You’ve acquired the strikes, however have you ever acquired the appears to be like? Aviary kick-flipper SkateBird is likely to be gunning for Tony Hawk’s long-vacant throne (with an precise hawk, no much less), however you’ve acquired to nail greater than grinds to tackle Pro Skater. It’s music, it’s angle, and it’s vogue, child. There’s not a 360 nose-grind to be present in SkateBird x Jazz Mickle’s Pro Cap Wearer Do A Spoopy Combo, however the free new spin-off will allow you to costume up a radical raven prepared for the skatepark.
SkateBird was efficiently crowdfunded on Kickstarter again in July. Among its many stretch objectives included a fowl dress-up characteristic designed by serial cranium milliner Jazz Mickle. To tide feathered fashionistas over for now, SkateBird builders Glass Bottom Games have put collectively a free crossover with Mickle’s Pro Cap Wearer series.
It’s a short style of how SkateBird’s dress-up will work, minus all of the tiny fowl jackets, shirts, sneakers and such the ultimate game will supply when it takes off in mid-2020. There’s a pleasant vary of bean-shaped birds to select from, and a staggering vary of hats to pop on their wee heads. While easy, it’s plenty of enjoyable getting the correct cap, sample, materials and emblem collectively to actually draw out a small fowl’s pure radiance.
Look at this pleasant feathered buddy. So harmless. So able to bust a beak on the halfpipe.
To put my very own reviewer hat on for a second, it’s lacking a number of the snazzy picture mode options from the seminal Cap Wearer 2. More evident, nonetheless, is the dearth of a Peregrine Falcon sex hat.
For disgrace.
Katherine went for a ride with SkateBird whereas it hatched on Kickstarted again in June. Despite its humble price range, she discovered a delightfully upbeat arcade game with a inventive DIY skatepark and a few slapping low-fi “bird-Hop” beats.
For now, SkateBird x Pro Cap Wearer is a neat little toy to fiddle with whereas we anticipate the ultimate game to take off subsequent 12 months – significantly now that the free Kickstarter demo is now not kicking about (changed with only a .zip of bonus supplies).
SkateBird x Jazz Mickle’s Pro Cap Wearer Do A Spoopy Combo is accessible on Itch.io free of charge / pay-what-you-want.
[Disclosure: One of SkateBird’s other successful stretch goals involves a story mode directed by – who else – occasional RPS contributor Xalavier Nelson Jr. Beyond his work here, Xalavier and I also released a game together earlier this year. Eventually, you will too, along with every last human being on Earth – living or dead.]
