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Hah! I laughed out loud when I went to Start, expecting to immediately transition to the first level, but fell off the cliff first, immediately setting the mood and what to expect. Nice touch!

Took me a bit to get the hang of the tank controls -- definitely adds a level of difficulty.

Its fun and interesting, but feels incomplete. There should definantly at least be a few more levels.

wow this is my favourite one so far! The graphics are stellar, first off. I love the blocky colour art style that this game has. And I definitely laughed aloud a few times as well. Good work - this could make a stellar mobile game!
Also, my chicks fell off a cliff and I laughed, am I a horrible person?

@milo-the-cool-guy I totally agree, there was so much I wanted to do but simply didn't have time. Because this is largely built from scratch in my own engine that I hadn't long ported to the web I had to spend a lot of time implementing and fixing various essential features like shadow mapping, etc.

Did you actually complete all 3 levels? I've not heard from anyone that has yet :D

Something to re-visit in the future perhaps!

@papacheech Wow, thank you! As someone who considers themselves completely terrible at art things, it makes me happy to hear that people actually enjoy the visuals on this!

And it doesn't make you a bad person, you was just bringing them to *salvation* as the chicken gods desired :o

AHHHHHHHHHHH THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL SPEED.

The tank controls really are the game's biggest strength and weakness. On one hand, they make up the main gimmick of the controls and on the other hand, they are probably the first things players blame when things get hard. It's fun to skebop around though, so it works out in the end.

Your engine is really well done. If you hadn't said anything I would have assumed it to be made with a premade engine. Didn't notice any bugs either. Impressive work!

The graphics are very good in this game. The mechanics can be polished a little bit, but the concept is good. Good job!

I never knew that being a hen was so difficult and slippery. I couldn't get past the first level. Graphics are nice though.

Clever and fun, but a bit hard to control. That chicken could use a bit more friction between it and the ground!

Needs an in game tutorial, tank controls feel weak.

Very cute but also unexpectedly difficult, for me at least. Oh well, it was still quite fun, even though I didn't get anywhere near finishing the game.

I'll try a different browser, but when I tried with Edge I got: "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console"

Could you open up the JS console and see what it says? It's most likely that your browser simply doesn't support stuff like WebGL2, its pretty new so you need an up-to-date Chrome or Firefox preferably. If you're on something like safari I think you need to manually enable experimental WebGL2 support

edit; I'm tired and totally overlooked the Edge part, iirc Edge simply doesn't have support for WebGL2 yet because MS is slow at doing stuff :p

That controls are pretty hard :/ But it's fun and I love the throwing action :)

Nice and simple graphics! Strange to control and I didnt even complete level 1 (if the start thing is like a menu). I think the problem sits in front of the screen here, huh? Anyway. Interesting idea.
Btw. my Vivaldi browser doesnt run the game too, so I used Chrome.

Immediately hangs, mouse cursor disappears, and the game view is corrupted (random pixels over probably 1/3 the view) for me - macOS / Chrome.

@rsim What hardware are you on? It could be old drivers or just shoddy WebGL2 support.

MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with a Nvidia GeForce GT 750M. Drivers are all from Apple (NV doesn't provide any for macOS). As a datapoint, I haven't had any issues with the ~30 other WebGL games I've played from the compo, but maybe Unity has an auto-fallback for WebGL2 or something?

I like the idea but jumping is extremely difficult or maybe I am not cut out for this. Nice graphics!

It's funny, graphics are nice but it was a bit hard to control. However, it looks you've put a lot of effort on the game!

I like the graphics! The controls ares pretty hard to get to used to, but when i eventually did, it was a nice challenge. Still pretty frustrating though haha

I like it, great concept. I'm going to have to bookmark this one and come back after I do more ratings!

@exezin To follow up, I just tried in FireFox and while the graphics aren't corrupted and the game runs, it's veeeery slow - about 2 FPS, perhaps 1, and as such unplayable unfortunately. Certainly shouldn't be such bad performance on this machine.

@rsim There's not much I can say to be honest, my best guess would be shoddy WebGL 2 support because it is *very* new, came out this year I think. I even get decent performance on my first gen intel laptop with no dedicated GPU :/ Possibly a OSX-specific issue.

There's no reason you should get that sort of performance out of that sort of hardware, I think you're the only user to experience this so far :(

Being a mother hen is some work, but getting to throw your babies around is a lot of fun. I liked how you transitioned levels with the sinking and emerging animation. Very nice. I had a lot of trouble with the ramp on that second level but I finally got it. Mother hens tend to slide more than I thought they would. Thanks for putting it out in html5 format.

**FYI:** I played it in Firefox Quantum and it was buttery smooth.

@recursor Wow you made it past the first level! You might just be the first one to do so, congrats :D Thanks for the kind words and mentioning the performance, good to know my rushed emscripten port is working well in *most* cases :p

Nice job! It took me a bit of reading of the description to figure out i'm supposed to jump and move to gain velocity, which made the game go from impossible to very hard :) Regardless, it's super pretty! needs more chicken sounds too! Great job!

