F is an awkward key to hold the chickens, Shift is a lot more ergonomic, or Q and E even. I didn't even realize WASD were bound at first, I was just using the arrow keys because that's what the screen showed.

Nice, thanks for the short game. The art is very cute. I wish it had a second level! I used E for grabbing the chicken, so that was good. I was a bit confused about the different keys shown however. I was expecting to "find" the chicken earlier. Double Jump I figured out after trying. Showing Space once wasn't that "obvious" to me, haha. Maybe add 2x to it?

The polish you put into this is incredible.  From the UI to the leaderboards to being able to continue.  Great job on this!

I do agree with you though that the keyboard controls do feel really awkward.  Having to continuously hold down a key while still using your other fingers to navigate doesn't feel great.  Would it be possible to have the pick-up be something you could press once to toggle?  Like if you press Shift to pick up, then it sticks to you, and then you press Shift again to drop it.  While holding you could also throw it, maybe by holding down Shift for a couple seconds to give it a charge.  Just a suggestion but having it be a toggle seems like the simplest way to get out of the clunky controls situation.

Love the game. The art is amazing and I love the sound track, did you make it you're self? I was a little confused at first but I got the hang of it. It has good tight controls. The level design is Okay. I love the chickens, there so fun to play around with. A little hard in the later levels but that's fine.

When I open the Basket Checklist the left side of the screen is cut off so I can't read what ingredients I need

Hey there! I was trying to play your game, and what I was able to see looked very stylish. The chiptune music helped with the gameboy aesthetic. That being said, there were either very long pauses where nothing was happening, or I couldn’t figure out the button to advance. The game seemed to freeze after “the launch was successful”.

Listing the controls in game or on the store page would help a lot.

The graphics are very cool, I like them a lot. I needed to check back here to see the Controls. I'd add using the Alt button to the page. I tried hitting Enter and space and other keys, but always got the message "No Save Data".

For me it feels way too slow. I know it's a throwback to the old Game Boy, but watching the letters crawling on the screen is a bit boring, especially paired with the sound..

Hi there Hiraeth,

I tried out your game, and I think the ambience is nice for a horror game. For some reason when playing in my browser (firefox) even when I wasn’t moving my mouse I would slowly turn to the left which made controlling the game rather difficult. I wasn’t sure where to go after getting the axe, it seems like the collision area on the trees is much larger than their trunk so I kept getting stuck on nothing. I’ll try the game a bit more to see if I get further.

Edit:

Looks like fullscreening the game fixed the turning issue for some reason. It took me a while to realize that the big cube in the middle of the forest was a house. I know its a horror game but maybe it’s too dark? It took me longer than I’d like to admit to find the door. The animation when you enter the cabin is cool, but it’d be nice if there was something more to look at other than green fog. I couldn’t figure out where to go after the room with the table and the note about the rock. I noticed that the door to the inner room is scripted to open the same way, so when I left the room, the door opened into me rather than the other way.

All in all, this seems like a good start, and I look forward to see where you go with it in the time remaining.

I'd love to try, but I am scared of horror games.. Are there any jump scares or something like that?

There were some genuinely spooky moments where my heart raced when the creature thing walked past me or attacked me.  Some constructive criticism:

- I think the invisible walls in the forest could feel a bit more organic.  Right now it feels like I have plenty of room to walk in certain directions but the invisible wall stops me and feels very abrasive.  Maybe make the trees closer together or add rocks or a fence?
- A crosshair would be helpful to show where you're aiming.  There were a few moments where I thought I was centered on the screen but I wasn't and interacting with an object took a lot of jiggling around.
- I wasn't sure where to go in the end and stopped playing.  I saw a door with vines inside the house which felt like it was the right place to go since I think I destroyed vines earlier, but I couldn't destroy these and I'm not sure why.
- The flashlight feels very weak inside the house.  It feels like it'd make more sense if it projected a bit more light.

Great job with this though!  You captured that horror vibe well!

Hey Sora! Nice to see another chicken-based game in this jam, lol. I don’t find the game to be super intuitive to play, like I clicked feed, and it wasn’t clear to me that I didn’t have anything to feed to the chickens. Then when an egg was laid, I tried to click hatch, then click on the egg and nothing happened.

The chicken sprites are super cute, and I like the overall aesthetic, I look forward to some UI improvements to make it easier to get started on the game.

Also, I tried rapidly clicking the skip button to see what would happen, and after a few days and getting around 5 chickens I got the following crash:

Edit: I played it a bit more, and I started to figure things out. The UI when you try to sow without seeds is confusing, and it’s annoying that the commands are re-explained each time you use them.

It would also be nice if there was any kind of consequence for not feeding your chickens. It took me many days to figure out how to grow corn, and I got up to 12 chickens (more than 11?) but there seemed to be no ill effect to not feeding the chickens. As far as endings, I guess you could just do something simple like “get up to 100$” or whatever. As it stands, it’s not clear what the goal even is.

Good luck with the rest of the jam!

First off, your link is broken, it links to the wrong game.

This game is pretty fun, very bombastic, the shooting felt very crunchy, and all the screen shake and flashing effects really sell the intensity. I feel like the reload is way too slow, which was exacerbated by the biggest issue I saw which is that the UI does not scale properly for non 16:9 aspect ratios. I have an ultrawide monitor, so when I played it fullscreen I couldn’t even see the ammo counter or coin counters. I also noticed that the upgrades screen had a tendency to not show up at the center of the screen for whatever reason.

The “drop bombs when dashing” upgrade is completely broken. It has no cooldown, so after I bought it, I could just dash around the map infinitely spawning bombs, and never took damage.

I also encountered a weird issue where the first time I threw a bomb, the game froze for a second or two before continuing. Might be an issue of not preloading the explosion sound asset or something.

Well , the game is not bad , but also not good . I haven't played till the end . You could also add some music or sfx but, over all i would recommend you to learn to make games in an actual "Game Engine" since i think scratch is not that good. Anyway GL!