing, overall i like it, you lack a bit of content, but the sadness when a chicken needs to get entertained but is hungry asweel and ends up dying :cry: #feelsbadman XD Great game anyways, i enjoyed it, great HUD too.

goat-toaster-games 2017-12-07 02:35

Really cute, fun little game!

idinakloppstock 2017-12-07 11:18

Nice setting and cute graphics! It is so fast so hard, I can't really manage many chicken at once - totally hit the theme!

mshopf 2017-12-08 18:15

Nice game, or rather experiment! It fits the theme perfectly, and though you can't do much and there's no explicit goal, it's haunting seeing you chickens die :-/

lmb 2017-12-08 23:23

I like the "multiple tamagotchis" concept, this new for me. I would prefer to have some goal, though. Thanks for sharing some technical details, too -- and congrats for using real equations! I think devs nowadays tend to just use Booleans and IFs everywhere. Some simple equations can enrich behaviors quite a bit!

automatonvx 2017-12-09 00:37

nice graphics but those chickens die so quickly! It felt a bit like chicken neglect simulator

joror 2017-12-09 18:45

Well I did learn I would make a crappy chickenfarmer! Nonetheless, I got the hang of it, and with appropriate chicken-triage, I could keep a decent crop of chicks alive! Alas no magical uni-chickens...

All in all, very polished smooth game, nice learning arc. To improve, maybe a few area-of-effect one 'feed/love/poop' every checken powerups?

badly-drawn-rod 2017-12-09 19:06

I'm really surprised the RSPCA did not come to arrest me for my clear neglect of chickens. The graphics were very nice, it was a easy to use interface, and he music was simple and effective.

jaimuepe 2017-12-09 20:15

The game is cute and it's an original take on the theme, but damn, it gets really difficult after you get like 4 or 5 chickens. I think it could have more content, as after you've unlocked all the "actions" it feels a little hollow. The game has no goal but as you say in the game description that was a design decision. Lastly, thanks for the technical notes - i had no idea what steering behaviours were, and now i'm interested :).

saramartins 2017-12-09 23:52

Wow this was hard! Reaaally hard. At first is all fun and good, but then the chickens just keep popping and I can't manage to give attention to everyone! And then they die... that was sad.

They game was just cute, with a really nice music sound. The actions were also cool but after unlocking them not much more than repeating them.

I was hoping for a unicorn, but then I read that the chance was really 0% lol

It was a nice little game, very spot on on the theme, but I think it needs some more evolution, as the endless mode gets a little bit tiring and stressful to be repeating. But it is a great concept, and I hope you can develop on it! Congratulations!

pndaa 2017-12-10 17:48

Great game. Really easy to understand how to play. Would be funnier if chest could spawn other kind of chicken ;).

ethan-kennerly 2017-12-10 19:42

When I saw the chickens wander the yard, I felt charmed! If you continue to develop this, as I got and lost chickens, I didn't know what to do with them to succeed.

jk5000 2017-12-10 21:19

Great humor. A very well made game. I would have liked a end goal for this game, but else a good game.

pvtroswold 2017-12-10 21:46

These bored little birds keep dying, because I'm too busy opening my boxes over here. This is really very well done, I really liked how they would dance about or various other animations. As others have said, having more of an end goal would make it even more enjoyable! Great work!

elemel 2017-12-10 22:03

I enjoyed it! But found it very hard to keep more than a few chickens alive.

lereveur 2017-12-10 23:55

I think the theme was taken only for this game ha ha

tinis-games 2017-12-12 11:31

The game is really nice. Chicken graphics and animations are cute :)

It's very hard to take care of this little invaders! I would have seen the possibility of setting up feeders, for example, to feed several chickens at once.

gaming-night 2017-12-12 15:36

Very interesting game. I really, really liked the way you treat the theme, the more loot boxes you have to open, the more difficult it is to take care of the actual game. One of the few games where I feel a sense of originality and deepness regarding the theme. Thank you for that !

dlaha 2017-12-15 11:33

Once I figured out that I can receive lootboxes without any chicken alive I stopped taking care of them. Just opening lootboxes and hoping for the unicorn. But I wasn't lucky enought to get the unicorn :) Interesting concept, but it would be good to have some goal for players like me.

tvance 2017-12-15 21:44

Steering behaviors! Love it. Check out my game if you get a chance. I leaned on them heavily.

This is a pretty hard game. It matches the theme well. Nice music too.

axoona 2017-12-15 22:19

good interpretation of the theme! :D I also like how the game mecanics make it all humorous. It gets quite difficult quickly so you have what to do all the time.

What I'd like to add is to have the age of the chickens shown, so that maybe see if some of them survived long enough :) The fact that there are no objectives does not bother me, but it's true that after a while it would be cool to have some variety to spicy things up. Maybe something like random events (like maybe a chicken that lived long enough could have an egg or invite the unicirn or whatever).

Anyway it's a really good game, and the graphics are lovely!

megabrutal 2017-12-26 20:45

I WANT THE UNICORN! And hell, maths is hard, great that you kept your mental integrity while you were dealing with it. Using FOSS software is just as awesome (fun fact: I'm also on Ubuntu and used Vim and purely open-source tools to create my entry, so greetings from a fellow Linux lover). Is there a lose condition in this game? I deliberately left all chickens die, but nothing happened, and the chests spawn so quickly that I can't run out of them (I thought if all chickens die and I used all chests, the game ends, but I couldn't get to that situation). Very nice artwork, congrats to the artist. To be honest, I found the music too much repetitive. Followed both of you on Twitter – you are awesome! :)

P.S.: This game reminds me of another entry: Tuftles by @zirrrus.

zirrrus 2017-12-27 21:51

Thanks for checking out my game! This is, I think, the third game of this style that I've come across this jam with very similar gameplay and mechanics but each one has it's own thing to make it unique - that is really neat to see.

This is a very cool entry too! Those chickens are very cute, the style overall is very fun, well done! The difficulty seems very high, those chickens are maybe a bit too needy but it makes for an interesting challenge. And those little animations are just perfect :D