Lovebirb was a pet project of ours that grew into a major success in our hearts. With every stream, every comment, and every review, this small project turned into something special that we're proud to call our first official game!

Of course, it isn't without flaws. We've learned a lot about what we did well and what we can still improve on. We appreciated the kind words about the art and the writing, and did our best to optimize our rhythm mechanics to the best of our ability (like new tutorial song, bigger rhythm hit window, etc.)

But ultimately, we weren't able to get enough feedback from outside players to make major design and programming changes early on that supported the rhythm mechanic. This also meant that we couldn't test the game with different hardware, and we were limited to the PCs our team members had. 😔

Nevertheless, we're proud of what we got to do in the amount of time we had--and now, we're focusing on bringing all the things we've learned to our future projects for a better experience 💜

And so now, we'd like to announce that we're drawing the curtains on Lovebirb's development. This means that we won't be pushing anymore updates in the foreseeable future, and we'll take a nice break before starting on our next big adventure.

As far as events go, we'll be boothing in CONQuest 2023 this coming June to showcase our game! If you're in the Philippines, feel free to drop by to check out some sweet surprises 👀 like new merch?

'Til then, thank you so much for your love. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We hope you found the soulbirb of your dreams in our colorful cast. 🐣 If not, that's ok too!

With love,
Anonymous Penguin Studio

Hello, Loverbirbs! 🐣💖

We made small changes to the dialogue to give more emphasis to the nature of dating (in this game & IRL). 😳

Changelog

• Changed Russell's 2nd post-date dialogue
  
• Changed one of the Contact commit pop-ups to a more technical explanation

A new update has arrived! Thank you for your patience 🐣

Hopefully this remedies some of the frustrations caused by our tutorial date 🙇‍♂️ Possibly more updates soon 💖 Hope everyone has an amazing day! 🙌

Changelog

• Updated first tutorial date song
  
• Added rhythm rings around the arrow keys
  
  
  • Can be toggled on or off in the settings panel
• Added settings button to the following screens
  
  
  • Title screen
    
  • Date pause menu
• Adjusted countdown SFX
  
• Increased rhythm input window

Hi everyone!

Thank you for the warm reception to our launch, it was nothing short of amazing!

On that note, we received comments about the core rhythm mechanics, so we're looking into it! 🙌 Apologies for the inconvenience 🙇‍♂️

We'll aim to have these fixes up by the end of the week, introducing the following changes:

- A new, steadier song for the first tutorial
- More rhythm indicators to help aid players
- Overall better polish

See you soon 'til the next update! For now, here's our most requested sprite, now with transparent BG!