magicdidac 2017-12-04 19:25
Wow! It's interesting God job! Nice funny game.
Good Luck!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Too Many Chooks
By schu
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 292 | 3.46 | 107 | |
| Fun | 201 | 3.56 | 108 | |
| Innovation | 520 | 2.77 | 107 | |
| Theme | 148 | 3.85 | 108 | |
| Graphics | 367 | 3.22 | 108 | |
| Audio | 251 | 3.17 | 105 | |
| Humor | 94 | 3.55 | 107 | |
| Mood | 325 | 3.09 | 100 |
Wow! It's interesting God job! Nice funny game.
Good Luck!
How am I gonna eat all these fried eggs!?
YES! I also made a game about chickens so this really jumped out at me as a must-play. It was pretty difficult but I loved seeing all the different breeds of chook, so I was inspired to keep playing. I have a pet Silver-Laced Wyandotte - that one is my favorite.
I loved all the chicken sounds in this game- how did you make them / collect them? It really ups the mayhem of the game when all of them are making noises.
Thanks so much for bringing this game into the world :)
@misterstripey Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I've got a Silver-Laced Wyandotte as well and she's the rebel of the coop. :)
I just went out back with my iPhone and recorded them a few times. All the laying noises are from our Red Star right after she laid an egg. The long upset sounds are from a Black Copper Maran and she was making that noise because she saw a big bug lol.
Reminds me of Kaboom, except with annoying chickens.
107 Eggs first time. Very nice looking game, i like that collection of chicken you have seen. Nice job!
Interessting game idea for that theme :D I would like to say that those are all roosters and i dont think they lay eggs :D
@wujood I modeled all the chooks after one of my hens which definitely lays eggs. :) I also spent way too much time researching the different breeds hahaha.
Pretty simple concept, but addicting! Very good :D my highscore is 82
The game is fun and a satisfying level of difficult. I love the collecting aspect. The actual chicken sounds is a great touch.
Great game ! I made 74 ! It really gets complicated when two or more are laying eggs at the same time. Feedbacks were clear :)
Haha funny game !
I don't understand their motivation... Do they want their eggs to get fried? It is like... (no don't go there...)
Anyways, it was surprisingly fun. Really enjoyed the sounds getting more chaotic when they started to gather :)
I'm so bad at this game :D It's really fun (and frustrating :D). The graphics are simple but sufficient, and it overall fits the theme nicely. Love that the sound effects and inspiration came from your own chickens! :D
@krasse The chickens don't want you to waste their eggs and for whatever reason all you have to catch them is a permanently hot frying pan. :D Hopefully nobody minds some egg shell in their fried eggs! And don't worry because there aren't any roosters with them so the eggs are all unfertilized.
Pretty funny, nice attention to sound design :)
Fun and challenging game. It really gets difficult. The little sizzle has a nice ring to it. I also love the fact that they keep laying eggs once the game is over. :D
Here's our browser game. It's called Doubloon Lagoon! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/doubloon-lagoon
Fun simple and a good theme, I liked it! 123 was my score!
Cute way to kill some time. Had some fun frying eggs. The difficulty curb was inconsistent, depending on if the first few are placed close to the middle or far apart and if the chickens decide to lay in salvos. The audio was appropriate, but I had to turn it down after a while. I like that you used your own chickens for the sounds. I used my dog's squeaky toy for SFX in another game jam (xkcd Game Jam).
My Compo game is over here, if you want to have a look. It's not as "Animal Friendly" as yours but they are evil cyborg squirrels so it's ok :-P https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/squirrel-puncher-4000
Great game! The mechanic is simple but it's the little things that really make it sing. I like the fact that you get a little pre-warning before the eggs drop and the unlock mechanic had be go back and play again to see if I could get them all. I'm not sure why the chickens are happy that you're eating there eggs though! The sounds fit the game well and the art style was nice. Great job! high score was only 76 and I unlocked all but 3 of the chickens.
Fun game, I love the Meet the Chooks screen! Only thing I would recommend is taking control of the mouse cursor so fast movements are kept inside the game.
This was actually pretty hard. I lost at 6 chickens lol Funny game!1
This is nice. Now i want to have backyard chickens ;)
@potti If you've got the yard space and dedication to take care of them they're amazing pets! I really do love everything about them. The weird noises that they make, the way they run around, and the fact that they often lay an egg every day all make me very happy to have them. Chickens are dope. :) Thanks for playing.
Haha, simple concept but it's fun ^^ I scored 59.
