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Chicken Chaser - GDTV Jam 2025 #gdtvjam's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #120 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Mechanics | #148 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Sound | #160 | 3.343 | 3.343 |
| Overall | #163 | 3.614 | 3.614 |
| Music | #209 | 3.393 | 3.393 |
| Story | #225 | 2.621 | 2.621 |
| Aesthetics | #242 | 3.614 | 3.614 |
| Theme | #504 | 2.721 | 2.721 |
Ranked from 140 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Several free assets used - listed in description.
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Nice concept! At first I thought the point of the game was to kill all the chickens so I wondered why I got a low score despite killing all of them lol. It's an interesting mechanic to have to balance between sprinting around to get the eggs before they spoil but risk accidentally killing the chickens on the path or playing slow and safe but miss out on eggs.
Good work!
Thank you for playing and the kind words!
Fun game, so much chaos from something so simple! Good stuff.
HAHAH I love it, thank you for checking out the game!
Fun little game! I enjoyed giving it a few runs! Controls felt solid, mechanics were fun. nice!
So happy you had fun!
Very cool idea and fun to play! I was surprised when the doggo just gobbled up the chickens he ran into XD, very entertaining! I was even more surprised when I saw chickens running into each other and exploding :D I'm not very good at the game, but I had a good time with it. Well done!
Glad you had fun! Thanks for checking out the game!
I like the initial voiceover and how it integrates so well into the game, explaining what to do but at the same time fusing into the game's storyline seamlessly. Also, the music, sound effects and general atmosphere all combine together and are well placed, resulting in a peaceful, relaxing game experience. This is a nice change of pace from more typically frenetic action games - both types have their place and value, but games such as this one seem to be the more rare variety. I also especially like the subtle but unobtrusive sense of humor infused throughout the game, including the "top dog" high score table / leaderboard! (And of course, the squawking chickens)
I feel the game mechanics could use a bit of additional fine tuning. This may have been in part because of the low-spec hardware I am running, but the frames were very choppy and I had trouble with collision detection when I ran by the eggs. Possibly the collision detection could be refined.
Gamepad controller support is a nice feature. Initially I played the game with the keyboard, but after using the gamepad I found it was a better overall experience with this input method.
Overall this is an enjoyable and quite unique game, and I don't regret trying it out! Great job, especially within the limited time allotment of the gamejam!
Oh wow, thank you for playing and such thoughtful feedback and compliments on the game! I’m glad to hear it works well on the gamepad, as I didn’t have a gamepad to do any testing. I am definitely going to do some work on the mouse/camera controls once the jam is over, as that has been some common feedback.
That’s interesting to hear you had issues with performance as I haven’t heard that from anyone yet. Do you mind sharing your specs? I can see if I can reproduce and do some tuning of performance and collisions. Did performance seem to get any better as the number of chickens get lower? I wonder if their AI mesh agent pathfinding is bogging down your machine. Having that many AI’s rendered and active is probably pretty taxing on some setups. Definitely something I can look into.
Thanks again for checking out the game and I’m really happy you had fun!
You're very welcome, and thanks for the additional comment. I have a low spec machine, running Linux and using Firefox as the browser. Dated NVDIA GPU (like probably the better part of 10 years old). Screen resolution 1024 x 768 (low res by modern standards). I believe that I do not have video hardware acceleration enabled due to videocard driver limitations / not installed. Possibly, WebGL is being rendered in software instead of hardware, which would certainly explain a lot for why the framerate is slow and laggy. However, I also can play videos in the browser and most 2D games without any lag issues. Some 3D games seem to work, with mixed results.
I hope this information is helpful for you. Linux does have decent NVDIA drivers that make use of the videocard's GPU capabilities, so the lack of hardware acceleration is not always an issue for computers running Linux OS. I should really probably upgrade my system one of these days! But, it's fun to try out games on lower spec hardware too, such as older laptops etc.. I heard that Defold is a really efficient game engine, that runs games well even on older hardware. I personally have never used Defold and have been using AppGameKit for now, but at some point I may try it and see what its results are like. I hope you continue development of your game, it's really unique and it has character!
I forgot to mention, to answer your question, no the performance did not seem to be affected after there were fewer chickens. Or if it did, not noticeably anyway. Thanks.
Oooh interesting. If you felt like giving it a shot, there’s a linux compiled version on the game’s itch page. I haven’t tested it, so you’d be the first to my knowledge to try it out.
When I’m back at my desktop machine in a few days, I’ll set up a VM and try running it in linux as well and see how that goes. Currently traveling and on a laptop with limited space.
Either way, thank you so much for all your feedback!
The game is fun to play, and I like how your speed increases as you collect the eggs. Its pretty well done!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing!
Really fun game! I loved the controls and, well, chasing chickens is just fun!
Thanks for the complements and for playing the game!
Love the way the chickens splatter when you run into them. Once I figured out how to use the mouse to steer, the game become a a lot more fun.
HAHA Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for playing!
Pretty fun minigame, felt kinda bad running over the chickens tho, it was lonely at the end.
yah, I didn’t anticipate how much empathy many players would have for the chickens lol. Thanks for checking it out!
I liked the idea and the top dog feature is fun. I did find the camera control a bit cumbersome, but overall nice submission.
Thanks for checking out the game and for the feedback! I’ll be refining camera controls once the jam is over.
I always feel a bit bad commenting on issues when I know how challenging it can be to even complete a game by deadline, but I like yours and wished I could play it for longer so I thought I would mention it.
All feedback to help make the game better is definitely appreciated! The camera controls being finnicky was a comment I saw a few times. Curious - do you play with mouse/keyboard? Or controller?
Handles well, animation is really good
Handles well, animation is really good
Thanks for checking it out!
I had fun with this. Good, simple idea executed very well. Great job!
Thanks for the compliments and for checking out the game!
Great job. it reminds me that couple of weeks ago there was a whole jam about chickens) https://itch.io/jam/dcjam2025
Thanks for stopping by! That’s a very funny coincidence!
Very cute idea! Love that you had a leaderboard, great job.
Thanks for checking it out!
Nice, fun and simple game! Loved that you managed to insert a voiceline of your own aswell. I think I ran into a bug in which the chickens were killing themselves without even touching me. Don't know what triggered it, though.
It was fun to just run around, too!
Nope that was a design decision. The chickens start “expiring” after a set amount of time. It was my way of doing a timer but without putting a timer on the screen. Maybe it’s not as intuitive as it should be. Thanks for checking it out!
I really enjoyed this one. Great job. Those top dogs must have been running laps around me though, some pretty high scores on the leaderboard
You can keep adding to your score if you hit the continue button at the end of the round. I should have made the buttons different colors and will be changing that after the jam.
Haha, I love how you managed to make something relatable from real life into a game mechanic! That was very clever! Loved the atmosphere too! Doggos running on a sunny day sounds really fun!
Controls and camera are super smooth too! loved how the chikens behaved when you run into them!
Lots of thought put into this one! ✨🐺
Thanks for the high praise and for checking out the game! I’m glad you liked it!
I feel bad for the chickens, do I have to kill them? Great game by the way.
HAHA Just refresh the page and they all come back ;-) Thanks for checking out the game!
Crazy fun! at one point I wasn't even caring about the score was just running around killing the chicken XD
So glad you had fun! Thanks for checking it out