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8 OCTOBER 20, 2021
Students Create Windward Chicken Chasers, An Interactive Online Game
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cess it via Firefox or Safari browsers for the best view- ing experience. Although it is geared toward Windward CC students, anyone with internet access can sign up and play.
Players become Windward CC students, who begin a new adventure and phase in life armed only with wits, knowledge and experiences. During game play, individu- als can customize their avatar with specifics such as clothes and language (English or Hawaiian) before collecting coins to buy clothes, furni- ture and accessories from the Mongoose Marketplace by catching chickens, growing kalo and checking off items on the in-game daily planner. The game is rooted in the wahi pana (celebrated and storiedplaces),aswellasthe legendary creatures and char- acters of the Windward side of Oʻahu.
(Above) Trish Brubaker advises the team. Team members include (clockwise from top left) Abby Worthley, a Windward CC student; Alexis Daraban, a UH-West O‘ahu Academy of Creative Media student; Kaiwi Akioka of UH Mānoa; and Dominic Buoni of UH Mānoa’s Academy of Creative Media. PHOTOS COURTESY WINDWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CC staff member. Alexis Daraban (UH-West O‘ahu Academy of Creative Media student) and Abby Worth- ley (Windward CC student) handle art and animation; Buoni is the lead program- mer with assistance from Kaiwi Akioka (UH Mānoa student); Kalae Akioka and Kaiwi Akioka led the Ha- waiian language translation; and Hiʻilawe Kay and Mi- chael McIntosh produced the music.
“We hope everyone will enjoy playing Windward Chicken Chasers,” says Dominic Buoni, lead pro- grammer and UH Mānoa Academy of Creative Media student.
ationandHawaiiantransla- tion. The game was created with the free, open-source game engine, Godot, and the app-management sys- tem, Firebase from Google, for saving gameplay. Near- ly everything was created from scratch using only free resources and the students were instrumental in mak- ing decisions affecting the game.
ment, but also about game culture and how important it has become to our students and to society in general,” says Windward CC media design and production man- ager Trish Brubaker, who serves as the game’s creative director.
“Gaming is giving people common ground and points of interpersonal exploration that didn’t exist before. Each phase of the project had its own level of excitement. Brainstorming is loads of fun and the possibilities seem endless. I hope that players
come away from the game and the story of its creation inspired to pursue what may seem to be a crazy or impos- sible dream. We certainly didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into when we decided to create a game, but we made it happen.”
“I am inspired by the tal- ent working on this game.”
“I have learned so much, not just about the technical aspects of game develop-
The Windward Chick- en Chasers design team is entirely self-taught and currently consists of four students and one Windward
Other Windward col- leagues have volunteered their help with music cre-
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