- CHKN is FREE - 17 March 2023
Hey again, everyone. It's official: CHKN is now free! If you've ever wanted to create your own lovely abominations and survive wild creature attacks with your friends, now's your chance. Please enjoy! For those of you who have generously supported us by purchasing the game in Early Access before this change, The Art of CHKN digital book should now be available for you in your Steam library as our very humble thanks. To get the book, go to the CHKN page in your Library and scroll down to the DLC box on the right side. Once downloaded, you'll find the PDF in the same folder on your hard drive as the game itself. (Usually in your Steam folder/steamapps/common/CHKN.) (If you missed our last update about why this is happening, you can check it out here.) Thanks again for your support. - Team CHKN P.S. If you're looking for the old "legacy" version of the game to play or earn old achievements…
- An Update - 10 March 2023
Hi, friends. We have a sort-of-update for you, which has definitely been a long time coming. We're incredibly sorry (and embarrassed, frankly) that it's taken this long but we'll get to that. If you read our last update, you know we ran into some big hurdles and were working on solutions. Today's update is that, while we've ruled out a lot of options (which is good), we haven't been able to find that elusive answer on how best to move forward. We're still absolutely in love with CHKN and this idea of bringing life to the creative building genre, so we're not giving up. We've made mistakes and learned a lot, and we're still hoping to overcome the hurdles but the truth is that we don't know whether we'll be able to fulfill our original 1.0 goal or if we'll need to pivot our approach entirely. We kept hoping a solution would be right around the corner so we could update you sooner. We can'…
- Happy Halloween! - 29 October 2020
Since it's officially SPOOKY SEASON, we wanted to share some special community creations to help celebrate. (It's really just an excuse to look at more of your creatures because we love seeing what you guys make but shhh.) Real quick though: thank you for your kind words and understanding on our last post. You guys are amazing and we truly appreciate all the support. Thanks for sticking with us. Hope you're all staying safe! Okay, TIME FOR SPOOKY!!!!! Flownid by Cohollow "Some believe that a Flownid swarm is one of the signs of the apocalypse." Yup, sounds legit. Giant Cartoon Cat by hunterkillerofficial It's okay. It's just a cat…. right?! Farm Totem by plantguy760 Put a bunch of these outside your house to scare away those pesky trick-or-treaters. Primus All Terrain Creature by $teamygreenfart NOPE.JPG Creeper by are-bugg If your friend ventures out at night and doesn't come back, thi…
- Developer Update - 14 August 2020
“What is happening with progress on the game?” There are some fair questions over on the Discord. We firstly want to say that we love you guys and CHKN! And we're still committed to the game. We're a very small team and we've run into some pretty big issues with some really tough decisions to make. And then 2020 happened, so we've also been a bit distracted by real life to be honest. (We hope you're all doing well!) Here's where we stand: We're adjusting our roadmap for a version 1.0 release: adding some key features; more content and creatures; balancing for continual progression; making the abilities system more understandable; among other things. But, performance and data reliability (solo and multiplayer) are critical for 1.0 release and we’ve run into a big challenge in how to best tackle them. We've been researching engine and system update options and have not yet made a decision…
- CHKN Arena + Genvid at PlayNYC (Aug 10 - 16)! - 9 August 2020
CHKN’s Interactive Arena Featured at PlayNYC We've partnered with Genvid to supercharge the Arena mode for streamers and their audiences. Combined with the Arena mode, the Genvid technology will let you watch your favorite streamer and send item boosts and cheers live on stream as they battle their creatures against epic bosses. (We've been part of the test streams and it's super fun.) You can join our friends at Genvid and Playcrafting for this year's PlayNYC event! It's a week long from 8/10-8/16. PlayNYC is 100% online this year and free to attend all week long. There'll be a demo of the interactive Arena so you can see it in action and Genvid has a panel discussion on the future of interactive livestreams. There'll be over 70 games represented from NY & beyond! Head to play-nyc.com to check out the schedule, see the games and available demos, and reserve your free ticket to join in…
- DanTDM plays CHKN on Disney XD! - 8 May 2020
You guys! DanTDM will be featured playing CHKN on a brand new episode of Player Select on Disney XD! We're pretty dang excited. Join Dan and his ever-faithful, tiny chicken, Felipe, for all the adventure and Egg Toss you can handle. This episode also includes Jacksepticeye playing Animal Super Squad (made by fellow chicken enthusiasts!), Markiplier working virtually in Job Simulator, CrankGamePlays staying out of Hot Lava, and Laurenzside taking on a super fun death course in Guts And Glory. The brand new episode of Player Select premieres on Disney XD Monday, May 11th at 8pm (in your local US time zone). Be sure to check it out! - Team CHKN
- Happy Birthday, CHKN! - 27 March 2020
April 1st is CHKN's birthday! Seriously, it's not an April Fool's gag. Though it's kind of a fitting birthday, don't you think? To celebrate, we just want to say THANK YOU to all of our CHKNeers: players, testers, designers, artists, video creators, bug reporters, Workshop-ers, explorers, multiplayers, streamers, sharers, and YOU. We love hearing about your adventures and checking out all the awesome things you create. You’re all amazing. Thanks for helping us make this game and we’re very grateful for your support! Don't forget that, for one day only during our birthday, sparkly loot bags will become sparkly birthday presents! Meet up with your friends in game to celebrate and whenever you see a loot bag drop, we hope it’s a fun reminder of how far CHKN has come with all your help. Thanks for an amazing year! - Team CHKN P.S. For those of you who have been checking up on us during this…
