Cluckwork

Wind the key, and the whole henhouse comes to life. Cluckwork is a clockwork-themed arcade platformer — a loving nod to the ladder-climbing classics, built entirely from scratch. You are the Poultry Keeper, a little wind-up automaton with one job: gather every golden egg from the gantries before the clock runs down, while a flock of clockwork birds does its best to stop you. HOW TO PLAY • Run and climb the gear-rack ladders to reach every egg. • Clear all the eggs on a level to move up to the next poultry house. • Scatter a handful of seed to stop a hungry hen in its tracks. • Ride the lifts, duck into a top-ladder refuge, and always mind the clock. MIND THE FLOCK • Chickens patrol the gantries — quick, and relentless. • Roosters stand too tall to jump; once one has pecked some seed, it'll spit it straight back at you. • The caged goose is set loose on a timer — and then it comes hunting. SEVEN LOOKS Pick a theme in Options, or from the pause menu mid-level, and the whole henhouse is rebuilt around you: • Gearworks — the original brass, copper and verdigris. • Moonlit Coop — pewter birds by moonlight, eggs glowing like lanterns. • Hayloft Morning — painted wood and dusty sunbeams. • Porcelain Frost — willow-pattern hens on Delft tiles under snow. • Blueprint — the inventor's drawings, come to life. • Tin Toy — lithographed tin, straight out of the toy box. • Spectrum '83 — bright colours on black, the way the classics looked. Eggs stay gold, grain stays green and danger stays red in every one. BUILD YOUR OWN • A full level editor: paint platforms, ladders, lifts, eggs and birds. • Generate a level at Novice, Adept or Master difficulty — and watch a player of that skill try it. • Share any level as a code; friends paste it in and play. CONTROLS Drag on the lower left of the screen to run and climb, and tap the lower right to jump. Or play with a keyboard (arrow keys and space) or a game controller. FEATURES • Eight hand-tuned levels that loop and escalate — faster and meaner each time around. • Every sprite, in every theme, drawn in code. • A local high-score table, plus Game Center leaderboards. • No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, the eggs, and the birds. Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.