Blow the Hen Down by NickZangus

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made by NickZangus for LD 42 (JAM)

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Arrg these damn hens, they do nothing but multiply!

Of course, it was a bad idea to load them on board.

Ahoy jim lad, ye get rid of them before they make us running out of space and make us feed the fishes!

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Controls:

  • WASD - move around
  • Mouse - rotate the view
  • Left Mouse Button - Pick up and throw objects

Credits:

All the contents were created during the 72h except for the followings:

  • Song "Silver Spear" by Slainte
  • Sound Effects by Soniss
  • Chicken model by Kednar
  • Font "Black Pearl" by JoannaVu

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Ratings

Overall 10th 4.337⭐ 88🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1th 4.43⭐ 88🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 11th 4.192⭐ 88🧑‍⚖️
Theme 28th 4.36⭐ 88🧑‍⚖️
Humor 4th 4.563⭐ 89🧑‍⚖️
Mood 24th 4.223⭐ 85🧑‍⚖️
Given 105🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

Saering
14. Aug 2018 · 20:39 UTC
The absurdity and the universe made me think of the Monkey Island games. I love the idea, it's well done, it's great to be able to use cannons and bombs, and throwing chicken is just funny at all :D
Good job !
🎤 NickZangus
14. Aug 2018 · 20:42 UTC
@saering Thank you!
JUKE Games
14. Aug 2018 · 20:44 UTC
Wow. This game is really cool. It looks awesome and uses the theme in a cool way! A cool thing to could be shooting other ships with the cannons! But anyways: Really awesome game. Well done!
LandbergLife
14. Aug 2018 · 20:45 UTC
Great entry! It's impressive that you, in just 72 hours, made more gameplay in a priate game then sea of thieves did!
Kappinski
14. Aug 2018 · 20:46 UTC
I bombed all chickens :D great game!
Glowt
14. Aug 2018 · 20:47 UTC
Sea of thieves watch out! This was so fun! Short and sweet. Just a crazy and fun game, nothing to fancy just a bunch of chickens and explosions. Loved the feeling of trying to manage all of the chickens and finding out they had a little nest in the back. Fast and exiting.
kpded
14. Aug 2018 · 20:52 UTC
Wow! this is hilarious! Great job

It kind of Chickenpocalypse now with pirates.
ItzJoJo
14. Aug 2018 · 21:02 UTC
![chicken.png](///raw/fe2/3/z/19782.png)
Nice easter egg ;)
Balka
14. Aug 2018 · 21:07 UTC
This was fun. I laughed out loud. Didn't know this will happen to me but this is what I wanted. Shooting out chickens of a ship with cannons while a pirate captain yells funny sh*t, and fitting music plays.
Thanks.
"Chicken in the hole!!!"
bitowl
14. Aug 2018 · 21:16 UTC
Really nice game! The mood is just perfect.
That feeling when I first managed to clean out the lower deck just to go up and find houndreds of more chickens.
And then the moment I finally realised I can just drop the bombs.
Graphics and music match the feeling as well. I'm really impressed!
LeoRototo
14. Aug 2018 · 23:28 UTC
So much difficult but very impressive !
James Shipp
15. Aug 2018 · 01:20 UTC
Good stuffff
Rodrigo Denúbila
15. Aug 2018 · 05:18 UTC
Wow, this is amazing! This is the first time I see hen flying... haha
The best game I've played this jam so far. Everything is perfect! 5*
Linky439
15. Aug 2018 · 10:08 UTC
Haha, super funny game! I love your attention to details (even upon launching Unity and selecting the quality of graphics!)

