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The Chickening by Ryvencore

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made by Ryvencore for LD 43 (COMPO)

ABOUT

Two kinds once again, apparently, trying to summon Satan by sacrificing neighbors John's chickens. Throw chickens in the bonfire while avoiding aggressive ones who try to attack you. All that for casually attempting to call dark forces to earth. Will you succeed? Or will the chickens prevail?

DEV

This time I decided to participate in compo for the first time. A great way to test out my game developing skills. In the end I am really happy about the outcome, had few struggles modeling characters as I mostly do environmental stuff. Need to improve my coding skills for the next Ludum Dare.

GAMEPLAY

You move around using WASD keys, pick up white or green chickens with E when in range, attack with SPACE and also throw picked up chickens. For each thrown chicken in the bonfire you score points, for killing grey one, few points are taken away. Win the game by raising sacrifice level to 100 and not dying. 😁

:keyboard: In short: * WASD: Move around * E: Pick up chicken / Drop chicken * SPACE: Attack when not carrying chicken/ Throw chicken when carrying one

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Windows https://ryvenier.itch.io/the-chickening
Source code https://bitbucket.org/ryvencore/the-chickening/src/master/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/the-chickening

Ratings

Overall 264th 3.384⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Fun 366th 2.919⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 413th 2.698⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Theme 153th 3.767⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 41th 4.144⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Audio 227th 3.073⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Humor 116th 3.314⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Mood 282th 3.073⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Given 76🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

NicMagnier
03. Dec 2018 · 11:39 UTC
That ending is priceless....
Well done, it plays well. The chicken are not to aggressive so at the end it really comes to how you control the crowd. The visuals, animations and music are great, only the SFX are missing which is a shame considered the quality level of the rest of the assets...

Edit: Just realized it was a Compo. I thought it was a jam because of how it looks. I've adjusted my scores. Double well done.
timeshapers
03. Dec 2018 · 11:44 UTC
Controls are a bit frustrating. Going back to menu after losing and starting again makes the game freeze.
You aren't really sacrificing if it isn't yours to begin with.
Marc Grabow
03. Dec 2018 · 12:06 UTC
Nice graphics! Got overrun by some evil chicken before I knew what I was doing - trying again seemed to have broken the game (no chicken on 2nd try). Apart from that, nice job! :)
carlpilot
03. Dec 2018 · 12:37 UTC
Quite a good game with excellent graphics! However, once the player restarts the level, the game appears to be frozen
Raziyya
03. Dec 2018 · 12:43 UTC
Great looking game! Was fun to play however I quickly realised that the game can be played by just avoiding the grey chickens meaning that combat was unnecessary. Otherwise, good job!
Plastacier
03. Dec 2018 · 13:07 UTC
Very fun game ! I just love the jumping dude behind the fence 😄
Nice style, great job !
August1413
03. Dec 2018 · 13:21 UTC
Really nice game! really enjoyed it!!! Very funny, great gameplay. I'd love to see Upgrades or something like that, like you can pick up more chicken until you get hit. But the game is still really fun!
Lontrus
03. Dec 2018 · 13:21 UTC
I laughed at the ending.
Blodyavenger
03. Dec 2018 · 13:57 UTC
102 sacrfice level, where is he??? Really cool game, I love the idea and the vibe is great!

Black chicken can become a real threat after a while, if not for attacking you to block the campfire. I wish it could be played with a mouse and better attack feel and to be played slightly faster but apart from that, wonderful piece, well done!

PS: Make this a full game with co-op support ok? ;)
Titorrm
03. Dec 2018 · 14:39 UTC
Funny game !
I love your "friends" a the top of the screen who comment your game, nice idea
And epic idea to don't draw/design satan because he his playing

If you have time, come see our game
Amanda Priest
03. Dec 2018 · 14:47 UTC
Cute. Really nice graphics. Took me a bit to realise killing the grey chickens was doing to opposite to what I wanted to do haha. Short and sweet. Love the dialog. Nice work.
nik2434
03. Dec 2018 · 17:31 UTC
This game is just perfect. There is nothing to say. The Only Down of the game is that the help Menu has to much text you could many do some pictures.(nobody wants to read a such lung text)
hungryghost
03. Dec 2018 · 17:31 UTC
Been waiting for this one! Love the visual style of the game though I kind of got attached to the chickens so didn't want to sacrifice them. Top stuff, really good fun - well done!
omercanbalandi
03. Dec 2018 · 17:55 UTC
I liked graphics.When I died and started again, my game crashed but overall it's fun stuff :).Good job!
zircon123
03. Dec 2018 · 18:17 UTC
Great graphics and gameplay. the music was good. Controls are quite frustrating especially the combat. Great game overall though!
Barrier
03. Dec 2018 · 19:13 UTC
Nice art! The shovel attack was kinda useless, couldn't get kills without getting killed. So I just ran around throwing chickens in the fire until I won :)
Ale
03. Dec 2018 · 19:17 UTC
Satan? No no no. These chicken are for me.

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BinaryLynx
03. Dec 2018 · 20:54 UTC
What a fun to play game! It runs smoothly and I didn't stuck in the chickens despite not killing more than 5 of them! I first tried it and it feels so gooood! I've got the sense as though I made it through a very difficult and chaotic game although I was not supposed to, so great balance! Well done!
LORENZ
04. Dec 2018 · 00:17 UTC
Funny Game! :D
nettleflap
04. Dec 2018 · 02:50 UTC
I like the visuals more than the game I think. It was pretty short and repetitive. Actually didn't kill any gray chickens till the end and finished it in second try :D Nice try but not very innovative or special.
BenBurgh
04. Dec 2018 · 03:20 UTC
Really goofy game!
mtanton
04. Dec 2018 · 07:06 UTC
Really fun game! The grey chickens were so slow though that I completely ignored them and just won with green chickens haha.
isaque-picao-sanches
04. Dec 2018 · 11:00 UTC
I'm a sucker for low poly
christina-antoinette-neofotistou
06. Dec 2018 · 04:25 UTC
OK this is fun, and the graphics are amazing. Very very well-done, and congrats for finishing all this on time!
designernap
06. Dec 2018 · 16:08 UTC
Looks lovely and a great presentation. A Little too tricky to play for me but a great entry.
loveapplegames
31. Dec 2018 · 19:34 UTC
Great graphics and an interesting concept that is well in line with the theme. Nice to use the chickens as projectiles. It's quite difficult not to get mobbed (or to crash out for another reason like health, tho the message is always mobbing...)
The keyboard controls are quite awkward IMHO. It might be good to rethink the controls and do some more balancing, then definitely worth developing further.