You Brought The Birds You're Evil! 21
Gamasutra has a highly amusing postmortem of a highly unusual game. Today on Gamasutra: The Making of 'Age of Ornithology'. From the article: "We were sitting around the conference table trying to come up with a unique concept for a real-time strategy game. Otto's (our lead programmer) new Porsche convertible was just outside the conference room window. Suddenly a small flock of birds flew over the parking area and, in unison, relieved themselves on his car. Otto was very angry... he had left the roof down. We laughed and laughed! Otto did not laugh - he kicked over the whiteboard and stormed out (he does this once or twice a week, it is no longer very shocking). Anyway, this got us thinking about birds, and their capacity for strategic attack and destruction. " I love tern-based strategy games.
Will it run on Linux?... (Score:5, Funny)
A travesty (Score:4, Funny)
To save everyone time (Score:4, Informative)
Re:To save everyone time (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To save everyone time (Score:4, Funny)
I was wondering what he was talking about - it's an RTS in the article
Do we get titans like in age of mythology? (Score:1, Funny)
His mighty flipper-prints will be testament to the path of destruction.
It's just a string of bird related puns, (Score:1, Informative)
Re:It's just a string of bird related puns, (Score:2)
Now I can understand that my racing is futile, and that my struggles to finish first mean nothing in the universe at large as powers beyond my comprehension accidentally crush the entire raceway just prior to completion of the final race.
Besides, I've always wanted to see the Raceway at R'lyeh.
Re:It's just a string of bird related puns, (Score:4, Informative)
The I suggest you look at Cthulhu 500 [boardgamegeek.com]. Fun card based racing game, with all the evil you'd expect out of Cthulhu.
Anm
Google for the win (Score:1, Informative)
When are mods coming out for this? (Score:4, Funny)
Ah. Birds... (Score:2)
Then we passed over a busy street, and only above the street, were about 50 pigeons perched over the street, and nowhere else.
Just as if they planned to specifically target that area...
Re:Ah. Birds... (Score:1)
In busy traffic? (Score:2)
Re:Ah. Birds... (Score:1)
Most of my education has been in archaeology. I have spent a great deal of time out in the field doing archaeological work. In most of the Great Basin (and, probably, other parts of the country), ranchers built fences to keep their cattle in (or out, depending upon the state). Those fences (the ones that are over 50 years old, at least) are now considered to be part of the archaeological record. However, they are generally mostly obliterated by time --
Credit where credit is due (Score:3, Informative)
Another game (Score:1)
The loney Slashdotter asks... (Score:2)
JIC anyone was wondering (Score:2)
I still want to see... (Score:2)