The project is a highly playable platform game in which the levels of the game progress through the history of computer gaming. It is concerned with how computer gaming evolved through time from the early black and white Pong to modern day 3D. Each of the 6 levels of The Chicken or the Egg are associated with a particular era or stage in time, and the graphical content, gameplay and detail take influence from their eras.

The game is chiefly concerned with evolution and the concept of "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" is the main theme of the game, and reflects the importance of evolution to the project created. The main character is a chicken; it is your task to guide him from one end of the farmyard-style location to the other, and also through his life from an egg to a fully-grown chicken.

Every aspect of the game evolves through the levels. The length and difficulty of each level increases, as does the number of features, details, enemies, objects and abilities. Every new level adds new features and abilities to the game, and with this reflects the style (colours, pixel size) and amount of detail of the era it is drawing influence from.

The Chicken or the Egg is not historically accurate, it takes influence from the eras associated from it but does not offer a factually accurate remake of games from each time period. However, the levels do progress through the history of gaming and it is hoped that interest in the game will spur interest in computer game history. The links page offers some websites that were found to be useful during research.

Go to the main page of this site and click on 'Play the Game' to begin.