Exploding Chickens

nateddwag 2017-07-26 23:39

How did you upload this? I'm also uploading a Scratch game, and it's not working.

metarabbit 2017-07-27 11:10

Textures of walls flicker at the movement of the camera. It was unpleasant to my eyes.

The idea of a game original and interesting, but after all a game hasn't given sufficient motivation to worry about the girl and to look for these chickens.

wan 2017-07-27 19:37

I did not have flickering issues, the only issues I had were with the jumping, which was quite frustrating when it came to climb stairs. Making her jump a bit higher would have made things more comfortable.

Now about the game itself, first I am SUPER impressed by the fact that you made this with Scratch. When I first tried it I dismissed it as just a tool for discovering the very basics of programming, but apparently I just scratched (hehe) the surface of its capabilities.

I like the idea of the game as well, and found a few unusual and interesting details, like speech bubbles being used for sharing info on game progress (in particular the chickens telling us how much time remains).

The compass is a great addition as well, but unfortunately its not enough to remove completely the frustration of looking for the chickens. More than once I ended up having a chicken right behind a wall, having to go great lengths, often without success, to figure out the path to reach it. Maybe I'm just bad, but the level design felt too difficult. I ended up catching 4 chicken out of 7.

Other than that the game worked well, I love the stupid-looking chicken ;)

frodewin 2017-07-28 00:32

@Nateddwag: I uploaded it as an index.html on itch.io, see https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/How_to_Publish_Scratch_Projects_on_itch.io for details

frodewin 2017-07-28 00:33

I updated the game (since the deadline was extended), now the chickens attack you if the spot you. Makes the game harder, hope not frustrating.

jk5000 2017-08-02 17:14