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, where other people can subscribe to the hats they might like and then wear them in the game.

For multiplayer matches, if you choose to wear workshop hats they can be automatically synchronized if other players have enabled a setting to allow these downloads.

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This feature is still quite early in development even though it took a long time, so it\'s not yet translated and the editor is thus only available in english. If you have any problems regarding this new feature, or any other feature you can start a thread on the community page.

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Small patches

• Fixed tab switching in the lobby to react to both keyboard and controller

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• Be your best birb self achievement should now be achievable every time you beat your personal best on any map.\n

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I am also working on a native linux build, so you may expect that in a near future.

Flying Islands

I\'ve added a new map, where you can fly through a lovely town on a flying island.

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Map voting

You can now as a lobby host choose to either have the complete authority to choose the map, let all players vote on the map, or choose the map at random.

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If you choose voting all the players will have 30 seconds to choose a map they would like to play and the map with the most votes gets selected.

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New languages

• Polish

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• German

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• Chinese (Traditional & Simplified)

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You can help with other languages here: https://crowdin.com/project/birbgame/invite?h=df279737795d293352fdf45f004b908e2464632

Small patches:

• Players now cannot move before the countdown has finished

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• Leaderboard now gets shown in the lobby after a race

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• Added a new achievement for beating your personal best time on any map

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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 almost the whole codebase to make it cleaner and easier to maintain, so right now new features and bug fixes shouldn\'t take as long (if I don\'t count university work, which might delay stuff).

You might notice

You might notice, that some stuff has changed, and thankfully some of that stuff are bugs missing (which is good). You can lookout for what I am doing at any point on my public trello board , where I update my progress as I am working on stuff.

You can also help translate Birb Game to other languages here

Rendering

I\'ve also implemented some rendering updates deep in the engine and added a launch option on steam, so you can choose between DirectX or Vulkan as you graphics API of choice. If you experience terrible performance in game, adding [c]-FeatureLevelES31 [/c]to launch options might help.[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/45593233/ea3b64006d5cafde8d3d42c63e06321f7d029868.png\"][/img]

What\'s cooking

I am now working on adding more multiplayer specific features, like map voting, joining friends through steam\'s presence and more.

User facing error system, to let you know if and what went wrong when it inevitably happens.

I am also working on architecting a solution for a hat editor, that would open the game to the Steam Workshop with UGC.

Changes:

• Remade leaderboard from scratch (right now it\'s available in the menu and you can look through the times)

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• The in game leaderboard on \'Tab\' has been removed for now

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• Fixed weird birb spacing on the powerline in lobby

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• Fixed birb name tags not appearing in the lobby when returning from a race

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• Fixed players not being able to join some lobbies

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• Added loading screens for many things

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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. Sadly I\'m not able to update both the full game and demo at the same time, because even if I try to, the day only has 24 hours.

On more positive note.

I\'ve fixed some bugs, where the game could crash in multiplayer and after finishing a round, some players wouldn\'t get their deserved achievement nor would they see the winners screen.

Now I\'ve been for some time working on few bigger update, for example update to the games rendering, so that it can run better on lower end hardware without a big hassle.

You can check out planned updates and possible bug fixes here: https://trello.com/b/8sVUFnMa/birb-game

Fixed controllers not being able to click on buttons.\nThis 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 is fully controller compatible again.

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 itself, but also with an animated full colour sprite. Other players\' progress is indicated by black animated sprites

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New Buttons:

I\'ve made a big change to the UI by creating a new custom button system. Thanks to D1ckless Person the buttons have a nice fresh nest like style, holding onto that bird theme. Hopefully this is a beginning of a UI revolution.

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Small changes and fixes:

• Singleplayer is now truly a singleplayer and you don\'t need internet access for it

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• Visual identity revealed in the last post and available on the in development v0.8 branch is now the norm going forwards

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• Added sound effects for flapping your wings

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• Added force feedback and option to turn it off in settings

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• Added music to the bird song in the main menu

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• Fixed leader board not appearing in single player

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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.\nHere\'s a little comparison:

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Also last week, I together with few of my friends took part in the GMTK game jam. We tried our luck again with Godot engine (we used it for the first time in a previous smaller game jam almost a year ago). Our final game wasn\'t much, but we might continue its development, you can check it out here if you\'re interested: https://gregstr.itch.io/coup-detat

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• Multiplayer achievement Best birb far and wide should now be achievable.\n
• Fixed model graphical issues in Factory map (inverted meshes, sadly not big performance upgrade yet).\n

Fixed in game leader board time formatting and added new achievement for winning a multiplayer round

New leader board submissions for the steam community leader boards should now show the proper format

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 early access release and a lot of stuff is going to change and be added. My plans are big, but I am just a single person developing in my free time, so it will take some time.

Hope you can enjoy this release and set some nice times in the new map.

If you come across any bugs or problems, let me know on the Steam Community or on Bluesky .

Thank you all for supporting this endeavour.

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 can help with translations and add languages you would be able to translate to

You can change the language in the Game settings

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Help translate: https://crowdin.com/project/birbgame/invite?h=a831b28a87a320bc632fd664b0c1c9b82464660

I will be eternally grateful and you will be mentioned in the game\'s credits. Also I will try to make your translations process as smooth as possible, but there might be some bumps on the road there.

Small fixes:

• added time submission even in multiplayer matches

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• 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 anywhere other than the leaderboard to dismiss it)

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Bigger things I\'ve been working on:

For quite some time now I\'ve been building a new map for the birds to fly through, with more intricate maneuvers and more detailed environment. The progress has been quite slow lately, but now that I\'ve graduated high school the progress might get quicker, there is a still a lot of optimizations to do to ensure the best performance, but here\'s a little sneak peek.

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I\'ve also been chipping away on localizing the whole game, which I thought couldn\'t be too hard, because the game doesn\'t have much text, but I\'ve been successfully fighting with all the localization tools to possibly make the translation efforts more community driven, because the most I can offer for languages other than English and Czech is machine translation right now.

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.\n\n\nI\'ve also added a very basic leader board that gets shown in the lobby when you finish a race. It\'s in a testing phase right now, but should be fully functional.\n

Controller support

Minor updates

The Birb Game demo has just been released