Project
Attack of the Chickens VR
You stole their eggs. Now the chickens want them back — and the eggs are all you have to fight with.
- Event
- Global Game Jam 2024 at Northeastern University, hosted by the NU Game Dev Club · theme “Make Me Laugh”
- Credit
- Listed on the jam certificate as “by Tomme Denney”
- Platform
- VR
- Interaction
- Your own hands and the stolen eggs, against a flock charging across the farmyard
- Status
- Jam build, January 2024 · headset capture at the top of this page
Overview
The theme was Make Me Laugh, so the premise is a farmer who stole the eggs and has to answer for it: the chickens leave the coop and come for you, and the only weapons in reach are your own hands and the eggs themselves.
The capture is first-person from the headset — two virtual hands at the bottom of the frame, a low-poly farmyard with a windmill and a barn, eggs and feathers in the air, and chickens running at the player from every side. It is a jam game, made at Northeastern’s site for Global Game Jam 2024 (22–28 January), and the whole design is one repeated physical action: turn your hands and the eggs on whatever is coming next.
Return of the Chickens, the VR shooter on this site, is a later game on the same premise.
Stills
Next
Return of the Chickens
Chi'King and Chi'Queen want your farm. Give them the Cluckshot Cannon.
See Reality
Hand-tracked mixed reality for people who have never worn a headset, running inside live guided tours — Boston, Lexington, Nashville, Atlantic Canada, Rome, Pompeii, Venice.
Inhabiting Memory
A VR family museum you enter on foot — real walking inside each room, hand-tracked teleport between them, built from interviews and tested against flat photographs.
Case study I Am You
You are not the hiker. You are the trail camera watching him, steering his body.