Hello friends!

Here’s what’s up with us this month:

A call for YOUR spooky Ultimate Chicken Horse levels
The return of the #AskClevEndeav vlog series
Four more articles in the A-cobra-tic behind-the-scenes blog series
Ultimate Chicken Horse in the A+D Museum’s Designing Worlds virtual exhibit
The release of Lucifer Within Us by Kitfox Games
Sponsoring the upcoming GAMERella game jam
This month’s charity: the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation

Shall we?

In the UCHverse

Let’s start with the Ultimate Chicken Horse related news.

First, we’re looking for YOUR spooky custom levels! As we often like to do for Holidays, we want to feature a full page of themed user-made levels in Ultimate Chicken Horse at the end of the month, in time for Halloween. To do that, we need you to send us your level codes before October 30th on this Steam event or on our social media.

There’s only about a week left, so don’t waste time!

Next, after a long hiatus due to the destabilizing weirdness that is the year 2020, the #AskClevEndeav vlog series is back on our YouTube channel with a brand new episode! Rich and Fabio answered questions from our fans, like: What’s the worst block in UCH? What’s the link between Elephant and Jane Fonda?

Watch the video to hear what they had to say about that and much more!

If you like to know more about how Clever Endeavour works as a team, and more importantly how new content for Ultimate Chicken Horse gets made, then you might also want to check out our ongoing blog series which takes you behind the scenes of the A-cobra-tic Update.

Since last month, we published four new posts, covering the making of Snake, the cannon, Space, and the one-way gate. Go check them out to see concept art and abandoned designs!

Finally, Ultimate Chicken Horse was included in the A+D Museum’s Designing Worlds virtual exhibit, in the Gameplay Mechanics section. The exhibit includes an exclusive video interview with Richard, where he talks about our wonderful community – that’s you!

Industry happenings

Last week, our Montreal neighbors and studio besties at Kitfox Games released Lucifer Within Us, a game that mixes detective work and the occult. If solving murders and performing exorcisms sounds good to you, we suggest you check it out for a good October game night!

Also from our local scene, the Technoculture, Art and Game (TAG) lab is preparing this year’s edition of GAMERella, a game jam made for people who are often marginalized in game-related spaces. For the first time, this year the event is fully online and accessible to participants from all over the world! First-time game-makers are welcome – no experience required.

Clever Endeavour is happy to sponsor GAMERella for another year by providing swag for their goodie bags, and three of our team members will be available as mentors during the event.

The GAMERella game jam will be held on November 14th-15th. You can sign up here for free. In addition to the main event, there will also be workshops in the weeks prior, which will introduce attendees to game-making tools such as Bitsy, Puzzlescript, Construct 3, and INK.

The charity corner

Last but not least, in the name of Clever Endeavour’s employee-led donation program, Alex chose to make a charitable contribution to the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation in the month of September. This will go towards research funding, giving medical and therapeutic care to sick children, and supporting their families.

Thank you for reading!

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The Clever Endeavour team