Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → Chickens Go Home
By cagibi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 48 | 3.73 | 23 | |
| Fun | 43 | 3.64 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 83 | 3.45 | 23 | |
| Theme | 44 | 3.92 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 30 | 4.14 | 23 | |
| Audio | 35 | 3.73 | 23 | |
| Humor | 5 | 4.42 | 23 | |
| Mood | 35 | 3.90 | 22 |
As an robotic engineer for poultry farms, I prove, that this is good farm in eu or us, because there is a lot of square meters to one chicken, even in final screen. Also, I like to see bird instinct to find high place, even using a helicopter.
That game is hilarious! I would love a sequel!
Managed to find 278 stuff, should be enough to reach the sun more or less :) Score.png Anyway, this was fun! The department store level was the highlight for me, with a bunch of stuff to collect and a mysterious invisible elevator music player. The opening & ending scenes were cute too, although it was a bit hard to read the opening crawl since the text blended in with the chickens & paper in the background. But yeah, overall a short & fun experience!
@mr-mesmer thanks for your feedback, I'm glad to know this game meets professional standards.
@frogman thank you! I'm thinking of adding the store's loudspeaker as a collectible, or who knows maybe a power-up.
198 Chickens, yay! :-)
What a really cute game! I love the animations and the sounds, very funny!
One thing: the game did not load in my browser, so I had to inspect the HTML element and open the link in a new tab. Consider adding the link (https://files.jam.host/embed/$415836/42144/index.html) to the description.
The white text at the start is low contrast over the white chickens, maybe put a semi-transparent background around the text :-)
You really took the theme literally, collecting the twigs! :-D
I liked the booster ramp, nice feature!
At the end, I have to admit, I did not collect things in the third level, I right away "got to de chahpper" like Arnie and was quite amused when it started spinning in its entirety :-D Along with the music, this made for a pleasing finale ;-)
@gonutz Thanks for the feedback! I just added the link in the description.
Great art-style, I love the color-palette. Music and audio is good, and the I find the whole game very funny and charming. I wish there was something more going on during the levels, like enemies or hazards to avoid. Other than that it's a great entry!
A magnificent game by every standard. Graphics, sound, animation, feedback - everything is really well done. It was a pleasure to play, and the helicopter at the end is hilarious.
Hooooly woah, that was so beautiful! You really have a very special aesthetic I can only really aspire towards.
i see it too late
@cagibi boxes collision crash it изображение_2025-10-07_041438055.png
@linus-lindberg @bereg @surfacedfox thanks!
@awanami I thought I fixed that crash (when you collect more than 1 box in the same frame, tricky to reproduce), I'll see how I can fix it again. EDIT: done. There was a for loop for updating the stack of stuff, and now when one of the items is missing I pop it and exit the loop.
What a fun game! I love how you gave us an environment to just destroy 😁 I had a good chuckle when the helicopter took off. Love the ascetics of this game!
If I can give one suggestion: the text at the beginning (the starwars one), could have been more dark. As it was a bit unclear to read at times.
Such a fun little game, haha. I enjoyed the premise of wreaking havoc on places, and the helicopter took me by surprise. It was incredibly cute, the graphics ideally fit the premise and the game overall. Somehow I stumbled into a roadblock thinking the game is bugged, because I wasn't able to go up the stairs - turne out, I'm just too tired after work to notice a ramp, lol.
Overall, definitely a cute game, well done <3
@wouter52 @thegrottman Thank you!
Fun facts, at first both events were much more boring: I started animating the helicopter blades normally (okay maybe I planned a lot of pitch/yaw but that would be it for the craziness). On stairs, I tried to make them actually climbable, not impossible given that your collider is a sphere, but eh loss of momentum. :P
great game! I love the graphic style!.
The helicopter take off is hilarious
graphics are simple but I really liked it! music and humour is great too :D nice entry
This is what Death Stranding should have been
This was very fun, really loved the movement of the wheel-barrow bike. :smiley:
Great job with sound effects and musical bits . Would be great to see more levels, and some upgrades for the barrow-bike. Utilising more chicken physics, like being able to jump and boost a chicken into the air with some velocity to catch high-up collectibles would be great.
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Great stuff, impressive work nailing down such a cohesive compo game between the art style, audio, and gameplay. More stuff with the ramp boost and level challenges would be awesome, but great for the time limit you had.
Thank you all for the 20 ratings! :D
I'll see what I can do for a post-jam version. My "spiritual predecessor" game had one big special item you had to collect each level which is a power-up most of the time.
Ayy, congratz on the great results! Every category is sub 100 :smiley:
@wouter52 Thanks! Ooh nice, humor is 5th place too :D
Though the sub-50 bonanza isn't as surprising as it sounds, there were only 272 rated compo games compared to 800+ 5 years ago. Still, that's nice to see, and now on to the post-jam version (should be released in a few days):
- Add text outline - Hide item stack when boarding helicopter - Add a shelf to make it past 300 objects, the 300+ result text couldn't show up :( - Make market music into a collectible radio which plays a chaotic MIDI balkans-inspired fanfare music when collected (still working on the music)
Whoops, can't edit the Ludum Dare embedded version. guess I'll need to upload it to itch.io or elsewhere!
It is done.
https://cagibi.itch.io/chickens-go-home
Thanks again!