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Chickens Can Dream 1.5 is now on the Marketplace
May 9th
Hi everyone,
Great news today! Chickens Can Dream v1.5 has passed certification and can now be downloaded from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
What’s New?
- Two new power-ups:
- Slow Down
- Lantern
- One new Obstacle: Jump Pad
- Eight new Facts
- Chicken is Unlucky
- Chicken Fancies the Grim Reaper
- Chicken Can Use the Magnetic Force
- Chicken is an Expert in Magnetism
- Chicken Knows How Magnets Work
- Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark
- Veteran Chicken Ignores Collectibles
- Chicken Is Not Afraid of the Dark
- Added intro movie
- New Input Method: In Options, you can now switch the input to the new touch-based method. This is experimental and we’d love your feedback on it.
- As always, more bug fixes and optimizations
Some stats
Because we know everyone loves statistics, here are some statistics we gathered from the game so far:
- Over 80.000 players have played the game so far
- Over 1.614.353 chickens were ‘studied’ over the world
- On average, each player studied 28.2 chickens
- There is one player that tested a total of 2098 chickens
- The longest play session was 2 hours and 36 minutes
- The obstacles that were the most deadly are:
- Barrier – 539394 deaths
- Fan – 444941 deaths
- Saw-on-a-rail – 206539 deaths
- We received over 1500 private messages from you, out of which more than 60% were NOT random text.
Thank you for playing and giving us feedback. We’re continuously analyzing all your feedback to see how we can improve the game!
Thanks again for playing our game and watch this space for more news in the following weeks.
Screenshots
Chickens Can Dream Trailer, new update, plans for next update
Mar 22nd
Hi all,
Chickens Can Dream 1.4 is finally out, and this time it should fix all issues encountered by people upgrading from earlier versions.
Also, we just released the following trailer for Chickens Can Dream.
As for the next version, we want to make amends to our older customers who got hit by our ‘update bugs’, and announce what will be in the next update, coming in one or two weeks:
- Two new collectibles (Slow Down and Lantern)
- One new obstacles (Jumping Pad)
- ~8 new facts to check
Have fun!
Alert: Important Notice about Chickens Can Dream 1.2
Mar 18th
We’re sorry to announce that a bug slipped through our hands and managed to get into the latest (1.2) update to Chickens Can Dream.
This issue will affect ONLY people updating the game from earlier versions to 1.2 and will cause the game to crash when starting up. There are two ways to solve this.
1. Uninstall Chickens Can Dream and then go to the marketplace and download it again. Unfortunately this will make you lose your progress (most hurtful, it will uncheck any fact you checked so far), but you will NOT lose your highscore in the global scoreboards.
2. Wait for Chickens Can Dream 1.3 to come out. We sent it to certification a few moments ago, and we hope it will reach the marketplace in a couple of days. Any game updating from any other version to 1.3 will work fine.
The issues does not affect fresh downloads directly to 1.2.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
The Amused Sloth Team
Chickens Can Dream is Live!
Feb 24th
We’re very proud to announce the immediate availability of Chickens Can Dream on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
What is Chickens Can Dream?
As you know by know, we are working on Chickens Can’t Fly. And because we’re dedicated to making that game the best it can be from the start, we wanted to share a free game based on the same core mechanics, to get your feedback on how we can improve them. We made some modifications to the gameplay to make sure it feels like a real full game, not just a demo.
Thus, there are no fixed levels or Laboratories. You have randomly generated pits-of-doom in which you try to survive as long as possible. Why would you do that? Simple:
- There are a total of 10 obstacles you can unlock as you play, and see how good you are at surviving them
- There are a total of 10 collectibles. Some will be a blessing, some a curse. You may not want all that you unlock, but you will need them all so you can…
- Check 39 chicken-facts! Science is difficult, so you have to experiment much.
- Once you get a good score that you’re proud of, you can submit it to our global highscores tables and see how you place against other player from the whole world
About Facts
Checking Facts (or chicken-facts as we like to call them) is one of your primary activities. We tried to provide a large number of facts with varied ways of checking them for your playing pleasure. Some of these will require you to find various ways of killing the chicken, or sometimes to simply stack up on lives and then loose them all in a single checkpoint. We have a long list of facts which are still being implemented and added to the game, and you’ll have the opportunity to see them in future updates.
We want your feedback!
We know our success depends on you, the players and we want to do everything we can to make you happy. So whatever feedback you have, please send it our way. You can do this either using the in-game feedback form (in The Future), or simply leave a comment anywhere on this site 
So don’t wait! Get the game now and tell us what you think!
Thank you!
Thanks for trying our game, and we look forward to hearing more from you!
The Amused Sloth Team
P.S. Check out some screenshots and more details on the Chickens Can Dream game page. There you can also see the list of issues and feedback we gathered, and their status.
And here are some screenshots below:
Interview with us on wp7connect.com
Feb 1st
WP7Connect just posted an interview with the AmusedSloth team.
Here’s an excerpt
How did the concept for ‘chickens can’t fly’ come about?At its inception, it was a very different design, set in a sci-fi world on a deserted planet (as you can see in the first concept art…). The core theme remained the same though: fall down through a series of tunnels, with little hope of slowing down, and avoid as many deadly obstacles as you can.One of our developers kept joking about including a chicken in the game as an Easter-egg. When we let ourselves go wild with ideas for obstacles and power-ups it soon became clear …
You can read it in its entirety here: Dev Inside Look.
