5 years of hens
15.3.2023 by HenDaBen
Since March 18th 2017, HenDaBen.com has been hosting a secret videogame that is known only by a few users. Now it is time to celebrate as it has been 5 full years since this small videogame was launched.
HenVentures
Background
The story of this game goes all the way back to 2016 and 2017 when I was still studying IT at school. Our class got a project to develop a videogame alone or in small groups. This game, HenVentures was created by me and my classmate Mil who I actually have not seen since. We both did graphic design and core game engine coding.
There is no original name, when the game was being exported we had to choose the first one to come to our minds. Someone yelled Hen Adventures and we just chose to combine those two words together.
The project was a bit rushed. Most of the planning was done in Windows Paint, later finished in Adobes software.
Gameplay
This game is a 2D-platform jumping game. One of the game planning goals was to include our school into it somehow. We chose to play as a chicken, whose mission was to collect all the missing books and finally graduate in the end. There are several books found on the platform, which have letters L, U, K, S, I and A in their covers (those letters combined was the name of our school). Find the books, and then enter the school building found in the end of the platform. Shoot eggs if avoiding enemy is not an option.
Controls
Control the movement with arrow keys, jump with the arrow key up. You can also shoot eggs by pressing the spacebar.
Other
There are bugs, like charging speed-o-bears and other animals. Avoid them at all costs.
This game does not work in mobile browser, so the only way to play the game is to power up your PC and head to hendaben.com/play.
The game engine can be found on Steam, Construct 2.
