Chick

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★73%
Chick is a minimal platformer, inspired by the new born chicks we are looking after over LD weekend.

Source is here: https://github.com/ianmcgregor/games/

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Comments25

Fabien Porée29 Apr 2013, 12:59
Yayy, I love the sound effects!
I'm hoping those poor eggs endlessly falling into the abyss will be okay though :(
Jod29 Apr 2013, 13:09
The first time I met the egg, I gave it some momentum as I jumped over it. It prompyly pushed me into the cliff as I came down. I could imagine the chick going "Not coooool brooooo!"

Little did I know this was just a premonition of things to come. I have laughed and cursed very hard at the cascading eggs down the stairway.

Cool game, made laugh!
alwaysinbetaauthor29 Apr 2013, 13:09
Thanks. The sound effects are real recordings of the baby chicks we were looking after over the weekend :)
terrivellmann29 Apr 2013, 14:00
Cool, it ends when you get to the giant chick, right?
alwaysinbetaauthor29 Apr 2013, 15:56
Yup terrivellmann you should have got a win screen. Might be a bug...
ChuiGum
ChuiGum29 Apr 2013, 22:23
Like the chick, nice sound effects and physics.
argo1529 Apr 2013, 22:23
Controls were kinda tough but I thought it was adorable.
JohnnySix
JohnnySix29 Apr 2013, 22:26
Loved the sound effects and the frustrating inertia on landing haha. I was rolling the egg along like a circus act hoping for it to hatch. :(
Dark Acre Jack29 Apr 2013, 22:33
For some reason I kept thinking I needed to jump down into the holes. Also the controls were slightly laggy, could be my net connection tho.
Squeka
Squeka30 Apr 2013, 13:25
I like how simple and how fit with the theme ^^.
Nice sound effects too :D.
miharbi30 Apr 2013, 14:40
Really liked how the eggs were reused as obstacles.
rustybroomhandle30 Apr 2013, 16:12
this was a very fun and adorable game. I liked the physics and how the obstacles were eggs. over all it was a very fun game.
Colapsydo
Colapsydo1 May 2013, 12:47
the pew pew sound are quite nice.
I had some trouble with the bouncy reception but I finally help the chick to come back home.
psychomonster
psychomonster1 May 2013, 21:07
I killed so much chickens while playing haha... this must be a good game ;)
hgouveia
hgouveia2 May 2013, 17:49
Slow begining , but fun, i didn't like to much the jumping,maybe if you add some wings animation, has more senses those light gravity jumps :D
GranaDa
GranaDa3 May 2013, 18:08
The falling eggs are damn hard! Nice chirp and graphics. Good job!
sudorossy
sudorossy5 May 2013, 22:10
Too laggy to play properly, not sure if it was part of the style but made timing jumps basically impossible. I don't exactly have a bad computer either.
alwaysinbetaauthor13 May 2013, 12:45
@sudorossy That is strange to hear. I haven't seen any lag on old or new machines. It is so minimal after all..
galman
galman13 May 2013, 21:39
Nice platformer :) Had fun running on those eggs :P The controls were a bit too laggy
Sylvain.p
Sylvain.p13 May 2013, 22:08
It will be better with potatoes.
AndyBumpkin
AndyBumpkin13 May 2013, 22:08
Good fun! Loved the level with the big set of steps and all the eggs were coming down. Bit of an :arghh!: moment, but in a good way :)
sP0CkEr213 May 2013, 22:10
very nice -- cool that you used real chick recordings -- nice job.
csanyk
csanyk16 May 2013, 04:06
The jumping mechanic was too frustrating. Bouncing + inertia made for a lot of unfair deaths. Audio is a +. Levels could have used a little more variety (I got through the 3rd level). What were the eggs for?
GeorgeBroussard20 May 2013, 21:04
Echo everything csanyk says above. Solid effort for 48 hours though. Keep adding to it. primary thing...work on the jump physics and air control. Too slow :) Apart from that, go go go

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