Bird by Example
What is Bird by Example?
Bird by Example is — and I say this with great passion — an RPG sandbox where all the occupying NPCs are grotesque birds who mimic your behavior with deep learning algorithms. Nothing is scripted! Everything is emergent! Be the bird you want to see in the world!
Steam has asked me to be more explicit with the game’s features:
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world
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objects
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jump
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crawl
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punch
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squawk
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bite
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physics objects
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other*
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stories??**
It’s an artificial intelligence sandbox acted out by birds with concerning musculature! Help them see, help them love, help them eat a big fat bug! Right now at this very second, the metaphysical bounds of this game hold a throng of hungry birds who wish nothing more than to be like you! Like Mama!
_*: Imprint psuedo-neurologically upon independent bird agents, using recurrent neural networks, gradient descent, and a custom-built system of semiotic metadata evocation (to afford transferrable behavior between distinct objects and agents which share characteristics along an n-dimensional space).
**: Isn’t life a story? Aren’t we all little stories, flying on this crazy rock?_
You said this was a game? Who’s Mama? I’m Mama? Who are you again?
Please pay attention. These birds are equipped with artificial neural networks that optimize themselves against your own actions! Using trendy deep learning algorithms found in a black box at the bottom of the sea, and something called ‘gradient descent’, they will try to become mathematically perfect distillations of you! It’s very computationally expensive and very math!
But what do you actually do?
Explore, follow self-imposed rules, and cultivate your flock! Tutor a bird to act just like you! By simply doing things, they will learn from you by witnessing your play! Bite an orange and you may start to see other birds doing similarly! Squawk at a another bird and watch your flock erupt into squawkage!
Oh! That’s interesting. So they have brains!?
Woah, strong word! Let’s avoid that word!
Have you ever played a game, and thought: “This is fun, but I live in such fear that I cannot enjoy it…”
Yes, I do live a life of fear! And thank you for blowing off my silly and ethically challenging question!
Yes, you do live in fear! You’re like any brain-wielding creature! But in Bird by Example there will be nothing to be afraid of! In bird world there is nothing to be afraid of! Nothing to be afraid of! Turn that brain off!
Okay. And the game is fun? It’s a game?
You must teach the rest of the birds basic life skills! If not, they will all starve to death!
Wait, you coded these birds to feel hungry but didn’t teach them how to eat?
That feature was out of scope! Please!!! Hungry!!!
Hold on… What’s a bird?
A bird is a fictional creature which came to me in a dream on a particularly cold night in February. I woke up in a sweat the next morning and quickly tried to recreate the apparition from memory. The results? Remarkable.
Earliest known footage of a “Bird” from that morning.
They were perfect. All they needed was a name.
The word ‘Bird’ is a mix of the word ‘word’ and the letter ‘b’ This is because I needed a word — or “wird” — to describe the birds. Sadly, a word using ‘a’ was already taken. It’s like gamertags!
I experimented for many weeks with flight, but no matter how much I stretched out their arms they would not.
Whatever. Doesn’t matter.
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CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck
I’ve been a cuckold for 50 years now. And after 60 hours this really does help the simple minded man understand the ways of a beta cuck. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand cuckolding. The kink is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of inter-sectional feminism most of the empowerment will go over a typical cuck’s head. There’s also the Bull’s aggressive outlook, which is deftly woven into his role - his personal mannerisms draw heavily from the mating habits of bovine animals, for instance. The cucks understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of being cuckolded, to realize that it’s not just arousing - it says something deep about DIVERSITY. As a consequence people who dislike cuckolding truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the power of when the woman says “leave the room Cuckold you’re breaking Tyrone’s concentration,” which itself is a cryptic reference to the plight of African-American males in the United States. I’m smugly grinning right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as The Bull’s strong African seed ejaculates itself on my wife. What bigots… how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a cuck tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for The Bull’s eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 7 inches above of my own (preferably higher) beforehand.
– Real player with 231.1 hrs in game
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I couldn’t recommend a masterpiece more than this one. Within this game, you take hold of a cinematically structured character who’s actions and unique dialogues encase yourself in the game. With the riveting gameplay, plotlines, graphics, you would think you were playing a game made by Valve, Bethesda, Blizzard, Activision, and shit maybe even Bungie with a $50 Billion budget within 20 years in the making. The amount of connections and indepth character detail/development, you would think you were just living through the eyes of a real person. This mere review doesn’t serve this game justice, maybe one day the world will experience this game and war, hunger, poverty, racism with be abolished by the light of “Cuckold Simulator: Life as a Beta Male Cuck”.
– Real player with 27.7 hrs in game
Fox Simulator
I have not played varey long but I had A glitch ware I was invinsible
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
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Grate!
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Meme Dragons
Do you want to sweat? Do you want to have trouble breathing because you’re laughing too hard and you’re way too out of shape to stear clear of your virtual demise? You’ve come to the right landing page.
