New Hockey Puck Shooter Block!

As promised, we've been working on new content including blocks, levels and characters. Last week we showed you our newest character, and this week we have a blocky surprise!

Today's block is a hockey puck shooter, and we know what that means. No one is safe.

Alright enough with the fancy gifs, what does this actually do? How does it work? Why is it in the game? So many questions, so few answers.

The Hockey Puck Shooter (not final name) is a block that shoots a projectile out at laser speed. If you get hit by the puck, your fate will become that of the unfortunate raccoon in the gif above. A red light goes on above the block to warn that it's about to shoot, and that you have to get out of the way. If you're caught anywhere in the line of fire, you're toast! Rubbery, hockey-flavoured toast. You can also stand on the platform... currently you can stand on top of it, but that might change to standing on the platform on which the puck rests... we'll test it and see!

You might think this is an extremely Canadian block, but in fact it was designed by one of our Kickstarter backers from the U.S., who is an avid Caps fan. We made sure to use the red white and blue of the Caps (although it's conveniently the colours of our hometown team, the Habs, as well...). The design isn't final, but the idea is pretty solid, and it adds variety by being a projectile that you don't have time to run away from (like the crossbow).

The block isn't finalized yet as we still need to get more feedback from the Kickstarter backer / designer, but it should be close to this! Yay development!

Newest Member of the Ultimate Chicken Horse Family!

Today we reveal our newest character, joining our Ultimate Chicken Horse gang! The lean, mean, jumping machine has arrived:

The chameleon was designed with help from a Kickstarter backer and has come a long way since the first sketches we drew. You'll notice a colour change when the character is dancing; this is extremely important for survival as restricting a chameleon's colour change would dampen its high energy and awesomeness.

As you likely know by know, all of the characters have the same physical abilities, but we try to give them personality through their design and animations. Our artist hand-draws every single frame of the animal's animation, and the result is a very smooth, fluid movement.

The production is going smoothly, we're still bashing our heads (mostly Alex's head) against online multiplayer, and we're producing new content like this wonderful little chameleon creature.

Put the game on your Steam Wishlist now and your life will be wonderful!

T-Shirts Shipped, Character and Block Work

Hi everyone!

Wish I had some monumental epic news to report, but unfortunately I don't! We're working on the real "production" now... we know what we need to do and we're doing it. We're not as distracted by shows and events right now, so we're moving along nicely.

One nice thing is that the t-shirts have shipped (last week)! You should be receiving them in the next little while, if you backed at the t-shirt tier and haven't gotten it in the next week or so, shoot us an email and we'll try to figure it out.

Beyond that, there's work being done to create a new website for the company and the game, and setting up the online store! We're pretty much out of t-shirts, but we have hand-knitted hats to sell and would like to have the store up and running for when we have new shirts printed.

Alex is still working on getting the network stuff happening, and it seems to be progressing quite nicely. Look! Network stuff in the picture!

Kyler is at work on Kickstarter backer designed blocks and levels, so there's plenty of work to be done. I'm getting in touch with and following up with Kickstarter backers, so if I haven't followed up with you in a little while about designing a block or character, it's because we're working on the ones that we already need to mock up. Once we have a mock-up and send it back to the backers, we'll get started on the next ones.

That's about all there is to update for now!