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You Brought The Birds You're Evil!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-the-penguins-they-snap dept.

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.

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  1. Will it run on Linux?... by montyzooooma · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...through an EMU-lator.

  2. A travesty by aapold · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, it has penguins and no linux version?

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  3. To save everyone time by Spaceman40 · · Score: 3, Informative

    tern -> turn, the game isn't real (just a funny idea), and the article is the first in a series.

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    1. Re:To save everyone time by FirienFirien · · Score: 3, Funny

      ehh... methinks you might have missed Zonk's punlet on terns, whose behaviour is usually quite shitty.

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    2. Re:To save everyone time by Spaceman40 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You would be correct :) However, given Taco's recent article about submission format, I was trying to beat possible grammar/spelling fascists to the punch.

      I was wondering what he was talking about - it's an RTS in the article :-P

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  4. When are mods coming out for this? by AdamWeeden · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want the "Asian Flu" biological weapon.

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  5. Re:It's just a string of bird related puns, by Anm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cthulhu Karts racing game? Sweet.

    The I suggest you look at Cthulhu 500. Fun card based racing game, with all the evil you'd expect out of Cthulhu.

    Anm

  6. Credit where credit is due by mwheeler01 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The 'tern' pun at the end of the write up should be attributed to the article in which they say "Was there still a market nowadays for a tern-based game?"

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