Too Many Chooks by Schu
Too many chooks! Keep the chickens satisfied by catching all their eggs with your frying pan. Drop too many and you'll upset the chickens!
See if you can unlock all 28 chooks! Feel free to comment with your high score and/or favorite chook.

My backyard chickens were the inspiration and voice actresses. You can follow me on Twitter @DanSchumacher21 if you wanna see some gifs from development or if you like games involving animals and/or sports. :)
| HTML5 (web) | https://schu-box.itch.io/too-many-chooks |
| Source code | https://github.com/Schu-Box/Too-Many-Chooks |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/too-many-chooks |
Ratings
| Overall | 292th | 3.462⭐ | 107🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 201th | 3.561⭐ | 108🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 520th | 2.771⭐ | 107🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 148th | 3.854⭐ | 108🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 367th | 3.226⭐ | 108🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 251th | 3.175⭐ | 105🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 94th | 3.552⭐ | 107🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 325th | 3.092⭐ | 100🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 64🗳️ | 63🗨️ |
Good Luck!
I loved all the chicken sounds in this game- how did you make them / collect them? It really ups the mayhem of the game when all of them are making noises.
Thanks so much for bringing this game into the world :)
I just went out back with my iPhone and recorded them a few times. All the laying noises are from our Red Star right after she laid an egg. The long upset sounds are from a Black Copper Maran and she was making that noise because she saw a big bug lol.
Anyways, it was surprisingly fun. Really enjoyed the sounds getting more chaotic when they started to gather :)
My Compo game is over here, if you want to have a look. It's not as "Animal Friendly" as yours but they are evil cyborg squirrels so it's ok :-P https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/squirrel-puncher-4000
The sounds fit the game well and the art style was nice. Great job!
high score was only 76 and I unlocked all but 3 of the chickens.
I scored 59.
I like sounds and it's addictive.
I liked the "meet the chooks" thing.
I Love the chicken sounds and the chickens themselves are great.
Nice touch with the animation before they poop out an egg, it made it feel fairer when I failed. I made it to about 70 ^^
Really cute little game. I have no idea how you made the sounds so accurate LOL! Did you record your own chooks? All the different breeds are both adorable and accurate. All in all it's a classic game with a unique theme, laced with great art and sounds. Great job!

Even the music could be "stupid" (in the good way).
Like someone else said above the animation before they lay is the instinctive touch that make things a bit "predictible". Nice touch.
It was actually really challenging, liked the idea.
Gorgeous.
Super fun game. I got a chicken myself (white one). Loved it, somehow the feature of collecting chickens was funny as f*ck! Well hope you had a nice LD I sure did.

Anyways it's simple and it's so much fun, thanks for bringing back of memories and this game! :-)
You can play [our game here](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/free-to-play) if you want to!

But not in only one game, I'm affraid I'm not good enough ;)
It was rally fun to play, sometimes simple things are the funniest. Some good details too, good job!
Simple concept, very fun game :wink:
However I managed to find a little bug.
Here's a gif that presents this issue

Take a look at my game also
An additional mechanic would have been nice too... like golden eggs that give life, or 'bad' eggs you do not want, pair that with a sound and you got some more depth. :)
I have to admit, I did laugh when I clicked the "meet the chooks" :D That was a really funny addition to the game.
The sounds were great, but I think they could've used a bit more variation (a few more different clucks)
If you guys love zombies and drones do play our game at
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/zap-the-zombies
Good job!
Starts of relatively easy, then gets very hard very fast.
The voice acting is excellent. :D
Keep up the good work!