Jack of all trades

Allow me to get nostalgic for a minute. About 15 years ago, I obsessively played an online browser game where I, a pigeon, resided in a park that received a number of daily visitors.

- Anusha Ganathi

AI, the pigeon, flew above the park in gentle circles, with the very straightforward goal of aiming droppings on the visitors' heads. They could be parents pushing prams, kids on skateboards, or just bald men enjoying their newspapers. Yes, I know it sounds disgusting — but I was only a child, and there was something incredibly satisfying about the loud "Splat" when I found my target, and the frustrated groans of the visitors. I realised that in videogames, I tend to like my absurdist humour when it has both cartoon-like art and visceral sound effects.