@rsim udo on the LD irc chat is on the same OSX version as you and ran into no trouble at all, its likely outdated drivers or maybe a super outdated Firefox, I recommend updating your Firefox and maybe considering upgrading to High Sierra?

great concept, graphics looks good

I love it! The little chick noises are great and the movement/how they follow you is well done. Great work! Keep spreading the good chook!

When you stuck in the fence

@nikchernyakov You've activated my trap card! hah, congrats on running into the collision bugs I've been fighting with for months, I'm surprised people didn't mention it sooner :D

I enjoyed the graphics and the smooth movement - well fit for the theme.
One critic: I really dislike this kind of movement behaviour (rotation by A&D, move in direction by W) - I'm curious how it would work out with WASD in directional matters

@fis I agree that generic 'move where you press' would probably be a lot easier to control, but bhopping was a pretty big aspect in this and I couldn't make it work well in non tank-like movement setups :(

Wow, this game is harder than Dark Souls xD.
Couldn't beat the first level :(
Control scheme is an interesting idea. Maybe some more visual cues would help judging one's speed and jumping direction. I had a hard time judging from where to jump.

Looks really cool though,so nice job.

Great game sir! Well done! I would like to suggest the post processing stack. Very easy way to make your graphics absolutely pop!

Nice game. It is satisfying to both complete the puzzles and throw chicks of cliffs.

As good as this game is, i'm too stupid to don't kill those little chicken. But it's a very nice game!

This is so polished, a really good entry! Good style and mechanics too.

Great entry, very fun as well as technically impressive, porting an engine to JS must have been a lot of work!

Controls are not optimised for an EU keyboard, too bad :/ But nice graphics !

@reality-blind What do you mean exactly? I developed this on a EU-keyboard (UK specifically). WASD and space for jump are pretty standard as far as controls go :s

The graphics and transitions were great, the sound is just what we need and I really felt I was going to be free. But I must be missing something. I just couldn't make the jump to side of the first stage. And I tried. A lot. After reading the comments I figure it's probably me the problem haha
But anyway, solid concept, fun game!

Really nice theme choice and implementation. For being a self-made engine this is COMPLETELY badass. Congratulations and keep it up!

@gerardb Thanks dude! :)

Pretty cool. Couldn't figure out how to get past the part after jumping with 3 chicks.

The graphics and physics are really good

I've added a video which displays the method to beating the first to levels due to some people being confused.

tl;dr you bhop around to gain speed.

This is the best game ever! XD Love IT :D

This is great, but also so hard that it becomes frustrating. For a long time I didn't know that I can move faster by running and jumping. I don't know. It has a great potential, but is a bit too hard for me.

Really well done, nonetheless.
Keep up the good work.

Very fun game! Tried to cheat but just couldn't make it through the first level.

It's probably me though, the game looks just fine. :)

@mags You're not the only one it seems! I've added a video up by the screenshots that shows you how to complete the level :)

Awesome, a game I thought I'd never see, a bhopping hardcore puzzle(?) platformer with chickens :)

Controls felt a tad bit too unprecise - in aiming and when you try to stop. This game would definitely need some learning curve, though! I love the idea, lovely implementation and polish.

I really liked the death/respawn level animation, straight from a quality puzzler!

You're a mummy chicken guiding her chicks to safety so it seems like a pretty chill game to start with when it takes a sudden dark turn
You just have bounce around and try to keep your chicken shaped jet plane from spiraling out of control and going for a dive bomb in the ocean while managing to keep your baby chicks from committing suicide...
I love it.

@exezin I will surely try again. Didn't know I could 'store' speed by jumping. :)

@mags Wow, don't often see people come *back* to try again! Thanks! :) And you can even store a fair bit of speed just by constantly moving, you only really start losing most of your velocity once you let go of the W key.

the game was really hard but I like the idea, good job!

@exezin Now I like this game even more! Man this chicken can be fast. I did the first level :) tried the second for more than a few times, couldn't do it... I guess the controls are making it hard. In one of those retries I landed on the tree at the beginning of the level and then crossed to another tree and it just made me feel like I've accomplished something even though I didn't get till the end of the level. :D

fun idea, good game, the art is beautiful

Nice idea, decent 3d graphics and quite well polished. However The game play was not my cup of tea. the floor did not have enough friction for my liking and the jumps were too difficult, either the chicken could jump further and higher or the distance could be shorter. Innovative idea in a nice setting though.

The game was fun, but the jumps were made hard in a bad way by the perspective. I couldn't really tell how far platforms were very well.

I think jumps should be higher a little bit. Or some gaps should be more narrow.

