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Egg Empire by maddogawl

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made by maddogawl for LD31 (COMPO)
Egg Empire starts you with an empty chicken coop. Your goal is to reach $500 as quickly as possible. You build roosting boxes, purchase chickens, sell eggs, and keep your chickens happy as you move to build your chicken empire.

Directions:
Click on any square to start by purchasing a roosting box, once you purchase a roosting box you may purchase a chicken.

The happier the chickens the quicker they lay eggs!

I composed the music using free online virtual tools, and then edited it in Audacity. I did all art in Paint .Net, and used Unity3D as the engine. Overall I spent about 9 - 10 hours on this, including coming up with the idea.

Good Luck All!
Web http://www.allgamedevelopment.com/LudumDare/EggEmpire.html
Source http://www.allgamedevelopment.com/LudumDare/EggEmpireSource.rar
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=18798

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.77 967
Audio 2.39 726
Fun 2.73 879
Graphics 2.17 1092
Humor 2.70 420
Innovation 2.54 930
Mood 2.54 889
Theme 3.72 396

Feedback

Raxsus
07. Dec 2014 路 04:11 UTC
Very fun game. A bit addicting too.
馃帳 maddogawl
07. Dec 2014 路 17:04 UTC
Thank you! My two boys are addicted to it too.
馃帳 maddogawl
07. Dec 2014 路 19:08 UTC
My Record for reaching an Egg Empire is 163 days.

A few tricks:
-The happier the chickens the more they will lay
-Sometimes its better to build cheaper chickens because they require less care
-If your chickens are unhappy for too long they will die!

If anyone plays it long enough to hit $500 be sure to post the time it took you to get there.
roktom
08. Dec 2014 路 15:05 UTC
Well i cannot ignore such games aka cookie clicker , and this one is similar, so great work !
chadheim
08. Dec 2014 路 15:07 UTC
Clever idea! Needs more progress bars to help visualize the egg laying rates.
Pantelis Petsopoulos
08. Dec 2014 路 15:12 UTC
haha the kind of game I like to play when I want to kill time, 10/10 would breed chickens again.
cutandreil
08. Dec 2014 路 15:18 UTC
Not a job I would like to do in real life ...
I've made 500$ in day 167.
(I've used nearly the same amount of every chicken)
mrexcessive
09. Dec 2014 路 15:42 UTC
Hi there. Nice simple clickfarmer. Sell Eggs button was just off screen for first 8 days... so that was a pain... but things went better once found it ;) Liked the flutey music.
dusho
09. Dec 2014 路 18:28 UTC
interesting idea, good game.. needs more features
charlesque
10. Dec 2014 路 04:03 UTC
Quite good game, but maybe a bit too slow or too long. It doesn't make me wanna try to make a better score many many times. Still a good job. :)
Budaniel
10. Dec 2014 路 15:26 UTC
Note to self: chicken farming is NOT a fast, easy road to riches. It's a nice, simple game and it fits the theme. My biggest complaint is that it rapidly became a game of whack-a-mole as the farm filled up, and once it was filled it there was nothing left to do except whack moles. I would have also liked to have seen more gradients in the level of chicken satisfaction so I could know which one needed my help most desperately.
Verz
11. Dec 2014 路 11:10 UTC
A nice clickfarmer 隆I NEED MORE EEEEEEEEGGGGSSSSS! really, congratulations on finishing LD
PoQA Games
12. Dec 2014 路 18:07 UTC
Woah! Did not expect this! Really fun game :)

The loop can get kind of annoying after long periods of time, but I had fun!
grid96
12. Dec 2014 路 18:48 UTC
Fun little game.
Xanjos
15. Dec 2014 路 02:03 UTC
Interesting concept and quite a nice time-killer as well.
TyrusPeace
24. Dec 2014 路 17:11 UTC
Impressively compelling!

Nice touch that the cheaper chickens are easier to maintain; I swamped myself with an army of clicks before I figured that out.