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“But I do still want specific special tricks like the T-Air, where the bird holds the board above its head.” “My special tricks that do weird stuff lean more towards weird stuff, like the bird pulling a pizza thing out and eating it,” she said. So I won’t be able to have all of them.”Įven though Fox won’t have all the traditional tricks that players will recognize from Tony Hawk and other games, she will have other tricks that fit the quirky style she’s going for. “But almost all the special tricks tend to have weird physics that might be hard to duplicate. “I’m creating a separate duplicate board animation so that when you get air it’ll replace the actual board,” Fox said. Fox’s solution to pull off the more complicated body tricks is twofold.

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Most of the tricks that bridged combos together in the Pro Skater series are still intact in SkateBird - stalls, grinds, manuals, and such are simple since you can essentially weld the board to a surface and it’s done. “If you’re character is a pill shape then that’s easy, but if everything is fake besides the board then you’re moving it into an unnatural position that would be hard to make work.” “For example, Christ Air, where you make a cross shape with your body is particular hard to pull off,” Fox said. Any tricks involving the body manipulating the board, more so than flip tricks, creates an issue with the bird not being an actual part of the board. It respects the inputs you make and does them as soon as it can.”Ī big issue that stands in the way of that simplicity covering the whole game is the more complicated special tricks. The button inputs are instant with no lag. You can do several in a row and then combo them with a grind just like you would in Tony Hawk. “You press the kick flip button and you do a kickflip. “The button-to-trick controls were pretty easy to fuse with actual physics,” Fox said. Fox is hoping to connect both types of games with the control scheme. SkateBird, somewhat similar to Skate, is different in that the board acts like an actual skateboard but the bird, as well as many of the tricks, are faked in order to mix the two approaches. The board is what exists physically and the bird mostly just tries to follow along in a somewhat intelligent way.”įox describes the player character in Tony Hawk-esque games as a pill sliding around a skate park everything is fake and the entire character is a self contained element. “I decided to just project the bird on top of the board. So I bought what he created and started to incorporate it,” Fox said. “I contacted him and he loved the idea of a bird on a board. Fox thought making a bird the focus would allow the game to be a bit zanier without feeling out of place. Developer Kevin Suckert, who goes by Der_Kevin on Twitter, had created a prototype skateboarding game featuring a board with no rider - he couldn’t get the human part of skateboarding to feel quite right without looking funky. The idea behind SkateBird, a charming skater featuring a bird shredding through a table-top sized, Toy Story-like park, came after Fox found a gif of a real bird skating around on a half pipe in a mini-skatepark.

Skate is fun but its super inaccessible to play and we wanted to mitigate that.”

“We realized there was this cool middle ground. We want you to roll up a halfpipe and have that physical feel that the Pro Skater games didn’t have.” said Glass Bottom Games programmer and designer Megan Fox. “We’re trying to combine the best parts of both Skate and the Tony Hawk games. Glass Bottom Games, the minds behind the adorable Skate Bird, is on a mission to bring accessibility back to the skateboarding genre by fusing the best elements of Pro Skater with those of Skate. A few trends have affected big-brand skateboarding franchises, and one factor may be this: It’s generally ( with some exceptions) been a slow transition from arcade fun with simple button presses translating into stellar tricks to more complicated, harder-to-grasp systems that exclude audiences who'd otherwise play an easy-to-learn, hard-to-master skateboarding game.

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