Smashing lots of windows

Hello, this is William. I’ve got an exciting new update. We’ve changed how windows work giving the player the ability to smash a window while flying and then fly through a building. Previously it would take a lot of damage to break a window on a building. This was in part due to some performance optimizations we were doing to allow many buildings in game. Now it just takes one hit.

With this change, a pigeon being pursued by pigeon patrol can fly to a building, bust a window mid air and keep flying through the building. After losing the pursuers, said pigeon can bust another window and fly out. All the while flapping his wings at full speed.

We were able to continue to leverage the performance optimizations and instancing behavior we were using before. So all this was accomplished without losing a frame.

One thing our pigeon friend can’t do yet is break a window by crashing into it. We hope to add that functionality soon. It will be tricky.