Nice graphics. I am really impressed that you've made it using pure C.

Cool game and I like the art style! Jump control in air is insanely difficult though. Generating higher jumps through <space> was not possible for me, I felt. Thumbs Up!

very nice game! interesting idea!

The art is crazy good. Fits the theme and is so much fun. Congrats!

lol that transition is really funny good job

first i threw out all my chicks out before i figured out i can move with wsad... and btw, its bad idea to hide cursor in web based game...

I understand the mechanics but I don't know why there is an arrow pointing to nowhere. I try to go ahead and I die.

@janachumi You need to throw all of the baby chickens off the cliff the arrow is above before you can throw yourself off and *to the next level*. Some baby chickens are hidden on the map.

I should say... this is the hardest chicken parkour simulator I've ever played. The first impression and art style are well done, but I really bad at this game. Difficulty curve must be improved, in my opinion.

Just look how my struggle is real :smiley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjluKYKqsm0

From the videos/gifs, the game looks super fun! Would love to give it a try but, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be loading (Currently using Google Chrome Version 64.0.3278.0). Haven't left a rating yet, but feel free to tweet at @WildGamut if you've found the issue or need more information from us to fix it and we'll rate it after we try it out :)

I like the graphics,simple but beautiful!And the baby chickens are so cute.Nice work!

Nice work on the concept i really like throwing the tiny chickens around but i got really frustrated how sometimes the chicken seems to be walking on an ice level with so much sliding xD.

Cute game :) the graphics are well done and it is pleasant to play (well actually it's a bit more difficult on an azerty keyboard but I can imagine it plays nicer on a qwerty one). I did get stuck in a fence once and did not understand right away that the chicken could move without jumping but great entry overall !

I find this quite impressive that you did all of this using your own engine and opengl(as a apprentice programmer who uses unity:3 ) The artstyle is awesome, the general gameplay is good. The only thing I didn't really like was that the chicken kept sliding, which felt a bit annoying on edges, especially with chick just falling to there death, amazing entry overall :3

The first level is very hard, you need to play it a lot of times to get the understand, other than that, the game is amazing! The art and concept are very cool. Good job!!!

Very fun game, love the clean graphics. Would be interesting to see how many times you died for each level

Very nice!

Very nice!

Very cute, colorful art and a fun idea ! Cheers :) !

Excellent nice graphics and nice idea but it seems very difficult to play well with the inertia and the precision needed with jump. Excellent job anyway :thumbsup;

Great fun game, waaaay too hard though XD
Looks really nice!

Checkout **Voxel Mob Arena** here and please leave rating!:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/voxel-mob-arena

Looks nice and seems fun but controls are wayy to annoying and hard. :pensive:

Hilarious game, wish I could actually beat the first level :sob: Awesome that this is a custom engine! Really dig the cute minimalist art too.

The Character has too much inertia :s But nice idea and nice graphics!
If you want check our game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/chicken-coup

I could not get past the second level, as I had no idea what to do.

The game is OK but not very playable. Graphics looks nice. Fast to load. Controls are not good. Text rendering not very readable. I looked at your engine source, +1 for effort, C and webgl is sooooooooooooooo verbose. Kudos for getting text and shader to work, I don't even know how you can debug such thing through the layers of emscripten compilation. The mere fact of getting your engine to work is quite an achievement. Well done !

Super funny game.

Nice game, but I find the controls extremely difficult xD

Funny game and a lot of fun to play

This is awesome. I didn't find many games that i only play to master the mechanics. The jumping to gain momentum is a nice touch, also the chicken cannon which is a safty cannon for sure ;) Great art and take on the theme!

interesting movement mechanic, like it a lot

I had a little trouble with the movements and where they were really stopping/starting; however, that did not limit my enjoyment. Neat idea, neat level. Thanks!

So... you found a bug in your jumping mechanic, and you decided to make that the main mechanic of your game? That's certainly an unusual source of inspiration!

Unfortunately, I think that mechanic was poorly communicated. I don't see why a chicken should be able to go faster by repeatedly jumping, and it doesn't feel right for a chicken walking on grass to have such a slippery slowdown when releasing the arrow key. Even in your description you are hiding the explanation of your core mechanic behind a cryptic "I CANT FIGURE IT OUT!!! Watch this" link, which makes it seem like the player is expected to figure it out on their own even though the game does nothing to lead the player towards that discovery. Speaking of not guiding the player very well: I still don't know if I'm supposed to throw my chicks at the yellow arrow or if I'm supposed to gather them all around me and walk past the cliff myself. I also have no idea what the yellow egg does. I see that there is a game somewhere in there, but I can't play it, because the rules are too unclear and the controls are so frustrating that I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out.

(I didn't rate the game because I did not feel like I saw all there was to see)

@gelisam I think you expect far to much from a custom engine & 48 hours of work :p