Hello Birders! We have just released Steam Community Items for Flock Around! Now you can earn trading cards of some of your favourite birds, craft cool badges, and buy beautiful new profile backgrounds in the points shop: We'll have more news coming soon about the next map and mod support!
Hello Birders! Emu Island, the first DLC for Flock Around is available NOW! We hope you all enjoy exploring the new biomes and encountering all the birds! 1.1.8 New Feature: Pins (Base Game) · There is a new cosmetic type: The Pin · Instead of buying pins, you unlock them by completing the Big/Giant/Enormous Year achievements as well as the Shiny Birds achievement. · If you already have these a…
Hello birders, this morning we have another update for you that adds a much requested item! 1.0.61 New Item: Selfie Stick! · There's a new item that can be found at the Bluff's shop. · This way you can take photos of your cool outfits, snap a picture of a bird on your head, and take selfies with friends! Linux Native Build · We have an official Native Linux build! · Hopefully this means a bette…
Hello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake! Patch 1.0.47 NEW BIRDS · 5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake! · We've got: Black Chinned Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Mourning Dove, Pileated…
Hello Birders! Today we have another patch that includes a variety of quality of life features, requested tweaks, and more bug fixes! We just wanted to give everyone a heads up that things might slow down a bit until mid-June, as now that the game is in a stable state for the vast majoirty of players, the team is going to take some much needed time off. We'll still be monitoring the server and…
Hey Birders, We have fixed the duplicate-host bug that a lot of you have been seeing. We've decided to package the fix with a bunch of other tweaks that we had in the hopper. Hope you enjoy! 1.0.28 Small Features · Proactive Save Backups: The game now makes rotating backups of your save data, so if you lose power or something while the game is mid-save, you should still have a backup to fallbac…
Hey Birders, we have a new patch that adds a lot of fixes, stability improvements, and a much-needed moderation tool. We're going to be doing more bug-bashing in the near future. 1.0.27 Major Feature: Banning · You can now "Ban" players from your lobby, preventing them from being able to rejoin. · When you ban a player, they will not be allowed to join any lobby you host ever again. · You can u…
Happy Friday birders! We've got a MASSIVE Friday Update for you! Flock Around Version 1.0.21 In this update we've added Public Lobbies , Text Chat , and FIVE NEW BIRDS!! Major Feature: Public Lobbies · When you select Join Game you will now see ALL public lobbies. · Your friends' lobbies will be bubbled to the top and highlighted in green. · When hosting a lobby, you can select "Lobby Code Only…
1.0.14 Level Fixes · Fixed some rock colliders, again (shakes fist!) · The cave to Snow no longer has holes that peek out into the sky box · One of the Snow Point of Interests is no longer culled by Detail Distance · There is no longer a gap between Marsh and the main Lake water. Birds Changes · Birds should land on your head more often! As of late they've been doing it basically never. · Chang…
Hey Birders, we've got yet another patch that should bring even more stability to your play sessions! Patch 1.0.13 Bird Changes · Adjusted Common Grackle sprite. · Common Loon no longer waddles on the shore, it was pointed out to us that Loons only take off from water and this is easiest way to represent that in our game. · Graphical adjustments to various bird necks in back-facing poses. · Adj…
Hello birders! Thank you so much for making this such an awesome launch. Thank you for your bug reports, steam reviews, and kind words ❤️ Yesterday and this morning we have put out two hotfixes that address the majority of issues that have come up for some players (thankfully these seem to be only affecting a small group of players, but we want to make sure everyone has the best experience poss…
Hello Birders! We are thrilled to finally get Flock Around into your hands! Goose Lake is now yours to explore! · Unlock 6 biomes · Find 60 birds · Upgrade your gear · Buy whistles and birdseed · Put on an outfit · Find points of interest Gather your friends and go birding together! In the next few weeks we plan to add: · More birds · New items · Text Chat · Quest system · The ability to show p…
Hey birders! We've got another Demo Update. This is a small-ish update that's mostly just refinements and fixes. Major Features: · We made a bunch of changes to how ratings work... again. · Each bird now has custom tuning that determine it's "size" and "center" and various other parameters. 3 star photos on Canada Goose In Flight and a Soaring Osprey should be more consistent now. · Your Guideb…
0.9.2 Patch Notes Happy Steam Next Fest everyone! We are excited to bring you another demo update! Major Features · Added 5 new birds!! Bringing the demo's total to 25! · Changed the way the Develop-o-tron gives stars. Getting 3 stars is now much harder (but hopefully more satisfying!) · The old system was designed before we had camera upgrades, now that you can upgrade your zoom, the Develop-o…
Hello Birders! We are excited to bring you another update ahead of Steam Next Fest! 0.8.11 Patch Notes Major Features · The game is now localized to several languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese · We've got a TON of new sounds effects and ambient sounds · We're not done yet so a lot of this is still work-in-progress, we just wanted t…
Major Feature · Really, there's just one major feature update: The game now has robust Gamepad Support! The game should be fully playable with a gamepad out of the box. · In service of this, basically every UI screen in the game got some kind of rework or adjustment, too much to list! · Button glyphs should correspond to the device you're using (eg: PlayStation controllers will see different bu…
Hello Birders, We are excited to bring you a new update for the demo that adds a bunch of requested features and fixes! We will continue to improve the demo as we move towards the full release in March. Major Features: · You now have a Hotbar of items, you start out with a Camera and a pair of Binoculars · There is now a Supplies Shop next to the first Develop-o-tron · At the Supplies Shop you…
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