When I first heard about Wingspan app I dismissed it in an instant - why do I want to sit in front of the screen instead of being at the table? As someone working in IT boardgames are my escape from virtual world
I agree and I think that dynamic is definitely at play but it is eclipsed by the immediately evident truth that the digital game is as much a genuine love letter to birds wearing the disguise of an awesome strategy game as the board game itself.
A love letter is a love letter, the details of what medium the letter is written in doesn't matter, and what better crush to write a love letter to than the birds bursting wild and free into even the most terraformed artificial human environments.
.....Do you think you could teach a crow to play wingspan?