I like sounds and it's addictive.
Really well done. I fried 62 eggs. I was running into an issue with the web version where I was moving the mouse pointer all the way off the side of the viewport and temporarily losing control of the frying pan, this wouldn't be an issue full-screen though so I'm not docking you any points for it. Super polished and the theme is original.
The core concept is nothing new or interesting, and it is annoying to lose control when leaving the game screen. The sounds get very annoying after a while.
I liked the "meet the chooks" thing.
Nice sizzle. I like the part at the end where it tells you about all the hens :)
Great way to work Mad Bomber mechanics into the theme
Fun little game. Definitely fits the theme. The sound does get really annoying after a while though
I fried so many eggs just now... I Love the chicken sounds and the chickens themselves are great.
Nice little game, I ended up playing that for longer than I'd like to admit...
Nice touch with the animation before they poop out an egg, it made it feel fairer when I failed. I made it to about 70 ^^
When I saw this game I was like "Collectible chooks? Sign me up!"
Really cute little game. I have no idea how you made the sounds so accurate LOL! Did you record your own chooks? All the different breeds are both adorable and accurate. All in all it's a classic game with a unique theme, laced with great art and sounds. Great job!
@sholf Thank you for playing! I'm really glad you liked it so much. I especially appreciate the praise on breed accuracy hahaha I spent a solid couple hours looking up the different breeds and making sure the colors were close enough. Yeah the laying sounds are all from our Red Star and the noise that happens when you drop an egg is from our Black Copper Maran. :)
Very cool game, well done!
Very cool game! I would love to see a more fleshed out version with the different chickens' eggs having differing movement paths or effects!
Absolutely love that they have names!! very fun!
Well that escalated quickly. Someone may need to have a look at that first white chook. Whole cow all those eggs!! Anyway, here's a snapshot of my favorite:
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@andrewjadams That's my favorite too! I actually have one and she's one of the two chickens whose sound effects are in the game. She was also my model when drawing the chook template. :) Thanks for playing!
Ok first impression is that the artstyle is close to something funny. Yeah, the idea is fun so you could definitely make the design funny too. :musical_note:**"Push it to the limit"**:musical_note: Even the music could be "stupid" (in the good way). Like someone else said above the animation before they lay is the instinctive touch that make things a bit "predictible". Nice touch. It was actually really challenging, liked the idea.
When they all get going and are making noises over each other it is pretty entertaining, fun game!
Simple but does the job, the chicken sounds are a bit annoying though. I really like the progression system, it makes me want to unlock them all!
Simple but working concept, good job 👌
Simple but rewarding game :) Nice work
Simple concept, great execution. Enjoyed it quite a bit.
Lots of great little touches in this. I like that there's an animation tell you have to watch for to predict the next wave of eggs, while also splitting your attention with the field. The fact that there are actually different varieties of chickens (and that you can see which ones you've "unlocked") adds a ton of flavor and even a sense of progression. Good work!
Liked the art and the audio. The idea is simple, but very well executed. Good work!
Nice game! I liked the fact that you kept the game simple, but made it wholesome hehe. One thing you might want to pay attention to is that the chickens' audio has a bit of static on the background :) Overall enjoyed it for a few rounds until I came so far and lost that I ragequit hahah
Got 113 eggs on my fourth try. Classic "catch falling things" gameplay, it's good that you use the mouse for it instead of movement keys. Fits the theme quite well and was fun enough to retry a few times.
chicken.PNG Gorgeous.
Super fun game. I got a chicken myself (white one). Loved it, somehow the feature of collecting chickens was funny as f*ck! Well hope you had a nice LD I sure did.
Not sure why the chickens are up on that line, but I like it. Good entry.
The variety of chickens was charming <3 the sound effect will forever haunt me as I try to sleep.. howver :D Fun little game. Quite simple mechanics really, but had fun for a few minutes on it and nice presentation. Cheers bud <3
I liked the way they stack up after you lose ;P
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I take it the theme is about the sound the chicken make? :D Fun little game, got nowhere near the max. Liked the educational aspect, that's a lot of chicken types.
Hands down, the best game i've played so far. The "meet the chooks" reminds me of the tf2 ads even though its completely unrelated but it setup an expectation which was well met. i got around 110 so far before i died laughing at the sound track.
I had a "Petterson and Findus" game (don't know if it's a thing in english speaking countrys) when I was a kid, where one of the mini games was exactly this! The difference was you had to collect them in some sort of bag and not frie those eggs right away!
