"Drifty Bird" is a reversed-role Flappy Bird game where you control the obstacles and more! Move trees around, grab suet treats, and swat wasps in the way!

Game, artwork, sprites, sound effects, and voice acting made by alacritythief from FATBAT Studio for the GMTK 2023 game jam.

Additional Instructions:

  • Click the expand icon on the lower right to expand the game to full screen mode.
  • Scroll wheel control on trees works better in full screen mode, so be aware if you're not in full screen that the page will scroll aside from the trees.
  • Push ESC to pause the game and show the pause menu, or exit full screen.

GAME UPDATES:

  • v1.12 - 7/20/23 - Minor update
    • Fixed and tweaked wasp behavior
    • Wasp spawn rate is more frequent the more you swat!
  • v1.11 - 7/19/23 - Minor update
    • Bird movement is now more random, but still manageable.
  • v1.1 - 7/18/23 - Post-jam HTML5 version, playable in browser. No need to download!
    • Bird hitbox is now more forgiving.
    • Bird movement is more forgiving.
    • Wasp has a larger click hitbox and is now easier to swat.
    • Fixed some audio bug callouts repeating in certain conditions.
    • Updated tutorial text to mention scrolling as well as dragging between the trees to move them.
  • v1.0 - Original windows release for the GMTK 2023 game jam.

Assets created by others:
Clouds: https://latenightcoffe.itch.io/2d-pixel-art-semi-realistic-clouds
Mountains: https://monibtaha.itch.io/mountains-parallaxe-background

Music licensed from and created by WOW Sound.

Download

Download
Drifty Bird - Original Game Jam Version v1.zip 118 MB

Install instructions

The v1 version for download is the original release for the GTMK game jam and is for historical purposes. It's harder to play and contains some bugs.

Development log

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