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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Keep chicks alive! | jam | 781 | 3.67 | 3.76 | 2.73 | 3.25 | 3.45 | 3.64 | 3.20 | 3.23 |
Very poetic! Music is relaxing. You play, and understand what you have to do along your progression. Having sounds changing along makes the game magic as you wish to just.. Go away listening to this melodic song. Thank you for this peaceful journey! <3
Really amazing game! Congratulations my friend! It was really intuitive to know what you've to do. You learn quickly as you fail. Making a death, something that could be boring, a need to progress. Very interesting here! Congrats :-)
I actually played the game right after a stressful meeting, haha That was fun! Cool entry :smile:
Awesome! Really.. Very beautiful pieces of arts. Amazing audio, and effects.
Sometimes not so easy to understand where to go on first try, but hopefully you added some checkpoints, haha.
Couldn't go further after I got the wall jump, but bookmarked the game so I can try it again later! :smiley:
Cute and fun little game, Lou! It kept me playing for 20 minutes because.. It was fun trying to keep them alive, haha :smiley: I really like that cool bear character, also
I had fun playing the game! Not always easy to use the jump control, but after a few minutes I understood how to use it well. I really like the concept, and chill sound. Good job, guys! :v:
Wow! Awesome art, animations and music! Really loved it! Mechanics are fun, but I think movement controls are a bit too fast/sensitive. I died a lot mostly because I didn't really expect the character to move that fast.. Anyway that's just a minor thing compared to this awesome result in such a short time. Good job!
@siryakko that was very fun to follow your stream and see you struggle with the game at the first, haha ^^' thx for playing! gonna try yours right now (-:
@thedashdude tyvm for playing and your feedback. to be honest, I've done lots of sprites for the game, but unfortunately didn't find enough time this weekend to implement more mechanics. I really wish I could a 'thwomp' mechanic and a few enemies that move left/right, but I prefered to fix a few things and add the player score at the end first
@hacktrout thank you <3 this means so much <3
@kevin-h tyvm! <3
@louis-denizet when you think about it, this mama chicken is really lazy :smile:
@chromaphase haha, I truely understand what u mean ^^' thank you so much!
@nikita-demidov I'm still sorry that my game keeps you awake so late, haha ^^' What have you find here, lol. I tried it myself to see it. OMG! I simply forgot a few things in level 4.. xD I don't think I'm going to fix it since it doesn't really broke the game (hopefully), plus it is funny to see the eggs tps until his mama imo :smiley:
Had a busy day today and I'm quite tired so I will answer to everyone properly tomorrow! Thank you for playing guys! <3
@daniel-moreno Thank you for playing the game, Daniel! I decided to follow the Nokia 3310 restrictions because I couldn't participate to the last Nokia jam back in February (https://itch.io/jam/nokiajam2). I really wanted to participate so I thought it could be the right moment to try a Nokia 3310-like game for this Ludum Dare.
Yeah, the font is very tiny. It is a four pixels only font which isn't really easy to deal with. Especially with a 1bit game. I don't think I will work again on this game - I mean improve it - but yeah, if had more time I'd ofcourse use a higher font like 8 pixels so I could make it more readable.
Regarding the obstacles, as you said, I just ran out of time. I designed a couple more enemies and stuff that I didn't find time to implement sadly. Anyway I'm already quite satisfied that I get this result with just 16 hours of work. I really wanted to know what time exactly I spent on it so I tracked every minutes of my work here. That's still very motivating.
@sludgekey Really glad to read you had such a great time! Thank you for playing! I'm also a fan of this dino jump game, haha :smile:
@mads Thank you for playing! I understand that point about controls because I felt it as well. If I had more time, I'd have spend a bit more time on optimizing them. It is still a game of the offline/arcade area so I think it is quite okay to get that kind of hard controls. Even if I admit that in some cases behaviors are a bit weird, like when you walk on diagonal sprites for examples. S'ry about that again, really.. Lack of time. ^^'
@dodormeur Thank you for playing the game! I'm glad you talk about that because this is something very important to me. I mean to make players learn what they have to do or what will happen with intuitive experiences like that. I'm sorry I don't really know how to explain my point in English.. x) Regarding the low count of pixels.. I should probably remove a few decorative sprites because.. Yeah.. As you said, you're wondering the first time what it is or if there is any action related to it.
@lambdanaut You filled my heart with joy! Really glad you enjoyed the experience so far, and thank you also for sharing a screenshot of your score. GG! :thumbsup:
Hey, guys! I hope everyone is having a good Sunday morning here.
This comment to let people know that I have updated the game on Itch.io with a few bugfixes thanks to your kind feedback's. Here is the full changes list: [v0.0.9 Bugfixes](https://sleepingpandagames.itch.io/keep-chicks-alive/devlog/140786/v009-minor-bugfixes)
@wheffle As explained in the link below, I updated the game so that QWERTY users can now use the A key to move left. I'm a QWERTY guy so I barely forgot to check that. As simple as that.. Sorry for the frustration, but a huge thanks for reporting it! Very glad you still had fun with the game. :sweat_smile:
@tom-robson Don't really know what to say here expect you can not imagine how please I am to see yet another such positive comment about something I did my best to make it fun. So.. Thank you! :heart:
@inventivum-games This is my very first Ludum Dare participation, and probably not the last one.. Haha :tongue: It is definitely not easy to find a good balance between content and quality in such short time. I tried to focus first on the player flow, like: - Start a level - Play the level - End the level Once this flow was done. I started building a few more levels. There was only 3 at that time, and then I had one day left to work on the game. So I added on more level mechanic (move platforms), then built three more levels. Then I decided to not add more, and focus on debugging/optimizing the actual mechanics. Also worth mentioning, I tested almost every new code I added. To make sure it works, but also to get an overall idea of the game time. I thought around 5 minutes of gameplay would be okay for this. Hope these words help somehow. Excuse me for any typos. ^^'
Ty for playing, and for your kind comment @lou-bagel ☺️
I used to play a lot to Super Crate Box, so I had actually have fun to play a game with similar concept (and enemies). It took me some time to figure out that I had to keep fire alive, haha. But it was fun overall! And that epic guitar song starting while a boss spawns.. Ahah :sweat_smile: Had fun! Ty!
Quite difficult, but fun little game. You should probably make collision a bit more in favor of the player. Since the game is a 'Die & Try' I'd probably remove lifes limit as it is a bit frustrating. Even if I understand its purpose ofcourse. Anyway I had fun with your funny characters, and sounds used.