1. AI is hard. Our most recent titles were two auto-racing games (Nazgul Thunder and Cthulhu Karts) and a Battlemech fishing simulator (Steelhead Battalion), none of which had much strategy beyond "veer to the left a bit before a right turn so you can maintain higher speed" and "use the spinnerbait." So naturally, we made a few fledgling mistakes. We didn"t foresee the need for a complex birdseed-scattering algorithm to distribute food evenly, so early versions were plagued with "chicken rushing."

The game was never released in the United States due to censorship issues with misunderstood bird nicknames such as "blue-footed boobies" and "tufted tits," but Age of Ornothology's legacy lives on.