A BRIEF NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
In the year 2001, while on honeymoon with my then-third wife Mariska in beautiful Key Largo, I stumbled upon a shelf of books in the hotel gift shop while looking to buy some quality suntan lotion. It wasn't the shelf itself which caught my eye -- although it was a very nice shelf -- but a book sitting atop of it, a dusty tome simply called "Poultry" with the unforgettable image of a bloodied beak ripping through steel adorned on its cover. I devoured the entire 985-page evil-chicken-on-the-loose novel that week and upon returning home from vacation, immediately called up the novel's author Jeremiah Von Blompk to begin securing its rights for adaptation.
In 2002, after a year of expensive negotiations to get the rights and hundreds of hours of work, my ADRIFT adaptation of the game was finished and ready to be released, a horror epic I had redubbed "The Evil Chicken of Doom". It was a massive, genre-defining exploration of the horrors of the unknown, a Heart of Darkness-esque journey into madness of a man sent to kill an evil chicken with two noses who begins to realize that maybe
he's an evil chicken too. It was a powerful, powerful work but just weeks before it was released, Von Blompk announced his disapproval of the project and, using a loophole in the paperwork I had filed to get the rights to the novel, managed to get ownership of the game. He gutted it, rewrote what remained and released it in a one-hour competition under my name where it was quickly laughed off as an unintentionally hilarious and silly mess. I was distraught.
Luckily, Von Blompk died very painfully in the year 2010 and the ownership of the Evil Chicken of Doom name was up in the air making it easy for me to swoop back in and reclaim it. This means I'm finally able to remake the game to fulfill my original vision of the project, a harrowing and thoroughly disturbing descent into insanity which manages to make the player think even as its scaring them senseless. And with a budget of $8,000 and a three-hour time limit to mould my masterpiece, the majesty of the story and its scope will finally be realized.
Also it's in 3D because all remakes are.
Thank you and good luck,
Dr. Mel S, Ed.D