It's incredibly funny to try to get rid of these hen, only to find out there's like a thousand of them in a place you haven't been before. Anyway, great job!
kimonoh
15. Aug 2018 · 12:08 UTC
This game was so much fun, and highly addictive! The graphics for being made in 72 hours was amazing. The gameplay, however, felt a bit unbalanced and like there was no way to actually beat the game. Would also have liked some sort of way to know how many hens I blasted from the cannons! But great job!
Tannimun
15. Aug 2018 · 15:36 UTC
Very nice game! It plays very well from start to end. Not much bugs or hickups.
Good and short storytelling, the objective of the game was very clear.
I loved how you could shoot chicken in the cannons (for no real good reason :p).
Only bug I found was some chickens were glitched behind the captain, and seemd to respawn everytime i threw them overboard.
I did manage to kill them with a bomb and finish the game tho.
Very good job!
Laminariy
15. Aug 2018 · 22:11 UTC
Very funny! I hate hens after this game!
The only problem: movement is not very responsive. Good game, good work!
aug
15. Aug 2018 · 23:25 UTC
My favorite game so far in this jam, no issues here other than hating chickens now!
mAnimal
17. Aug 2018 · 07:35 UTC
Fun to play, if you add some more variants of hens you will get proper full game. Nice music and whole world feels authentic. I was really on pirate ship and I was loading hens into a cannons. ... ... Yeah a feel a really did that :D
KapiteinKoekwous
17. Aug 2018 · 13:01 UTC
Haha, such an amazing game! Really nice concept, well fleshed out! Like others said; if I see a counter of all the chickens I murdered.. that.. would.. be great :P?
designernap
17. Aug 2018 · 19:56 UTC
This was lovely! Really enjoyed playing this! well done. Felt great, explosions were satisfying, audio was spot on. Superb!
KeyurRana
17. Aug 2018 · 20:27 UTC
Very fun and addictive game. The music and sounds really help build the feel. Would've been nice to have some kind of score to indicate the number of chicken blasted off. Great Job!
diwo
18. Aug 2018 · 01:02 UTC
very cool ! that so fun
Drury
18. Aug 2018 · 09:49 UTC
Wow this is great!

My first try went catastrophically, but the second time around I knew exactly what to do and won pretty much instantly. The trick is to quickly load up all cannons and spam bombs right away so exponential growth doesn't kick in.

I could totally see this working as a minigame in a fully fleshed-out whimsical pirate game.
RyanJavanshir
18. Aug 2018 · 18:01 UTC
Wow this was really polished. Love the graphics, animation and voice acting. Music also worked very well. Great game! Poor chickens..
vDovah
18. Aug 2018 · 18:15 UTC
I had loads of fun firing chickens and really love the graphics. This game fits well to the theme and feels great. I love the whole concept and am impressed with what you got done in this small space of time. 5 from me :)
bbaf
18. Aug 2018 · 18:31 UTC
I guess, the funniest game I've ever seen on this Jam so far :smile: Great job!
yayapipi
18. Aug 2018 · 18:42 UTC
WOW
Coal Creek Game Devs
18. Aug 2018 · 18:58 UTC
Awesome. Really polished jam game.
somuch
18. Aug 2018 · 19:32 UTC
Perfect flow. First you try to throw he hens out only for them to fly back in, then you shoot them out with a cannon, but they just keep coming until you realize you can just blow them all up with the cannon balls. I wish there was a win condition, but great and silly game regardless :)
Lu7cie
18. Aug 2018 · 19:57 UTC
Really fun ! I just wonder if it is possible to finish without losing ? But anyway, very good job !
🎤 NickZangus
18. Aug 2018 · 20:07 UTC
@lu7cie yes, but you must be very quick! One tip: start with the hens behind you...
AugusteTheClown
18. Aug 2018 · 20:51 UTC
Very fun little game. I beat it on my first attempt, though I did have the deck almost completely overrun at one point. I love the use of the theme and the humor. The only criticism I have is the constant voice barks got old after a little while, I wish they came at a slower rate. Everything else was fantastic!
MateusBoga
18. Aug 2018 · 22:42 UTC
That was a really funny game xD I really like the idea, simple but effective. I found no bugs, its just frustrating that you have no way to know how many chickens are left on the boat, but I guess that's part of the surprise. Yarrrrrr!
Vulture_42
19. Aug 2018 · 08:05 UTC
This was so fun! I managed to play through once without realising I could just bomb the chickens, then I decided to do that, round up any survivors and fire them out the sides. I'm not quite sure how I ended up with chickens back on the poop deck, as there weren't any eggs up there after I cleared it out, but oh well :grin:

Great work getting this down in the time available!
Hadi Danial
19. Aug 2018 · 18:18 UTC
So. Many. Chickens.

