Good afternoon Clever friends!

Indie G Zine

We’re in the Indie G Zine Volume 3! We just backed the Kickstarter to get our copy, and I suggest you do the same.

What is the Indie G Zine? It’s “an illustration anthology dedicated to some of the best indie games released or upcoming. It's our way to celebrate both cool art and cool indie games.” We’re really proud to be included in this. Thanks to Julian for doing this!

Hiring and Prototyping

Last month we mentioned that there were some staff changes at Clever Endeavour Games. Well, this week I’m happy to announce that we’ve hired another team member, who will be starting next week. He’s a jack-of-all-trades who you might consider a technical artist, but he’s a swiss army knife of skills and we’re looking forward to introducing you properly to him next month.

This new hire will help us with our prototyping process, which has been going strong for a few months since just before the A·cobra·tic Update launched. We’ve been playing with a different idea every 2-3 weeks, and creating a playable prototype that we test internally. We’ve got a bunch of different ideas brewing, and we’re looking for the next idea that will blow your socks off. The process is changing and evolving, and every time we work a new idea we tweak things and discuss the results as a team—we can’t talk about these projects as we’re not sure which one we’ll actually turn into a full game, but it’s been a fun process and we’re confident we’ll find the next great idea.

Swag Additions

In Ultimate Chicken Horse news, we’ve got new shirts for Snake and all of the re-skins of the animals up on our SpreadShirt store! You can also get these designs on mugs, hats, baby onesies, and more.

To celebrate that - and honestly just because she could - Gen made some “official” Ultimate Chicken Horse swag in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

You can follow this link to find the download code for each of them, as well as some fan-made original designs!

Links from the Team

We’ve also got some links to share with you from some members of the team, to lift your spirits during these somewhat crazy times. The first, keeping with the Animal Crossing thread, Fabio is sharing this ridiculously detailed re-creation of an AC village made of clay… on a toilet paper roll.

Next is an important video shared by Kyler—this CGP Grey video is about how to improve your mental health during COVID time. There are a million of these videos and articles out there, but this had a slightly different approach which I enjoyed.

Next up, we’ve got Gen sharing this lovely little puzzle game called Sizeable, which you can play on itch.io here.

The next is a Reply All podcast episode shared by me (Rich), about a pop hit that went missing. A listener calls trying to track down the name of this song, and it’s a deep story with lots of surprises.