Bird Girl Mac OS
In an app on your Mac, choose Edit Emoji & Symbols, or open the Character Viewer from the Input menu (if you set the option in Keyboard preferences). Depending on your Mac model, you can also set an option in the Keyboard pane of Keyboard System Preferences to access the Character Viewer by pressing the Fn key or (if available on the keyboard). MacBook Pro — our most powerful notebooks featuring fast processors, incredible graphics, Touch Bar, and a spectacular Retina display.
Flappy Bird, despite being removed from the App Store seven years ago, remains one of the most iconic iPhone games of all time. Now, developer Neil Sardesai has taken to Twitter to showcase how he brought a clone of the game directly to the macOS Big Sur Notification Center.
Sardesai tweeted the project this weekend, showcasing that you can “put a whole game inside of a push notification” thanks to the new UserNotificationsUI framework. It’s a pretty impressive feat that showcases the power of notifications in Big Sur.
Flappy Bird originated on the iPhone and a variety of clones have popped up on the web and on macOS over the years. Sardesai’s implementation into the Big Sur Notification Center is based on the Flappy Bird clone created by Play Cavnas. Touch interactions are simulated using clicks rather than tap, but the goal of avoiding obstacles remains the same.
Flappy Bird was one of the most viral games to ever come to iPhone back in 2014. Created by developer Dong Nguyen, the app is rumored to have generated an average of $50,000 a day in revenue at its peak. The popularity, however, is what ultimately led to Nguyen removing it from the App Store.
“I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ is a success of mine,” he tweeted at the time. “But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.”
Sardesai hasn’t made his macOS Big Sur Notification Center version of Flappy Bird available to the public, so this video serves more as a proof concept for now. You can play the clone version on which it’s based right here on the Play Canvas website.
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| A Hat in Time |
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Developer: Gears for Breakfast This game has unused animations. |
The story of a kid and A Hat in Time, on a quest to get back home in time for dinner and cookies.
| To do: Lots of meshes/textures/materials/etc. within the content packages of the game's editor. A couple of Matinees/Cinematics within some of the games cooked maps. Some HUD Elements have some functionality that isn't used. |
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- 6Unused Text
- 7Unused Graphics
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| Unused Animations Darling, you moved! The picture is ruined! How could you?! |
| Unused Models Buckle up, because this game has a bunch of these! |
Unused Cutscene
An unused cutscene that would fit well as a post-credits cutscene. This area is part of the same map that contains Hat Kid's sleeping 'The End' scene, after the credits. Changing the in-game lighting reveals that there is a rogue coat rack hiding just outside of the scene. The room design shows that this scene takes place within Mafia Town.
Unseen Area
Hidden away in the credits sequence away from the player's view is a tent with a blackboard inside like those seen in the Alpha and Beta builds of the game, it features the thank you from Mario at the end of Super Mario 64 and a few words of encouragement from W.T.N, that being William T. Nicholls, the Gears For Breakfast's art director and level designer.
Unused Cinematics
Unused cinematics from the Alpha trailer remain in the game. Within Mafia Town, there are four unused cinematics called cine1, cine2, cine3 and cine4. To see them, open the developer console and enter enablecheats. Then write ce <cinematic name>, and the cinematic will play.
In Mafia Town HQ has two strange unused cinematics called Bird and rs. The cinematic named Bird transforms the player into a rat. They can move and hit Hat Kid only if they are close to her. The other cinematic is in the kitchen. When it is played, the music stops and the camera zooms onto a Mafia cook working on some food. The cinematic's description calls it 'Rhythm Segment'. It might have been an introductory cutscene to a rhythm-based minigame of some sort.
Unused Music
Beta File Select
A leftover from the Beta build of the game. It played on the title screen and file select screen.
Guard Caught Jingle
A variation of the jingle that plays upon selecting who the murderer is in the act 'Murder on the Owl Express'. Judging by the filename, it would have played upon being caught in the stealth segment.
Hub World Secret Pillow Hideout Variation Intro
A variation of the tune that plays every time the player enters Hat Kid's Spaceship. As there is never an instance where the intro plays from within the pillow fort, this variation is unused.
Sand 'n Sails Level Intro
The level introduction theme that would have played while starting the cut chapter 'Sand 'n Sails'.
Unused Text
Mafia.ini
An unused script about ties from the beta of the game.
cafescene.int
A script for the unused cafe scene in the section above.
debug.int
Standard Mafia dialogue.
Unused Diary Entries
Hat Kid's diary can be found in her bedroom by using the Ice Hat on the pile of pillows. Since both the Ice Hat and the first few Time Pieces are required to access this area, these diary entries are rendered inaccessible:
An entry for the prologue and Chapter 1, Act 1.
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An entry for Chapter 1, Act 2.
An entry for Chapter 1, Act 3. Note that the words 'Time Piece' are rendered with an icon and colorization.
One more is very difficult to see in-game, because you need to save and exit from Dead Bird Studios after getting the Ice Hat then get three more Time Pieces from Time Rifts:
An entry for Chapter 1, Act 4.
An entry for Chapter 5, Act 1. The game never shows this entry due to a bug
Unused Mustache Girl Dialog
An unused cutscene in Subcon Forest featuring Mustache Girl and Snatcher.
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Unused Graphics
A collectible birb. It can no longer be collected.
Menu icons for collected and uncollected Time Pieces. These originated from the Alpha build.
UI relating to 'Badge Points', a function removed for the final game. Badge Points were only available in the Alpha and Beta builds.
A texture for the now-removed Electro Badge. This badge appeared in pre-release builds of the game.
A badge that went unused for the Ice mechanic. Being eventually replaced with the 'Ice Hat' in the final game. It was formally known as the 'Ice Statue Badge'.
An early badge referred to as the 'Owl's Brew Badge'. It was eventually replaced with the 'Brewing Hat' in the final game.
An unused UI image for Hover Yarn. The hover functionality was modified and delegated to a badge instead of a hat.
A placeholder UI icon for a water flask, using its 3D model. The water flask was not used for the final game, and was likely related to the 'Sand 'n Sails' chapter before that chapter was turned into 'Alpine Skyline'.
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A placeholder UI icon for the Dweller's Mask, using its 3D model.
A concept design of the game's title screen.
An additional concept design visualizing object paths. It contains some notes in yellow that are too small to read.
A watermark leftover from the previous speedrun event build.
Prototype/Alpha Build Graphics
| To do: Detail exactly which builds this content is found in. If it is not final, it goes on one of our lovely prototype pages. |
Graphics found within the Alpha build of the game. Features leftover assets from the Prototype build.
UI originally used in the act: 'Barrel Battle'. It was modified in the Beta build of the game and removed completely in the final.
Pretty self explanatory. Early UI for the Badge menu.
A collection of leftover icons and logos used in the prototype build.
Early icon and name for the act that eventually became both 'Welcome to Mafia Town' and 'Barrel Battle'.
Early icon and name for the act 'Heating up Mafia Town'.
Early icon and name for an unknown act in the Subcon Forest.
Early icon and name for the act 'Queen Vanessa's Manor'.
This was used to obscure a couple of the icons listed above. This was used as a way to promote their Kickstarter page at the time.
Credits from the Alpha Build of the game.
Texture Oddities
These textures for the Dweller's Mask variants all contain notes within the texture that signify the front and back of each mask.
The detective hat texture contains an art reference image.
Habster says hello.