Very nice looking game, and addictive game play. I like the unique concept of the chicken turning into a rocket, made for an interesting game.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall polish | #42 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #44 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Engagement | #75 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Creative use of art assets | #86 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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3 years ago(+1)
Thank you!
We added sound effects a couple hours before the submission time was over, so we had to hurry. Some things weren't as polished as we would've liked to, but we'll work on improving all these stuff later.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for playing!
We wanted to make it so that the lava increases speed as the player goes higher up, but we had problems with the game's build, and we were almost out of time we just forgot to do it :(
But we'll fix that once the jam is over!
Awesome! Easily my favourite so far.
Should this be considered a win? Been waiting here for lava to catch me up for almost five minutes now but the bar is still showing empty.
I have only two big issues with the game really. The first and the major one being the difficulty. It doesn't scale at all? So once you get the ropes, you can go on forever. The only even remotely hard section was that long stretch of corridor where you need to hit the red enemies but obviously you can even skip that and go with the safe and not that much slower right side route.
Easiest move would be to make the lava speed increase over time so that it would pretty much become impossible at some point. That would offer some real test of skills then. And you could also randomly mirror the "rooms" to get more variation without any additional designs. Getting hit on spikes could get punished more and more the more you hit em too.
Oh wow, lava is actually catching up to me now...
The second gripe was the control layout. Would have been million percent better if the rocket would be the same button as jump. So just like a floaty double jump. And I hate that you decided to bind the rocket to mouse of all things. Making an platformer and arbitarily binding one button to mouse when you don't need its cursor for anything is just weird. I really don't understand why people go for such layouts. Most people are right handed and even for lefties, I don't see why you would want to play pretty much with just a single hand.
The game looks and sounds great! There was some minor sprite tearing but that wasn't a big deal. And I would have wanted to see more juice too. A game like this is just screaming for screen shake!
Anyways, awesome job!
3 years ago (+1)
Regarding the difficulty, we absolutely planned to have the lava increase as the player goes higher. We Left it for the end, but with some issues regarding the build and the deadline, we forgot to add it, so yeah, it gets extremely easy overtime haha.
The controls seemed fine until we suddenly thought at the end "why did we use the mouse?", it was an arbitrary decision made at the beginning of development and it just stayed like that, but when it was finished it just occured to us that it was a bad idea.
And I haven't actually considered mirroring the rooms, that is a good idea. Once the game jam is over we'll address these problems, because plenty of people told us about them haha, especially the difficulty part.
Thanks for playing it, we're glad you liked it!
3 years ago (+1)
Thanks for your input!
The control scheme was made at the beginning of development, and overtime we got so used to it that we didn't realized it's actually quite uncomfortable haha, we'll work on that, and some other issues we found/were told about.
3 years ago(+1)
Thank you!
Yeah, the controls are quite clunky haha, we didn't think of that properly, but it'll be updated (along some other things) when the game jam is over.
Pretty fun little game. The steering controls takes a while to get used to ... After that though, and once you figure out that running the creatures and the yellow blocks increased my fuel, it became a lot easier. Though, after hitting around 300m-400m, it starts getting a little tedious as the procedural generation starts running its course... And once you hit 1000m, you start questioning your life choices...
With that being said, anyone else able to beat my high score of 1012.9M? I only stopped playing because my wrist started to cramp up.
3 years ago(+1)
This has to be the funniest comment I’ve ever seen! haha First of all, thanks! I’m really glad you liked the game!
Now, you’re definitely right! The number of “chunks” that we’ve worked on was very limited, and the speed of the lava is just too low compared with the speed of the player when the player already knows how to fly effectively. We planned on increasing the speed of the lava periodically, but after some build related issues, and the submission deadline getting closer and closer, we completely forgot! :(
In any case, we already have some things planned to fix some of these issues after the gamejam ends, so I hope you’ll look forward to those!
My friend’s high score is 1334.7m and, as you can see, the lava isn’t even near at that point.
Haha! Yeah, I was also at a point where I was solidly above the lava that it wasn't even on the meter. I was just too slow taking the capture, lol.
But yeah, good job with this game! Definitely would have been nice to have the lava rate increase, but alas! That is how the game jam do.
Oh, I also wanted to say, I thought the animations in the game were really clean. The way the helmet turned into the rocket was a really nice touch. I would say this was one of the best use of a chicken so far.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks! Loved your reaction on the stream! I’m really glad people liked it, even though it has some classical game jam flaws. Once the review process is over, we’re definitely gonna tweak some configurations to make it a little harder for more experienced players!
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