Being a Bird - An Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Game - 2nd KS

A project in Norristown, PA by Mike Johnston
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Being a Bird is an immersive virtual reality video game that allows you to be like a bird and play single and multiplayer challenges.
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Backers: 36
Average Pledge Per Backer: $11

Funded: $413 of $2,000
Dates: Dec 17th -> Jan 16th (30 days)
Project By: Mike Johnston
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Latest News

Video of new Being a Bird Challenge, Forest Flight

January 7th - via: kickstarter.com
I got done optimizing Being a Bird, it takes even longer to load now but it runs great, even on my older laptop computer.  This is video of the latest challenge I've been working on. My laptop can do this challenge at 50fps on the "fastest" game... (Read More)

Being a Bird is a lot faster now :)

December 31st - via: kickstarter.com
I've been doing a lot of work on Being a Bird recently and I made a lot of progress on speeding the game up.  The loading still takes a while, but there's not really much I can do about that. The way the Unity game engine works is not the best for a... (Read More)

Progress report

December 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, things are going good with the game.  I thought my video card died on me but it just needed a new cooling fan, very little downtime instead of waiting until I could afford a new video card in a couple weeks. :)  I just finished tweaking the... (Read More)

Being a Bird - Target Drop Multiplayer Challenge Demo Video

December 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
I decided to make a simple multiplayer challenge first because that's a priority of mine.  Here is some video of an early version of a multiplayer challenge called target drop.  In this game you only need to use the mouse once to launch the player... (Read More)

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