{"author_link":"\/author\/alwaysinbeta\/","author_name":"alwaysinbeta","author_uid":"9420","comments":[{"author_name":"Fabien Por\u00e9e","author_uid":"20926","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1367240040,"text":"Yayy, I love the sound effects!\r<br\/>I'm hoping those poor eggs endlessly falling into the abyss will be okay though :("},{"author_name":"alwaysinbeta","author_uid":"9420","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:09pm","epoch":1367240640,"text":"Thanks. The sound effects are real recordings of the baby chicks we were looking after over the weekend :)"},{"author_name":"Jod","author_uid":"20442","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:09pm","epoch":1367240640,"text":"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 &quot;Not coooool brooooo!&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cool game, made laugh!"},{"author_name":"terrivellmann","author_uid":"18980","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1367243700,"text":"Cool, it ends when you get to the giant chick, right?"},{"author_name":"alwaysinbeta","author_uid":"9420","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:56pm","epoch":1367250660,"text":"Yup terrivellmann you should have got a win screen. Might be a bug..."},{"author_name":"argo15","author_uid":"11833","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1367273880,"text":"Controls were kinda tough but I thought it was adorable."},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1367273880,"text":"Like the chick, nice sound effects and physics."},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1367274060,"text":"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. :("},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:33pm","epoch":1367274480,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Squeka","author_uid":"20503","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:25pm","epoch":1367328000,"text":"I like how simple and how fit with the theme ^^.\r<br\/>Nice sound effects too :D."},{"author_name":"miharbi","author_uid":"12107","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1367332500,"text":"Really liked how the eggs were reused as obstacles."},{"author_name":"rustybroomhandle","author_uid":"10871","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1367338020,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1367412120,"text":"the pew pew sound are quite nice.\r<br\/>I had some trouble with the bouncy reception but I finally help the chick to come back home."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1367442120,"text":"I killed so much chickens while playing haha... this must be a good game ;)"},{"author_name":"hgouveia","author_uid":"15150","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1367516640,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"GranaDa","author_uid":"11561","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1367604180,"text":"The falling eggs are damn hard! Nice chirp and graphics. Good job!"},{"author_name":"CherryNukaCola","author_uid":"4966","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1367653020,"text":"That is one adorable baby bird."},{"author_name":"sudorossy","author_uid":"7905","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1367791500,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"alwaysinbeta","author_uid":"9420","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1368448800,"text":"@sudorossy That is strange to hear. I haven't seen any lag on old or new machines. It is so minimal after all.."},{"author_name":"galman","author_uid":"5971","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1368480840,"text":"Nice platformer :) Had fun running on those eggs :P The controls were a bit too laggy"},{"author_name":"Sylvain.p","author_uid":"20862","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1368482580,"text":"It will be better with potatoes."},{"author_name":"AndyBumpkin","author_uid":"1735","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1368482580,"text":"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 :)"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1368482700,"text":"very nice -- cool that you used real chick recordings -- nice job."},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 4:06am","epoch":1368676860,"text":"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?"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1369083540,"text":"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"}],"images":["ld26\/9420-063d917bc6d22b153db24c4176a2fbf2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ianmcgregor.me\/games\/chick\/","text":"PLAY HERE (Web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26744","g_author":"9420","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26774","g_title":"Chick","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"929","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/9420-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Chick is a minimal platformer, inspired by the new born chicks we are looking after over LD weekend.\r\n\r\nSource is here: https:\/\/github.com\/ianmcgregor\/games\/<\/p>","title":"Chick"}