Chicken Scratch
Chicken Scratch is a quirky multiplayer drawing game with broken telephone mechanics. Play with up to 7 of your friends as bird co-workers trying to keep your job at Chicken Scratch. Work together on confusing cases where you'll be drawing, captioning and then trying to guess the original meaning.
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Chicken Scratch is a quirky multiplayer drawing game with broken telephone mechanics. Play with up to 7 of your friends as bird co-workers trying to keep your job at Chicken Scratch Incorporated. Work together on confusing cases where you'll be drawing, captioning and then trying to figure out what the original meaning was.
Each day starts with each player receiving a strange prompt to draw which will become muddled as other players have to either interpret, copy, flip, morph, blend, improve or contribute to it:
Eventually another player will have to try to guess what the original prompt was from a series of options:
The closer you are to the right answer, the more birdbucks you'll earn. Make enough birdbucks and you might just make it all the way through Friday without getting fired by Mr. Talons - your greedy and overbearing eagle boss!
Key Features:
-12 colourful birds to play as, each with their own drawing colour
-An endless variety of randomly generated prompts
-Stackable hats
-Online multiplayer lobby system with public and private rooms
-Presentation phase with wacky stickers you can stick on your friends' drawings
Planned Features:
-More types of game modes
-More types of cases
-GIF generation for exporting your best telephone chains to share with your friends
-Integrating streamer support
