The Falconeer

The Falconeer is a 2020 aerial combat video game developed by Tomas Sala and published by Wired Productions.

Set in a nautical /scifi backdrop named the Great Ursee, The Falconeer is a third-person arcade flight video game in which the player assumes control of a pilot commandeering a massive warbird.

Sala co-founded a work-for-hire studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands named Little Chicken Game Company before he embarked on a solo career.

Using the assets and the codes of Oberon's Court, Sala quickly built a prototype for a new game, inspired by aerial combat games he used to enjoy during his childhood, such as Star Wars: TIE Fighter, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Aces of the Pacific, Red Baron, and Crimson Skies.

This means that instead of using image files to give 3D models material properties and depth, everything in The Falconeer from the user interfaces to the 3D world and characters utilize techniques that replace textures with math based generated colors and definitions.

[9] The game was released on November 10, 2020 for Windows, Xbox One, and as a launch title for Xbox Series X and Series S.[10] On December 22, 2020 a named update was released called the Kraken,[11] which addressed some of the criticisms regarding difficulty and open world activities, adding exploration missions and wreck dive missions that included monstrous events.

On the same day, Sala released a downloadable content pack named The Hunter, which adds additional outfits, a new weapon, and a dragon into the game.

Unlike The Falconeer, Bulwark is a city-builder and an exploration game which tasks players to journey across a post-apocalyptic waterworld named the "Great Ursee" and rebuild a fallen civilization.