Chicken Wiggle Workshop Kickstarter Opens On 6th March

I'm excited! I'll definitely back especially if they plan to bring the level editor over!

Chicken Wiggle was lots of fun. I hope it gets a second, more visible, life on the Switch but this Kickstarter seems like an odd decision to me. There are already (as of Thursday's release of Totes the Goat) 5 Atooi games on the Switch and 4 of them are ports. Why is this the one that needs a Kickstarter to get ported?

I was tempted by the 3DS version but my 3DS xl was broken at the time so I never picked it up.

I will probably end up backing this since most of the titles he produced have been well done titles..

I hope this does really well, I think the game would thrive on the Switch eShop. Always seemed like an odd choice, releasing the game so late for the 3DS, but perhaps that's not the end of the story!

Chicken Wiggle was reasonably charming and clever, and the Switch doesn't have many good games with in-depth level editors. I'd love to see this make it over!

Good on them for the logo update, it needed at least that and they did it.

I wouldn't back anything on Kickstarter after Yooka-Laylee. Is this a first for Atooi using Kickstarter?

Sorry, if the developer isn’t even willing to take the risk because they know it won’t recoup the investment, why should I? I am not a bank and will never support Kickstarter. However, I will always support great, quality, finished games with my wallet.

I will most likely be a buyer when it comes out, but not a backer...

This was a great game. Deserves more sales.

Bit odd. Pretty sure they have ported their entire back catalog over to the switch so why kickstart this one???

@Mr_Pepperami My thoughts exactly.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE First for Atooi, but back in the Renegade Kid days they did one for a game called Cult County that missed its goal and never got made.

Won’t back but I’ll probably buy if it’s priced right (and Mario maker switch isn’t announced at the same time).

I’d back it. If they ported the 3DS version, it’d be like 360p or 480p. The HD is to make sure the pixel art is still crisp at 1080p and fit the wider screen of the switch.

Wishing Jools and Atooi the best of luck, however, I don't think their kickstarter will be successful unless their goal is on the smaller end of things.

I'm buying it if it comes over. I also want Maldita Castilla and 80's Overdrive.

@JHDK because he is converting it to HD maybe?

I'm not contributing to the campaign. HD visuals seem unnecessary for this title and I highly doubt that the visuals were why this game tanked

@JJ286 That makes sense I guess but there are other Atooi/Renegade Kid games that started on the DS or 3DS and managed to get HD ports without crowd funding.

@Oat Although I think this is a weird move, Chicken Wiggle is a really fun game. If it came out on Switch in mid August 2017 instead of 3DS I think it would have done a whole lot better. Last summer was still the time when pretty much all games that were even slightly good got rewarded with huge sales on the Switch. Since then the gold rush begun and players have more choice and can be more discerning with their Switch eShop purchases.

I'll back chicken wiggle on Kickstarter 😀

@BarryDunne Huh, now you have me interested. I guess we will find out tomorrow when the Kickstarter goes live?

@BarryDunne I hope your not busting balls here cause now I'm excited. If it really is something big then I will be delighted to change my opinion of this kickstarter.

@BarryDunne Grant Kirkhope! So that was the big reveal! Maybe that name is only big for video game nerds like us but I wonder why it wasn't mentioned in the video? Seems like headline news to me. Plus it's a full fledged remake of the game and not just an HD port.

I have to change my tune. I was expecting an HD port along the lines of Xeodrifter 3ds to Switch. This is much more than that. Has Jool's made a hand drawn style game before? Maybe I'm forgetting one but I don't think so.

I have never backed a kickstarter before. Although I was critical of this one at first, if you look through my posts I they are about 99% positive when it comes to anything Jools related so this was an outlier. Well not anymore. I think this is well worth $10 of support and I will be adding my name to the list of backers today.

Just created a kickstarter account to ''back'' this project! Chicken Wiggle would be a good fit for the Switch especially with the level editor option. I enjoyed it on the 3DS and I would not mind to be able to play more levels on my switch! I also want to support that developper as I want Treasurenauts to be released (even if it is not supposed to be related....)!

I agree the HD visuals seem unnecessary...maybe they should skip that and work on something else (like Treasurenauts) @Oat

The great news is that on Easter Saturday the game made its $30,000 target!

The icing on the cake? The campaign has just closed with 1,553 backers pledging $35,634, meaning that the game has also reached one of its stretch goals - to have a new orchestral soundtrack featuring music by Grant Kirkhope.