Developer posts and news about this game.
We made Steambirds as a labour of love in hopes of bringing players together and building meaningful friendships between them. In some ways, we feel like we succeeded - we made an experience with significantly less toxicity and greater cooperation than many online games achieve.
Today’s update introduces a new endgame boss: the Urchin. The Urchin is quite elusive: to find it you'll need to craft a special item and then use it in a specific place. We recommend that you bring a full fleet of seasoned pilots with you, as the encounter can be quite a handful
The team has been toiling away on a new major Steambirds Alliance update for the last few months. We’ve taken the opportunity to take a step back and re-evaluate why we made this game, what we’re trying to do with it, and how well we’re achieving those goals. We’ve written about
This week we’re shipping our last update of 2019. While it may be last, it’s still packed with some awesome stuff. We’re introducing a new class, the Vampire, a new combat sim mode, and a bunch of other changes! Vampire The vampire class is making its appearance in this update. I
We're shipping our first really big post-launch update to SBA! It includes a healthy combo of new content, new features, plus solutions to major pain points that the community has informed us about in Discord. 🙂 I know this blog post is huge, so let me give you the TDLR : we’ve
Hello fellow pilots! Now that the launch insanity has finally quieted down a little bit, we're getting back to our regular schedule of weekly updates. ːsteamhappyː Here's what this update has in store for you: Update to the Temple of Bast: The Temple now contains Altar Rooms. On
We are launching Steambirds Alliance out of beta today (August 22). After almost six years of development, it has become a full-fledged MMO with lots of polished content, unique bosses, and a kind of heavily-cooperative gameplay that is rare in today’s world. We couldn’t be proud
The moment has arrived! In the next couple hours, we will be shipping our first major update of the open beta. You already know about some but not all of it… we wanted to surprise you! Meowza Herself Let’s start with what you already know: the Meowza 2 (M2) encounter. As previous
Who here remembers Realm Of The Mad God , the free-to-play shmup MMO? Well, co-developers Spry Fox (Alphabear, Triple Town, etc) just launched their next shot at the genre – Steambirds Alliance – into open beta today, with servers running until Monday. Take your common-or-garden
Hi folks! Sorry its been quiet on the blog; we’ve been focused mainly on communication via Discord, but will try to be better about communicating here as well in the future. 🙂 That said, if you haven’t already joined our Discord community, you really should. We even have a nifty
Watch video on YouTube (opens in a new tab) The goal of Steambirds Alliance is to defeat Meowza, we're told—a cat that is presumably enemy of us, the Steambirds, because cats and birds so rarely get along. It makes sense. It also makes sense that we'd need an alliance to take on
What’s happening in those birdplane filled skies? Let’s talk turkey. The long foretold moment is nearly upon us, the server wipe. But fear not, those of you with keys to the Steambirds Domain, all is not lost; your gold, hangar slots, RC storage, unlocked planes, and stored craft
We’re back for the third week in a row with another update! This update is primarily focussed on more polish and bug fixes to help you with your all your Steambirding needs. We hear Parker over in the pub is looking more snazzy than ever and keen to see you again! Fixed Paladin s
Last week we rolled out a nice big update, with a huge collection of big and small changes. This week we’re hitting you with a much smaller update, including a number of polish and bug fix updates from the feedback we’ve been getting. We’re still working hard to get more of the b
We’re back! We’ve rolled out a big new update and opened up the servers again. There has been a lot of changes since our last update, definitely too numerous to list them all, but let’s have a look at some of the highlights... New Classes This update brings two new classes, the D
As the end of the year fast approaches, many of the team members are taking some vacation to spend time with family and friends, so this will be the last big update of the year! As Steambirds Alliance gets closer to being ready for a more public release, we’ve decided to take dow
This week’s update brings more big changes! From an update to our input system, to the oft-requested ability to apply variant skins to existing planes, we have a lot to share. Let’s get to it! Inputs We’ve done a refactoring of our input system! What does that mean? We’ve restruc
Last week was a huge update where we rolled out the new skill and trade systems . These big new features also came with a healthy dose of bugs and issues, so we’re moving up the next update to this week to deal with some of that. Skills Hotfixed an issue where the wrong level num
This update is a huge one, with 2 new large features: a completely new skills system and a secure trading system. Let’s have a look at what those are about and what other changes are abound… Pilot Skills For quite some time, we’ve had a placeholder system for pilot skills. We are
This week’s update delivers on the usual swathe of big and small improvements, including many tweaks and changes to bosses and some music to listen to while you’re fighting them! We’re also introducing a very bubbly new alpha trail, as with the other alpha trails it will be dropp