Birding in Pope Lick Park by Eric Lathrop
Half an hour • Choice-based • Web-based
Birding is bird-watching, or observing birds in their natural habitats. Pope Lick Park is a beautiful-looking park in Louisville, Kentucky. The game looks like a cute little slice-of-life game where you go bird-watching in a park that is presumably where the author themself goes birding. The cover art has a screenshot of the game, which includes an image of the Pope Lick Park sign. So maybe the game is just the player basically reliving the author’s experiences, fairly linearly but interactively, as they go about their day.
That’s the obvious description, but since I only have 90 words let’s add some more. On the other hand, this game could be about a place where you’re supposed to pope, park, and lick, but instead of doing that, you decide to bird. Or it could be an anagram for something. Bing said it could be “Bricking a pond like pip”. I’m not a hundred percent sure what that means, but AI is always objectively correct, and it sounds like something someone would say.
TLDR: pretty literal unless you’re bricking a pond like pip