Falcon Age is a game about cute birds and fighting colonialism

Like many game designers, Chandana Ekanayake keeps a big document full of potential concepts, one that he keeps updating as ideas come to him. One that’s stuck around is the concept of being a falconer: having a bird that you could train and care for, while working together to solve problems. “I thought the whole idea of having a falcon as a mechanic might be interesting,” he says.
So when Ekanayake formed Outerloop Games, and began exploring ideas for the studio’s first