Press kit

Bird Feeder

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Fact sheet

Title	Bird Feeder
Developer	Verdiana Games
Publisher	Verdiana Games
Platform	Windows (Steam)
Release date	Coming soon
Price	TBA
Languages	English
Steam	store.steampowered.com/app/5409150
Press contact	contact@verdianagames.com

Short description

A tiny bird garden that lives above your taskbar. Set out food and Seattle shoreline birds come to visit while you work. Pet them, fill a pixel Bird Book with 44 species, and arrange your trees. No timers, no internet needed.

Features

44 birds of the Pacific Northwest to find, plus two rare strays
Five foods, each calling different birds
Pet any bird; each one has its own temperament
A pixel Bird Book with sealed pages, field notes, songs and calls
Field cards: small seasonal goals in your Bird Book
Arrange mode: move trees, shrubs and decor wherever you like
Five native trees: madrone, bigleaf maple, red alder, Douglas-fir, vine maple
Day and night in 47 minutes, or follow your own clock
Four seasons, a week each; rain and snow; birds roosting at night
Postcards for when you were away
Soft music, Reduced Motion and volume sliders
No timers, no punishment, no internet or account needed
Steam achievements, all earned by normal play

Long description

Bird Feeder is a cozy idle bird-watching game: a thin strip of garden that lives just above your Windows taskbar. Get on with your day, and real birds of the Pacific Northwest drop by to visit a little Seattle shoreline garden.

Set out food and see who comes. Sunflower seed brings chickadees, finches and sparrows; peanuts bring jays and nuthatches; suet brings woodpeckers and bushtits; nectar brings hummingbirds; mealworms bring robins, wrens and thrushes. Every visit earns stars for more food, feeders and garden pieces.

Click a bird and it calls back. Stroke it slowly and the view leans in close, with little hearts. Each newcomer leaves a sealed page in your Bird Book, with a portrait, field notes and gentle clues to what it likes. There are 44 birds to get to know, and 2 rare strays you may never meet. Field cards add small seasonal goals, like seeing a Northern Flicker on the lawn on three days.

Plant a madrone or a Douglas-fir and arrange the garden just so. Each season lasts a week, with rain or snow, roosting birds at night and a postcard of who came by while you were away. There are no timers, no chores and no punishment for being away, and the game needs no internet and no account.

How Bird Feeder was made

Bird Feeder was made with AI. The game's code, the pixel art (every bird, prop and background) and the in-game text (species notes, tips and menus) were written or drawn by AI agents (Claude Code). The music was generated with ElevenLabs (Eleven Music). Every sound effect and bird call is synthesized in code written by AI agents; the bird calls were tuned against measurements of real recordings, and no recording ships in the game. All of this content was made before release and ships inside the game. Nothing is generated while you play, and the game has no live AI features.

Logo and icon

Transparent PNGs. Pixel art: please scale only by whole numbers, with nearest-neighbor filtering.

Logo, 448 × 104 PNG, 1 KB
Logo, 896 × 208 PNG, 2 KB
Logo, 1792 × 416 PNG, 5 KB
Logo, 1280 × 286 (Steam library logo) PNG, 3 KB

Capsules and icon

Studio logo

The Verdiana Games logo, transparent PNG.

Screenshots

1920 × 1080 PNG, plus the Field cards still (780 × 460).

A Windows desktop with the Bird Feeder strip along the bottom, just above the taskbar, full of birds, trees and feeders. — 1/10 The garden lives in a strip above your taskbar. Download PNG (731 KB): The garden lives in a strip above your taskbar.

Birds at the feeders earn stars: two star pop-ups float over a pine, a towhee and a sparrow feed on the ground. — 2/10 Set out food and earn stars from every visit. Download PNG (21 KB): Set out food and earn stars from every visit.

A close view of a Steller's Jay at a red feeder tray, with its name tag and pink hearts above it as it is petted. — 3/10 Pet the birds. Each one has its own temperament. Download PNG (11 KB): Pet the birds. Each one has its own temperament.

The Bird Book open on the Pileated Woodpecker page, with a portrait, its call and a grid of found and unfound birds. — 4/10 Fill the Bird Book, one sealed page at a time. Download PNG (28 KB): Fill the Bird Book, one sealed page at a time.

The same desktop at dusk: the strip glows in warm evening colours above the taskbar. — 5/10 Dusk falls on the garden while you work. Download PNG (727 KB): Dusk falls on the garden while you work.

The shop panel open above the strip, showing mealworms for 3000 stars and the birds they attract. — 6/10 Spend stars on foods, feeders and garden items. Download PNG (145 KB): Spend stars on foods, feeders and garden items.

Arrange mode in autumn: a red alder is lifted by the pointer, with a gnome, a bench and a madrone nearby. — 7/10 Arrange your trees, shrubs and decor. Download PNG (23 KB): Arrange your trees, shrubs and decor.

The garden at night: a Barred Owl sits on top of a post, small birds roost in a pine and a lantern glows on the lawn. — 8/10 At night, small birds roost and an owl may call. Download PNG (17 KB): At night, small birds roost and an owl may call.

A snowy winter day on the shore: snow falls on the lawn, a dark seabird stands on a piling and birds float on the water. — 9/10 Four seasons, with rain and snow. Download PNG (16 KB): Four seasons, with rain and snow.

The Cards page of the Bird Book: a finished spring card with a Northern Flicker, and the list of open and done cards. — 10/10 Field cards: small seasonal goals in the Bird Book. Download PNG (14 KB): Field cards: small seasonal goals in the Bird Book.

GIFs

Four short loops of the game, each under 12 seconds. There is also an 8-second clip of a whole Windows desktop with the garden above the taskbar:MP4, 1920 × 1080 (1.7 MB).

Animation: birds fly in to the feeders in the garden strip one by one, and a star pops up as a visit pays out. — 1/4 Birds arrive at the feeders. Download GIF (780 × 288, 117 KB): Birds arrive at the feeders.

Animation: the Bird Book open on a Varied Thrush page; its call plays while a playhead runs across the sonogram, then a sealed page is opened. — 2/4 The Bird Book. Download GIF (780 × 612, 110 KB): The Bird Book.

Animation: a click moves the view in close to an American Robin; a slow stroke on its back brings hearts. — 3/4 Petting a robin. Download GIF (702 × 288, 125 KB): Petting a robin.

Animation: the same garden view in spring, summer, autumn rain at dusk and a snowy winter night. — 4/4 Four seasons. Download GIF (780 × 288, 249 KB): Four seasons.

Contact

For keys, interviews or questions, emailcontact@verdianagames.com.

Verdiana Games is the developer and publisher of Bird Feeder.