Wireframe – Issue 20, 2019

Early Access

Attract Mode

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an animation. “The Wild Gentlemen – our studio

• was only founded in 2018 when we finally had
  the chance to get more serious about the game,”
  Nadas says. “We threw away a lot of the original
  concept – though we kept the story, characters,
  and main concept – and started building the
  project from scratch. So while the roots are long
  and deep, the real development only started a
  year ago in Unity.”
  It’s a game that needs to do the rounds to
  get people on board, and a fine little trailer –

complete with original lounge jazz-style noirish
song – did a good job. Beyond that, Nadas
and the team have been touring Chicken Police
around events, and will be releasing a demo to
the public towards the end of August. “The show
demo was well-received, and we gained a lot
of valuable feedback, too,” Nadas says. “We’ve
been approached by several publishers, which
has been a huge boost, and basically everyone
who sat down and played the game got up with
a smile on their faces, which was great feedback
for us.”
You’ll have a similar smile on first seeing
the game, I’d assume, but the hope is there’s
enough behind this first release from the
Hungarian indie studio to break through the
initial smirksome look of things. As long as the
satire and humour holds up, there’ll at least be a
couple of other things to discuss beyond the fact
that it’s a game called Chicken Police, in which
the main characters are chickens. Who are
also police.

Early Access

Attract Mode

“While the roots are long and

deep, the real development

only started a year ago”

 Yes, there was a part of us that

wanted to put this on the front cover.

 Will the humour shine

through? We do hope so.