{"id":148799,"date":"2021-09-28T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=148799"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:57:55","slug":"windward-chicken-chasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/28\/windward-chicken-chasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch chickens, grow kalo and more in new Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> online game"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_98713\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIbAiCcBQ5o?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Windward Chicken chasers Â鶹´«Ã½News:Web\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148809\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-team-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"people looking at computer screen\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-team-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-team-130x91.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-team.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windward Chicken Chasers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> has launched a fun, interactive web game created by four students from multiple University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> campuses for fellow students to provide entertainment during a stressful time, organizational tools and a fun way to engage with the campus and its educational resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/windward-chicken-chasers\/\">Windward Chicken Chasers<\/a> is now available on the Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> website. Although it is geared to Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students, anyone can sign up to play the game. Firefox or Safari are recommended for the best viewing experience.<\/p>\n<p>It all started during the COVID-19 pandemic. When normal work on campus at the Instructional Development Services office moved from physical production to digital, student employees began working from home. Their strengths and interests in digital art guided their vision into independent game development with the purpose of maintaining their student work and helping the Windward campus and its students.<\/p>\n<h2>Chase da chicken<\/h2>\n<p>Players become Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students, who begin a new adventure and phase in life armed only with wits, knowledge and experiences. Game highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customize your avatar. Dress to impress or de-stress.<\/li>\n<li>Aloha shirt and slippahs? Sure!<\/li>\n<li>English or Hawaiian? You choose the language.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s your digital campus. Explore!<\/li>\n<li>To win coins and other loot, you must catch chickens, complete quests, grow kalo, check off <abbr>IRL<\/abbr> items on your in-game daily planner and more.<\/li>\n<li>Buy clothes, furniture and accessories in the Mongoose Marketplace.<\/li>\n<li>Decorate your room in the floating Sky Dorm. (Note: Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> does not have real-life dorms, sorry.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_148806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148806\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-akioka.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O student\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-akioka.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-akioka-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kawika Akioka<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_148807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148807\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-buoni.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O student\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-buoni.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-buoni-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Buoni<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_148810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148810\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-worthley.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O student\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-worthley.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-worthley-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Worthley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Underpinnings of the game are based in the wahi pana (celebrated and storied places), as well as the legendary creatures and characters of the Windward side of <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We hope everyone will enjoy playing Windward Chicken Chasers!&rdquo; said <strong>Dominic Buoni<\/strong>, lead programmer and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Academy of Creative Media student. &ldquo;I am inspired by the talent working on this game.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Windward Chicken Chasers design team is entirely self-taught and currently consists of four students and one Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> staff member. Other Windward colleagues have volunteered their help with music creation and Hawaiian translation. The game is created with the free, open-source game engine, Godot, and the app-management system, Firebase from Google, for saving gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have learned so much, not just about the technical aspects of game development, but also about game culture and how important it has become to our students and to society in general,&rdquo; said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Media Design and Production Manager <strong>Trish Brubaker<\/strong>. &ldquo;Gaming is giving people common ground and points of interpersonal exploration that didn&#8217;t exist before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Two artists, <strong>Alexis Daraban<\/strong> and <strong>Abby Worthley<\/strong>, have been following their passion for digital art and it is evident in the game. Buoni taught himself how to code via YouTube. Nearly everything was created from scratch using only free resources and the students were instrumental in making decisions affecting the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windward Chicken Chasers team<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art and animation: Alexis Daraban (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> <abbr>ACM<\/abbr> student), Abby Worthley (Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student)<\/li>\n<li>Programming: Dominic Buoni, lead programmer (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <abbr>ACM<\/abbr> student), <strong>Kaiwi Akioka<\/strong>, assisting (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa student)<\/li>\n<li>Creative director: Trish Brubaker (Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, media design and production manager)<\/li>\n<li>Hawaiian language translation: Kalae Akioka, Kaiwi Akioka<\/li>\n<li>Music: <span aria-label=\"Hiilawe\">Hi&#699;ilawe<\/span> Kay, Michael McIntosh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This student-driven endeavor welcomes input to keep improving the game. For those interested in contributing, contact Brubaker at pyb@hawaii.edu or stop by the Windward Chicken Chasers headquarters in Hale <span aria-label=\"Laakea\">La&#699;akea<\/span> 242. (Don\u02bbt forget to check-in using <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.campus.lumisight.com\/\">LumiSight <abbr>UH<\/abbr><\/a> before visiting campus.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148808\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-daraban.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O student\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-daraban.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-daraban-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/windward-windward-chicken-chasers-daraban-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Daraban<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windward Chicken Chasers was designed for students, by students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[112,549,71,9,66],"class_list":["post-148799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-creative-media","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148818,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148799\/revisions\/148818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}