My final project concept for my game Falling Bird was initially inspired by an art competition that I entered my junior year of high school. The competition was run by a foundation called Bow Seat. They provide an innovative space for teens to create, connect and communicate for our oceans through their ocean awareness programs.
This inspired me to make an educational game, but I wanted to make a game surrounding birds instead of the ocean. I was inspired by the once very popular game, Flappy Bird. I wanted the aesthetic of the game to be a mixture of vector and pixel art. I hope to attract nostalgic users of the game to my game as well because I did not know anyone at the time who did not like the game just those who couldn’t play for whatever reasons they had.
When I came up with the concept of falling birds, I needed to have a reason they were falling. There could not simply just fall out of the sky This brought my mind to air pollution, a topic less talked about, so I thought it would be interesting to promote talking about it and hopefully bring further awareness through my game.
