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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
First Chicken Update is Out, Second on the Way
Mar 7th
The first update to Chickens Can Dream was approved by Microsoft this Friday. We’ve fixed the most pressing bugs and added some new stuff:
- You can now search for your name in the high scores screen.
- The screen will not lock anymore during gameplay, even if you don’t tap it at all. Kudos if you can play without slowing down, but please don’t forget that the chicken will start flapping its wings if you touch the screen.
- The chickens now have an easier time in the evil laboratories and should survive longer.
- You can make the phone stop vibrating by unticking a checkbox in the options screen.
- The Indestructoid collectible lasts longer giving you more time to breathe. There’s also a warning when it’s about to run out.
- You don’t have to enter your name for every high score or every feedback, we’ll remember the last one you typed.
- Finally, we’ve squashed some chicken-hating bugs and the game should crash a lot less now.
We’ve added a tutorial teaching you the basic chicken-techniques for avoiding all the rockets, the fire and the sharp edges that line the walls of O.U.T.P.U.T’s laboratories. You’ll be prompted to try it the first time you launch the game or you could start it from the help screen at any time.
Don’t forget to use the in-game feedback screen, or just email us. We obsessively read your input and use it to decide what to code up next. Our most pressing worries at the moment are implementing even more facts for you to test, fixing the last remaining bugs and more difficulty tweaking.
Raz, Chicken Developer, Flamethrower Enthusiast
Next Chickens Can Dream Update
Feb 26th
Right after we submitted the first version of Chickens Can Dream to certification, we started working on the next update. Our main goals for this update were:
- 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.
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:
