are contained in the Chickens Can’t Fly Theme! Last Friday the official “Chickens Can’t Fly Windows 7 Theme” was made available for everyone to download and try here.

Wallpapers!

Let our courageous and fearless Chicken adorn your desktop, and listen to its suave clucking when you get an email, a system notification, an error, or when you shut down your PC to finally go and sleep.

5 people compose the core team

that designed and made Chickens Can’t Fly. They are 3 super-skilled developers, 1 uber-fantastic artist and 1 modestly-handsome-and-smart-and-shy game designer We were backed up and helped by countless other people that were really talented (special thanks to our music composer), supportive and excited about the game. We couldn’t have brought the game to it’s current state without the help of everyone around. And lots of thanks go to the amazing people at Microsoft Studios that worked with us!

4 full sized laboratories

are unlocked after completing the tutorial. You probably know their names by now, but I’ll repeat them nonetheless:

• Butchery: avoid cleavers and the butcher, eat sausages and live on the edge!
• Cemetery: witches are chasing you, zombies await you and Hypno Chicken hypnotizes you!
• Military: trenches are not place for a Chicken. So Chicken gets some nukes and levels everything around it!
• Physics: all manner of deadly electrical machinery await Chicken and it’s clone. But Chicken has EMP!

See a sneak peek of all these laboratories below, in the gameplay preview trailer!

3 thousand items of feedback

were received from players of Chickens Can Dream, and we enjoyed reading them all.

We got some really helpful stuff, varying from people asking us to make the game easier, to suggesting new obstacles and power-ups, to simply praising us for the game and making us feel happy on a rainy day!

We simplified the rocket launcher, we added nukes and zombies, made the chicken more dynamic, made the game an Xbox LIVE title, added music, overhauled the input, came up with short, focused levels, visual feedback for effects, and many many others. And comments like “i love u,chicken. Dream on” or “i think chickens especially boy ones should stop dreaming of naked girl chickens. I write this cause I am a girl” really made our hearts burst in rainbows of colors and ponies and unicorns.

There were also some ideas that no matter how hard we tried, our bosses didn’t let us put in the game

• maybe you could have a knife that chops off the chicken’s head, so the chicken goes crazy for a certain time, and you have to get past the checkpoint before the time runs out or you’ll die!
• there should be a naked pic of angelina jo lee if you beat the game
• i would marry this game thats how much i love it. (sorry, the game is too young to get married right now…)
• obstacle: angry poo throwing monkey
• add marijuana, and the effect could be hallucinations

The feedback form is there in Chickens Can’t Fly too, and we’re really excited to hear more feedback.

2 days left

until the game comes out! That’s right, after almost 1 year of waiting, Chickens Can’t Fly will be available on February 15, 2012!

1 game we hope you’ll enjoy

We’ll be watching the internetz on Wednesday to see if you, the players, like the game!

Meanwhile, here are some screenshots from the game.

We’re looking forward to getting the game out and we can’t wait to hear what you think.

See you soon!

• add a tutorial to make it easier for people to learn how to play

• fix bugs – this include the two crashes reported by users

• balance difficulty. We had the feeling the game was sometimes too hard, but we didn’t know how much until highscores started showing up. Seeing the progress made by top entries made us realize people are not really getting to see all the cool the obstacles and collectibles we prepared. So we changed the difficulty such that early checkpoints will now be easier, and you’ll get to progress faster and get more cool stuff. We hope this will allow you to spend more time in the game

• add option to see either the global highscores, or find your position in the highscores table and see who’s around you, so you know the next score you need to beat.

All of this will be in the next update (V1.1), which we’re trying to get through certification next week.

As for future updates, we want to assure you you didn’t download just a beta version of a game. You downloaded a game we truly love and want to support as best as we can. So we’ll be bringing bug fixes as they are done, and add facts regularly, in parallel with working on Chickens Can’t Fly.

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!

Download for Windows Phone 7

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: