Hello Ultimate Animals!

Did you see that you can nominate games for the Steam Awards during the Autumn Sale?
Most awards are reserved for games that came out in the past year, but there's one important exception: the Labor of Love Award.

Here's the description:
"This game has been out for a while. The team is well past the first unveiling of their creative baby, but being the good parents they are, these devs continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years."

As we're working on another free content update for Ultimate Chicken Horse which should come out in early 2020 - just before the game's 4th anniversary (!) - we're hoping that maybe you all feel like the game might deserve a nomination for the Labor of Love Award!

The award description also rings especially familiar to us right now, considering that two of our six team members have each become literal parents to literal babies in the past 5 months. This is kind of a huge change to our pacing at work, and at the same time we're trying to mature as a studio, and just do what's best for our little work family.

It's quite the adventure, and we're super thankful to have a wonderful community to support us in this transitional period.

And we'd love for the community to keep growing!
So please tell your friends and family that Ultimate Chicken Horse is 34% off during the Steam Autumn Sale. ;)

Lots of love,
The Clever Endeavour Team

Hey Ultimate Animals!

We don't know if you've heard, but Steam has rolled out a Beta feature that allows you to play your favorite local multiplayer games... online! What this means is that you can easily connect with your Steam friends to play games as if they were sitting right next to you. And this feature works with Ultimate Chicken Horse!

What's the difference with regular online play in Ultimate Chicken Horse?
Mainly it's this: You only need one copy of the game to play with up to three of your online friends.

The Beta feature arrived on October 21st, but since late last week it was made available to every Steam user, so it's easier for everyone to access it.

You can find all the info over there:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3032537193879549687

If you have been meaning to introduce your online friends to the game, now is the best time to do so, because they can try it before they buy it! And if they do decide to buy it, you can tell them that the game is on a surprise Daily Deal at 34% off until Wednesday November 6th at 10am Pacific Time.

We hope you all have lots of fun! <3
The Clever Endeavour team

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We want to thank everyone who sent us spooky levels over the past month, because we were able to fill the first page of Featured Levels in Ultimate Chicken Horse with some amazing creations to celebrate the spookiest day of the year. They're ready for all to play!

Halloween is a perfect time to be a monster, so you should grab friends and get yourself some trap points in these levels. ;)
If your friends don't have the game yet, it's 25% off for the occasion!

We hope you have a delightfully devilish time!

Cheers,
The Clever Endeavour team

HelloOoOoOo spooky animals!

This is a last reminder to submit your Halloween levels in time to get featured in Ultimate Chicken Horse this Thursday, October 31st!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/386940/announcements/detail/1581251391692925202

And if you have friends who would like to join in on the fun this Halloween, let them know that the game is 25% off this week!

Cheers,
The Clever Endeavour Team

Hello again Ultimate Animals!

This is a reminder for our call for submissions for spoOoOoOoky levels. Please share your level codes on the Event below, and we'll select 15 of them to be featured in Ultimate Chicken Horse on October 31st, for Halloween:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/386940/announcements/detail/1581251391692925202

Cheers!

Hello Ultimate Animals!

As you might have noticed, we’re featuring new user-made levels in Ultimate Chicken Horse every Friday to shine the spotlight on the creators in our community. This month, we want to double down on celebrating y’all by running this spooky Steam event!

All month, we’ll be gathering levels to be featured in the game on October 31st. Some examples of what we’re looking for:

- Halloween-themed pixel art and color schemes in Party levels!
- Haunting Challenge levels, for example set in the Old Mansion or involving Ghosts!
(These are just some ideas to get you thinking - we welcome your creativity!)


Want to participate and get your spooky level featured in the game on Halloween?

Just share your level codes in the comments below! We will look at them all and choose which to feature at the end of the month. 15 levels will be chosen! We’ll make an Announcement on October 31st when the featured levels are live.

(As a reminder: You can make custom levels in Free Play mode. Then open the Menu, go to Save and Share Level, save your level Online as a Public level, and Publish to get the shareable level code!)

We cannot wait to see what you come up with. :)

Ultimate Chicken Horse V1.6.061 - 2019-06-20

All Platforms

• Turning into a Ghost will keep the Challenge Mode timer running until you give up or fall into a pit, allowing your dead body to complete the Challenge
  
• Fixed bug with Dead Hop that could cause a 0:00:00 time to be recorded in Challenge Mode
  
• Fixed bug that allowed respawning characters to trigger coin pickup from a distance
  
• Fixed an issue with shift-rotated platforms moving incorrectly when placed
  
• Prevented way tiny characters from being stuck at the edge of the blank level
  
• Prevented players from placing goal and end blocks on blank level in such a way they are no longer selectable
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed host and client to have different modifier presets loaded
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed respawning in challenge mode
  
• Prevented scoreboard from being stuck on
  
• Allowed players to cancel placement of blocks that are unplaceable, but also ignore bounds in Free Play
  
• Fixed bug that allowed colliding crouching characters to make each other fly, or die
  
• Improved unlock system to better handle players who have played various maps online, before working on their own unlocks
  
• Ensured that level unlocks are removed for players who leave the lobby
  
• Fixed Doomsday modifiers reset during challenge mode
  
• Fixed Doomsday modifier reset when used with Shared Controller Couch
  
• Fixed Doomsday sound effects not being controlled by in-game volume settings
  
• Prevented paper airplanes from permanently disabling teleporters
  
• Made falling crumbling blocks and projectile explosions pause, so they can't be exploited in challenge mode

PC Only

• Added Czech community translation
  
• Fixed some issues with online invites not working on Steam
  
• Prevented a double cursor bug related to invites

Hello Ultimate Animals,

We are thrilled to announce a HUGE content update for Ultimate Chicken Horse, available right now on Steam! We named it the Transformidable Update, because it is both transformative and formidable, and we like puns a lot. Click the image below to see the trailer!




There's a ton of new stuff, including character reskins, jetpacks, modifiers, physics effects, post-death behaviours, block effects, and level effects! You can see images and gifs of many of these things on the website update page.

Happy horsin' around, or should I say zebra-in' around now? :)

Much love,
The Clever Endeavour team
<3

Among the new blocks, we have the player-activated punching block, the crumbling block, and the Slowatch, which slows down time for your precision platforming needs. For the new levels, we've got the Mainframe, the Crumbling Bridge, and the Nuclear Plant, each of which have unique mechanics and make for some interesting new ways to use traps and blocks.

Check out the full details of the update here, or just go check it out for yourself! Oh and tell your friends please!

                            







Much love,
The Clever Endeavour Team <3

The update comes with a new animal (can you guess which one?), new levels, new platforms, and a ton of improvements concerning bugs, connectivity, stability and more.

Check out the trailer below:



We're also introducing Challenge Mode, a brand new game mode where you can test your platforming skills in user created levels, and compete for global best times. This game mode also includes a trending levels list, up-voting and down-voting levels, and cross-platform leaderboards.

For more details about what's new in the update, we wrote a longer form blog post here.