Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Chicken Nothing
By sillyman987
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1100 | 2.49 | 68 | |
| Fun | 1064 | 2.44 | 69 | |
| Innovation | 1096 | 2.21 | 69 | |
| Theme | 909 | 2.79 | 69 | |
| Graphics | 1018 | 2.26 | 69 |
Cute little game, congrats. My chicken kept walking out of the map on the right, never to return, but that's probably not a bug, just life :(
Bug report: buying a coop does not actually reduce your money. Also, isn't there supposed to be a new coop appearing, like when buying a chicken?
A bare-bones incremental game, not bad. I was impressed by the animation on the player legs.
One possible improvement would be to show the price to buy a chicken and a coop.
The graphics are very fun programmer art! There seems to be a bug that coops cost nothing; once I got over 20 (dollars?) I bought 50 coops, couldn't see them anywhere, I don't know if they're supposed to show or not. With a little more content this would be a very fun little game, good job
Hi! I like the chicken! I think you should add some kind of "end" to the game. And it would be better if all chickens did'nt walk with the same speed movement, because you can put them all at the same place and grab something like 40 eggs with one button.
And all my chicks left the screen. I started with almost nothing except a chicken, and I finished with a lot of money but all my animals were gone. Sad story!
@bcvery1 They are not supposed to show, but I am sorry for the glitches.
I liked the walking animation, a bit goofy but cute!
I think it's a good base concept, though at the moment there is no real challenge to the game as far as I could tell. You keep buying more chickens to up your income, and then you have to buy new Coops to house more chickens.
Just thinking out loud here, maybe there could be a mechanic where chickens run away, so you lose that income if you're not careful? Or you can crush eggs if you step on them, so you have to manage your movement a bit more. Probably many simple ideas to make the gameplay a bit more interesting in the long run!
Keep up the good work!
I got the same issues that have been described above. I really liked the player and chicken legs animations :)
I never had enough time, so sorry for the bugs and glitches.
The game becomes funnier once you gathered a lot of chickens and you got an out of control egg production factory. That aside, everything feels really "cheap", from the graphics to the gameplay (And no sound u_u). I suppose you wanted to try to make a game with an incremental system. If so, then mission accomplished ! Good luck for your future projects :)
Nda .. This is directly a simulator of a successful guy) But that's why the chickens leave? Is this a bug? In theory, they should be next to the chicken coop? Or I did not penetrate the true meanings of this creation. Something like we are growing children, they are leaving when we stay) Kojima genius resting) ps and what is coops?
Fixed the chicken walking bug.
@tory a coop is the house where the chickens live, only five can live in one at a time.
@sillyman987 Wow, itโs not obvious at all, you could visually at least increase the counter on the house, it would be clear)
A silly looking game, really good! altough the start is really slow, but its still cool!
keep up the good work :smiley:
@tory I love the idea that the chickens are leaving by will, tells another story.
Fun programmer art!
A good start- some goofy sound effects would have really made it shine!
Cute little game, i got to 2500 eggs :smiley:
I can buy a coop but it doesn't seem to appear. Nice idea, not best controls though, can't move after buying something unless i click somewhere else
@kuviman Sry, I didn't have the time to add the extra coops, and I don't know how to fix the movement bug.
Very interesting twist on the collection mechanic you made there ๐ really fun game my man
10/10 for chick and Piza tower ladder. Waiting for Chicken Nothing 2: Rooster revenge
You got me at "you begin with one chicken". Now I have more than 100. However, I wasn't able to know how much exatly because after 100 the counter dissapeared :/ (but could be a problem on my side, like having a too small screen ?)
Nice simple incremental game :) gg
Thanks so much everybody!!! @OiledOwl @Yohsk13 @NachtWitch
2I took the game and I exceeded the limit of display of the numbers of your game. I advise you to either make a responsive interface or that divides the values according to the uniter (ml, L, KL) but version $ Sans titre.png
@mimusangel So, many, chickens!
