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Shooting Chickens by PxLucasF

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made by PxLucasF for LD 43 (COMPO)

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In this game, you're a chicken that shoot little chickens to defeat dogs! The more dogs you shoot a chicken, the faster they'll come to you.

How to play?

Your objective is to defeat the highest number of dogs that you can! Don't let them touch you or it's game over.

  • Left arrow / Touching the left side of the screen - Shoot to the left
  • Right arrow / Touching the right side of the screen - Shoot to the right
  • Enter / Touching anywhere - Start the game

Maps and songs

We're talking about 5 maps and 5 songs, one for each map! Take a look:

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Maps :cityscape:

  • Default
  • Snow :santa:
  • Desert
  • Beach
  • City

Songs :musical_note:

  • Little Farm
  • Dogs, Chickens and Snowflakes :snowflake:
  • Sunny Day
  • Chickens Rocks
  • Exploding Chickens

Tools

For making this game, I had to use softwares that I can run on my potato-powered device that is my old computer (as mine isn't working), so here is the list:

  • Construct 2: A HTML5 engine for making 2D games
  • Piskel: Free sprite editor and animator
  • Photoshop: Adobe's image editor
  • Audacity: Open source audio editor
  • Amper Music: Music composer based on AI
HTML5 (web) https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/
Windows https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/win64.zip
Windows https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/win32.zip
Linux https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/linux64.zip
Linux https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/linux32.zip
macOS https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/osx64.zip
Android https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/ShootingChickens-android.apk
Windows https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/ShootingChickens-w10.appx
Source code https://imlucas.com.br/ld43/download/source.capx
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/shooting-chickens

Ratings

Overall 227th 3.46⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 198th 3.385⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 475th 2.333⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 434th 2.788⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 115th 3.769⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 53th 3.769⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 46th 3.7⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 152th 3.413⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 32🗨️

Feedback

Jannick Larsen
03. Dec 2018 · 00:48 UTC
i lost 227 chicks before i thought that their sacrifice might not be worth my chicken life..
i like it a lot, both music and that there are multiple levels
davidfox
03. Dec 2018 · 02:02 UTC
enjoyed the background music. the sound of firing objects was nice at first, then it drove me kinda nuts. like the concept!
shulgaboy
03. Dec 2018 · 02:16 UTC
I loved shooting chicken-gun) The whole setting kind of reminded the game where you have to shoot birds as a wolf/dog
foxor
03. Dec 2018 · 02:34 UTC
257! Reminds me a lot of "One Finger Death Punch"... but with chickens. Cute art!
Abeyance
03. Dec 2018 · 02:50 UTC
There isn't anything stopping you from just spamming left right left right and going forever. It's kind of just a test of endurance. Try adding something that punishes you for it. I like the backgrounds, cute! :)
Thomas Lacroix
03. Dec 2018 · 02:54 UTC
I'm like @shulgaboy, I love the gun animation! :) The game is very simple but still fun to play. I didn't realize there were more than one level because shooting a lot works pretty well to survive :grin: Nice art!
scarfdev
03. Dec 2018 · 03:15 UTC
There's no real difficulty in just shooting back and forth as fast as you can, as the projectiles will hit the dogs as they spawn, and with only 2 directions to manage its not hard to guess where they're coming from. There's no real feeling of sacrifice anywhere, as firing like mad doesn't have any negatives. Even in terms of the visuals, firing presents at dogs to pacify them seems like more of a good thing than firing chickens at them, so the theme of sacrifice gets less strong as you go. No menu or breather between games is a bit strange, especially if someone had a favorite stage to play the game on, they would have to die on purpose to play on it again. Overall, a bit too simple to have anything substantial come out of playing.
🎤 PxLucasF
03. Dec 2018 · 13:10 UTC
@jannick-larsen @shulgaboy @foxor @abeyance @thomas-lacroix Thank you all for the feedback! :heart:

@davidfox That's true, in my tests I didn't used to spam chicks, so the sound was fine for me :sweat_smile: Thanks for your feedback!

@scarfdev Agreed, there was some simple things that I should have implemented like reloading and slowing down the gun cadence. I had some crazy ideias while brainstorming but I really wanted to create something with the vibe "sacrificing is cool" or something like that. The christmas level is the only one that you don't shoot chicks, my idea was create a thematic map. Being sincere, I really don't know why I didn't make a decent menu. Overall, it's really true that "the theme gets less strong as you go". Thanks for your feedback! :blush:
morriss
03. Dec 2018 · 14:18 UTC
Really love the music and the scene, I feel scarfdev's evaluation is helpful @scarfdev
Suchista
03. Dec 2018 · 14:24 UTC
Super fun game, but it needs some penalty for mindless shooting when there are no dogs (like -1 point).

