It was a hard ride, and it is almost unreal, but we are here, the game is done, the countdown clock is ticking, and
The whole team is proud, and we are grateful for everyone who helped or just followed us along the way.


90% of The Wild Gentlemen team

Can't wait to hear your opinions and feedback about the game!
Until then,
Have a wonderful weekend, folks!


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Today is the last day this year's Indie Arena Booth Online will be opened to visitors from all around the world. So it's the last chance to check out our new content and walk around in virtual booths presenting our most important games.

A big thank you for those who already visited us and in advance for all visitors who want to drop by later this day! Check out our new content for all our games we're presenting there, join us in the booths and watch our live events on our Twitch channel https://twitch.tv/handygames_official

Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel!
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh

What's about developing a game that features smart chickens and then you'll watch Producers cooking chicken stuff? How is that going to work? You'll find the answer on our special on our Twitch channel.

Enjoy the messed up cooking show tomorrow at 07:30 PM CET! Right after your dinner, don't miss to join us in the booths at Indie Arena Booth Online!

Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel!
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh

Those who still haven't played Chicken Police (yet) simply don't know what they are missing. And to change that, we want to show you in a Let's Play what it's all about and why the atmosphere in this game simply has to enchant you - even though it's spiced up with a good portion of black humor.

Have fun with our livestream today, which will start on Twitch at 15:00!
https://www.twitch.tv/handygames_official!

Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel!
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Chicken Police - Paint it RED! demo version is now live!
You can download and play it right away, here on Steam!

Play it now, or first, visit our Indie Arena Booth world and find out more about the game, or even speak with us, the devs!

PLAY THE DEMO NOW!

VISIT THE CHICKEN POLICE BOOTH



Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel!
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh

It is hardly necessary to mention that Chicken Police is something very special. The response to this game is excellent and the fans celebrate both the visual experience and the dense atmosphere, which is enormously supported by the excellent soundtrack with its movie-like dialogues.

Today on the livestream, the developers of the game want to take you on a journey through the world of Chicken Police, what ideas they pursued and how the game gradually became what we enjoy about it!

Join our stream on Twitch Twitch, which will start at 7:30 PM CET. Right after your dinner, don't miss to join us in the booths at Indie Arena Booth Online!

Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel!
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh

Come over and see all our booths presented LIVE! And we have a lot! Visit and join us on our chats on Discord, share on social media, be part of our streamings on Twitch. Let everyone know we're starting the best indie game event online!

Check out the new content, join us in the booths and watch our live events on our Twitch channel https://twitch.tv/handygames_official



Join our community and chat with the developers on our Discord channel
https://discord.gg/tKY8jrh




9:00 - 9:30 PM (CET) | IAB OPENING BOOTH
COMMUNITY MEETING
We will start our presentation of our booths!
GO TO TWITCH!

9:30 - 22:30 PM (CET) - IAB BOOTH CRAWL
COMMUNITY MEETING
Let's walk through all of our booths
GO TO TWITCH!



8:30 - 9:30 AM (CET) | EL HIJO - A WILD WEST TALE
DEV STREAM
Excitement without violence? Can this work? Yes, it can! Ask
the developers of El Hijo - A Wild West Tale anything you
want to know!
GO TO TWITCH!

10:00 - 11:00 AM (CET) | TOWNSMEN VR
DEV STREAM
Ever wanted to play a video game as “god”? Our game
designer will show you some exciting news about Townsmen
VR!
GO TO TWITCH!

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (CET) | AIRHEAD - MAKING OF
DEV STREAM
Let's talk about the making of Airhead and see what the developers have to say about their ideas.
GO TO TWITCH!

1:00 - 2:00 PM (CET) | MEET OUR DEVS AROUND THE GLOBE
DEV STREAM
Talk to our developers from all around the globe, you'll see what's happening if you drop by, so watch our Twitch-channel
GO TO TWITCH!

2:30 - 3:30 PM (CET) | PILE UP! - MINIGAMES
DEV STREAM
Jump up, slide down, play together, and carry the load! Let's
see if we can solve all the puzzles.
GO TO TWITCH!

4:00 - 5:00 PM (CET) | LITTLE BIG WORKSHOP - LET'S PLAY
LET'S PLAY
The devs are playing around and probably talk about platform porting.
GO TO TWITCH!

5:30 - 6:30 PM (CET) | ONE HAND CLAPPING - BEHIND OHC
DEV STREAM
The devs are talking about the game and will share some of their ideas behind it.
GO TO TWITCH!

7:30 - 8:30 PM (CET) | CHICKEN POLICE - MAKING OF
DEV STREAM
The devs are presenting our Film Noire orientated Chicken Police.
GO TO TWITCH!

9:00 - 10:00 PM (CET) | ENDLING - EXTINCTION IS FOREVER
LET'S PLAY
Are we even ready to save the last fox on earth and its cubs in an apocalyptic nature and a world full of dirt, garbage, dust, and humans wearing protective suits and gas masks.
GO TO TWITCH!



8:30 - 9:00 AM (CET) | PILE UP! - Q&A
AMA
Why cardboards and boxes? Ask us anything about this game.
GO TO TWITCH!

9:30 - 10:00 AM (CET) | SPITLINGS - Q&A
AMA
Well, you might get the idea. Ask us anything about Spitlings.
GO TO TWITCH!

10:30 - 11:00 AM (CET) | ONE HAND CLAPPING - PLAY WITH DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS
LET'S PLAY
This has never happened before! We will try playing our early access singing game One Hand Clapping with different instruments!
GO TO TWITCH!

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (CET) | CHICKEN POLICE - COOKING WITH THE PRODUCERS
LET'S COOK
What kind of humor is that? Developing a game with chickens and then watching the producers cooking something with them? Like it or not, but enjoy the messed up cooking show!
GO TO TWITCH!

1:00 - 1:30 PM (CET) | AIRHEAD - SPEEDRUN
LET'S PLAY
The name says it all: One of our masters of this game tries to beat the clock while he's running through the mysterious world in Airhead!
GO TO TWITCH!

2:00 - 2:30 PM (CET) | MEET OUR DEVS AROUND THE GLOBE
DEV STREAM
Talk to our developers from all around the globe, you'll see what's happening if you drop by, so watch our Twitch-channel
GO TO TWITCH!

3:00 - 4:00 PM(CET) | CHICKEN POLICE - LET'S PLAY
LET'S PLAY
Let's solve the cases together!
GO TO TWITCH!

4:30 - 5:30 PM(CET) | ENDLING - EXTINCTION IS FOREVER
LET'S PLAY
The message behind this amazing game, explained by the developers.
GO TO TWITCH!

5:30 - 6:30 PM(CET) | TOWNSMEN VR - LET'S PLAY
DEV STREAM
Ever wanted to play a video game as “god”? Our game designer will show you some exciting news about Townsmen VR!
GO TO TWITCH!

7:00 - 7:30 PM(CET) | LITTLE BIG WORKSHOP - DEV TALK
DEV STREAM
Join our crafty team for an hour of Little Big Workshop. See what the game has to offer and perhaps talk a bit about what the future holds.
GO TO TWITCH!

9:00 - 9:30 PM(CET) | AIRHEAD - STORYLINE
DEV STREAM
Let’s play and hang around together!
GO TO TWITCH!



We don't do any live streams but certainly, you're invited to visit us on our Twitch channel, where we'll present most of the streams as restreams!
https://www.twitch.tv/handygames_official

Is Gronkh chicken enough?! We're super excited to see Gronkh playing Chicken Police, collecting clues and info about the shady characters of Clawville. This will be a thrilling, unique noir-live experience in german only! https://www.twitch.tv/gronkh

Every German Let’s Player, Streamer and Gamer knows him: Germany’s most famous let's player, Gronkh. We are thrilled to announce that TODAY, August 14th, there will be a unique HandyGames exclusive live showcase on Twitch, packed with a wide range of our indie titles and never seen before content. Watch, comment, play, and be there, LIVE!



Live Let's Play Event, Indie Games Night, Gronkh vs. HandyGames, whatever you want to call it: Tune in! Join the (German) show on Gronkh’s channel on Twitch! on August 14, 2020, at 6pm German time. Let's go!

We proudly announce that Chicken Police - Paint it RED! will be fully voiced, which means that 100% of our lines of all the 30+ characters in the game will have professional voice-over.



The recordings were made in OM UK, in the studio that brought us the voices of The Wolf Among Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, Deponia series, Timesplitters series, Tales of Monkey Island series, and many more.

We were truly honored to be able to work with such a team and with such a fantastic cast!
We have more than 30 characters in the game, so what you see in the video is just a little portion of the amazing cast of voices we have.

If you like what you see - and hear - don't forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, folks!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084640/Chicken_Police/

The Wild Gentlemen Team

We’ve been very excited about one particular character for some time now, as he is going to stick out like a sore thumb. Please welcome one of the two insects that you’ll be able to see in Chicken Police!



“As mentioned above, Zoli (our character artist) and I have been looking forward to working on the Fly, because he’s such a different character! He sticks out visually, is in a unique situation compared to the rest of the cast (not going to spoil anything though), and animating him was quite a challenge!”
- Alex

Usually, our characters strike different poses for different situations, but that wasn’t the case this time. The fly proved to be challenging not because of his pose count (since he only has a single one), but the sheer number of layers that make him up. As a comparison, our average character is dissected into about 12-13 parts per state – that number in our Fly’s case was 57.



In an earlier developer diary, we talked about what goes into preparing a character for animation. To bring the character to life, however, its separated body parts have to leave Photoshop and enter Unity to have its body re-assembled.

The first step is adding all the layers to an empty shell that will be the core of the character. Then, you have to create the parent-child structure of the parts (e.g. the hand will be the forearm’s child, and the upper arm will be the forearm’s parent). This is usually a fairly straightforward task due to the low number of layers involved. However, in the Fly’s case, every single finger was added separately because of the nature of his animation, since there would be a greater focus on his hands than ever before.

“Once all that was out of the way, I moved on to setting the layer order for each part individually. This is an important step, because the parent-child layout is not the same as the order in which order the images should be rendered – you have to go from the topmost layer all the way to the bottom and give every single layer its very own number. It was a nightmare.”
- Alex

With the (layer) order restored, Alex can then move on to the fun part: animation!




Characters like the Fly are always welcome, as they bring a much-needed diversity, breaking up the usual formula that’s already more or less muscle memory for Zoli and Alex.
Thank you once again for reading all the way to the end. Keep your eyes peeled for more of these awesome Clawville-dwellers coming your way, and don’t forget to wishlist Chicken Police!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084640/Chicken_Police/