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Spread Your Wings with the New Steam Controller!
The wait for new hardware is over! To celebrate the Steam Controller hitting the shelves today, Birb Game is 25% off. We know you’ve been itching to try out those new trackpads and magnetic thumbsticks. Well, there’s no…
New Map
Train station This is a new map with fast flying and tight corridors, where you will need to put your reactions and steering skills to the test.
Map editor and small updates
Map editor I've created a separate tool on steam for creating custom maps for Birb Game and upload them to the steam workshop. The map editor is a custom build of Godot engine. You can use the BirbWorkshop Dock to uploa…
Teaching Birbs to Fly
For the last month or so I've been hard at work teaching birbs fly. You can select if you want bots in the lobby even if you started the game in single player. The bots show up on the leaderboard as 'Government drone 1'…
Small update
Wing trails I've added wing trail for birds, they can be disabled in settings and you can also change their colour from multiple options. Small fixes: F12 screenshot on windows does not produce psychedelic images anymor…
Small update and demo is back up
Demo I've updated the demo with the current game build, it still features the High Rise map and separate leaderboard for that one. Small updates and patches: Added modal windows for quitting from main menu and pause men…
Hat workshop
Custom hats You can now use a very beta and unstable feature, which is the birb hat workshop. You can create your custom hats in the Hat Editor in game (accessible in the main menu) and upload it to Steam Workshop, wher…
New map, languages and so much more
Flying Islands I've added a new map, where you can fly through a lovely town on a flying island. Map voting You can now as a lobby host choose to either have the complete authority to choose the map, let all players vot…
Version 0.9
The radio silence is over For the last almost a month I haven't published any update, but I have been hard at work, it might not seem like that even with this update, but I've done a lot of work, because I've rewritten…
Demo deactivation and small update with bug fixes
Today I deactivated Birb game demo, because I don't think it is representative of current Birb Game. Demo will probably return later, but after I get to updating it to better represent the way Birb game's moving in. Sad…
Controller compatibility with new buttons
Fixed controllers not being able to click on buttons. This issue absolutely went under my radar when developing the new button system, I hope it didn't cause too much hassle for anyone, but it's fixed now and the game i…
V0.8: Progress Bar, Visuals and sound effects
Progress Bar: I've added a handy Progress Bar to the top of player's screen that shows you your relative progress and also the progress of other players in multiplayer. Player can see their progress indicated on the bar…
New visual identity
Last few days I've been working on a new visual identity for this game to not be so bland. It's not yet in its final form, but you can try it out on branch v0.8 and let me know what you think. Here's a little comparison…
Achievement and Graphical issues fixes
Multiplayer achievement Best birb far and wide should now be achievable. Fixed model graphical issues in Factory map (inverted meshes, sadly not big performance upgrade yet).
Small fix for Leader Board time formatting
Fixed in game leader board time formatting and added new achievement for winning a multiplayer round
Small fix for leader board submissions
New leader board submissions for the steam community leader boards should now show the proper format
Release the Birbs
You can now race in a new Factory map that is not available in the demo Full release has it's own scoreboards, so if you played the demo, your time is not carried over to the full game Remember that this is just an earl…
Bilingual
Last time I mentioned my fight with localization, I've now won and here are the fruits of my labor. I am ready for translations, right now I've translated everything to Czech, but that's about it with my abilities. You…
Small patches and what's coming next
Small fixes: added time submission even in multiplayer matches Changed leader board dismissal to require a specific button press for controller and keyboard instead of any input (when using a mouse, you can click anywhe…
Fixed multiplayer issues and added a leaderboard
I've came across a problem where players cannot join using the code, because sometimes the host's game doesn't properly set the lobby code, this issue should now be fixed and not a problem anymore. I've also added a ver…
