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Behold! The miracle of life packed into cubes. CHKN is an open world sandbox game where life itself is your strongest tool. Bring creatures to life by assembling them from body parts, each packed with its own special sauce. Cook up whatever creatures you want and don’t be surprised if your creation has a mind of its own. With Creative, Adventure, and Multiplayer modes, there is an abomination for everyone.

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.

Creature Design Contest #3 (Guest Judges!)

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Got a pig-snake-dog you want to share with the world? It's time for another Creature Design contest!

Test out our new revamped creatures on Pre-Release and submit your creations. (Here’s how to access Pre-Release !) Guest judges from the community will help us pick the winners and the winning creatures will inspire the new wild ecosystem coming soon in CHKN! (We’re currently working on adding some of the past winners to the new Adventure Mode so look out for those!)

You have until June 5th to enter. Winners will be revealed during our live stream next Friday (June 8).

PRE-RELEASE TROUBLESHOOTING NOTE: If you were having trouble getting the Pre-Release to load, we also have some bug fixes and a solution for you at the bottom of this post!

Now on to the contest...

The Rules

Play the Pre-Release build and create a creature using Life Blocks from any of the 7 newly revamped creatures:
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Chicken
Cat
Crab
Mech Dino
Dog
Snake
Pig

Is it cute or intentionally abominus? Is your creature dangerous or helpful or playful? Use the new Life Blocks in creative combinations to make your creature unique.

We’re looking for anything from small creatures a new player might come across early in Adventure Mode to large boss creatures you might encounter later in the game. Think about where your creature might live in the CHKN world.

Judges will rate your creatures on:

Looks
Personality
Movement & Functionality

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Our Guest Judges!

A couple amazing creators from the CHKN community have agreed to join us as guest judges for this contest!

Squidking is a creature creating machine, with over 200 creatures shared in the Workshop . You should also check out his CHKN Creature Wiki if you want to know all about some of the creatures you can find out in the wild.
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Now you know what a Goat riding a cat looks like.

Jacemachine plays a bunch of creative sandbox and survival games on his hilariously entertaining YouTube channel . He’s built plenty of creative creatures while surviving the wilds of CHKN. Check out his latest video hunting dragons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jDYL_myyas
They’ll be seeing first hand how tough it is to judge the amazing creatures everyone submits to our contests. Thanks, guys!

How to Enter

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Get on the Pre-Release build using these instructions .

Launch CHKN in Creative Mode.

Choose your Life Blocks from the newly revamped creatures and build your creature. Have fun and get creative!

Exit the build sphere and save your creation to the Workshop so we can see it. (Press [TAB] and go to the Bestiary tab of the journal. Find your creature under “My Creations”, click it, and check the “Sync to Steam Workshop” box.)

Make sure to give your creature a name and be sure to add “Creature Challenge #3” to the description so we can find it.

If you have multiple creature ideas, you can enter as many times as you like! Help us beat our record for the most number of entries![/olist]
That’s it! Make sure to save your creatures to the Workshop before Tuesday, June 5 @ 23:59:59 EDT to enter them into the contest! We’ll announce the winners and show off our favorite entries during our next live stream on Friday, June 8 @ 3:30 PM EST . Join us then to see if you’re the lucky winner!

And while you’re testing out the new Life Blocks, make sure to send us your feedback .

Pre-Release Troubleshooting

There were two major loading issues we’ve tracked down and fixed with the latest Pre-Release update. If you were having issues, here are the solutions:

Game window doesn’t appear after pressing Play in Steam
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This was a memory issue on our end and we’ve cleared it up. Download the updated build on Pre-Release and it should load properly (within 5 - 10 seconds) the next time you play.

Loading screen stuck at “Loading Terrain”

This is an issue with some .dll files not loading properly because a runtime is missing. We’ve made a fix on our end so that Steam will now properly installs these files when installing the game. If you already have CHKN installed and Steam doesn’t update automatically for you, you can do one of these two things to force it:
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Option 1: Go to Steam and uninstall CHKN. Then reinstall it. (If you want to make sure to save your games, back them up by copying them first! You can usually find them here: C:UsersYOUR USERNAMEAppDataLocalLowKatapultCHKN)
Option 2: Download the runtime separately and install it on your computer. It’s called “Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015” and you can find it here.

Once you've done either of these, you should make it through the "Loading Terrain" screen and load into the Main Menu.

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Arena Testing

While you’re in the Pre-Release, be sure to check out the Arena. We want your feedback on the new abilities creatures can use in battle. Let us know what you think on the forums .
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Thank you!

Early Access lets us build CHKN together with all of you so we really appreciate all your support with testing, bug reporting, and sharing your feedback. It helps a ton. Thank you!

Okay, time to get creating. We can’t wait to see your contest creatures!

- Team CHKN
https://store.steampowered.com/app/420930/CHKN/

[ 2018-05-31 21:58:46 CET ] [Original Post]