This game is a lot of fun packed into a shorter game with high replay-value. It’s the game you want to force all your non-VR friends to play this holiday season, and watch them duck, dodge, dip, dive and dodge out of the way of whatever gets hurled in their direction - and you get to watch!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
You can watch my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/9hJRcp2kQWU
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
This is a bad game. Some reviewers here have compared this game to Space Pirate Trainer. That has to be a joke. It’s such a bad joke that it may become a meme in the not too distant future.
It’s a stand still wave shooter with 2 weapons. A pair of handguns that feels like a water gun with bullets slowly getting from point A to point B that even a nerf gun feels more powerful. You could also choose to throw these Qi balls at the enemies with physics that’ll make you question your sanity for choosing this option.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Labyrinth Simulator
You might think, when looking at the screenshots, that this is a bad game. The truth is, it’s probably even worse than you think.
Like the name says, Labyrinth simulator let’s you walk through a labyrinth in which you either find the exit or try one of the 2 other options: Slenderman and Illuminati. Well… I don’t know what the Illumani mode does other then the symbol appearing every now and then. In the Slenderman mode you have to find papers and sometimes creatures appear out of nowhere, which apparently should scare you.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
Don’t buy this.
It’s a joke that has become irrelevant, such as illuminati jokes, Doge, and even Slender.
It’s not funny, it’s just loud, boring, and obnoxious. This is not worth any of your money.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Countryballs: Modern Ballfare
I thought that Minecraft and roblox were amazing, I GUESS I WAS WRONG…
COZ THIS IS BEST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED THIS IS THE BEST SHOOTING GAME OF COUNTRYBALLS
TYSM for making this game and Never ever remove Taiwan from this game
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
balls
bought it because i am countryballs person, best game of the year
pros:
it exists
it exists
and it exists
cons:
none
update 2 months after the release nobody plays this game anymore so if you actually expect multiplayer don’t anymore, still fun with bots
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Green Elephant 2D
This game is amazing! It’s hard because it currently doesn’t have saves and it brings some competition. Gameplay is decent, sucked me in fast, so I couldn’t stop thinking about playing it again. Voice acting and sound effects are best. I love this game!
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Зелёный слоник наш в оркестр пришёл,
Зелёный слоник наш трубу принёс.
Когда ребята уходили,
Зелёный слоник на трубе играл.
Играл про то, как плохо в клетке жить,
Как плохо есть проклятую еду,
Как плохо всем,
А хуже всех ему,
Ему — Зелёному слонику.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Warriors: Rise to Glory!
After waiting for so long the game is finally out! And as expected it is extremely good.
The game starts off from a simple attack ability and progress to a very simple yet complicated in its strategic.
From the humoristic tutorial you can understand the nature of the game, there is no dark tone and the game provide enjoyable moments for 100% of the time.
Progressing in the beta is fun, there is many things to uncover and the skill tree is huge. So, every player gets its avatar different from one another.
– Real player with 22.2 hrs in game
This game immediatly got my attention due to it’s similarity to the classroom classic flash game, Swords and Sandals. I remember that game being hard, but fun. I checked the details on this game and saw that it was a rogue like game. Now this could go one of two ways, it could be like binding of issac, in which a bad run will not unlock anything new and shiny. Or it could be like has been heroes, in which any progress goes towards a ‘buff meter’ or ‘unlock progression.
I am happy to say that this is the latter, and is a good bit of fun. My only complaints as off right now are that there isn’t much content. This is in the sense that the first boss is always the same, and the execution/humiliation animations are always the same, with the exception of the ‘thug life’ humiliation which I find is always hilarious.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Running Through Russia
This game reminds me of a game I used to play when I was a kid in the 80s. The game? Contra, a side scrolling shooter game. This game is also a side scroller but without any shooter elements obviously.
The point of this game is to collect the blue bottles. Each blue bottle you collect, you earn 1 achievement. However, if you collect the orange bottle, you go to hell. If you collect the purple bottle, the game ends. If you collect the light blue bottle, you go to the sky (presumably heaven). The game also ends if your character touches a cute looking bear.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Completely nonsense (if it wasn’t for the achievements).
It’s not an early access game, it’s just a bunch of bugs put together.
You basically control a poorly designed character and your only enemies are standing bears; you have to collect vodka bottles and the only thing you can do is jump by clicking while sidescrolling.
The lone things the game has (apart from two background changes, “heaven” and “hell”, by drinking two “different potions”) consist of bugged ledges; if you jump on them, most of the times you fall down or you get stuck.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
X-17
I really really like this game
it is really good and if you look past the mistakes it is a beautiful story of a really rad man named mark. I like this game a lot and you should too. it is pretty funny and i had fun with it to be honest
(i actually do like this game(a lot))
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Welp this was completely broken. The level design is basically 5 big hallways with enemies in them. They stand still and shoot you. Every gun has some crazy knockback that frustratingly locks you in place. I fell out of the world 2 times also but that was more fast paced than anything else so I was pretty happy about it.
But hey it had naked zombies so I guess that’s a plus ain’t it.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game