Chicken King by PHPGator

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made by PHPGator for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

PLEASE PLAY IN FULL SCREEN, OR YOU MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY SEEING THE BUTTON TO GET OUT OF THE TUTORIAL SCREEN

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Game Description

​Welome, Howard Quackin's! The concept of you, Chicken King, are to properly feed, water, and care for your chickens! If you do not do this on a daily basis within the time frame, Carole Quackin's, y​our wife, just may take your life!

Development Details

Chicken King was developed over the weekend of April 20, 2020 for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam by Travis Tracy. The vast majority of what you see was developed using Maya, Photoshop, and Unity.

My favorite part of the game are the chickens roaming. I spent some time using the Unity AI system to randomly generate points and animations for each chicken, giving them a more lifelike feel to the game. I am also very proud of the art work. I do not typically do low poly art style so this was a new experience. I modeled, rigged, textured, and animated the chickens.

My largest mistake was the scope of the project. I found the vast majority of features I wanted to place into the game (including Carole Quackin's killing her husband), simply did not make it into the game due to the time that I had. If I were to do it all over again, I would have one sole mechanic for the game and polish that as much as possible.

Credits: Music / Sound from Bensound.com (Royalty Free) 3D Trees from Darth Artisan (Unity Asset Store) Skybox from SkySerie Freebie (Unity Asset Store)

Ratings

Overall 2373th 2.808⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2257th 2.692⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 2137th 2.769⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 2492th 2.397⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1543th 3.385⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1259th 2.811⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Mood 2166th 2.711⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 48🗨️

Feedback

Dante2001
20. Apr 2020 · 22:51 UTC
link is broken
fermingimpel
20. Apr 2020 · 22:52 UTC
Cant play
Krebzor
20. Apr 2020 · 22:53 UTC
Your game is probably set on private (been there) the option is the last one in the edit section!!
Dryden
20. Apr 2020 · 22:55 UTC
Itch.io link is private!
🎤 PHPGator
20. Apr 2020 · 22:55 UTC
Fixed it, thanks for the heads up
BunnyDen
20. Apr 2020 · 23:00 UTC
Just getting a black screen with the number 24 on it.
Nicolas Kroupensky
20. Apr 2020 · 23:02 UTC
Hi, how do you get out of the bucket tutorial screen? Looks nice but I can't seem to be able to play it past that
Faer
20. Apr 2020 · 23:04 UTC
Interesting mechanic ! butI didn't think it fits the theme well...
MeHigh
20. Apr 2020 · 23:05 UTC
Doesn't really follow the theme but i like your idea
Sergei
20. Apr 2020 · 23:08 UTC
Nice game testing my mouse wielding skills! I liked it! I don't know if it's an issue but my cursor looked as a shovel only during tutorial. It had a default cursor appearance in the challenges after tutorial. I just thought it would look like a shovel in the levels, too.
vrerabek
20. Apr 2020 · 23:19 UTC
Enjoyed the mouse mechanic, would like to play more deep version of a game like this. The chickens are cute!
Izokia
20. Apr 2020 · 23:39 UTC
The theme is not all quite there. Gameplay is quite fun, but gets repetitive quick. Not much of difficulty to it and I think you could make it pretty fun and hard. Not too much bugs so no complaints
Chorizo
21. Apr 2020 · 02:12 UTC
doesn't seem to boot up for me on the itch page.
LoopyPickleHead
21. Apr 2020 · 06:02 UTC
I think this is a smaller mechanic of a larger game. It's a fun little dexterity test.
leniwabula
21. Apr 2020 · 10:06 UTC
Fun dexterity test, but sadly I don't think it fits the theme.

Also, you should add info to play in Fullscreen mode. The `OK` button to get out of tutorial is only visible in fullscreen
Chicken Castle Artwork
21. Apr 2020 · 10:27 UTC
We love chickens! It's our first jam and we also did an egg thing.
I love your artwork on the chickens and the scenery is ace. I thought I had 'got it' with the instructions but I quickly realised I needed them again so could be good at some point to implement viewing instructions again (I had to restart to go back to view them). I also wanted the shovel to be apart of mouse curser to keep with the world.
I love watching the 'farmer' at the start glide to the trough, more walking around the pen could be nice as your aesthetic is so lovely I want to keep seeing those happy chickens - perhaps add jumping happy chickens when they are fed? Enjoyed the music/chicken bocking. The roaming chickens are glorious.
Mrowka
21. Apr 2020 · 11:26 UTC
I can't get out od the page that tells you what the bucket means :T
Maryush28
21. Apr 2020 · 13:37 UTC
Nice and simple game. Great art. The gameplay is not quite my type, but it is innovative.

Big plus for chickens. Chickens are life.
Jarmustard
22. Apr 2020 · 11:53 UTC
Really nice mood and overall style. The gameplay worked totally fine, i just wish it had a bit more connection to the actual chicken raising (in part cause they were so cute). Good job!
Amazura
22. Apr 2020 · 16:40 UTC
nice art and lovely chicken :chicken: you got there
Lexyvil
24. Apr 2020 · 08:44 UTC
I can see there was to be more to this game. At least it was somewhat in a playable state. The visuals were great.
Julian Hartinger
28. Apr 2020 · 13:58 UTC
Nice Chickens- could be nicer if you would see them more. Also graet sound. Good job!