Chick by alwaysinbeta

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made by alwaysinbeta for LD26 (COMPO)
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/

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall 2.82 929
Audio 2.84 468
Fun 2.76 759
Graphics 2.89 669
Humor 2.76 247
Innovation 2.14 1188
Mood 2.58 862
Theme 3.00 1022

Feedback

Fabien Por茅e
29. Apr 2013 路 12:54 UTC
Yayy, I love the sound effects!
I'm hoping those poor eggs endlessly falling into the abyss will be okay though :(
馃帳 alwaysinbeta
29. Apr 2013 路 13:04 UTC
Thanks. The sound effects are real recordings of the baby chicks we were looking after over the weekend :)
Jod
29. Apr 2013 路 13:04 UTC
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!
terrivellmann
29. Apr 2013 路 13:55 UTC
Cool, it ends when you get to the giant chick, right?
馃帳 alwaysinbeta
29. Apr 2013 路 15:51 UTC
Yup terrivellmann you should have got a win screen. Might be a bug...
argo15
29. Apr 2013 路 22:18 UTC
Controls were kinda tough but I thought it was adorable.
ChuiGum
29. Apr 2013 路 22:18 UTC
Like the chick, nice sound effects and physics.
JohnnySix
29. Apr 2013 路 22:21 UTC
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 Jack
29. Apr 2013 路 22:28 UTC
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
30. Apr 2013 路 13:20 UTC
I like how simple and how fit with the theme ^^.
Nice sound effects too :D.
miharbi
30. Apr 2013 路 14:35 UTC
Really liked how the eggs were reused as obstacles.
rustybroomhandle
30. Apr 2013 路 16:07 UTC
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
01. May 2013 路 12:42 UTC
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
01. May 2013 路 21:02 UTC
I killed so much chickens while playing haha... this must be a good game ;)
hgouveia
02. May 2013 路 17:44 UTC
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
03. May 2013 路 18:03 UTC
The falling eggs are damn hard! Nice chirp and graphics. Good job!
CherryNukaCola
04. May 2013 路 07:37 UTC
That is one adorable baby bird.
sudorossy
05. May 2013 路 22:05 UTC
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.
馃帳 alwaysinbeta
13. May 2013 路 12:40 UTC
@sudorossy That is strange to hear. I haven't seen any lag on old or new machines. It is so minimal after all..
galman
13. May 2013 路 21:34 UTC
Nice platformer :) Had fun running on those eggs :P The controls were a bit too laggy
Sylvain.p
13. May 2013 路 22:03 UTC
It will be better with potatoes.
AndyBumpkin
13. May 2013 路 22:03 UTC
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 :)
sP0CkEr2
13. May 2013 路 22:05 UTC
very nice -- cool that you used real chick recordings -- nice job.
csanyk
16. May 2013 路 04:01 UTC
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?
GeorgeBroussard
20. May 2013 路 20:59 UTC
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