- Get a SkateBIRD plushie! - 26 June 2023
Hiya folks! You can order your SkateBIRD plush HERE: https://www.makeship.com/products/skate-bird-plush The campaign is now live, and it works a bit like Kickstarter. If we get 200+ orders, they get made and you get a plushie, if not, they don't get made and you get a refund. Easy! We're unlikely to ever do merch like this again, so if you want a SkateBIRD plush? I'd snag one one now! I already have one (the production test), and as you saw before, it's extremely cute and sits well in the hand. Would recommend! He sits above my desk now. Also that little skateboard is velcro'ed on, so you take take it off and play with it.
- Skate Heaven is here! The game is DONE - 1 June 2023
Thanks for sticking with us through what ended up as quite the journey, everyone. And now we're here! We got it all in! This patch features Skate Heaven, a new level with a bunch of new quests and fun little closer for the game. It's maybe our biggest level? Certainly one of our more varied, in terms of terrain types. It being the play park for a rich legendary skate-bird gave us a lot of leeway to go harder on things, so we had some fun with that. There's also selfie stick mode! I highly recommend not attempting to just skate normally with it on, though, cus woof, it'll definitely cause motion sickness in folks. That's there for the handful of people doing photography in-game, since now it'll let them put the camera at the angle they want for a trick and it'll (mostly) just stay there while keeping up with them. It's a similar tool to the drop cam, just for different shots. But yep, ag…
- SkateBIRD's a year old, so we're 50% off! - 19 September 2022
So yeah! We've been out for a year, how about that! Thanks y'all for playing our ridiculous game! We've done a bunch of updates, added a bunch of stuff, so now it's time to celebrate the birb's birthday and be cheep for week.
- Another tiny 1.7 bug fix - 12 June 2022
- Fixes issue where the "beat Playground" wouldn't unlock, even though "100%'ed Playground" would unlock - If you already beat the level but are missing the achievement, simply return to the level and you'll get the achievement
- Minor patch to fix 1.7 mission unlocking oddity - 11 June 2022
- You can no longer take the Seed Swap mission before taking the mission that builds the magazines you have to ride on for said mission - Fixed placement of Daniyah's chat bubble in Craig's mission to be less confusing
- 1.7 is LIVE! New level! Secret skaters! - 11 June 2022
Ok! This patch has a whole lot bundled up in it, but the headliner is AN ENTIRE NEW LEVEL. It canonically takes place after the story, and starts unlocked. So you can either play it first, or play it last, whatever floats your boat. It's a fun side story about the outside world. There's also now a secret skater, from a Highly Recognizable Game/Intellectual Property. It unlocks when you beat the game. Have fun with that. I'm not gonna drop spoilers here, y'all can be surprised or spoil yourselves as you see fit. Oh and there's pride clothes, cus, you know, Pride! Enjoy the rainbow birds in rainbow clothes.
- Next patch will be a big level - 16 March 2022
Just wanted to drop an update so folks knew what was in-progress. See? New level! Or at least in-progress new level: https://i.imgur.com/hS3UtTR.png It's a Playground! Big ol' modern plastic-based playground jungle gym sort of thing. There's also some neat skating under it, which feels like a park built under a big ol' overpass: https://i.imgur.com/pl9u1D6.png Then the birds start bringing in their own stuff to improve it, and so on. It's fun! https://i.imgur.com/bt1JUCL.png Anyhoo, it ended up being one of our largest levels, so development on it's just taking a bit longer. This update cycle also ran straight into DICE and GDC, and we collectively lost at least 2 weeks to work and travel and talk prep surrounding all of that. Still though, see? Level! Yay! The main design's essentially done. I just need to figure out one more bird-addition to shiny up one tiny corner of it, then I star…
- The OST has FLAC - 28 January 2022
I'd had FLAC (high quality audio) in the depot, but it wasn't actually getting through to folks. Fixed that by nudging some depots around. Enjoy your FLAC! It should now download as you'd expect, assuming you've enabled the Steam setting to download high-quality music.
- Version 1.6 (small point release) - 22 January 2022
- Fixes the ability to play OGG/WAV files, after a review pointed out that wasn't working (thanks Melchiah!) It's a bit weird, and will only work on the Steam/Itch builds. If you're using the Windows Store build, it protects the folder, so I THINK you can't do this. But, if anyone gets it working on there despite, let me know! You just need to drop .OGG or .WAV files into steamapps/common/SkateBIRD/SkateBIRD_Data/StreamingAssets. There's a little .txt in there called "put your ogg or wav music for SkateBIRD here.txt" if you just want to search it, which contains basic instructions. Please note that it'll always have at least one track of built-in not-OGG/WAV music, even if you disable everything (you'll see why), so just leave at least one track enabled to control that. Please be aware that if you put a lot of files in here, it can make the game load VERY SLOWLY, due to the load method…
- Version 1.5 (small point release) - 13 January 2022
- Combo multiplier should be visible again - The bounce-on-fans-between-rooftops mission goal in "Dye Hard" (in level: Scared Of Heists) should now work for all kinds of bounces
- Minor update on 1.4 (localization) - 1 December 2021
This just adds the missing localization strings for the recently added 1.4 stuff like bird petting.
