Comments on: SteamBirds

By: Andy Moore

Andy Moore — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:56:51 +0000

Multiplayer is definitely coming. :)

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:56:15 +0000

Congratulations on a wonderful game. This is quite honestly one of the best games of any variety that I’ve seen in a long time. I know there has been some discussion of multiplayer; on many of the sites that host the game, I’ve seen the comment “Future versions will have plane upgrades, pilot experience points, and multiplayer…”, and some comments here have mentioned the desire for multiplayer. Is this still in consideration, or should I not get my hopes up?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:44:32 +0000

Andy Moore, you must make this an iPhone game. Its not even an option. this game is so fun and addicting. I would easly pay $5-10

By: nono

nono — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:25:28 +0000

realy a great game
in a futur version could we have a PvP game type?

By: Protonaut is Up for Bidding » Andy Moore

Protonaut is Up for Bidding » Andy Moore — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:35:01 +0000

[...] Greg Wohlwend has been off making fantastic trailers and new games, and I’ve been working on SteamBirds. We haven’t had a lot of time or desire to work on something that isn’t being [...]

By: axeon

axeon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:12:09 +0000

i’d love to play this game, but on armorgames i can’t progress past the first level; it doesn’t seem to record the 4 stars i should be earning after the tutorial, so i’m stuck. =/

By: The History of SteamBirds » Andy Moore

The History of SteamBirds » Andy Moore — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:43:09 +0000

[...] haven’t talked much about SteamBirds on my blog. Now that things are post-release and over-the-hump, I think it’s about time I [...]

By: Andy Moore

Andy Moore — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:49:26 +0000

@Damon: Direct2Drive? O_o… Email sent!

@Shawn: The game actually uses no physics at all. I used the free Tweener AS3 Library along with a bezier-curve modification for the actual animations. I also used flash’s built-in Graphics.CurveTo() function to draw the curved arrow lines. Simple stuff!

To make the planes shoot and take damage while moving, there is a way to call a function each tick right within the tweener interface.

Tweener is here: http://code.google.com/p/tweener/

Tweener is amazing and awesome and I love it for doing things quickly, but for the next versions of SteamBirds I’m going to have to roll my own solution.. So your mileage may vary!

By: shawn

shawn — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:28:15 +0000

I love this game! I’m curious about how you did the arrow interface physics. Would you consider doing a flash tutorial on that? Or any suggestions to enlighten me?

By: Damon Marshall

Damon Marshall — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:52:29 +0000

Andy,

Would like to speak with you about distribution of your games on Direct2Drive. Would you mind contacting me via email?

Thanks.

Damon