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A Bird Story

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A Bird Story
A Bird Story cover
Developers
Freebird Games
Engines
Windows RPG Maker XP[1]
OS X, Linux mkxp
Release dates
Windows November 7, 2014
macOS (OS X) November 7, 2014
Linux November 7, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 66
OpenCritic 67
IGDB 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Scrolling
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Series Sigmund Corp.
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A Bird Story on Wikipedia
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Key points

The game settings can be accessed by pressing F1 as usual with other RPG Maker games.
On Windows, only runs in 640x480.

General information

Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\A Bird Story\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/freebirdgames/abirdstory
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/freebirdgames/abirdstory/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\A Bird Story\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/freebirdgames/abirdstory
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/freebirdgames/abirdstory/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general settings (F1).
In-game general settings (F1).

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 only.[2] 4:3, stretched in fullscreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enable Reduce screen flickering in the game options (F1).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game gamepad settings (F1).
In-game gamepad settings (F1).
In-game keyboard settings (F1).
In-game keyboard settings (F1).
Press F12 to pause.
Press F1 to access the remapping settings.

Audio

In-game language settings/main menu.
In-game language settings/main menu.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM and SE can be separately muted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
No dialog. Sounds only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
The game combines it with Latin American Spanish
Latin American Spanish
The game combines it with Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 2.0 OS X and Linux only.
Software renderer
Windows only, GDI.[3]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2400
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2400


References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2017-05-25
  2. Resolution problem ? :: A Bird Story General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Verified by User:Vetle on 2016-03-19