Birds will come check out your park, and maybe even host events! Above all else, skate birds try their best. You may be tiny, but the more you skate, the more following you get, the more the world of bird skating will open up. You’re gonna fix all that with the power of being a chill little skateboarding bird. Their job sucks, and lately, they’re barely ever home to play with you. You’re a lonely lil’ bird, and your Big Friend has hung up their board for good. That being said, there are plenty of hats, clothing items and new skateboards (some with special abilities) to unlock for your bird, not to mention secret areas to to discover.Īdditionally, the official synopsis for SkateBIRD reads as follows: While SkateBIRD definitely has objectives, the game emphasizes exploration and just having a good time exploring the various bird-sized skateparks.
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The game’s page on Kickstarter boasts that players will be able to “grind on bendy straws, kick-flip over staplers, and carve killer lines through cardboard and sticky tape parks… And if you bail, you just get back up – because above all else, skate birbs try their best!” SkateBIRD is Glass Bottom Games’ fourth game, and their second to secure funding through Kickstarter.
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At the time of writing, SkateBIRD has already surmounted its base goal of $20,000, earning over $22,000 in the first day alone.
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For now, though, it’s hard to feel too bad about putting these birds back in their cage.Indie developer Glass Bottom Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for SkateBIRD, an upcoming PC game that allows players to take control of, well, skateboarding birds.Ī new trailer for the game launched at E3 2019, alongside the announcement of the crowdfunding. I might even check in every now and then, just to see how these well-meaning little hooligans are getting on. I can’t blame the game for not catering to me, I just don’t fancy battling with gummy controls and a camera that really hampers flow. Early missions do a fine job of gradually tutorialising the tricks at your disposal, and there’s even a helpful toggle in the options to adjust gamespeed. As is a finicky and inconsistent physics. The camera’s tendency to get stuck on the geometry – an issue the developer is aware of and has promised to fix – is one of the culprits here.
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SkateBird asks: what if you weren’t an agile and fearless athlete, but instead a small, puffy bird that occasionally forgets that windows exist? And it absolutely captures this. Skateboarding games offer the fantasy of being impossibly skilled. It’s just the actual manoeuvring – the ‘Skate’ half of the ‘SkateBird’ combo – that can be endlessly fiddly. Some janky textures and an odd depth of field effect aside, the packaging is great fun. Missions involve you pulling off ever more complicated maneuvers, but they’re all given funny context as part of a surprisingly detailed story campaign. The second is a rooftop where you’ll plan a heist to save Big Friend from their boring job – a noble pursuit.
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So the first park is your Big Friend’s bedroom, which you’ll clean up by grinding around the rim of manky soup bowls and pulling manuals over carpet stains. I think you already know whether SkateBIRD’s humour appeals to you.īoth park and mission designs play into the…I want to say… lore? The deep SkateBIRD lore. Personally, I found the writing to be a hoot, but I’m also the sort of person who just made that pun. Each one is preceded and concluded by conversation, and progression in the bird’s quest to aid ‘Big Friend’.
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Around the stage are various birds, and chatting to them lets you kick off the next mission. Each stage functions as a free-roam park, letting you explore its sandbox to practise and find collectibles. The conversations between birds that bookend each mission are also delightful.