Developer posts and news about this game.
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 Ear
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
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 unde
“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
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 a
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 playin
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, e
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
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 recen
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
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 te
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
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 exp
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
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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
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 taggi
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
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
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