- Workshop Creatures for Your CHKN Adventures! - 13 February 2020
It's time for more of our recent Workshop favorites, created by the CHKN community! You can subscribe to any of these in the Workshop to bring them into your own games. (Click on the links and hit the "Subscribe" button, or search for them in-game.) Modify them, befriend them, or fight them to the death. It's up to you! Hell Cobra by ReverentDeath Don't let the name or the beady eyes or the many, many horns fool you. This guy isn't so scary once you get to know him! We're sure you'll love him. Wait, no. Our mistake. It's very scary. Very, very scary. You might want to run now. Jellyfish by Maciek Maciek is back again this round with a long-legged creature of another kind: a tallboi of the sea. This creative jellyfish actually moves pretty dang quick for a creature with no land legs. Just make sure to bring it back to the water from time to time. Crab Knight by Bulborb87 Bulborb is back…
- Happy Year of the Rat! Let's Celebrate with Player Creations. - 18 January 2020
Whether you've already celebrated the new year or will be celebrating the upcoming Chinese and Lunar New Years (or all of the above!), we wish you a very happy 2020 from Team CHKN! We're celebrating by downloading more amazing player-created creatures. Here are a few of our recent favorites. Feathery Disaster by Sanderson Villé That's a LOT of feathers. But don't be fooled! It's just a clever way to distract you from deadly laser eyes. Tricksy dino. It also somehow looks quite fashionable, don't you think? Cattlesnake by marionic6 Marionic is back with this longboi, aptly named Cattlesnake. From the description: "While this creature may seem like an easy target, it has a pretty solid defense and a mean charge to boot." We can also confirm it makes a great mount creature! siren head by jasonbala We thought this was creepy until we actually downloaded it. Then it was terrifying. And aweso…
- November Player Creations Spotlight! - 23 November 2019
First off, happy Thanksgiving if you're celebrating next week! Otherwise, happy friday. :) Amazing Player Creations Welcome another round of player-created creature spotlights! These are all fun, interesting, scary, or sometimes all three. Don't forget you can subscribe to any of these in the Workshop to bring them into your own games! (Click on the links and hit the "Subscribe" button, or search for them in-game.) If you'd like to see your own creations in a future spotlight, be sure to share them over on Discord in the #creatures channel. There currently appears to be a TANK CREATURES trend happening and we'd love to see yours. Chimera by iamcorn With Charge, Hiss Stun, Fire Breath, and Paralysis Poison, you want this one on your side. Just remember that sometimes not every head will agree on which emotion it is currently feeling. Cyber-Chick by nicolamicallefstafrace Once was a chick…
- Unity Upgrades & Community Creature Spotlight! - 4 October 2019
Unity Upgrade Progress + More Testing Help Needed Thanks to everyone who's been testing on Pre-Release! We've gotten some great reports and we really appreciate all the help. We're still working on the Unity upgrade and networking framework (they're big changes) so please keep testing and report anything unusual! Tell us... Any oddness you experience in multiplayer Crashes and performance issues Saved game issues Any other bugs you run across! You can report your findings on our Pre-Release Forum or the CHKN Discord. And don't forget to also submit a bug using the in-game reporting feature so we have your game data for reference! Thanks for your help! Hit ESC in game and choose Send Feedback/Report Bug to view this form. If we need to contact you about your report, you'll see our replies here as well. Player-Created Creature Spotlight! If you'd like to see your own creations in a future…
- Game Data Help & Pre-Release Test - 29 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F1399f59a5edbbe620418d15268da8460c45775ab.gif Thank you to everyone who's been reporting multiplayer and game data issues! We've got fixes in progress and a workaround for you to use in the meantime. We could also use your help testing our fixes on Pre-Release. More info below. Game Data Issues While playing multiplayer, or sometimes when returning to single player, many users are reporting missing data in their game. Most often this takes the form of missing inventory in chests and/or disappearing creatures. We’ve narrowed the cause down to some parts of the multiplayer framework, but in order to fully fix it we needed to bring in a new framework that we have better control over. That has been our main focus, and you can see the progress on our Pre-Release branch. Please help us test. More info below. Here’s Wha…
- Player Creatures Spotlight + 20% Loading Fix - 19 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2Ffd305783c154c750a743b379209f21c86f0129dd.gif As always, we've been inspired (and a little scared) by all the amazing creatures and videos you guys create so it's time once again to spotlight some of our recent favorites! We've also fixed a multiplatform bug that was causing players to get stuck loading at 20%. If you've experienced this in the past, please download the latest update and try again! Workshop Creatures You can subscribe to any of these player-created creatures in the Workshop to bring them into your own games! If you'd like to see your own creations in a future spotlight, be sure to share them over on Discord in the #creatures channel. Faux Mantis by Godith Shadowind With paralysis, poison, and quite a bit of speed, this is a creature you don't want to meet in the dead of night. It would definitely…
