And chickadees are my favorite, so yeah, I need those birds in the game. So, chickadees are a huge part of what I see. The state bird of Washington is a goldfinch, which is really weird because goldfinches aren’t even native to the state. But whether or not they vote for it or not, a chickadee is gonna be in the game. There’s a bunch of birds that people have requested, and we do a vote on the Patreon every month for what bird should be next. SM: Do you have any specific birds you’re hoping to put into the game that have not been realized yet? It clearly enjoyed the act, so it was like “what if I made a game about-Oh my god” and here we are! And my partner found a particular good gif of this bird that would hop up on a board and then ride it down, and then their friend would like put the board back up, and the bird would climb back up and then do it again. You can actually teach birds to skateboard, like a legit skateboard. That all happened a year, two years ago and the next game I was like “Hey! What if I did birds.” Then my partner found a gif of a bird. So, I started putting some seed out and then “oh hey the birds like the seed! I’ll get more seed!” So, I go some suet, started putting the suet out and then it was like “Oh hey the suet’s drawing in new birds! I wonder what kind of birds those are.” And then I got the field guide and that kind of started my whole descent into birds. And then well, I like it when the birds are around. And part of that is that now I can sit in the morning and there’s a patio! And I can watch the patio, or I can watch outside and there are birds and stuff. But the point is, because I moved out this far, we have space! We keep the windows open, and there aren’t like people staring in, so it’s kind of cool. ![]() So, I’m way over the water, west of Seattle near a little town called Port Orchard that has like 14,000 people. MF: So I used to live in Colorado, and whenever I moved out to Seattle, we moved into the country, because you can’t buy houses in Seattle. Have you always liked birds, or is this new coming off the heels of SkateBIRD? ![]() SM: Let’s start with birds! Your twitter page is pretty much totally awash with birds right now with SkateBIRD, your own feeding spots. (I could hear birds in the background during our entire conversation, so to accurately set the mood, I’d quietly play bird sounds while you read.) I got to talk with Megan Fox, founder of Glass Bottom Games and developer of SkateBIRD, a game about this wonderful skateboarding bird. Session was announced last year but has been radio silent ever since. There’s been a Tony Hawk shaped hole in the video game world for a while now.
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