Ludum Dare #31compo

Egg Empire

by maddogawl

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%

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!

Comments16

Raxsus7 Dec 2014, 04:16

Very fun game. A bit addicting too.

maddogawlauthor7 Dec 2014, 17:09

Thank you! My two boys are addicted to it too.

maddogawlauthor7 Dec 2014, 19:13

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.

roktom8 Dec 2014, 15:10

Well i cannot ignore such games aka cookie clicker , and this one is similar, so great work !

chadheim8 Dec 2014, 15:12

Clever idea! Needs more progress bars to help visualize the egg laying rates.

Pantelis Petsopoulos8 Dec 2014, 15:17

haha the kind of game I like to play when I want to kill time, 10/10 would breed chickens again.

cutandreil8 Dec 2014, 15:23

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)

mrexcessive9 Dec 2014, 15:47

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.

dusho9 Dec 2014, 18:33

interesting idea, good game.. needs more features

charlesque10 Dec 2014, 04:08

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. :)

Budaniel10 Dec 2014, 15:31

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.

Verz11 Dec 2014, 11:15

A nice clickfarmer ¡I NEED MORE EEEEEEEEGGGGSSSSS! really, congratulations on finishing LD

PoQA Games12 Dec 2014, 18:12

Woah! Did not expect this! Really fun game :)

The loop can get kind of annoying after long periods of time, but I had fun!

grid9612 Dec 2014, 18:53

Fun little game.

Xanjos15 Dec 2014, 02:08

Interesting concept and quite a nice time-killer as well.

TyrusPeace24 Dec 2014, 17:16

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.