- Hotfixes for Top Player Reports (Saves & Multiplayer) - 21 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F3f440095d8f7b979da54aad88815ecfa5d7d5f1d.jpg Thank you so much for the bug reports since the last update! The in-game feedback form sends us a ton of info along with your reports and it really helps us squash these bugs more quickly. We’ve released a few patches with many fixes since then, including the top-reported issues with saved games and multiplayer, so here are all the patch notes in one place. You can also report bugs and see patch notes as soon as updates are released over on the CHKN Discord. Happy Friday! Creature Improvements Friendly creatures do a better job avoiding running into the player when pathing. Creature movement improved so they backup correctly when walking into them. Creature to player collision is now less erratic during combat. Charge ability to will no longer damage structure floors.…
- Daily Deal - CHKN, 35% Off - 13 June 2019
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- New Dragons & Creature Arm Functionality - 10 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F5d0048f10c328c23b65f96d08119511a7dfac42d.gif The Dragon makes its triumphant return thanks to all the CHKNeers that voted over on our Discord! Plus, by popular request, leg blocks can now be arms depending on where they’re placed. There is also a new heart resource for building creatures, tamed creatures have been improved, and more. Check out the patch notes below and download the update to try the new features and improvements for yourself! And be sure to join us Tuesday (6/11) for next dev stream! More info below. New Creature Type: Dragon! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2Ff5479af5fcea9e8813a07a05b8adff33c691043d.jpg Majestic. Wing, leg, eye, mouth, tail, horn, spike, and body blocks (from S - XXL and half sizes) are all added to the game. Show us what you build! New…
- Creature Chests & Wild Egg Nests - 3 May 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F36f2589f320ecf5b8e2671d9ce571f1a5a39fb63.gif Outta the way! Chest-hauling snakephant coming through! Our lovely CHKNeers have been asking for creatures to carry chests and it’s a great idea we couldn’t refuse. Now you’re no longer restricted by your own inventory slots… as long as you have creatures with ample storage tagging along, that is. This update also has new wild creature nests to find while exploring, main menu and UI improvements, and more. Check out the notes below, play the new updates, and let us know what you’d like to see next by posting over in our Discord. And join us on Monday @ 3:30 PM EST for our next dev stream! More details below. Creatures can now carry chests! Lighten your load, collect more resources while exploring, or carry enough food for all your friends. First, craft a chest mount a…
- New Update: Player Requests - 19 April 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F3fc2a47ce3e93a8ad8b37596dd4800e4147b9e49.jpg You guys have been requesting quality of life improvements to inventory management so here they are! (Thanks, btw.) This update also has multiplayer fixes, ability balancing and other creature improvements, and more. Check out the patch notes below and download the update to try for yourself. Let us know what you’d like to see next and vote in our polls over on the CHKN Discord. Inventory SHIFT-CLICK an item to automatically move it between hotbar/inventory and chests DOUBLE-CLICK an item to gather all loose items of the same type. For example, double-clicking one Small Chicken Body in inventory will grab any other stacks of Small Chicken Body and join them all together in one stack. Super handy when you’re low on inventory space. The store all/pick up functionality n…
- New Creature Builder Features! - 12 April 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F7dd0ceb32739c923a973da35603b47f2d7765a01.gif This latest update has brand new features in the creature builder, improvements to creatures throughout the game, plus a ton of bug fixes thanks to our Discord helpers. If you have any feedback or issues to share, let us know on Discord! New Builder Features Creatures now emote and look around while in build mode! This gives you a glimpse into their personality and lets you see how they’ll move before you exit the builder. (Plus, it’s just fun!) https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2F7f0f6e0955cfd6cef0260b975d202b1b1a00d951.png “You want to put feathers where!?” Creature’s stamina will not deplete while in build mode, so it won’t get hungry while you’re editing Rigidity settings are now saved in undo/redo states When clicking off a…
- New Creature Block Sizes & FPS Upgrade - 3 April 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F11903998%2Fced1b2e1209a860c4d3edf8d9da49bc1e49f235a.gif This update gives a performance boost to min spec computers. If you’ve had “lag” or framerate issues in the past, please try out this build and join us over on Discord to let us know how it works for you! We also added a variety of new Life Block sizes so you can build even more interesting creatures. Save them to the Workshop and share them with us - we want to see! Performance Improvements Optimized FPS and UI rendering to improve FPS by 10-20 depending on hardware Reduced world streaming hitching by spreading updates over several frames Brought in low poly versions of trees for improved low end device performance World generation time greatly reduced Reduced initial load time New Creature Life Block Sizes Additional Life Block body sizes added: Small, Medium, Large…
