{"id":96,"date":"2013-04-23T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-04-23T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:10:52","slug":"the-making-of-chickens-n-kittens-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/2013\/04\/23\/the-making-of-chickens-n-kittens-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of Chickens &#8216;n Kittens, Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Part 6 in the Making Of Chickens n Kittens series. Part 5 is <a title=\"The Making of Chickens \u2018n Kittens, Part 5\" href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/?p=54\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you could see from Part 5, using clay still doesn&#8217;t look all that great. But even worse, the game still just isn&#8217;t that much fun. The idea of the player controlling a little guy on the ground, running around and throwing grenades and firing rockets, just isn&#8217;t as much fun as expected. One of the core gameplay mechanics is precisely killing the kittens while avoiding harming the chickens, yet playing with grenades and rockets via a guy on the ground is practically impossible. Big changes are needed.<\/p>\n<p>In the screenshot below you can see the game as it existed in the beginning of 2012. By changing the game to a point-and-click-to-fire kind of thing we&#8217;ve solved all sorts of problems. Now the core gameplay mechanic works and the game is a lot more fun. And by simplifying the perspective we can also simplify the art, which is good, development-timeline-wise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan2012.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-97\" alt=\"Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan2012.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan2012.png 1024w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan2012-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan2012-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot of what the menus looked like. That&#8217;s Eggman, the snarky guide who was originally intended to accompany you and give you tips and help as you needed. He got removed later on.<a href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan20122.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-98\" alt=\"Menu screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan20122.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan20122.png 1024w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan20122-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cnk_jan20122-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Part 6 in the Making Of Chickens n Kittens series. Part 5 is here. As you could see from Part 5, using clay still doesn&#8217;t look all that great. But even worse, the game still just isn&#8217;t that much fun. The idea of the player controlling a little guy on the ground, running &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/2013\/04\/23\/the-making-of-chickens-n-kittens-part-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Making of Chickens &#8216;n Kittens, Part 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens-n-kittens","category-makingof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}