Ludum Dare #43compo
Shooting Chickens
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:
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
Comments32
davidfox3 Dec 2018, 02:02
enjoyed the background music. the sound of firing objects was nice at first, then it drove me kinda nuts. like the concept!
shulgaboy3 Dec 2018, 02:16
I loved shooting chicken-gun) The whole setting kind of reminded the game where you have to shoot birds as a wolf/dog
foxor3 Dec 2018, 02:34
257! Reminds me a lot of "One Finger Death Punch"... but with chickens. Cute art!
Abeyance3 Dec 2018, 02:50
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 Lacroix3 Dec 2018, 02:54
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!
scarfdev3 Dec 2018, 03:15
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.
PxLucasF3 Dec 2018, 13:10
@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:
@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:
Suchista3 Dec 2018, 14:24
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
Music is amazing! Also the Christmas map is awesone!:D
egos3 Dec 2018, 14:56
very well polishing , i love the art and music style
As said before i thinked that spam gun shot will give a negative reward
As said before i thinked that spam gun shot will give a negative reward
LucyferChan3 Dec 2018, 15:54
Amei as músicas, os cenários múltiplos, a arte... Simples e perfeito.
PxLucasF3 Dec 2018, 16:27
@morriss @suchista @egos @lucyferchan Thank you all for the feedback! I really appreciate it :two_hearts:
verysoftwares3 Dec 2018, 17:18
i cycled thru all 5 maps/songs, my high score is 202. this game is somehow relaxing. also i agree with @suchista.
KirLosev3 Dec 2018, 22:04
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:
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:
DriagonV3 Dec 2018, 22:05
Shows that even a simple game can be so engaging and awesome! I played through all maps and overall enjoyed the whole experience!
Harksa3 Dec 2018, 22:59
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 !
Also, dogs comming for the skies, above the player, would be also really neat too, I think !
Nick Rafalski3 Dec 2018, 23:23
Very cute game. I agree with @scarfdev that there is no real challenge though. I like the backgrounds and the music though!
Andrea3 Dec 2018, 23:26
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!
Loved the graphics!
Well done!
Titorrm4 Dec 2018, 12:54
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 !
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 !
PxLucasF4 Dec 2018, 19:55
@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:
@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:
Norb4 Dec 2018, 20:50
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.
nkrim4 Dec 2018, 23:10
Neat, fun, casual. Love the looks and sounds!
aortega4 Dec 2018, 23:31
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.
Sockyman5 Dec 2018, 00:09
Fun to play and well polished! I like the sound effects.
devilqube5 Dec 2018, 22:35
Nice idea of the chicken gun and some nice backgrounds. It would be good to have a few more mechanics to keep you interested.
Ninnec6 Dec 2018, 21:33
It took a long time for the game to load for me on html
Garymarance7 Dec 2018, 15:02
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 !
gwinnell19 Dec 2018, 15:28
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!
i like it a lot, both music and that there are multiple levels