Thunderbird Strike

Awarded Best Digital Media at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2017, Thunderbird Strike is a 2D sidescroller for mobile in which you fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole. With design, art, and writing by Elizabeth LaPensée, programming by Adrian Cheater and Aubrey Jane Scott, and music and sound effects by NÀHGĄ a.k.a. Casey Koyczan. This game was targeted by oil lobbyists and a U. S. Senator with false accusations that it encourages "eco-terrorism." The developer was accused of fraud and ultimately succeeded in retaining grant support and successfully releasing the game publicly.