Healthful Alien Antics Invade The Avian Skatepark

This 12 months’s Healthful Direct simply wrapped up, and like at all times, it made good on its promise of filling our hearts and minds with edgeless, universally interesting enjoyable. A lot of the video games on the present would possibly look area of interest to these whose definition of “a mean and regular videogame” is a AAA shooter, however for almost all of individuals on the earth (most of whom have by no means performed The Final of Us or Halo of their lives), stuff like skateboarding birds carrying humorous hats is much more inviting.

That’s in all probability why, regardless of middling preliminary evaluations and an absence of massive writer help, SkateBIRD is “on the cusp of constructing one million bucks” in revenue. It’s enjoyable too! A couple of patches after launch, the sport performs higher than ever, and if you happen to nonetheless discover any of the controls to be irritating, most of them might be adjusted in accessibility settings. These choices, plus the common enchantment of turning into a double-jumping swallow who can freestyle (and fumble) throughout a sequence of duct-taped skate parks, have executed rather a lot to assist the sport make numbers.

A few of these {dollars} have been spent on making the sport even higher. Introduced on the Healthful Direct, the sport can be getting an replace at the moment that provides a brand new pool-themed park, a playable crewmate from Amongst Us, and new Delight-themed outfits, although SkateBIRD creator Megan Fox tells us she “…simply needed homosexual garments in any case and I’d added them some time in the past, after which it by chance lined up…” with each the month-long LGBTQ+ celebration and its coinciding Healthful Direct.

This content material is headed to SkateBIRD on consoles as nicely, so if you wish to whip out your Swap and kickflip with an owl whereas carrying rainbow beenie, you received’t have to attend lengthy.

Jonathan Holmes

“The place do desires finish and actuality start? Videogames, I suppose.”- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1
“The seaside, the bushes, even the clouds within the sky… every thing is construct from little tiny items of stuff. Identical to in a Gameboy recreation… a pleasant tight little world… and all its inhabitants… made out of little constructing blocks… Why cannot these little pixels be the constructing blocks for love..? For loss… for understanding”- James Kochalka, Reinventing All the things half 1
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