Bird House
A downloadable game for Windows
Bird House is a short narrative game about a penguin inheriting their Mum’s house, and returning home to pick up the pieces. Deal with the mundane realities of the life a person leaves behind: Pack up Mum’s things, do your dishes, and try to move on.
- Explore a house full of fractured memories at different moments in time
- Inspect your surroundings to uncover a story about unresolved grief.
- Delve into evocative interactive text segments between chapters.
- Have the world react to your actions in unexpected ways
This game was created in Unity as part of a class project at The Royal Danish Academy. Play time is around 10 - 15 minutes.
CREDITS
JO DALSGAARD: Narrative direction, writing, level design, programming, production management
AIA KRAGH: Art direction, level design & lighting, character modeling & texturing, photogrammetry, 2D art & UI
NEIL MCGUINESS: Narrative direction, sound design & soundtrack, programming, photogrammetry
AASHIKA VIJAYAN: Art direction, level design & lighting, architectural modeling & texturing
XUERONG ZHANG: Character rigging & animation, character modeling & texturing, 2D art & UI
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Authors | NewOwl, Aashika Vijayan, JoDalsgaard, XuerongZhang, Aiak |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Tags | 3D, Atmospheric, grief, Indie, Narrative, photogrammetry, Short, Singleplayer, Slice Of Life, Walking simulator |
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Install instructions
Download the .zip file, unzip the whole folder, and run Bird House.exe from inside the folder.