A downloadable game

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Down The Hatch is a looping game about feeding chicks at a factory farm. This is for the GMC Game Jam 56, theme "All Or Nothing". As the tutorial says, "Problem is, the chicks come out different sizes. So, pay attention and don’t overfeed the big ones!".

Winning levels increases the difficulty modifier (ie less total food available each level; smaller margin for error). There is no final level; see how far you can get!

**A NOTE ON RESOLUTION**
Once again, I have made a small pixel art-style game. The native intended resolution is 800x480. This should be legible to most players sitting 60-90cm away from a 1440p monitor.
For those of you with higher resolutions, the window is resizable (with letterboxing to keep the aspect ratio). You can also force full-screen with alt+enter. Due the dithering patterns used in the game's sprites, there may be some unintended visual effects when played at resolutions higher than native.

Controls:
Gameplay - WASD/arrow keys
Everything else (ie advancing screens/tutorial) - any key

Credits:
All art, programming, design by Liriobirdon.
Font is Franklin Gothic Demi (free for personal use).
All sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive (free for personal use). Every sound had edits made by myself in Audacity to suit the game better.

Sounds used: (sound code - "BBC description" URL)

07013020 - "Poultry - Day-old chicks (Close perspective)" https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07013020

07002110 - "Household Effects - Cracking an egg into a basin." https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07002110

07039224 - "Lift in Block of Flats, door close, stops at every floor, doors open (Automatic lift.)" https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07039224

07002307 - "Farm Machinery - Grain stacker blowing corn through funnel from trailer to silo. (Inside silo)" https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07002307

07075040 - "Engines: Conveyor - Motor powering a conveyor belt, constant run. (Refuse machinery suitable for general purpose use)" https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07075040

07005061 - "Comedy Sounds - Single cork popo and heavy guzzling. (Specially created effect)" https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07005061

Assets/code made before jam:
One function I had written in Lua to translate i/j array coordinates to x/y position. This was obviously re-written to work in GML.
Everything else made during jam.

StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorLiriobirdon
GenreAction
TagsArcade, Chicken, Farming, Game Jam, gmc-jam-56, High Score

Download

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Down The Hatch by Liriobirdon.zip 8.9 MB

Install instructions

Download and unzip package. 

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