Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → FRIED AWAY
By kyrios, Nomus, mooyett, Anachrone and blackpulse
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 172 | 3.98 | 57 | |
| Fun | 128 | 4.00 | 57 | |
| Innovation | 161 | 3.89 | 57 | |
| Theme | 523 | 3.74 | 57 | |
| Graphics | 25 | 4.62 | 57 | |
| Audio | 26 | 4.30 | 57 | |
| Humor | 4 | 4.64 | 57 | |
| Mood | 105 | 4.13 | 57 |
This is great lmao, I can't stop laughing at the shape of the chickens. Also that running animation is absolute gold! Gameplay is fun, the only issue I find is that I sometimes phase through the bucket for some reason. Other than that it's a great submission! Well done!
cute take on an endless runner :)
The platforms are a bit buggy but its really fun, and the audio of the chickens is excellent, fantastic job!!!
Really love this one! Buggy as it is, I love the take on the genre
@skullpaca Thank you !! Yeah so if you phase into something then fall that means you ran in front of a "wall" so you couldn't climb, the execution is a bit rought but it was to avoid players getting stuck !
quite humorous, sound design is pretty fun, the whole cutscene and "you're fried" screen are pretty fun to look at as well
Love the funny borb game! Really nice take on the theme concept
Ahahah it was too much fun, you guys did a great job guys!!!!
Very funny game.
The sounds effects are spot on! With fryer baskets was not always able to tell if I could step on the place or not. Not an easy run but a very fun one :D
This is my favourite so far. The animations are hilarious! makes you wanna get fried chicken at the end of the jam.
Oh my god this game is so brilliant. I had to laugh so hard with the intro and the whole design. It was a little hard to hit with the mouse sometimes but even gameover was awesome just to see the picture. I love it and now I'm hungry.
can only say one thing: hahahahahahaha really really funny, great game :)
It is a very unusual and atmospheric game, the visual is quite interesting, it looks stylish and funny! Good luck with your project, I would have played it more than once!!!
The stylistic polish here is top notch: intro cutscene, a hilarious running animation, great sound all around, death screen with tragic music, love it! Huge fan.
As a minor gripe though, the play experience is a bit janky at the moment. It seems too easy to fail at drawing because your cursor is slightly colliding with something, and there's no audio cue for that. Once you realize that, you start dropping the platforms from above, which is fun! But, then the chicken seems to randomly die when reaching an incline you're certain you've seen him jump over before. But when your own chicken-bridge is too high, he just gets stuck waiting until it despawns.
Overall, I think this is great. The behavioural quirks hurt my experience, but these things happen in short jams like this. Just something to keep in mind for next time!
Good stuff!
Really unique and hilarious game. It was a lot of fun, but I had a hard time knowing whether the drawn chicken's feet would block me or if I'd be able to jump over it.
My favority entry by far. The art, the theme, everything is perfect. Please teach me how to draw Nomus-senpai.
@sobad thank you for the in-depth review ! I agree with you on theses points, it can be quite frustrating when you start drawing at the edge and it doesn't register, it would have been a great quality of life but we only thought of it after, but it's a good insight for future games !
@james-greenleaf thank you ! It was our first time trying out the drawing line tool on unity so it was quite challenging, so it created quite a lot of challenge
@ramon-camata that means a lot thank you ! I've spent quite some time with chickens so that's why i was able to give them their full potential lol
Love this! The art style, the animations, everything. Top tier. Great job!
ohh the art style is so charming. The audio is wonderful too! I love the sounds the drawn chickens make and the defeat tune is excellent, that kept getting a giggle out of me.
Really loved the idea of a chicken summoning mage. Very creative. The artstyle was really good. I did get very frustrated when I summoned a chicken above me and it kicked me to the bottom of the level, though.
Glitchiness aside, I feel like this idea has a lot potential. Also thank you for that amazing game over screen.
@vary thanks you so much !
It's a very cool job. Animations and graphics are at the highest level. Music with sounds is also good. An interesting game. Good job
Summoning long chicken and walking on top of them... I love it! It is not only funny, but also a more creative way to use the theme. The whole game is hilarious, I loved the game over screen, that music way too dramatic for how silly the game is! The chicken animation is awesome too! Well done!
