Dear Santa, I want custom levels this year!

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Hi Ultimate Animals!

The holidays are right around the corner, and boy, do we have a sleigh-full of great stuff for you! Right now, Ultimate Chicken Horse is 55% off on Steam, and you can nominate the game for the Steam Awards 2023.

Read on for details about our in-game event and merchandise giveaway!

❄️ Winter Build Event

We're asking you to send us your festive holiday and/or wintery custom levels in Ultimate Chicken Horse before Dec 8! We’ll pick 15 community-made levels and feature them in the game for everyone to see and play.

Need some inspiration for your level? Try these!
- Winter wonderland: Snow, snowmen, snowflakes, skating, igloos, sleds/toboggans, holiday villages/markets
- Holidays: Santa, presents, outdoor lights, Christmas trees, reindeer, elves, stockings, menorahs, dreidels
- Festive foods: Gingerbread, candy canes, hot chocolate, turkey, plum pudding, fruit cake
- New years: Fireworks, celebrations, sparkles, stars, gold
- Plus anything else that you think fits!

How do I make and submit a level?
- To make a custom level, go to the Treehouse lobby. Open the pause menu and click the arrows to change your game mode from "Party Mode" to "Free Play Mode". Then go to the underground area of the Treehouse and move to the left to the "Blank Level" section. Now you can make a level, Party or Challenge!
- Submit your levels to us by publishing your level and sharing the level code with us on our social pages or email it to us by 11 PM Pacific Time on Oct 7.
- community@clevendeav.com
- Steam discussion
- Discord
- Twitter or Instagram

🎁 Merry merch giveaway

Our holiday spirit doesn't stop there - we’re also hosting a merry merch giveaway from now until Dec 8! Simply follow the ClevEndeavGames X account and repost to be entered into the draw!

Here's to a holiday season filled with joy, laughter, and Ultimate Chicken Horse with your friends and family!

Cheers!

- Tia

Free Steam weekend, new merch, new team!

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Hey party animals!

It’s been about 6 months since the Shellebration Update released in March, and we’ve got a bunch of fun things to share!

Steam Free Weekend + Big Sales

You can play Ultimate Chicken Horse for FREE on Steam from Sept 7-11!

Now’s the time to host a game night or invite friends who’ve been itching to give it a try! (And if they love it, we’re running some hefty discounts until Sept 14!)

Ultimate Chicken Horse fully supports crossplay, so grab your friends who have the game on any platform (PC, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation)!

We’d love to meet you in the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord. You’ll find new gaming buddies, bug support, tips and techs to play better, competitive tournaments, engaging discussions, and UCH memes.

You can grab the game on sale here:

Now let’s get this party started!

Horse around in style with new merchandise

We launched a permanent Ultimate Chicken Horse collection on Fourthwall!

Sport your favourite barnyard pals on snazzy, comfy tees, and relish the moment when someone inevitably asks, "What, exactly, is a Chicken Horse?"

Kittencup releases Pekoe, a cozy tea-making sim with cats

Our friends at Kittencup recently released their cat-filled tea-making sim, Pekoe! You manage a teahouse and serve aesthetic beverages to your purrfect customers. Befriend the local cats, improve your teahouse, and explore the art of tea by mixing and pouring delicious blends (The stirring ASMR is so nice.)

Check out Pekoe now!

How our team has changed

Clever Endeavour has undergone a lot of changes in the last year, and we’ve yet to introduce our newest members!

I’m Tia (the one writing this, hi) - I’m the new marketing and community manager! I took over in January for Syd, our previous CM. A few years ago, I switched careers and found my passion in supporting indie developers with their marketing, PR, and community management. Then I moved across the country to join the wonderful Clever Endeavour squad! I know too much about indie games, I love horror, and I main Sheep in UCH.

Next up: Austin! He’s our programmer/designer who came aboard in January as well. He’s full-time on our new project and is diligently coding away. Austin previously worked at Ludia as a Live Ops expert. He’s also been an in-house Dundgeons & Dragons referee and Twitch streamer!

We also have Shipmate Games helping us out with all things server-y and technical. They’re a duo that go by JS and PAC (these are technically their real names), and they’re based out of Quebec City!

Of course, there’s Fabio… you know Fabio. He’s been with us for six and a half years at this point, and has been a fan favourite since the AskClevEndeav videos of the olden days. (Fabio says hi!)

Plus dear ol’ Rich, who brings the whole crew together and keeps us on track.

What’s next for Clever Endeavour Games?

We’re up to something, we promise you that! And while we’re not quite ready to reveal anything yet, we sincerely appreciate how curious and dedicated our community. We can’t wait to tell everything - when the time is right!

We’re focusing on the new project, but we haven’t forgotten about Ultimate Chicken Horse. The game continues to receive quality-of-life updates, including some serious server overhauls that should help everyone play online.

Thanks for reading! Talk again soon.

Sincerely, all of us at Clever Endeavour Games

Announcing the Shellebration Update!

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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 on March 7, 2023 on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch! Let’s get this party started.

The Shellebration Update adds:

  • 1 new character: Turtle

  • 1 alternative skin: Armadillo

  • 1 new level: Metro

  • 3 new community-designed outfits: Helmet, Pirate Costume, and Ninja Gear

  • 1 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.

New Character: Turtle

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!

Alternative Skin: Armadillo

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.

New Outfits

Turtle and Armadillo share a wonderful wardrobe designed by our very own Ultimate Chicken Horse community! We asked what outfits our community would want to see in the game, and transformed our favourite ideas into these fashionable ‘fits!

  • 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.)

New Level: Metro

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.

Ultimate Chicken Horse’s 7th Anniversary

Come shellebrate this special time of year with us and Turtle! We’d love to see and feature your anniversary-themed custom levels and fanart for our Shellebration Update. Here are some inspirational ideas: birthday cakes, presents, parties, the UCH animals, and other celebration-y things!

Please share your creations in the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord or via the contact@clevendeav.com email.

Behind-The-Scenes Stuff

Our second project has been keeping us busy, but we haven’t forgotten about our dear Ultimate Chicken Horse community. It’s been over a year since our last update (Hippo) so we wanted to make something extra special for our 7th anniversary. We hope you enjoy!

Our team has grown in the meantime - we now have tech wizard/genius JS on the case. He’s already saved us from a lot of server trouble and is actively working on making the servers even better. We also brought on Tia as our new marketing and community manager just in time for Turtle’s update!

Thank you!

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

- Your turtley awesome friends at Clever Endeavour