Break An Egg - New Genesis Homebrew [ROM]

Break An Egg is a cute arcade game for the SEGA Megadrive / Genesis home console.

https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3MTM1OT...nal/h6pniH.gif

Eggs are falling from the sky!
Move your chicken to make them bounce into the basket.
If an egg touches the ground, you loose!

How many eggs can you rescue?

You can download the for free here :
https://drludos.itch.io/breakanegg

About
This is the "full version" of a game I started to create during a 60-minutes long Game Jam.
Then, I've spend many additional hours to improve and polish the gameplay, add real graphics, and a catchy music by Minerscale.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Do you intend to do a post mortem like you did for "Sheep it Up" ?
I really liked it!

Thanks a lot tokay for your feedback, I'm glad you liked it!

I didn't plan to write a feedback like I did for my GB game, but I may eventually do it for both my MD games (30 Years of Nintendon't and Break An Egg) if I manage to find some time to write it down :).

Yes really like it too !!
My best score : 15 !! :D

I love this simple but addictive game with a great gameplay.
Well done friend !! :)

some more animation in the walking and in the basket and a lil impact/ rebound animation when the egg hits the chicken would be great addition and make it look like a taito arcade game from the 80s!

Looks cool!

I think this will benefit from adding extra bounces = extra score mechanic.

I played and had a lot of fun.
I liked the effects of particles when the egg goes into the basket.

at some point are there two eggs simultaneously ?

Thanks everyone for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
The particle effect is actually what took me the most time to get right (lot of failed attempts before this one)!

The 2 simultaneous eggs starts at 10 points, and it keeps escalating (slowly) up to 5 simultaneous eggs :).

Dumb question but… why is it called Break An Egg when the goal seems to be preventing the eggs from slamming against the ground?

May I suggest to lower the appearance of the 2nd egg down to the fifth one ? It's too repetitive to do 10 times on each start

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Originally Posted by Sik

Dumb question but… why is it called Break An Egg when the goal seems to be preventing the eggs from slamming against the ground?

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It's a very good question, thanks for asking it!

It's actually a dumb play on words that may fall flat as I'm not a native English speaker.
"Break an Egg" is a nod to the expression "Break a leg", that people sometimes say to wish "good luck" to each other. Indeed, sometimes saying "good luck" is believed to actually attract bad luck, so people say a "bad expression" to attract good luck instead. For example, you'll say "break a leg" to an actor in theatre before he performs a play to wish him "good luck" and hope that he won't break his leg right before entering the stage.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg

So as the goal was to avoid breaking eggs, I'd thought it could be funny to make a nod to the "Break a Leg" idiom.
(I hope I'm not the only who will find it funny!).