@gruzdid thank you so much !
@she-wrote thank you a lot for the kind comment ! I also love the end screen music, it always make me wanna listen to the whole track everytime
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So funny, love the art and music. There were definitely a few times where I fell through the ground from placing a chicken directly in front of me but other than that I really liked it!
Omg this is so fun :DD The running animation is so smooth and goofy! I like the chicken sounds when drawing. Though I kept getting fried shortly, maybe too hard for new players and a little difficult to differentiate what can the chicken step on or not. But overall this game is well-polished!
Really silly concept and great execution from an audio/visual standpoint. Music and animations (and the stretched chicken platforms) fit really well. Oh and the intro cutscene was a really nice touch. The gameplay was pretty enjoyable, enough for me to retry quite a number of times to see how far I could get, though best I ended up getting was 1820 since I kept dying either to unfair platforms or my mouse clicks not registering and drawing a platform (my guess is the ground collision sometimes extends beyond the visible pixels?) which ended up becoming a bit frustrating. That said, I still really like the game and if the jank was ironed out then the gameplay would live up to the quality of the audio and graphics. Well done overall!
Chicken!! Chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken!
I don't know where this came from, or why. But I am thankful. The art was just lovely, as was the sound design. That running animation gets me every time.
I enjoyed figuring out the drawing mechanic and how to best use it. As you said, the collisions sometimes don't work as expected. It seemed to happen most with a piece of fried chicken or when I was landing on the edge of a bucket -- basically at the transition between platforms.
Randomly generated levels is ambitious!! It does add a lot of replayability ("What sort of level will I get this time??"). At the same time, a single generation (like a single seed) that you deploy would help me practice and optimize and try to get further and further every time. Something to think about!
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In summary: chicken.
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I never knew I needed this, but I'm glad it came into my life.
Tough at first but man it's super fun to play. I love the game over screen and the overall wackiness. The art and even backstory is the batter on top of this tasty game.
Overall, the only thing left I have to say about this fun game: chicken.
Came for the game, stayed for the fried chicken.
What an awesome game! It's been a while since I've encountered quite as much jank as is in this game, but with the amazing music, sounds and animation, I couldn't help but keep playing anyway! I only ask for one thing: could you please pretty please upload the entire soundtrack somewhere? I really wanna hear the rest of this banger that you've made, but keep dying too early to hear it all. Amazing game! :heart:
Boy, that intro is AMAZING! I have no idea what I'm doing though. I wish you could start drawing on an invalid space, but the drawing only actually started when you move to a valid space. The way it is right now, if you start drawing on an invalid space there's no use moving the cursor anymore - need to start over. Anyway, great game =D
This made me laugh like an idiot for a solid 2 minutes when I started playing it. Even the occasional bug (I think I fell through the deep fryer thingy) kinda fits the tone too well for me to get frustrated over it. Just... -chef's kiss- on the humor. (Made me super hungry too.)
@aivaxela Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken
@deruitda @thomaswang thank you ! the line drawing tool was hard to work with so we couldn't make it work too much with collisions sadly in 72h
@guitarbro Thank you so much ! the original idea was to summon chicken from a limited area above so that you would have to guess so we didn't think too much about the deadzones for the mouse clics near platforms, but stretching the buckets platforms made some collisions with the mouse larger than expected hence the struggle to create platforms near the ground
@hawkin 2669 that's impressive holy ! Adding seeds for that is really smart, that can be cool for a new game to think about ! collisions where you fall usually happen if the slope is more than 80 degrees. Glad you enjoyed it !
@aly-name kenchic.
@brogan-ward Thank you and i loved this pun. Chicken.
@chii we have leftovers !
@justcamh Thank you ! Of course for the music, they are uploading it to a soundcloud and will send you the link here and maybe post it on the main post, it's a banger after all
@prcastro Thank you so much ! I couldn't stop laughing when making the storyboard with finding the goofiest chicken faces possible, but yes i agree for the mouse collisions, they won't be overlooked next jam for sure
@smidgens thank you ! we are sure that the chicken market will skyrocket after this
hi @justcamh ! we just uploaded the soundtrack of the game, happy listening !
https://soundcloud.com/user-348552270/sets/fried-away-ost
Great entry! The mechanics remind me of that Kirby game on the Nintendo DS, Canvas Curse, but the physics aspect adds a chaotic twist here.
