Free browser game COO lets you play a robot pigeon in Toronto
A new free browser game called COO lets players take control of a robotic pigeon and cause trouble across a recreation of Toronto, according to a report from the gaming outlet that covered the release. The game is billed as a “bird GTA simulator” and is playable directly on its website.
A very large pigeon playground
Creator Yegor Sak says COO covers 630 square kilometers, or roughly 243 square miles. The developer claims that is about nine times the size of the map in GTA 5. Players can follow missions or ignore them entirely, with the freedom to fly anywhere or walk every street in the city.
The comic book-style world includes first-person flying, car hijacking and plenty of pedestrians to harass. It also features 438,819 real buildings, with heights drawn from municipal 3D data, and around 5,700 kilometers of streets. Beyond the buildings, Toronto is populated with traffic, boats, flocks of birds, changing weather and a day-and-night cycle. The game even uses real-life flight data to display planes passing over the city.
Learning about Toronto along the way
COO also has an educational side. Facts about the city appear as players fly through locations such as parks, stations, squares and major landmarks.
Built in seven days with AI
Sak says the project was built in seven days using AI. He is now asking people who live in Toronto to check how closely the game’s version of the city matches the real one. In a post on X, he wrote that residents should fly to their own neighborhood using the Fast Deploy option on the map and send feedback so he can improve the realism. He added that, given the huge scope of the map, he had not personally experienced 99% of the places in the game.
The report places COO among a range of quirky browser games that have recently drawn attention, including a title that recreates Umamusume-style races with monsters and another that lets players destroy any website with a gun-wielding stick figure.
Anyone curious to see Toronto from a robotic pigeon’s perspective can try the game for free through its website.
Source: dexerto.com
Image: Martin St-Amant (S23678) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
