ChikiDoku press kit

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Fact sheet

Game	ChikiDoku
Developer and publisher	Vplay Games LTD.
Release date	Coming soon
Platforms	iPhone and iPad (iOS 15+), Android phones and tablets (Android 8.0+)
Price	Free to play, with optional in-app purchases and optional rewarded videos
Genre	Logic puzzle (Queens / Star Battle family) with a farm-building meta-game and real-time duels
Languages	English, Simplified Chinese, Arabic (right to left), French, German
Age	Made for players aged 13 and over (App Store 13+); not directed at children. Google Play rating from the IARC questionnaire.
Content	240 campaign levels in ten chapters, boards from 5×5 to 11×11; a daily puzzle; real-time Chiki Duel with six ranks; a farm with land to clear; 21 birds to collect
Needs internet	Yes
Website	https://chikidoku.vplaygames.com/
Press contact	[email protected]

Descriptions

One line

The cutest way to train your brain: a Queens / Star Battle logic puzzle with painted chicks, a growing farm and live duels.

Short (about 40 words)

ChikiDoku is a cute Queens / Star Battle logic puzzle: place one chick in every row, column and nest, with no two chicks touching. Solve 240 levels, hatch a new Daily Egg every day, race live in Chiki Duel and grow a painted farm.

Medium (about 110 words)

ChikiDoku turns the logic puzzle millions met as "Queens" into a warm, painted farm adventure. The rules fit in one breath: one chick in every row, every column and every coloured nest, and no two chicks may touch, not even diagonally. Every one of the 240 campaign levels has exactly one solution and can be solved by reasoning alone. Between puzzles, players grow a farm from a muddy yard into a home with a barn, a pond and fields cleared from under the clouds, collect 21 birds with their own personalities, keep a daily streak with the Daily Egg, and race other players live on the same board in Chiki Duel.

Long

ChikiDoku is a logic puzzle game for iPhone, iPad and Android from Vplay Games. It takes the Queens / Star Battle puzzle, a grid split into coloured regions where one piece goes in every row, column and region with no two pieces touching, and makes it adorable: the pieces are round, painted baby chicks and the regions are their nests.

The campaign winds along a farm road through ten areas, from the Meadow and the Barn to the Vineyard and the Snowy Farm, with 240 levels that grow from gentle 5×5 boards to 11×11. Every board is generated and then verified by a solver to have exactly one solution, so it can always be solved by logic, never by guessing. When players are stuck, Mama Hen explains the next deduction in words, Digger the puppy digs up squares where no chick can be, and Papa Rooster places a chick.

Each solved puzzle earns seeds and coins for the player's farm. Buildings grow, wood clears new land from under the clouds, and the yard fills with fences, paths and the birds the player has collected: 21 of them, from Pip the chick to a puffin, a flamingo and a peacock still kept for a future event.

The Daily Egg is one puzzle a day, the same for everyone in the world, with a streak and a world leaderboard. Chiki Duel is a real-time race on the same board, judged by the server, with six ranks from Egg to Golden Hen and private codes to challenge a friend.

ChikiDoku is free to play with optional in-app purchases. It has no banner ads; the only ad is an optional video a player can choose to watch for a free helper. The game is fully localized in English, Simplified Chinese, Arabic (right to left), French and German.