The graphics are charming as well as the characters; however it does feel like it gets repetitive over time. Perhaps adding some goals to go for may help.

Love the humour!

Your game is a lot fun but after a while it gets a little bit repetitive - you can maybe add other chicken or add egg order handling.

Thanks for the feedback! No one ever said that keeping animals healthy and happy isn't repetitive/tedious work :P

The characters come in throughout the general arc of the game to keep it lively, but a little sign saying what the next goal is would probably go a long way in terms of making players feel like they are working towards something.

Thanks again everyone!

I really enjoyed this. I like the art and sounds. Rating "humor" pretty high too.

oh that stupid chickens face :joy:

Really interesting game! Really like the idea of taking care of hens. Also, dialogs are cool.

Now I want some chicken tenders....
Great game! The audio and graphics are awesome, and I liked the annoying chat boxes blocking me from selecting the tools; a nice touch.

loved the music, loved the dialogue, loved the sound effects, even the character art was funny and I think it meets the theme. Don't know if that was on purpose or not, but the occasional dialogue gets in the way of the tasks you must do, so you want to rush it to get back to the main tasks.

@velvetlobster The dialogue in front of the toolbox was intentional, but I don't know if it was the best design decision. The idea was that the player would have to weigh their options: Should I pay attention to dialogue so I can make a correct choice or should I rush though, potentially making a bad choice in order to get back to "chicken tending"?

I think what it ended up doing instead was making people rush through funny dialogue and scenarios that I spent a lot of the precious 48 hours on.

Thanks for playing!

Ok, so I tested it and damn, it was funny !

The gameplay is a slightly bit repetitive maybe, but that's the concept of the game... And the NPC were honestly so funny-looking (I personnally liked alot the idea to put the dialog in front of the toolbox, i'm adept to such troll) that it broke the routine.

On my first run, I didn't know that saying 'no, bruh' to the frog would lend me to a losig state, so like everytime when I have a choice i said no and then my chicken wasnt doing anything, not even laying eggs. I didn't know it was meant to make eggs spawn, so i just tried things, and rageclicked with the poo tool on the chick to make her suffer and, i was not disappointed, as I losed with a game over screen that made me laugh irl, rare thing for a ludum game !

Honestly, you did well. And even if the gameplay itself has some flaws (I found the game funny but couldn't have my business working well) , the humor covered it. Noice ! (+ there's never too much game sabout chickens)

+ the audio is pretty swell too, it sticks right with the ambiance

This game is wonderful as well as it's music. I am going to bookmark this and send it to one of my friends; he loves a good chicken game.

I absolutely loved this game! The hungry chicken noises were definitely my favorite. This is a very charming game and the gameplay is really fun! I too made a game inspired by my pet chickens if you wanna check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/too-many-chooks

Nice work. My only feedback is that I was still getting conversation prompts after my round ended. Otherwise, it was a fun game and the audio had me laughing quite a bit.

BAWK BAWK BUK BAWK. OH No what have I done.

Seriously amazing job, brilliant concept and very fun to play. The graphics, the audio, and gameplay are fantastic.

Check out my game if you would like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected

Hilarious. The little "grumble grumble" noise made me laugh XD. Also it was hard not to laugh at the thought of someone trying to make the perfect poop noise over their microphone :P "Hmmm that's not right let me just... PTTTFFF. No no... too much umph at the end. Needs to be juicier..." LOL.

Maybe that's not how it went down but I enjoyed the humor immensely. The characters were great, the dialogue was great, and yes, so were the sound effects. The gameplay was quite fun as well. However, I wasn't exactly motivated to build up all that much. I knew I needed the 500 coins to win, and so I just stuck to around 5 chickens because that was pretty manageable. If there was an incentive to grow your coop (maybe have some automation to make things easier?) that would probably motivate me to try and make things faster. Additionally, the people popping up in front of the toolbar was clever the first time, but later on, I was tempted just to click through the dialogue as quick as possible so I could keep managing the chickens. The dialogue itself was great, but hindering the player progress by the placement was less fun than if it were off to the side in my opinion.

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot! Great job!

@chipmonkey thanks so much for the thoughtful comment!

And yes.. that's exactly how the sound effect recording went down...

I agree with your gameplay comments. The most fun way to play these types of games is to SCALE UP, BUY UPGRADES, GET MORE, etc. - but I wanted to try to make a game that rewarded the opposite (as per the theme). The more you grew your operation, the more the animals suffered. The game is definitely less fun because of that, but I think it makes more of a statement.

Really satisfying game and also STRESSING because of the dialogues appearing in front of the toolbox. That's part of the loving details I like in games. Especially when the farmer reminds it to you haha.
Fun game, solid idea, would make a lovely game with more contents.

Good attempt on the theme. And i had a chicken feel playing it.

Nice graphic style, funny game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yel2Ap19z6s