- Steam cards are live (and next priorities) - 26 October 2021
The big one you probably care about: Steam cards are live! So those will be dropping, or maybe you got a bunch in your inventory when you first logged in, whatever. Those are there now. Yay! For anyone reading this for console news: Xbox and the Win10 Store version are all patched up to current, and we submitted the Nintendo patch last week. With some luck, that'll go live here in the next few days. As far as next development priorities go: The first item on our roadmap is pet-the-bird. It's one of the Kickstarter stretch goals wherein we'll let you, you know, interact with and pet the bird. Which will have some small gameplay applications. I also want to take a stab at handling in narrow spaces. At least give folks more options for how to turn around in narrow spaces. Maybe a lil secret piece o small content. You'll see. I expect this to take somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 months b…
- 1.0.6 (fixes music-unlocking bug) - 14 October 2021
If you played 1.0.5, you might have noticed music that was previously unlocked, was re-locked. You lost progress on tape collectibles. This patch addresses that, and your progress should go back to the way it was. (if you were playing on 1.0.5 and collected new tapes, that progress will now be shuffled, sorry! that's why I wanted to get this up ASAP, to minimize how many folks would hit that- you should be able to recollect the tapes as per normal)
- patch 1.0.5 (Music n things) - 12 October 2021
Here's the full changelist: 1.0.5 - Added first-time popup that highlights important accessibility/control options - Added option toggle that can disable mission time limits - Replacing the mission music with the longer album mixes - Overhauled mission music, so it's back in, and can be turned off, but also plays as part of regular music - Should no longer show a black screen while the title screen loads (hopefully) - Made forks in Opening Day easier to collect - The OST now has .FLAC files as well as MP3s. - Added option that makes birds always happy (by giving them extra treats, we're not monsters) - Added camera angle for hats in create-a-birb - Birbified dialog no longer attempts to birbify the bold tag itself - Added more backers to credits I think that's it for the quick patches. Barring anything major popping up, the best step is to throw up a basic roadmap, and get working on th…
- Patch 1.0.4 (The "did you know there's a minimap?" patch) - 1 October 2021
1.0.4 - Fixed the feets color on the zebra finch - Removed white marker boxes at corners of rooftop edge ramps - Made minimap indicators larger, added tutorial explaining minimap - Camera can now keep up with you even when you launch off a fan - Lowered default overall volume, for a less ear-exploding first launch - Fixed camera jitter during kickflips (as reported here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/971030/discussions/3/2954915322301164964/ )
- 1.0.3 is live (The Camera Update) - 28 September 2021
Here's the full patch details, but the gist is: Fixed the camera (and some other stuff). 1.0.3 - Significantly improved the gameplay camera, and made it much more stable - Added additional camera angles in create-a-birb - Made it so that if you sequence break to a later level, level select window respects your hustle and lets you go there again even if you didn't beat the prior level - Adjusted "manual" tutorial to be clearer - Added reset bounds for if you manage to fall out of level 4 or 5 - Removed the stub/non-functional "Save GIF" button binding
- v1.0.2 - disabling DoF Blur / disabling lensing options - 22 September 2021
1.0.2 - Added accessibility toggle for the disabling of depth of field (distance blur) - Added accessibility toggle for the disabling of the vignette / lensing (the black border and slight lens distortion and chromatic aberration) - Made G I B S O N letters in server room slightly easier to collect
- Update Plans (yes we're fixing the camera) - 18 September 2021
First, yes, we're super aware of the camera issues. It's at its worst when you're at the very start, learning the controls and bailing a lot. We missed that because we ran out of dedicated playtesters who hadn't seen/tried the game before (we're an extremely small studio). Sorry! We're on it. That's going to take a bit longer, so in the mean time: 1.0.1 launched last night, and addresses some immediate pain points, chief among them was the tutorial for going fast / getting higher was confusing folks. I added some small but important tweaks that I hope address that, so if you were one of the folks hitting that? Check out the updated Find Big Friend's Charger mission (or flip through How To Skate to the second to last page), and let me know if that helps. 1.0.2 will probably hit next week on around the 21st, and that'll include an accessibility toggle to disable the blur, along with the n…
- Update Notes for Sept 18 - 18 September 2021
This is a smaller release we wanted in ASAP, primarily to address some early issues players hit in the tutorial / learning to gain speed. Also fixed some later-game mission bugs. (And yep, we're working on the camera, that'll just take longer to fix and test) 1.0.1 - Expanded the instructions on how to go faster and higher - Updated "Find Big Friend's Charger" mission to have clearer goal, with better instructions - Added extra platform to make top-of-vent tape in level 3 easier to reach - Moved "Big Friend's Lucky Pin" in level 3 to an easier to reach spot - Missions no longer interrupt the currently-playing music - Improved race gate positions in first mission of level 5
- SkateBIRD does a fancy kickflip onto Steam and itch.io as it's out now - 16 September 2021
Combining tiny little fancy birds with skateboarding is highly unusual but it continues to show how indie developers will try things AAA won't. SkateBIRD is exactly that and it's out now. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/skatebird-does-a-fancy-kickflip-onto-steam-as-its-out-now
