MY 2026 AWAITS!!!

We're excited to welcome 2026 in later today, but EVEN MORE excited as Sparrow Warfare will be a tiny part of @cringer.bsky.social's end of year show today over on Twitch!! Starting from 11am ET (5pm Copenhagen time!), join in the fun here: www.twitch.tv/cringer

And that's it from the Sparrow Warfare advent calendar! We wish you a relaxing and nourishing holiday out there, and a glorious start to 2026 ❤️ We're excited to launch our game next year - wishlists are very much appreciated to help us along that road! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

DAY TWENTY-FOUR In our game, one of the eggs hatches into a very strange "bird" indeed, a little lad just happy to be invited: CHANCE Genus: Erinaceidae (hedgehog) Art origin: Wikimedia public domain hedgehog photo, recoloured & collaged Motto: "Well... that's surprising!"

DAY TWENTY, TWENTY-ONE & TWENTY-TWO Some of us (ahem @alphachar.bsky.social) took the weekend off & forgot about Dre, but we're back with the triple threat: KING MOB Genus: Alcedinidae (kingfisher) Art origin: Watercolour by pikisuperstar Motto: "There's never just one..." #ArtAdvent #birds

It is safe to metaphorically hold you breath until our third playtest will launch but don't do it for real. Still a few bugs to iron out before we can open the gates to new players again but the bug reports keep rolling in and our patches rolling out.

New playthrough video from one of our best players who consistently hits the #1 spot of daily flights! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU5E...

New playthrough video from one of our best players who consistently hits the #1 spot of daily flights! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU5E...

Hello #TurnBasedThursday friends! We are @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social & we’re making SPARROW WARFARE, a wild deckbuilder with tons of birds! But enough about us! Today, we want to send folks towards some of OUR favourite indie games this year:

Twas the week before Christmas 🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh And #gamers rejoiced It’s #TurnBasedThursday! All #gamedev / #indiedev Show your #turnbased game! 🩷 Like, share and wishlist To increase their fame! I’m honored to host This great weekly fest Thanks for having me 🥹 You all are the best!

Hello there, #TeaseYaGame friends! We are @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social - making a MAHJONG DECKBUILDER FULL OF BIRDS! Sounds weird? It IS weird! And fun! New playtest soon: wishlists make us happy, hanging out on Discord even more happy! ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

DAY ELEVEN Lads, today bears a spoiler for Level 4 that hasn't been seen in playtest builds yet: THE COORIER Genus: Sulidae (gannet) Art origin: 1827 etching by William Home Lizars, re-coloured & collaged together with an 1846 letter Motto: "Sometimes it's fine to shoot the messenger"

I'm honoured to be officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday! 🥳 🎨If you're a #GameDev / #IndieDev, comment below with your awesome #turnbased game! EVERYONE! 🔁 Repost & ❤️Like this tweet 👉 Tag other games & devs you support ✨ Add the games you love to your wishlist!

Ok folks, @alphachar.bsky.social and @martinpi.bsky.social are SO CLOSE to a wishlist milestone for their amazing birdlike deckbuilder that I play every morning. GO CHECK IT OUT. DO IT BECAUSE BIRDS ARE VERY COOL! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Hello there #wishlistwednesday! Me & @martinpi.bsky.social are making a deckbuilder with birds. It's called SPARROW WARFARE & we are a mere THREE wishlists away from 500 🙏 New playtest build up in time for Christmas, so join us & let's fly together! 🕊️ store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

DAY EIGHT Our favourite sound in the game - we cannot hear it without shrieking "Shqwuaw!" ourselves: POLLY Genus: Psittaciformes (parrot) Art origin: Painting by Alexander Francis Lydon from 1884 Motto: Yes, you guessed it: "ֆɦզʊǟա!"

Now we've got a Linktree so we can keep all of our online spaces easy to find, whew! linktr.ee/sparrowwarfare

I play Sparrow Warfare every morning before work, and it's my go-to quick game to kickstart my brain. Well done @neonaurelius.bsky.social - I looooove playtesting this and highly recommend people wishlist. youtu.be/0G6Ek4ADfbE?...

DAY FIVE It is Krampusnacht & no sparrow is safe from: COOP FEAR Genus: Circus cyaneus (hen harrier) Art origin: Painting by George Edwards some time between 1758 to 1764 Motto: "The cluck of the draw"

DAY FOUR My little friends: THE CRAVEN RAVENS Genus: Corvus corone Art: Collage of crows drawn in 1880 by F Gerasch, pieced together with some Qing dynasty flowers, & with an 1895 matchbox moon illustration, recoloured! Motto: "Murderers flock together, you know" ^^ from the members of r/crowbro!

