Red Wizard Island

[fuzzy70]

I have just always "rolled it into one" so to speak, just like human can mean male or female that's the same way as I classed chickens & never really thought of it in a gender way.

Lee

[Ian Price]

Chicken is indeed the correct generic term for a non-specified gender.

It's like a geese, swans, ducks, dogs, cats etc. You can see the difference between males and females, but we don't generally call them by their gender descriptor.

[r0ber7]

Code (glbasic) Select Expand


FUNCTION chicken : age, gender$

IF age > 1
  SELECT gender$
    CASE "male"
      term$ = "rooster"
    CASE "female"
      term$ = "hen"
    DEFAULT
      term$ = "chicken"
    ENDSELECT
ELSE
  term$ = "chick"
ENDIF

RETURN term$

ENDFUNCTION


[r0ber7]

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What you think? Still WIP.

[Zapp]

The Feathers look a little more like cracked ground. I dont really have any suggestions to fix it though :/

[r0ber7]

I'm gonna try making them bigger and less "sharp" tomorrow. Also gonna spice up the shading. It's the first endboss so he has to look the part.
Just got back from work, drew level 3 in my sketchbook while I was there. I've also coded all of the chicken's AI and attacks and so on. So I'm getting pretty close to a video of the wizard vs. viking chicken battle. If all goes well, I'll have that up and running after next week.

[matchy]

Chicken is indeed the correct generic term for a non-specified gender.

It's like a geese, swans, ducks, dogs, cats etc. You can see the difference between males and females, but we don't generally call them by their gender descriptor.

Is a chicken = rooster? It confuses me when I go to Red Rooster. I think the confusion is that the slang word "chick" refers to a young female human. Poultry could also be vaguely used to label chickens but then we could be called Earthlings.

[Ian Price]

An adult male chicken is a rooster/cockerel; we don't tend to use the term rooster over here (UK), but it is widely known and accepted.

Australians tend to call chickens chucks - not sure if that's just a slang word or that's the generic term over there, instead of chicken.

Earthlings could be a generic term for any life form living on this planet... We call ourselves humans, but Martians (etc.) might have another term for us. Probably a swear of some sort!

[r0ber7]

This one's a she. She drops explosive eggs on wizards. 
What do you think of the gfx? I like this one best so far.

[Ian Price]

That's much better than the "feathered" one

[Ruidesco]

That giant hen looks so disapproving of your magical shenanigans.
The only thing she lacks IMO is some separation between the proper helmet and its horns. Great work!

[r0ber7]

That giant hen looks so disapproving of your magical shenanigans.
The only thing she lacks IMO is some separation between the proper helmet and its horns. Great work!

Thanks. The horns are a good point, it had crossed my mind. Will work on that and the remaining frames tomorrow. Then I've got all the necessary ingredients for a good boss fight. Some other things on the agenda:

- fix weird glitch with powerups (game thinks coins are keys?)
- fix glitch in text system (possibly linked to the one above)
- draw a nest for the chicken (if possible, with human skulls in it  )
- conjure up level 3
- link villagers to text system so they can talk
- draw some intro art for beginning story
- pixel sheep herder
- "falling" platforms
- draw bigass tree to climb in level 2

If I'm not mistaken, after I've checked these off my list, it may be ready for a small public testing. 

[LineOf7s]

Australians tend to call chickens chucks - not sure if that's just a slang word or that's the generic term over there, instead of chicken.

At the risk of getting bogged down in this     the Australian term is "chooks" (rhymes with "books") and is a slang term for chickens - of either gender.

[Hatonastick]

Australians tend to call chickens chucks - not sure if that's just a slang word or that's the generic term over there, instead of chicken.

Not in my Australia.  Anyone starts using words like that around me they are likely to end up getting shot. 

Seriously though, I've never heard that one before and I grew up on a farm.  Might be an east coast thing maybe.

Edit: Erm ok I'm slow, you are talking accents aren't you.  I had to say it out loud (in my head) before I got it.    I don't talk like that, neither does anyone else I know but then again I live in South Australia which has a different accent (generally) to the east coast, north coast or west even.  According to an Irishman I met once, I sound English not Australian.

[Ian Price]

Maybe it's spelled chooks. But several Aussies I know say it. I don't know which parts they come from though. Like I said it might just be a slang thing. Dunno.