Wow, Ultimate Chicken Horse is turning seven years old and we’re celebrating with a FREE content update for you! Play as the new character Turtle in the Shellebration Update! It's out NOW on all supported platforms, so you can play with your console pals via crossplay!

The Shellebration Update adds:

• New character: Turtle
  
• Alternative skin: Armadillo
  
• New level: Metro
  
• 3 new community-designed outfits: Helmet, Pirate Costume, and Ninja Gear
  
• New music track
  
• Lots of improvements and bug fixes!

Unlock the new content for free by playing levels with a “?” symbol and collecting mystery boxes during the game.


Meet Turtle, the newest animal on the Ultimate Chicken Horse roster, voiced by our previous community manager, Syd!

Always ready to dive head-first into the next adventure, this plucky reptile never backs down from a challenge. Turtle’s no slowpoke when it comes to winning and won’t hesitate to slide straight into first place!

Look out, Turtle’s alternative skin just rolled in - it’s Armadillo! Don’t be intimidated by the tough exterior - Armadillo is a huge softie with a big heart.


Turtle and Armadillo share a wonderful wardrobe designed by our very own Ultimate Chicken Horse community! Mix and match these accessories for the perfect fit.

• Helmet: It’s like a shell for your head!
  
• Pirate Costume: Yer lookin’ as sharp as a cutlass, me hearty!
  
• Ninja Gear: Only worn by true warriors of the night. (It glows in the dark.)

Don’t miss your train! Navigate the underground metro by sprinting across the roofs of train cars as they thunder by. Place building blocks and traps to fill the gaps between the station platforms, or risk falling into the deadly electrified rails! Make it to the opposite platform without being flattened to win!

The Metro level features several historic train stations straight from our studio’s home: Montreal, Canada.


Come shellebrate this special time of year with us and Turtle! We’d love to see your birthday-themed fanart and custom levels for our Shellebration Update - please share your creations in the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord or via the contact@clevendeav.com email!

• Added new character (Turtle), alternative skin (Armadillo), new outfits (helmet, ninja gear, pirate costume), new level (Metro), and new music
  
• Update the Half Unlock cheat code with new content
  
• Migrated relay servers over from AWS to DigitalOcean
  
• Made several online fixes to improve match stability
  
• Improved existing localization and localized all new text
  
• Added a delay when trying to join lobbies to avoid edge case errors
  
• Fixed ghost lobbies where players joined and became stuck in infinite loading screens
  
• Fixed Twitch integration issue
  
• Fixed a constant saving bug to allow players to save more reliably

Thank you so much for playing Ultimate Chicken Horse and supporting us over the years. We hope you enjoy this update. Happy 7th anniversary!

- Your turtley awesome friends at Clever Endeavour

Happy Valentine's Day, lovelies! 💝 🍓 🍫

We're celebrating this sweet holiday with a bunch of Valentine's Day-themed levels. Big thank you to everyone who submitted levels on Steam and Discord - we had a blast playing through them!

You can play all of these featured levels by getting in-game, going down the well in the Treehouse, and clicking on the "LevelNET" computer. You may need to go to page 15-16 to see the levels as we're currently experiencing issues with how levels appear.

There will be many more opportunities to have a level featured in our upcoming events this year, so please keep an eye out!

Join the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord to stay up to date with our shenanigans.



Also, feel free to send one of these goofy lil' cards from our barnyard friends to your loved ones!



Love,
Clever Endeavour Games

Roses are red, levels are too, submit yours now for us to view!

Send us your Valentine’s-themed custom levels for a chance to be featured in Ultimate Chicken Horse! Show your love for your honey(ed opponents) and go crazy with flowers, spikes, and pastels.

Submit your levels by publishing them and sharing the level codes in the Steam comments or on the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord by Feb 13th at 10 AM PST.

We’ll take up to 15 of the most heartwarming creations to feature in the game for Valentine's Day. Check out last year’s sweet picks:

• While in-game, open the menu and select “Free Play Mode”. Then go down the well to the underground area. On the left, jump on the “Blank Level” to start building!
  
• Share your level by opening the menu and pressing “Save and Share Level”. Save your level as Online, Party or Challenge, and Public, then press “Publish” to get your level code.
  
• Post the level code on Steam or on Discord!

Need some inspiration? Try these!

• Hearts, love, friendship, and co-operation
  
• Flowers, chocolates, and honey
  
• Pink, red, and pastel colors

Love, your pals at Clever Endeavour

Hello, we wanted to extend a massive thank you to everyone who submitted their incredible art, it was such a pleasure to look through, and very difficult to decide who would win. While there were so many amazing pieces to pick from, we ultimately had to settle with a top three (and a phenomenal runner-up).

Here are our three winners and two runner-ups for our Pet Art Competition. Presented in no particular order we have...

This is PuppetSquid's Storm! Storm spends his time at Alfie's Island (a dog cafe) where he is gradually learning to be less anxious.


This is Googly's Dalmata. Dalmata is a friend's pet who recently passed away. What a beautiful tribute❤️


This is Lemon the Dart Frog by StrayGalaxy. We are positively obsessed with that little outfit 🌺😭

And our runner-up:

This is RitzRaspa’s Max—affectionately described as “doofy”, and we could not agree more.


Again, thank you so much to each and every one of you for your work—your love for UCH sustains us and is what makes this community so great.

