Credits

Created, designed and directed by

Ken Bingham

From his original game Chomp! (2014): the idea, the story, the rules, the places and the look.

Characters

Wally the Cairns Crocodile and Kenny the Koala, by Ken Bingham

Title art and 3D models

Made by Ken Bingham with AI generation tools (Meshy and others), from his own designs and descriptions

Programming, rigging, animation and asset preparation

AI-assisted (Claude, by Anthropic), under Ken's direction

Music

A placeholder composed in code, made to be replaced by recordings from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians

With thanks for free assets

Sky and surface photographs: Poly Haven and ambientCG (CC0). 3D engine: three.js (MIT). Lettering: Baloo 2 (SIL Open Font License).

For the love of Cairns

The cane fields

Sugar cane has grown around Cairns since the 1880s, the fields running from the coast up to the foot of the ranges. Walsh's Pyramid, a near-perfect cone of a mountain, rises straight out of the cane south of the city.

The Cairns Esplanade

The city's waterfront, with its free swimming Lagoon and the tidal mudflats where migratory shorebirds feed, some flying in from as far as Siberia.

The Great Barrier Reef and Green Island

The largest coral reef system in the world, World Heritage listed. Green Island is a coral cay in the reef, a short boat ride from Cairns.

The Daintree

Part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area and often described as one of the oldest rainforests on Earth. Here two World Heritage areas, rainforest and reef, meet at the sea.

Mossman Gorge

Crystal-clear river and rainforest in the Daintree National Park, in the traditional country of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people.

Kuranda and Barron Falls

The village in the rainforest, reached by the historic Kuranda Scenic Railway (finished in 1891) and the Skyrail over the treetops. Barron Falls roars after the wet season rains.

Saltwater crocodiles

The largest living reptiles, at home in Far North Queensland's rivers and estuaries. Wally is a friendly one, but real crocs are wild: be croc wise.

Chomp 3D is set in Far North Queensland. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters it celebrates, including the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji and Yirrganydji peoples of Cairns, the Djabugay people of Kuranda and the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people of the Daintree and Mossman Gorge, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.