Happy holidays, everyone! To celebrate and say thanks, weve got a special treasure hunt going on through the end of the year. Plus weve released optimization fixes to improve performance. Those notes are below.

The Great Holiday Hat Hunt!

Reindeer, Santa, and Elf hats await. What could be more festive than a Santa-hat-wearing chicatdog? Nothing, of course! So, this holiday we invite you to hunt down or tame some wild creatures that have randomly spawned wearing one of 3 special hats on their beautiful heads. (Or you could cheat and switch to Creative mode but wheres the fun in that?) The hats are only available for a limited timeuntil Jan 3rdso get hunting soon. And be sure to share screenshots with us on Discord! Wed want to see your lovely (and not so lovely) creatures in their festive new gear. Good luck!

Play the All-New CHKN!

If you havent tried it out yet, make sure youre on the latest update and give the brand new CHKN a go. Build creatures with the new blocks, survive the new wilderness, send your creatures into battle in Arena mode there's lots to explore. (See the full recap in this 0.7 update post.) Let us know what you think! Weve also got a poll going over on our Discord to see what everyones favourite mode is. Are you an Adventurer, an Arena battler, or a Creative builder? Head over there and vote!

Optimization Fixes & Tech Improvements

Weve just pushed an update with many fixes and tech improvements to optimize performance. With these, youll notice: [olist]

Stuttering/hitching as you move through the world has been dramatically reduced.

Improved loading[/olist] Theres still a point during the initial loading, before the loading bar shows 0%, where the game is temporarily unresponsive. It seems like the game may have crashed but it hasnt! Summon the patience of a saint and it will load after some waiting (how long depends on your computer specs). Were working on this! And for those of you that want more technical details, here's the full list of improvements:

New rendering technique to render many instances of an object quickly for modern video cards. Increases render range while improving FPS.
Implemented compute shaders to cull based off of camera frustum and occlusion. (Requires a modern card.)
Added fallbacks for the above for low-end devices to maintain current FPS.
World streaming system overhauled to no longer be gameObject based. Frees up resources for other systems, greatly reduces stutters, and improves LOD responsiveness. (Collisions always register quickly; no delay when traveling through world for things to load in.)
Foliage system optimized to remove frame stuttering when traveling through the world.
Improved quality settings. Render distance will now tune all systems to greatly improve FPS on low end devices. High end devices can now render up to 2x as much as previous build.
Plus various bug fixes (FX no longer always attached to hands, throw animation is fixed, failed to load fixed)

Dog Armor is Here!

Our 5th creature-based armor is now in the game! If you want to keep warm on cold CHKN nights, hunt down some dog creatures and get to crafting.

Come, Chicky! Its time to get our revenge on those Lightcats.

Handy Links

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Thank you for all your support this year. We love all your feedback and crazy creature creations. Happy holidays! - Team CHKN https://store.steampowered.com/app/420930/CHKN

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CHKN
Katapult

Developer

Katapult

Publisher

2016-04-01

Release

Indie Casual Singleplayer Multiplayer EA

KEY FEATURES

Unique AI (aka the Special Sauce): You have the power to bring creatures to life by slapping blocks together, in whatever shape, size, or combination you want. These blocks of intelligent life give your creature unique personalities based on the combinations you make. No two creatures are alike...unless you make them alike. In which case, an egg will pop out of one of them. Even if it’s a cat. Because SCIENCE.
Creature Interaction. Creatures have all the feels and they’re not afraid to express them. Sad eyebrows? Your creature might be lonely. Happy smiles and farts? Your creature loves you for feeding them hamburgers. If a creature is snarling and running at you, then it’s probably too late - you’re dead.
Survival Tactics: You and your creature are starving to death. Do you feed your creature the last of your apples? Or do you cook your creature into a burger to feed yourself!?? Too much? OK.
Creatures will work better than tools at collecting resources and protecting your homestead. They’re better at fighting and cutting down trees than you are, so you’ll definitely want them on your side.
BUILD ALL THE THINGS!: Build a house! Build a farm! Build a three-headed, five-footed, llama-rantula-pus! With your creatures’ help, break apart your surroundings to craft tools and structures. Craft beds made of chicken parts and farm the land in order to survive and thrive.
Adventure, Creative and Multiplayer Modes. Modes on modes on modes.
Burps and farts. Need we say more?

DISCLAIMER

This is an Early Access game, which means it’s a little chick growing with every build. Remember raising them in school? Well, we’re that little chick under the heat lamps, confused about why we’re standing in sawdust with kids staring down at us.
But seriously. We’re just beginning with CHKN and we want you along for the ride. It’s going to be crazy and weird, but we’re going to involve you in any way possible, whether it’s asking for advice, testing out new features, or just showing us your ridiculous creations! We love hearing from you guys. Team CHKN is just a tweet, email, comment, or a very loud scream away. There will be bugs and there will be issues. Keep that in mind before you play.

FUTURE ROADMAP:

Additional creatures; dragon, goat, sheep, llama and many more.
Added abilities; flying, poison, fire breathing.
Improved AI; dogs can guard houses, ants can follow scents, etc.
Improved Multiplayer Mode.
Cactus-Man.
Much larger world, with additional biomes and points of interest.
See our full Road Map here.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+. 64-bit; SteamOS+
Processor: 2 GHz Equivalent CPUMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3 Compatible GPUNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+. 64-bit; SteamOS+
Processor: i5 Quad CoreMemory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia 900 seriesNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: SSD storage

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