Fish or Chips - Instagram project

Fish or Chips

Welcome to Deep Fryton Beach - home of chips and cheer!

Fish or Chips is a project envisioned by students of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg's Animationsinstitut. It consists of the creation of an entire IP as well as two projects derived from it:

A short animated movie as well as an interactive experience.

Telling a story on Instagram:

Follow a flock of hungry, chips-addicted seagulls in lockdown on Instagram, as they are trying to cope without chips. Over the timespan of one month, we posted pictures and clips that tell the story of two seagulls, Sully and his little sister Maude. Decide for yourself: Fish or Chips? 🐟 🍟

Because the pandemic made our chances of presenting an animated movie to a live audience very slim, we decided on an alternative format. Over the course of a month, the two seagulls Maude & Sully, posted their view of the pandemic on an Instagram page and showed the viewers how they survived without any humans around!

Head over to Instagram to experience the story of Sully and Maude!

Please start at the bottom and work your way up so you don’t miss anything of the story. 

Can you save all of the baby seagulls? - a co-op party game for 2 players

Fish Or Chips is a frantic co-op party game for 2 players. At Deep Fryton Beach, a hungry flock of chips-addicted seagulls suffer because the humans are in lockdown. You and your friend play two seagulls who need to save their babies from starvation.

You have to collect chips and fish to feed the crying babies before the time runs out. Of course, chips are hard to find and fish are hard to catch. Work together to save the seagull population!

You can download our PC game on itch.io

Making-Of

Please take a look behind the scenes of Deep Fryton Beach and how we produced a film and a game from home. The production time was only about 4 1/2 months.