According to the archive logs of the original Bird Game 3 studio, the dev team once stumbled upon a “lost build” buried deep inside an old hard drive.

The drive itself was recovered from the founder’s basement — right next to a stack of illegal bird taxidermy, three folders of child porn, and a corrupted backup labeled “DO NOT OPEN (SERIOUSLY)”.

Inside that forbidden folder was a prototype where every bird had been replaced with Pokémons.

No one knows who made the build.

Half the studio swears it never existed.

The other half denies ever working at the studio in the first place.

We managed to obtain the source code.

Don’t ask how.

Half the files are encrypted, the other half are just .txt documents full of screaming, and the build crashes if you stare at it too long.

But it works.

Barely.

Chaotically.

Beautifully.

2006 — A dusty CD labeled “Prototype_3_DO_NOT_RUN.exe” is found under a broken office chair. No one admits owning it.

2009 — First attempt to boot the prototype causes the studio’s only PC to scream and shut down.

2012 — The CD gets stolen by an actual seagull. Surveillance footage confirms it targeted only that disc.

2015 — Someone recovers the CD from a beach trash can. Half the textures are replaced with JPEGs of dead birds.

2018 — A junior dev tries to restore the build and gets permanently banned from the studio’s Slack for “summoning unwanted entities.”

2021 — The build is uploaded to a cloud server by accident. The file name autocorrects to “Pokémon Game 3.” No one notices.

2025 — An AI scrapes the lost archive, resurrects the build, and adds 63 new “creatures” nobody designed.

2025 — Community decides the creatures look tradable. Meme-coin economy is born in under 48 hours.

2025 — First “screenshots” of the ancient game appear online — blurry, corrupted, and definitely not legally safe to look at.