Hope the holiday season treats you all wonderfully, we can't wait to share with you more things in the new year!

Best,

Clever Endeavour Games

Hello friends!

Have you ever wished your pet was in UCH? 🐶

Well, now's your chance to show off your art chops for a chance to win some sweet, sweet merch. Submit your work to pets@clevendeav.com. Check out the terms and conditions {LINK REMOVED}here.



Secondly, I'm excited to share with you the winners of our Halloween Featured Levels. Here they are...



Thanks to all who submitted--I hope you'll also submit to our pet competition, we're itching to see what cool stuff people create :)

- Clever Endeavour

It's that time again where we ask for some of them themed levels, but now we're looking for HALLOWEEN inspired ones!

Submit your Halloween levels in halloween-level-submissions by Oct 25th, 10:00 am EST and we'll feature up to 15 of them in the following weeks.

Here are a couple of prompts to spark your creative juices:

• Pumpkins and Gourds
  
• Black cats and bats
  
• Scary Clowns
  
• Witchcraft
  
• The full Moon

Here are some examples of previous levels we've featured for this theme:

There are two types of levels you can submit: a party level or a challenge level.

A good feature party level:

• Has a good balance of aesthetics/theme and gameplay
  
• Has the flag visible and easy to access
  
• [OPTIONAL] Can be completed in challenge mode for our speedrunners

Examples of party levels that are good for feature: U4PB-THWR, 6HVG-VJGU

A good feature challenge level:

• Isn’t too easy, it should have some level of challenge to it (so it’s not just run straight to the right for an automatic goal)
  
• Isn’t too difficult either. It shouldn’t include difficult techniques, require every move to be precise,
  
• Includes our level submission theme!

Examples of good challenge levels for feature: 5YF8-SBNS, SJRT-P1FB

Submit your level codes below in the comments or under any one of our social platforms.

We look forward to seeing what you all create!

Cheers 🦇

- Clever Endeavour

Here's a reminder of what to expect:

Both of the services that the game uses for all of the online content and online multiplayer had to be replaced. The game should work exactly as it did before, but you may notice some strangeness in this transitional period:

• Extremely new content (levels, votes, challenge times) may be lost if they were posted between the last time we grabbed data and now. We'll work to retrieve that if we can. We should be able to at least retrieve the newest levels in the coming days.
  
• Many older uploaded levels will be missing. Due to technical constraints, we weren't able to migrate every single level that had ever been uploaded. We've managed to migrate over 200,000 levels that were either popular or created in the last year. You can use the "My Levels" filter to see which of your published levels made it over. If any of your levels seem to be missing but you still have a local copy saved, feel free to publish it again!
  
• Almost all of the data besides uploaded levels should be present and visible. This includes level statistics, high scores and your personal bests. Note that in places where a username is shown, if the associated user comes from data that was migrated the display name will be whatever it was at that time and may not update if that same user changes their display name in the future.

Features:

• Added crossplay with Xbox. All platforms can now play together!
  
• Replaced the GameSparks server solution with BrainCloud, this now handles all player authentication, level uploads, level bans, challenge times, user bans, etc.
  
• Added "Tournament" as a preset. These rules were suggested to us by the community.
  
• Added new Farmhands, Syd (community manager) and SuperNimbus (team we worked with for server changes) to the credits

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed animal icons navigating inventory sometimes lose their costumes
  
• Characters dance sound continues when jumping directly from dance
  
• Lots of bug fixes involving the changes that were made to the servers

Hello!

Our patch is coming out shortly (this Tuesday) and we have lots of info to throw your way!

The patch’s purpose is to move servers and tweak some bugs. However, we're also not solidly sure what issues may appear while the levels are porting from new users from one server to the next, so we would advise the following during this transition period of 48 hours:

- Don’t make any new levels during this transition period!

- Don’t try to beat any high scores!

- Don’t upvote/downvote anything!

In short: save your creativity/speedruns for two days later!

Now, for the GOOD stuff:

- Did someone ask for Xbox cross-play? Well, we heard you! Everyone is now able to play with everyone! But…

- It should be known that Xbox Gamertags are displayed as anonymous in leaderboards and results screens, this is normal and expected. This is due to Xbox’s legal standards and set-up, not something on our end.

- As a tiny gift to our lovely community, we’ve added a tournament rules preset — [[url=https://cleverendeavourgames.notion.site/Tournament-Preset-431d74926e9f4aadba71b98566276300]details here[/url]]. If you have any concerns/questions about the rules, that’s something to chat about with the community as they were created upon request :)

- We’ve updated the credits! Thanks to everyone who has helped us since our last edit of them.

- Because of all of the changes to the back-end, there have been some wonky things about challenge scores, users, etc. Please report anything you see!

- There is a possibility that we might lose the ability to click on a player's score on a level in order to open up their profile on Steam.

Thanks for your patience, enthusiasm and coolness!

Best,

Clever Endeavour

Thank you to everyone who submitted levels for the summer event!

Here are the top 15 levels selected for the LevelNET featured page:



For those who haven't played custom levels before, go down the well beside the treehouse and interact with the computer to see these wonderful community creations.

Enjoy, happy gaming and have a wonderful summer <3

Wanna see what all the fuss is about?

Now's the time to grab Ultimate Chicken Horse for 50% off its usual price, from now until July 7th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/386940/Ultimate_Chicken_Horse/

Hope this summer treats you well!

<3
The Clever Endeavour Team