Great use of the theme and awesome audio and mood. It's very tough and I honestly didn't get very far in the game, but it was very fun
Really fun game :D I love this kind of hilarius chicken games lol :D
As other's already said, there are some bugs but other than that I adore this, it's so stupid and fun <3 Fantastic graphics, concept, music and the sound effects hahaha, I can't stop laughing when the sound effects for drawing/summoning a chicken platform plays.
I hope you make a polished postjam version! Great work!
Chicken.
This was fun and made me chuckle. Love the visuals, love the frame story. The controls feel a little finnicky, as I can't get a particularly good grasp of when I can summon my chicken bridges. There were some weird gaps that I thought the chicken wizard could clear, but I'll chalk that up to the learning curve.
Also, love the music and sound design. Very crisp...y. Crispy. Yup.
This idea is hilarious, I really enjoyed the creative and unique take here! The art is also fantastic, the presentation is great, congrats for the artist
The gameplay took a little bit of getting used to, but once I did it became quite addictive.
Sometimes when I spawn in a chicken that's above the player it causes them clip through the floor and die. Also I found it a little odd that i couldn't draw chickens too close to the gorund
If the concept art is indicative of anything, this game would be really cool and fun with some polish!
Really Good entry, I enjoyed it!
Love it! Art is great and the gameplay is pretty unique. The platforms are a bit finicky to place sometimes but other than that I have no complaints!
Hi there, finally got my hands over it and it didn't disappoint me :smile: Nice entry, a special kudos for entry cutscene mood, because it really feels funny (tho a bit sad) and really engages to the game itself.
There are some bits and pieces to impove (like the drawing wasn't as smooth as I'd like to), but you probably aware about that. Looking forward if you'll release it as mobile game - it might be quite catchy :smile:
OMGROFL THIS WAS GREAT! The collision seemed a bit wonky and chicken platform summoning a bit tough. I kept somehow knocking my chicken mage off with just my platform. Not sure how. Otherwise SOLID entry!
If the jam was only about run cycles, this would win hands down. I wanted to absolutely love this game, and I almost do. The production value is off the charts for a jam game. The cinematic, the art, animation, scrolling backgrounds, music, audio, everything is top-notch and hilarious!
That being said, the gameplay itself felt frustrating due to the inconsistent nature of collision detection, which others have already mentioned, and the devs have already acknowledged. The frustration is that everything around the game is so good I wanted to keep playing, but the drawing mechanic felt soo inconsistent.
I couldn't tell if I was too close to the chicken to draw a line or not many times, or the chicken would run smack dab into a summon and fall, while others times he'd flap his wings up certain slopes... could never predict what was gonna happen. Not to mention certain 'gaps' in platforms did not visually look like gaps, but I crispily found out otherwise ;)
Still, love the production quality and the humour, excellent job!
Soooo good, music and chicken animation are incredible! Funny as hell and very replayable!
I LOVED everything, from the sound design to the graphics & the animation ! I very bad at that (only 1118 score, nevertheless I'm very proud of it) but I couldn't stop, it's sooooo addictive ! Congrats !!
Eventhough there are a few collision bugs, I had a lot of fun playing the game! Congrats for the smooth animations and the audio :)
I'm not very good at it and keep creating chickens that make Magic Chicken think he's hit a wall & fall to his doom, but it's absolutely fun and I adore the mouse-draw chicken bridges. The music and art and overall vibes are fantastic, and the intro animatic was a great touch, although I can't tell if it's intentional or not to see the gray background that the chicken is walking onto before it zooms into Mr. Flanders - I get the feeling my monitor might be too big to fullscreen this game on haha. I'm incredibly impressed by the chicken sprites generated by the mouse (although it's possible to make some very cursed generations) - I have a very limited understanding of how one would make a drawing app for jam via spawning a lot of circles to create a "line", so seeing something like this with the chicken feet and chicken face is awesome, especially when it takes into account the direction your drew it and everything so the feet and head are always facing the right way.
Overall, :chicken: :chicken: :chicken: / 10