It all started in 2020 inspired, by the home chickens making it their daily mission to escape the coop Marcus Davidson created a card game. After expanding on the idea with his dad the first version was made on pieces of card and taken to school. This was far from the first game Marcus made but it held potential many of the others hadn't. In 2022 Chook Studios was formed during the University of Canterbury's Summer Startup Programme. Catherine Davidson was enlisted as the artist to upgrade the game from pencil on paper. Finally, in 2024 the game officially released! But this is far from the end of the story...