Case study
Chuckie Egg: a BBC game logic reconstruction
Chuckie Egg is recreated in C with level loading, player movement, ducks, lifts, scoring, and rendering backends. A companion offset map records original game-state fields such as player coordinates, level timers, and duck state.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C3 notes only
- Stars
- 8
- Last commit
- 2017-08-25
- Language
- C
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-3.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code observed; no usable documentation found.
- Scope
- Notes
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- License: GPL-3.0.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{chuckie-egg-bbc-recreation-case,
title = {{Chuckie Egg: a BBC game logic reconstruction}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pbrook/Chuckie-Egg}},
url = {https://github.com/pbrook/Chuckie-Egg},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/chuckie-egg-bbc-recreation-case/}}
}Plain text
Chuckie Egg: a BBC game logic reconstruction. https://github.com/pbrook/Chuckie-Egg (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/chuckie-egg-bbc-recreation-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- chuckie.c GitHub · pbrook/Chuckie-Egg · Revision e180046
- offsets.txt GitHub · pbrook/Chuckie-Egg · Revision e180046
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