Skatebird

The game plays similarly to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series of video games, except for the player controlling a small bird on a skateboard instead of a human.[1] Level take place in a similar setting to the Micro Machines series of video games, with small-scaled "bird-sized skateparks" taking place across play areas of a house across real-life objects such as pencils, erasers, and other desktop type items. [2][3] Similar to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games, gameplay is a mixture of performing skateboard tricks, exploration, and item collection.[2] Tricks are more simple to perform and lead to over-the-top tricks, unlike games like Skate, which focus on realism in trick performing.[2]

The game follows a small pet bird, who is saddened that their unnamed human owner no longer skateboards or is around much due to their a new job that they hate. The bird takes up skateboarding as a means of getting the human's attention, and getting them back into skateboarding in efforts of making them happy again.[2]

The game was first announced in November 2018.[4] The game is being developed by indie developer Glass Bottom Games, who had previously developed the first person roguelite Spartan Fist.[5] An early alpha build demo was released in June 2019 after the Kinda Funny E3, and a Kickstarter was launched to help funding at the same time.[6] The game met its funding goal of $20,000 in a single day, and ended up raising over 67,000 total.[3] The game was announced for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One platforms in December 2019, with a late 2020 release date.[7] In July 2020, it was announced that the game's release had been delayed into 2021, not because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but because the game was simply taking longer than expected to make, partially due to the decision to include a new story mode to the game.[8]

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