Chicken Runner
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89
An endless runner style game. Fight back the foxes, dodge the bullets and save the baby chickens!
Comments10
First of all, I love the painterly art. It gives me the feeling of playing a page in a story book.
I agree with the comments that the bullets are a little hard to see. I also wish there was some kind of defeat animation because there's been a few times I've restarted without meaning to after a smash cut to the game-over screen. A suggestion I had was giving the player some hitpoints so that runs don't end instantly, then making rescuing all the chicks recover health so that there's more motivation to do it quickly. It would also make the "every 10 seconds" theme feel more significant.
Besides that, there's some good design choices here, having the guns pop-in from the edge of the screen was a clever way of indicating where the bullets were going to come from. Having the foxes slow down when being shot was smart, especially since they seem to slowly speed up again if left alive. Players have the choice of killing them quickly or leaving them alive while weakened, knowing they may chase them down if they forget about them (on that note, I do wish the foxes didn't respawn instantly to reward the player for killing them).
Overall, a fun little game. Good job.