I Eat Chicken
A site my dad and I started for our games. It turned into a competition among my friends.
Clip properties
- Track
- Games
- Role
- Built and hosts the site. Made the games solo or with Kyle
- Timeline
- Jan 2022 to now
- Status
- Live
- players across my games’ leaderboards
- 5,297
- players in Flappy Shots 2 alone
- 2,086
The story
In seventh grade, my dad was looking at domains and I told him to try ieatchicken.com. Somehow it was available. We bought it and put our projects there, including a recipe search and a nearby chicken finder. Mostly, though, it became a home for our games.
Christmas Tree Clicker was the favorite. I loved Cookie Clicker, so I wanted to make something like it. Around Christmas, my friends started telling their friends, and everyone was trying to get the most money. One friend’s dad is number one. That’s still really funny to say.
Behind the build Tools & technical details
Linux · Self-hosted server · PHP · Browser games · Global leaderboards
The site runs on a Linux server in my garage, with PHP and shared leaderboard storage. Our Unity games are playable in the browser. Christmas Tree Clicker is also on Android.
The hard part
There was a bug where watching an ad doubled your money. People kept doing it until their scores got so big that we had to change how we stored the numbers in the leaderboard. I did not expect people to take a little Christmas game that seriously.
What came out of it
There are 5,297 players across the eight public leaderboards for games I made or helped make, counting each game on its own. Seeing people I know on those boards is still my favorite part.
Explore the project
A closer look
Flappy Shots, my first game. Flappy Bird meets basketball.
Flappy Shots
Flappy Shots 2: 30+ skins and online leaderboards
Flappy Shots 2026
Don't Die: Asteroids with dice, built in 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2022
Grocery Grab, built in 72 hours for a game jam
P.A.D.S. (Planet Asteroid Defense System), a space tower defense game
Heck Yeah Simulator, a driving game
Donut art from Donut Clicker. The clickers share the site's leaderboard system.
Pumpkin Clicker
Christmas Tree Clicker 2026, also on Android
Idle Idler