Music is amazing! Also the Christmas map is awesone!:D
egos
03. Dec 2018 · 14:56 UTC
very well polishing , i love the art and music style
As said before i thinked that spam gun shot will give a negative reward
LucyferChan
03. Dec 2018 · 15:54 UTC
Amei as músicas, os cenários múltiplos, a arte... Simples e perfeito.
🎤 PxLucasF
03. Dec 2018 · 16:27 UTC
@morriss @suchista @egos @lucyferchan Thank you all for the feedback! I really appreciate it :two_hearts:
verysoftwares
03. Dec 2018 · 17:18 UTC
i cycled thru all 5 maps/songs, my high score is 202. this game is somehow relaxing. also i agree with @suchista.
KirLosev
03. Dec 2018 · 22:04 UTC
fits the theme really well. poor chickens

definitely needs a penalty for shooting when there's no dog. but other than that, i've quite enjoyed. with a bit more progression, would make a good mobile time killer for me. :v:
DriagonV
03. Dec 2018 · 22:05 UTC
Shows that even a simple game can be so engaging and awesome! I played through all maps and overall enjoyed the whole experience!
Harksa
03. Dec 2018 · 22:59 UTC
It's simple and cute, I love the sound effects lol. I agree with @kirlosev and you shoud totaly make some penalties for shooting when there is no dog, so people won't just spam the buttons.
Also, dogs comming for the skies, above the player, would be also really neat too, I think !
Nick Rafalski
03. Dec 2018 · 23:23 UTC
Very cute game. I agree with @scarfdev that there is no real challenge though. I like the backgrounds and the music though!
Andrea
03. Dec 2018 · 23:26 UTC
Nice work with this very simple game, although you can just spam left and right for hours and it will work the same.
Loved the graphics!
Well done!
Titorrm
04. Dec 2018 · 12:54 UTC
Nice litle game
A feature like "every 50 points the ckickenator swap to another map" could be done ? To discover and play to all the map in one run !
🎤 PxLucasF
04. Dec 2018 · 19:55 UTC
@verysoftwares @kirlosev @driagonv @nick-rafalski @andrea Thank you for your feedback, it helps a lot!

@harksa A top down view is a nice idea, but I wanted it to be really simple and as mobile-friendly as possible. Anyway, thanks for your comment!

@titorrm Loved the idea! I could work on cool transitions and all that stuff. Thank you for the feedback :blush:
Norb
04. Dec 2018 · 20:50 UTC
The animation howe the gun deforms when the chicken leaves the barrel is nice. You can clearly feel that you put a lot of work into the game. But it seemed a little easy atfer a while. I caught myself tapping left and right alternately. A restricted number of chickens would solve this problem. Nevertheless a great and fun game to play.
nkrim
04. Dec 2018 · 23:10 UTC
Neat, fun, casual. Love the looks and sounds!
aortega
04. Dec 2018 · 23:31 UTC
Very polished and varied content. Mechanics work well, it's intuitive and precise. Super tight scope well leveraged. Cute art. Not the kind of chicken shooting I expected. I'm impressed!! You clearly know what you are doing. Excellent job.
Sockyman
05. Dec 2018 · 00:09 UTC
Fun to play and well polished! I like the sound effects.
🎤 PxLucasF
05. Dec 2018 · 00:34 UTC
@norb @nkrim @aortega @sockyman Thank you so much for all your feedback! This is really helpful :sparkling_heart:
devilqube
05. Dec 2018 · 22:35 UTC
Nice idea of the chicken gun and some nice backgrounds. It would be good to have a few more mechanics to keep you interested.
Ninnec
06. Dec 2018 · 21:33 UTC
It took a long time for the game to load for me on html
🎤 PxLucasF
06. Dec 2018 · 22:17 UTC
Hey, @ninnec! Yeah, this actually happens because of the musics, so if you have a low internet connection this may happen. I'll compress the audio on my next entries.
Ninnec
06. Dec 2018 · 22:18 UTC
Hey @PxLucasf thank you for the feedback!
Garymarance
07. Dec 2018 · 15:02 UTC
That was definitely fun ! I sacrified more than 400 innocents babies (always shoot two just in case that sneaky dog wouldn't be alone), wandering when a new map will show up ^^ And I died. Too bad it's a bit repetitive, but well done ! It's quite stressing thanks to the brutal accelerations, the art is minimalist but effective and kind of cute, and I love the city music, so retro. Nice entry !
gwinnell
19. Dec 2018 · 15:28 UTC
I like this! I agree with others about lack of punishment for spamming, and thus lack of difficulty, but I think the solution could be quite simple: if you fire a chicken and it hits the edge of the screen and not a dog/target then it's a _wasted chicken_ and you lose! Bam!