Chickenpen Studio is a small independent game studio. We take on the builds that look like too much work, then we finish them.
We take on few things at a time and give them room. Here is what is on the bench right now.
A few players are foxes. Everyone else is hunting them — by phone, on foot, across whole cities and countries.
No arenas and no lobbies. The map is wherever you happen to be standing, and the fox is a real person somewhere out there.
Fox view — the radar
Hunter view — the compass
Shared live state, thousands of players moving at once, one clock everybody agrees on. That is usually the interesting bit, so we start there.
If a rule can be gamed, it is not a rule yet. We build the enforcement at the same time as the feature, never after it.
Starting is the easy part. The last ten per cent is where a game is won or lost, and that is where we spend our time.
Chickenpen Studio is a small independent game studio. We like problems that have to be solved from scratch, and we are happy for the next thing to look nothing like the last one.
Got an idea that needs building, or just want to know how any of this works? We read everything.
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