Praise for “Secret of Bird Island”

Posted by Rosemary Drisdelle Feb 18, 2008

Last May a new video game appeared: “Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island.” A game of mystery and photographic skill, it allows players to move through a graphic world tracking down a missing bird photographer while practicing their own bird photography. A refreshing departure from the violent themes of many video games, it still offers lots of challenges to the video gamer.

"Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island" was developed using the knowledge and expertise of ornithologists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Now it’s in the running for the Audience Award given by the Independent Game Festival.

Those who have already played the game and loved it can vote for it on the Independent Game Festival website. If you haven’t played it yet, you can try it for free at Large Animal Games, and then vote for it if you agree that it’s one of the best video games come out in a while—which is likely if you’re a bird lover. But be careful, once you try it, you may get hooked on creating and photographing your own birds… and get lost on Bird Island forever with all the other birders.

Have you played "Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island?" What did you think? Start a discussion.