Anyways it's simple and it's so much fun, thanks for bringing back of memories and this game! :-)
You can play [our game here](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/free-to-play) if you want to!
Had a really nice "feel" to it, though the game itself was pretty hard on my trackpad :)
I got all those funny cheeks Screenshot-2017-12-10 Too Many Chooks by Schu.png But not in only one game, I'm affraid I'm not good enough ;) It was rally fun to play, sometimes simple things are the funniest. Some good details too, good job!
Neat! fun game play and hilarious sound effects. Awesome what you did with the silhouettes. Feel free to play and rate my game at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/rush-hour
Fun game, no way I was going to get to 28. I switched from using my mouse to using the touchscreen and had a much better success rate.
Great game! Fit quite well with the theme. I enjoyed it a lot.
This is a pretty interesting game. However, there are some concepts in the game that I didn't like. Even though the sound effects were pretty realistic, they got repetitive very quick. Perhaps you can create two soundeffects for each action and make a random generator that randomly chooses between those two soundeffects which soundeffect to play when doing the action. You can also randomly change the soundeffects' pitch only a little bit each time they perform an action. Also, some background music could improve the mood of the game much more. Even though the graphics of the chickens were pretty good, the pan's graphics could have been better if you added some subtle light and shadows and blurred them on the pan. Finally, the gameplay isn't exactly innovative because it is too similar to Pong. However, despite these flaws, this game is pretty good!
@d-studios thanks for your feedback! There are actually three different noises played each time the chooks lay an egg and two different noises for dropping an egg, all of which have their pitch randomly altered slightly as you said. :) Although because they overlap so much it's hard to notice and because of the nature of the theme (and time constraints) I was completely okay with them becoming repetitive and annoying. I appreciate your thoughts and thanks for playing!
A simple yet enjoyable little game! I think the collectible aspect to it really motivated me to try to complete this game more so than any other entry in this jam. I love how you incorporated the jam's theme into the audio, with the chooks quickly making a cacophony as they built up.
Super simple, yet so amazing and it works brilliantly with the theme, well done sir! The audio is a little bit repetitive and could have done with a simple soundtrack, but besides that, it's eggcellent!
Long story short:
Simple concept, very fun game :wink:
However I managed to find a little bug.
Here's a gif that presents this issue Bug.gif
@jonasz999 Ahh yeah I was worried that might happen! Thanks for pointing it out!
Funny game Take a look at my game also
I liked this game, it was intense and hectic and didn't take long to play (compressed fun is best fun, yes?). The art and sounds were very simple but that didn't annoy me in the slightest, i didn't even think about it when the eggs rained down from the sky.
Fun and simple! A bit hard to play in the browser, because the mouse can overshoot a bit, but that is compensatable. The chook who-is-who is a fun addition! An additional mechanic would have been nice too... like golden eggs that give life, or 'bad' eggs you do not want, pair that with a sound and you got some more depth. :)
Pretty funny game :D
Top marks for theme I think, it really did get a lot more stressful as more chooks appeared. The chicken sound effects added a lot to experience
Easy enough to understand. My biggest problems were with the cursor escaping the game area and the pan "getting stuck".
I have to admit, I did laugh when I clicked the "meet the chooks" :D That was a really funny addition to the game.
The sounds were great, but I think they could've used a bit more variation (a few more different clucks)
Really fun ! Love the way you characterized the hens.
If you guys love zombies and drones do play our game at
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/zap-the-zombies
So many chickens! The idea is simple, but it works amazingly well here and fits the theme perfectly. The chicken sounds were funny, even if at times they can become realistically annoying (My family used to keep hens and they can be sooo noisy).
Good job!
Highest score so far: 65 (not that good, right?)
Starts of relatively easy, then gets very hard very fast.
The voice acting is excellent. :D
A good simple concept really well executed. My 5-year-old nephew really enjoyed it. Haha!
Neat concept. I liked unlocking all of the different chickens... or are they roosters? I didn't think roosters laid eggs. My best score was 29 eggs fried. Sometimes it seemed like two roosters would drop eggs at the same time, which seemed a little too difficult. It seemed like the different types of roosters were purely cosmetic, but it would be cool if there were different properties for each (egg drop rate, velocity of egg, etc). Good job on the custom made sound effects!
@levismith They're hens! You are correct that roosters don't lay eggs. :)
That was a lot of fun. Difficult to keep up with sometimes (got two across the screen from each other) but that made for a really fun challenge!
Keep up the good work!