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		<title>Chickens are approaching!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Catalin Zima-Zegreanu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chickens Can't Fly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[6 wallpapers are contained in the Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly Theme! Last Friday the official &#8220;Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly Windows 7 Theme&#8221; was made available for everyone to download and try here. 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,&#8230;]]></description>
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<p>are contained in the Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly Theme! Last Friday the official &#8220;Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly Windows 7 Theme&#8221; was made available for everyone to download and try <a title="Chickens Can't Fly Theme" href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/chickens-cant-fly-theme">here</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_594" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/chickens-cant-fly-theme"><img class="size-full wp-image-594" title="Wallpapers!" src="http://www.amusedsloth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/e40189ee-4957-43d6-8b30-0906584e289e_10.jpg" alt="Wallpapers!" width="500" height="346" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wallpapers!</p></div>
<p>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.</p>
<h1>5 people compose the core team</h1>
<p>that designed and made Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly. They are 3 super-skilled developers, 1 uber-fantastic artist and 1 modestly-handsome-and-smart-and-shy game designer <img src='http://www.amusedsloth.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />  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&#8217;t have brought the game to it&#8217;s current state without the help of everyone around. And lots of thanks go to the amazing people at<strong> Microsoft Studios</strong> that worked with us!</p>
<h1>4 full sized laboratories</h1>
<p>are unlocked after completing the tutorial. You probably know their names by now, but I&#8217;ll repeat them nonetheless:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Butchery</strong>: avoid cleavers and the butcher, eat sausages and live on the edge!</li>
<li><strong>Cemetery</strong>: witches are chasing you, zombies await you and Hypno Chicken hypnotizes you!</li>
<li><strong>Military</strong>: trenches are not place for a Chicken. So Chicken gets some nukes and levels everything around it!</li>
<li><strong>Physics</strong>: all manner of deadly electrical machinery await Chicken and it&#8217;s clone. But Chicken has EMP!</li>
</ul>
<p>See a sneak peek of all these laboratories below, in the gameplay preview trailer!</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0_ssEKeHxbQ" frameborder="0" width="610" height="340"></iframe></p>
<h1>3 thousand items of feedback</h1>
<p>were received from players of Chickens Can Dream, and we enjoyed reading them all.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>We simplified the <strong>rocket launcher</strong>, we added <strong>nukes and zombies</strong>, made the chicken more <strong>dynamic</strong>, made the game an <strong>Xbox LIVE</strong> title, added <strong>music</strong>, overhauled the <strong>input</strong>, came up with <strong>short, focused levels</strong>, visual feedback for effects, and many many others. And comments like &#8220;<em>i love u,chicken. Dream on</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>i think chickens especially boy ones should stop dreaming of naked girl chickens. I write this cause I am a girl</em>&#8221; really made our hearts burst in rainbows of colors and ponies and unicorns.</p>
<p>There were also some ideas that no matter how hard we tried, our bosses didn&#8217;t let us put in the game <img src='http://www.amusedsloth.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<ul>
<li><em>maybe you could have a knife that chops off the chicken&#8217;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&#8217;ll die!</em></li>
<li><em>there should be a naked pic of angelina jo lee if you beat the game</em></li>
<li><em>i</em><em> would marry this game thats how much i love it.</em> (sorry, the game is too young to get married right now&#8230;)</li>
<li><em>obstacle: angry poo throwing monkey</em></li>
<li><em>add marijuana, and the effect could be hallucinations</em></li>
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<p>The feedback form is there in Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly too, and we&#8217;re really excited to hear more feedback.</p>
<h1>2 days left</h1>
<p>until the game comes out! That&#8217;s right, after almost 1 year of waiting, <strong>Chickens Can&#8217;t Fly</strong> will be available on <strong>February 15, 2012!</strong></p>
<h1>1 game we hope you&#8217;ll enjoy</h1>
<p>We&#8217;ll be watching the internetz on Wednesday to see if you, <strong>the players</strong>, like the game!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-599" title="460x197" src="http://www.amusedsloth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/460x197.jpg" alt="Chickens Can't Fly" width="460" height="197" /></p>
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