Name: ChickLife Developers: Nodari Kobakhidze (codder) & Luka Nadirashvili(Art)
About Game: This game is about chick, from life to death. Game contains 5 Levels (Only 2 of them have been developed, more in future). Every next level you play as more progressed chick (For example, you are egg in first level and small chick in second). The game is really funny and small. I'll be adding more levels in future.
The game have been developed by 15 and 16 years old young game developers (Me, Nodari Kobakhidze 15 years old and my partner, Luka Nadirashvili, 16 years old) , in 24 hours, in Georgia (country). Thanks to Ilia State University for letting us use their place to develop our game.
Everything you see in game have been created by us, whole asset have been created by us (except Background Music). We even made animations but hadn't enough time left for controllers to control animations.
Hope you'll like our game and please leave us feedback (what should we improve). Also we included source code, so if you're begginer and interested how we made this game then download source code and test it yourself.
For any questions contact me on this email: [email protected]
I got it running from source now, after updating Unity.
Unfortunately, at this point the game does feel a bit unfinished. I like the idea and it fits into the shapeshifting theme. A few decorative ( and/or moving, e.g. leafs, tumbleweed, etc.) items along with the character animations (for which you ran out of time I understood) would probably improve the visuals a lot.
Haha, I was smiling the whole time I was playing this, due to the funny art and chicken dance music. I liked that it was fairly forgiving with the checkpoints, because some parts were difficult to get past.
I was laughing the whole time that I played this. The music was a really nice touch and I like the art. My only complaints are that the movement is very slide-y, you get stuck on walls when falling, and I wish the chicken was animated. Overall, though, great job!
Definitely a fun little runner game and the minimalistic sprite graphics I loved! Although certain parts clipped a bit too much which made a few jumps a bit too awkward. Not to mention the checkpoints are quite far away in certain harder areas, which ultimately led to me quitting.
I lasted about 5 minutes and then had flashbacks to the 90s where we were forced to do the chicken dance every 10 minutes at school discos. 10/10 - IGN
the graphics are funny and the mood is good, the game mechanics not so, i find too much clipping and the game itself is pretty repetitive, this game needs some hard polishing to be enojyed enough
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35. Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free) So we can include also your game in the video ;) p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Your art style is beautiful, too bad there wasn't much more to do than running forward with an occasional jump. In the first level I was once caught by the hen, in the second level I never saw a real threat.
Those half-visible holes were very sneaky :-p
You should take the whole 72 hours next time if you can manage that somehow. I would have loved to play the finished game!
The game feels unfinished (and it is apparently, since it's missing 3 levels).
Two very important things I think you should rework to make the game more enjoyable : The collisions - You should have chose a square or circle shaped collider for you chick. Sometimes it feels as if it follows the shape of the sprite : that's not really good for performance (for a small 2D game that's actually not really a problem) ; and for game play : when I missed my jumps, I sometimes stayed stuck on the edge on a platform, surviving thanks to my belly, but couldn't jump or go any further (I had to commit suicide). The horizontal movement - Your chicken doesn't know how to slow down! Once you pressed left or right, you chicken will keep on running for a while. You should add a faster "slow-down" when no key is pressed : on each update, if the chicken is on the ground, and no horizontal key is pressed, divide the speed by a value close to one (1 + updatetime*something) /or/ set the horizontal speed to (rightKeyPressed-leftKeyPressed)*speed (a bit too violent I think). Do something like that, because right now it feels like the chicken is on very slippery ice.
Some other things that could make the game better : Add animations (you planned on doing it but couldn't, I understand), effects (particle effects following the chicken, hen, or egg for example), and visual indicators. I don't really know where I re-spawned most of the time because all the platforms look identical. Add a palm-tree here and there, dry grass, etc... Could be cool. More graphics in general would be could. Be careful of not-so-compatible colours. (I'm thinking of the desert level where the chicken's bright yellow, the orange of sand in the background and the platforms' brown don't go so well. Try taking either colours that are far enough from each other, or take colours with the same "hue" and close "saturation". Reduce the length of the not difficult parts. Sometimes you have to get from one "puzzle" to another, and you have empty horizontal platforms : remove some of them. It will make the game more dynamic. It's also true for the end of the second level, where you have to run for a month (measured it) to reach the end.
I felt like you had a lot of very good varied idea, but it wasn't correctly executed. I saw variation in gameplay (the hen part for example was very good) and it was cool.
Good job to you two ! I wish you good luck on your future projects ! I hope you'll be able to spend a full 72h for the next ludum dare.
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Funny Idea, Don't give up
Unfortunately, at this point the game does feel a bit unfinished.
I like the idea and it fits into the shapeshifting theme.
A few decorative ( and/or moving, e.g. leafs, tumbleweed, etc.) items along with the character animations (for which you ran out of time I understood) would probably improve the visuals a lot.
Nicely done for 24 hours. You guys are going to make some great things if you keep at it!
The only problem I have is the collisions. The fact that you get stuck on obstacles is frustrating. Though there weren't that many obstacles.
Overall, fun little game. Great job for your first time!
Hope to see you again for the next ld =)
I lasted about 5 minutes and then had flashbacks to the 90s where we were forced to do the chicken dance every 10 minutes at school discos. 10/10 - IGN
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Don't worry! Both of you will get better with time!
Keep developing!
Keep on creating games!
Your art style is beautiful, too bad there wasn't much more to do than running forward with an occasional jump. In the first level I was once caught by the hen, in the second level I never saw a real threat.
Those half-visible holes were very sneaky :-p
You should take the whole 72 hours next time if you can manage that somehow. I would have loved to play the finished game!
The game feels unfinished (and it is apparently, since it's missing 3 levels).
Two very important things I think you should rework to make the game more enjoyable :
The collisions - You should have chose a square or circle shaped collider for you chick. Sometimes it feels as if it follows the shape of the sprite : that's not really good for performance (for a small 2D game that's actually not really a problem) ; and for game play : when I missed my jumps, I sometimes stayed stuck on the edge on a platform, surviving thanks to my belly, but couldn't jump or go any further (I had to commit suicide).
The horizontal movement - Your chicken doesn't know how to slow down! Once you pressed left or right, you chicken will keep on running for a while. You should add a faster "slow-down" when no key is pressed : on each update, if the chicken is on the ground, and no horizontal key is pressed, divide the speed by a value close to one (1 + updatetime*something) /or/ set the horizontal speed to (rightKeyPressed-leftKeyPressed)*speed (a bit too violent I think). Do something like that, because right now it feels like the chicken is on very slippery ice.
Some other things that could make the game better :
Add animations (you planned on doing it but couldn't, I understand), effects (particle effects following the chicken, hen, or egg for example), and visual indicators. I don't really know where I re-spawned most of the time because all the platforms look identical. Add a palm-tree here and there, dry grass, etc... Could be cool.
More graphics in general would be could. Be careful of not-so-compatible colours. (I'm thinking of the desert level where the chicken's bright yellow, the orange of sand in the background and the platforms' brown don't go so well. Try taking either colours that are far enough from each other, or take colours with the same "hue" and close "saturation".
Reduce the length of the not difficult parts. Sometimes you have to get from one "puzzle" to another, and you have empty horizontal platforms : remove some of them. It will make the game more dynamic. It's also true for the end of the second level, where you have to run for a month (measured it) to reach the end.
I felt like you had a lot of very good varied idea, but it wasn't correctly executed. I saw variation in gameplay (the hen part for example was very good) and it was cool.
Good job to you two ! I wish you good luck on your future projects ! I hope you'll be able to spend a full 72h for the next ludum dare.