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Pixels coming together!

All the pieces are coming together now!! Pixel art tiles are making their way to the full game!

More coming soon!!

Little updates!

Little update, things are going! Grass highlights be fun

Most of our game ideas begins life with a simple what if? Others start with just the name. However the idea comes to being, they all lead to a sketch of what the game will look like. This is one of those sketches for our current game. It will then get written up into a game design document, discussed, scribbled over and tested over many prototypes and trials. No matter the type of game, its length or style, they all start with a single sketch.

An Elegant Solution to a Simple Problem

A little extract for the next section of our Free Range game. A section dedicated just to "A Chicken Crosses the Road" joke.

The Problem: Players may get stuck when colliding with the moving traffic.

The Solution: The cars explode upon contact, pushing the player away before they can get stuck.

An elegant solution if we say so ourselves.

Check out the Free Range prototype here: https://birdbraingamesdev.itch.io/freerange

Let's begin with our first behind the scenes look of the year!

One thing we constantly find funny is how many of the game mechanics we expect to be a breeze implementing always end up being the hardest to program. As an example, here is our current prototype for a top-down view water simulation.

At first we thought it would be easy to create the feeling of water spreading through and filling an area. Multiple testing and iterations later, we finally end up with a simulation which conveys the user experience we were aiming for at an acceptable framework.

Happy (belated) New Year Everyone!!

No, we did not forget our password…

We're back and we are aiming on staying! Watch this space as we post (semi)regular updates on the behind-the-scenes look at what we are creating here at Bird Brain Game Studios.

If you haven't seen it yet, all our published games are out on Itch.io, with a special infant prototype released late last year: FREE RANGE!

Our dev team is extremely excited to announce that we are working on a topdown pixel rpg: Folktown Forest!

This story driven adventure follows Neu, a small, scruffy kid who finds herself in a place not known for it's human company. A journey of found family and finding your home, explore the forest floors of a vibrantly abstract landscape, discover the magic of nature, and interact with unusual inhabitants who have only seen humans wildly exaggerated in their fairytales books.

Guess who now knows what a custom pivot is - took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure that one out!

Slight sneak peak of some new polished sprites! Some tlc for our little rabbit runner.

There is an uncompleted version available to playtest on our itch.io page [ HERE ] !

Started off with the concept of swivelling 3D shapes with people in yoga poses, and my response was "cat's are pretty flexible", and thus these assets were born.

Here's our "cat yoga" dice faces from start to finish!

In game:

Currently designing itch.io page mockups! Am playing around with html, css, the works, and our guys here need some serious tlc.

[ available to play and download here! ]

[ Vers. 1.1.1 ] Uploaded on: 25th JUN 2023.

SHOP FEATURE ADDED!

All those carrots collected will now not go to waste! Use your bundles of goodness to purchase new items such as:

Furniture - Spruce up your home with a couch and fridge.

Hats - Make your bunny snazzy!

Skins - Lots of Classic Australian and NZ burrowing animals to choose from + our game's beta bunnies!

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Testing new fox sprites - did not intend for the animation to loop , but I like it.

Our itty bitty Rabbit Runner is now available!

Suggestions and feedback are completely welcome - our team is still polishing and adding new features, so make sure to stick around to see what this little game becomes!

[ available to play and download here! ]

[ Vers. 1.1.0 ] Released on: 9th MAR 2023

Uh oh... someone's flooding the burrow!

Seems your lease is up and your human neighbours want you out... better start hopping!