Pro strat: battery farming: https://i.imgur.com/9qQ49m5.png :D One annoyance I would note is that clicking the buttons at the top takes "focus" away from the game, so I have to click on the game world again before I can use the arrow keys to move, which is kind of unnecessary and annoying.
@wheybags Sry, don't know how to fix that. :(
Congrats, finished the game in game jam. Simple game and nice idea.
Congratulations on finishing a game for the game Jam. Keep making games and watch tutorials to improve! Maybe find someone to work with together. Your Ideas are good and with a bit more experience i am sure you could create some really good games :)
@fiwon123 @Ausstein Thanks guys!
i got a little addicted and had so many chickens, all you could see was brown. also, i had so many chickens, eggs, and money, that it wouldn't show up on the screen! fun game. :chicken: :egg:
Nice submission! I dig the player's walk animation haha it's funny but there's something satisfying about how smooth it is. It fits the theme and I think it's a great base to expand on in the future. Besides the button focus issue, I noticed a bug where if you're walking when you click a button you'll keep walking until you press that direction again. I also have a few suggestions:
- WASD to move would be very helpful since the spacebar collects eggs
- Collecting eggs should raise your money. The separate sell action seems unnecessary (I did something similar in a previous LD and received the same suggestion haha)
- A level indicator on the coop would be helpful
- a win/lose condition would add some challenge. Perhaps a mechanic to lose chickens and losing them all ends the game?
Glad I got a chance to play it. Good job!
@Balance686 Thanks for the ideas! @coatline Thanks for playing!
This a super simple and fun little game. The game idea is good, but I would have liked a bit more to do. Overall is this a pretty fun little jam game. Well done.
@jk5000 Thanks!
Simple, little and surprisingly fun. But there is a lot of improvements that can be made... 1st controls, stucking on buttons, some kind of challenge like: build 10combs = win, eggs could become rotted and after 10rotted eggs you lose or you have to win in x days etc.
Nice game
@Demuss Thanks for the ideas!
Fun game! I think this idea would be really nice as a clicker game. Anyway, good job.
Ok very funny, but completely a disaster. Original idea.
It's a very bare bones game, but it's not a bad base to work from. Everything seemed to mechanically work correctly when I played, so that's a plus. As some people have mentioned, the controls are a bit uncomfortable. Allowing AWSD would help. So would making keyboard shortcuts for selling/buying. As someone else mentioned, might want to skip the egg selling function and have eggs just straight up give money.
A general tip on graphics, try to avoid bright neon colors like the cyan sky and bright green grass. Making colors off shades makes it easier on the eyes. On a separate note, it might be neat if the chickens spawned random color variations.
The game needs a little more time in the oven, but it's a decent start.
This is a good starting point; it needs some improvements but I think other commenters already covered them. In any case, nice entry, I hope to see you again in future jams!
Very simple, but is okay for a jam game. The idea is very interesting, just need more work on it.
Hope your game is more and more interesting. Make progress with you.
@Rodrigo-Denubila @yellow @philomory @TheCrittersCove @BenjoGames @Paulo-Brunassi Thanks for all the ideas!
Cool idea with chickens and eggs! But maybe you need to have an egg from start (but it'll be a chicken and egg problem, hmm) Though game is raw :( Keep going!
@dcrdro Thanks!
It almost feels like an incremental game, which I don't mind~ The chickens seem to be a hive mind for always walking in the same direction, which I found funny. I tried crashing the game by having as many chickens as I could but I threw in the towel after about 20 minutes, haha.
@Lexyvil Thanks for playing!
Nice one! Had fun. Concept was cool. It's somehow addicting. Congratulations!
@The-Osk Thanks for the support!
``` walkAnim.SetBool("walking", true); print("...woah, duude..."); ```
I could see playing this endlessly as a mobile game with a bit of polish. simple concept executed nicely.
@chromableedstudios Thanks so much!!!! @good-enough I spent a lot of time on that so thanks for the compliment.
Just like @mimusangel https://www.screencast.com/t/SBKs0hgL5ODC I too feel like I beat this game. Wha hahahahaha! Nice! Just needs some sound effects and cool farm music to go with it. :D