Dev Blog & Announcements

Pre-Release Update v0.6.6

Be a master CHKN survivalist with the new Journal features! Plus new crafting stations, cleaner and clearer UI updates, and more. Patch notes are below and, as always, bugs are expected in these work-in-progress builds so we really appreciate the reports and feedback you send our way on the Pre-Release forum. * If you’re not familiar with Pre-Release, it’s the unstable developer branch we use for testing new stuff. More info here. Patch Notes New Features/Improvements: You’ll need the new updated Journal to survive and master the wild world of [...]

April 17th, 2018|Announcements, Dev Blog, New Builds, Updates|

Pre-Release Patch: Arena CHKN Brawl

The all-new Arena Mode (CHKN Brawl) and Creature Collection feature are now on Pre-Release (instructions below). We need your feedback! Test creatures in a new ‘creature brawl’ and tell us your suggestions on the forums or over on our Discord server. We want to know what you think. v0.6.0 Pre-Release Patch Notes New Features New mode: Arena! It’s time for a good ol’ fashioned creature brawl. Pick two teams to enter the arena and battle it out in a best-of series format. The last team standing wins. Choose creatures from [...]

February 18th, 2018|Announcements, Dev Blog, New Builds, Updates|

Workshop Spotlight & Pre-Release Progress

First off, thank you so much for all your support and feedback this year. (And all your crazy creatures!) You guys motivate us to keep making CHKN great and we really appreciate it. Happy holidays from the CHKN Team! We’re doing one last dev stream in 2017 so come join us! We’ll be live on Twitch and YouTube tomorrow (Fri, Dec 22) at 3:30 pm EST pitting our own creatures against some of your creations from the Workshop. Help us choose combatants or just hang out and chat with us! [...]

December 21st, 2017|Art, Community, Dev Blog, Updates|

Boss Design Challenge Winners!

Huge thanks to everyone who entered our inaugural Creature Design Challenge: Bosses! We had a tough time choosing but ‘tis the life of a CHKN scientist. If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry. We want to fill CHKN with all your awesome creations so we’ll have another design challenge for you soon. These are our choices. We also want to hear your votes in the comments below so we can put your favorites in a future release! Let us know which creatures you’d love to fight against (or even [...]

December 1st, 2017|Community, Dev Blog|

Design a Boss for CHKN!

Enter our boss design challenge! Your boss creature could be featured in a future game release, standing guard over some epic loot and striking fear into the hearts of players everywhere. Here’s how to enter. Good luck! The Rules Build a boss creature within a maximum orb limit of 2400 and save it to the Workshop That’s it! Your boss creature can use any Life Blocks in any combination you like. It can be scary or cute or a true abomination. It’s up to you. Whoops! Over 2400 orb [...]

November 22nd, 2017|Announcements, Community, Miscellaneous|