Covid, Ultimate Chicken Horse Streamer Tourney, PAX East and more!

Hello friends!

Today’s blog post comes to you from our homes, as we’re all working from home amidst the coronavirus pandemic. You’ve heard enough about it by now—on our end, we’re safe and sound and work continues remotely, albeit feeling slightly isolated from humanity. Please be safe out there! Our workspace was very empty the last day I was there…

In other news (is there any other news?), we launched the A·cobra·tic Update last week! Your enthusiasm for it has been really wonderful, and we even reached a record number of players over the weekend. In fact, there were so many of you playing that our online servers had trouble keeping up! Thankfully we were able to patch them up this week and things should be back to normal now. We also found out that there were save issues on PS4 with the Update, but that should also be fixed by the time you read this.

On the day of the Update release, we held a small friendly tournament with 8 Twitch streamers: michaelalfox, HCJustin, AlpacaPatrol, BaerTaffy, Coestar, FlackBlag, Jaaski, and unrulybabs. We had a fantastic time watching them play with the new items and levels. Congratulations to Justin for earning the title of Ultimate Champion!

This Update and the response to it was the perfect way for us to celebrate Ultimate Chicken Horse’s anniversary with our fans. The game turned 4 years old on March 4th! Thank you all for the continued support, it’s crazy to think that we’ve had such a supportive community for so many years! ♥

Continuing on the Ultimate Chicken Horse train, we’ve got the soundtrack available for purchase on Steam now even if you don’t own the game. This is a change that Steam made, and to make the deal sweeter, we’ve updated the soundtrack with high fidelity tracks which you’ll get if you already own the soundtrack or if you buy it moving forward.

I (Rich) went to PAX last month! I was there to scope out the industry, see new up-and-coming games, and keep up with developers we know.

I managed to play over 70 games over the two days I was there, and there was a lot of impressive stuff. I knew many of the games there already since there was such a strong Quebec contingent in the Indie Megabooth and PAX Indie Showcase, but apart from the ones I already knew, my favourite game was Orbital Bullet. Check out some gameplay here, or wishlist the game on their Steam page.

That’s what we’ve got for you this month! We’re working to get the last few Ultimate Chicken Horse issues sorted ASAP and get the patch through certification on all the consoles, and then back to work on new prototypes. We got a little derailed from that with the update launching, but we’ll be back on track soon! Hop in our Discord server and let us know what you think about the newest update!

<3
The Clever Endeavour Team