Great game!
Nam Nguyen
19. Aug 2018 · 19:08 UTC
Hey saw your game on the channel of RandomizeUser, it's a very fun(ny) game haha, I love putting chickens in the cannon because it's so funny, even though that's possibly the slowest way to get rid of them. And the chicken spawns like crazy LMAO. Did anyone clean all of the chickens? LOL. Great entry though, I had some really good laughs. 5 for humor. GJ!
Maffew
19. Aug 2018 · 19:46 UTC
Awesome entry, Great job in the given time!
wujood
19. Aug 2018 · 21:27 UTC
This game was absolutly amazing! Critizism on a very high level: Maybe add some indicator how many chickens are on the ship and how many have been thrown off the ship. Other than that, almost perfect entry!
Virtu
19. Aug 2018 · 21:33 UTC
Very fun game! Great job!
saoi-games
20. Aug 2018 · 04:38 UTC
Thank you for sharing your game with me. I played it on my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream. It was close to the end.

You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299357576?t=06h20m10s
herinque
20. Aug 2018 · 10:52 UTC
When can we see this amazing new content update live in the sea of thieves?? <3 Awesome game <3
GrizzledBoor
20. Aug 2018 · 11:46 UTC
Really love the game. Besides having good visuals and audio it's also very fun! The only thing I want to ask is if it is possible to win because I haven't managed in an hour
Wargon
20. Aug 2018 · 11:51 UTC
Very fun game with cool graphics! One of the best game on jam imao :smiley:
🎤 NickZangus
20. Aug 2018 · 11:58 UTC
@grizzledboor Thank you! Yes it is possible, but is quite hard! (it's not simple to calibrate the difficulty level during a Ludum Dare!). I've made a speed run video to demonstrate it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfhhnIZdzw
DDRKirbyISQ
23. Aug 2018 · 05:57 UTC
Ahoy thar! Thanks for being a good LD citizen and opting out of the appropriate categories!
But, even bigger thanks for making this game, oh my gosh this is wonderful hahaha. Perfect fun execution, I love it. The "speed run" video is great too!

Also, props on being one of the only Unity games that both lets me select a resolution AND has a UI that properly fits different aspect ratios. That's way more rare on LD than it should be, haha.
CliffracerX
23. Aug 2018 · 17:37 UTC
Decently fun little entry! Graphics are pretty solid, audio is good, the idea works, and it fits in well enough with the theme. No major nitpicks - my only complaint is that on the highest graphics quality (Yarrrr, I believe) in Linux, the shaders seem to have a general freak-out.

![BtHD-ShaderFreakout.png](///raw/332/z/1a6b0.png)
UnitedFailures
23. Aug 2018 · 22:45 UTC
This game was great. I really enjoyed the artwork and the gameplay. The intro narrator doesn't sound enough like a pirate but it doesn't matter.
RenD
24. Aug 2018 · 14:07 UTC
Great game, I'm impressed with the production value, the music, the graphics, the SFX, it all fits perfectly and gives a great atmosphere to the game. It'd be great if the game could show the progression in some way, it'd give a sense of immediate reward to the player. Also, that'd be great to have more mechanics, maybe with the eggs (or maybe there is one and I haven't found it) or with other part of the ships. But of course, that'd be for a post compo version and what you've accomplished in such short time is already astonishing. Congrats!
Jamison
27. Aug 2018 · 05:47 UTC
Really really fun! If I had one complaint, it would be that it wasn't very clear to me that the chickens flew back if you threw them overboard. The first time I played, I was frantically throwing them overboard without realizing they were coming back. Once I figured it out, there were too many and I had to restart in order to beat it on my second try.
ventura
27. Aug 2018 · 11:10 UTC
My favourite game in the Jam! I always thought we need more games with humor like this, it made me smile a lot :)
Ratstail91
28. Aug 2018 · 13:09 UTC
This is the most fun I've ever had shooting chickens off of a ship's deck. Comedic genius!
NNNIKKI
29. Aug 2018 · 15:40 UTC
Best game. Best game. I think that just throwing the chickens off board would be a *bit* easier.
Jungle
01. Sep 2018 · 20:36 UTC
OMG!!! This entry is just fabulous!!!! haahhahahahahah. Poor chickens!!
Ratstail91
05. Sep 2018 · 17:17 UTC
Congratulations on your rankings!
BJ Pucci
21. Nov 2018 · 09:32 UTC
Great funny game.

Funniest game I have played in a while