DAY FOUR My little friends: THE CRAVEN RAVENS Genus: Corvus corone Art: Collage of crows drawn in 1880 by F Gerasch, pieced together with some Qing dynasty flowers, & with an 1895 matchbox moon illustration, recoloured! Motto: "Murderers flock together, you know" ^^ from the members of r/crowbro!

DAY 3 The one, the only: TOUCAN'T Genus: Tucana Aracari Brasilensibus (toucan) Art origin: Painting by Saverio Manetti (1723–1785) collaged and re-coloured with public domain drum illustrations Motto: "Toucan't touch this"

DAY 2 Say hello to my little friend: FLUFF JUSTICE Genus: Troglodytes troglodytes (wren) Art origin: pubic domain photograph of a wren taken by Shenandoah National Parks Service; collaged together with a public domain sword Motto: Soft but soul-destroying

When I was a kid I loved opening up the new window of our Advent calendar & seeing a new picture inside each day. So, for the next 25 days, I will open a little window on our development and show one of our birds from our upcoming game Sparrow Warfare!

Preparing slides for a local developer event later today. I'm having a great time bringing puns and etymology into play on one slide!

Thanks for hosting @richardstampdev.bsky.social! We are a 2-person team in Denmark here for #TurnBasedThursday with our: 🦆 BIRD 🦜 BIRD ⚔️ REVOLUTION! It's called SPARROW WARFARE & it can be wishlisted on Steam... right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Welcome, kobolds and non-kobolds! We are honoured to be the official host of this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Show us your turn-based games, indie devs. =D Remember to 💬comment, ♥️like and 🔁 share!

Anita is streaming now! www.twitch.tv/anita_was_here

A lovely Monday morning to start the week! We were featured in Tiny Gaming's Demo Dive, and this morning I got to join The Gamemaster Brown on Twitch to chat our way through a daily flight of Sparrow Warfare: www.twitch.tv/videos/26207...

Thanks so much to Hubert at Tiny Gaming for trying out our playtest for the latest Demo Dive! www.tiny-gaming.net/posts/demo-d...

Our menu is finally coming together with a unique style that is inspired by brush strokes. The evil storyteller is a master of calligraphy, after all. How else would he capture the birds in mahjong tiles? store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/... #ScreenshotSaturday #indie #deckbuilder

Since our playtest started, @alphachar.bsky.social has been posting daily videos of her runs and it really shows how versatile our gameplay already is. Today was one of the more radical modifiers that replaces your usual defence tiles with something sophisticated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMT...

New lil YouTube series where we play the Daily Flight and talk through play choices! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKL...

And it looks like thats a wrap on the Migration Route streams! What a blast! Thanks again to @alphachar.bsky.social and @neonaurelius.bsky.social for organizing! I'm definitely game to stream some more Quail Crossing before the #AnimalFest concludes so stay tuned!

Our latest playtest build is UP! And features daily challenges and leaderboards for the next 2 weeks. We would love to welcome you into our bird world 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

As soon as we shared the new build with folks, I felt the energy back in my veins again! There is NOTHING like seeing people battle it out on our leaderboard, a little digital euphoria manifesting - come join! ✨

Animal Fest is on and we're happy to have our little Sparrow Warfare take part in it. But we're happy if you play other animal-based games until then, so knock yourself out! It's a good bunch of games!

Super excited to promote some awesome indie games on Steam for Animal Fest tomorrow through @neonaurelius.bsky.social's Migration Route! Tune into the stream tomorrow on the respective steam pages at 7pm PST and come hang out!🍻 #indiegames #animalfest #steam

Playtest 2 has just kicked off. We'd be excited if you put Sparrow Warfare through the wringer – even if you break the game! As long as you give us feedback, of course. store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Oh my, it's #PitchYaGame and do we have a game to pitch to you! Birds? ✅ Deckbuilding? ✅ Mysterious & menacing bosses with faces FULL OF BEES? ✅✅✅ New playtest drops next week with daily flights & global leaderboards. Come on down, the wishlists taste great! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

"Petroidvania!" YES! More puns like this, it's similar to @neonaurelius.bsky.social 's game Sparrow Warfare and using "Peckbuilder" instead of deckbuilder.

The honour is all ours (can I say that?) – in any case, Sparrow Warfare is happy to participate in #TurnbasedThursday and we love to see the all the fantastic games other devs are making!

I guess I'm obligated to try out this game on stream soon 👀 deck builder, birds AND my name in the title? It would be illegal not to I think.

I've made a Chinese subtitles version of our trailer. Do you speak Chinese? Is it too fast? Did I garble something?

I really enjoyed this Halloween spooky bird collection from the @rspb.bsky.social, so I had to share one from our Sparrow Warfare coop: world, meet Howl!

Pretty niche post here, but if any of you game devs are taking part in Steam's Animal Fest in a few weeks, I'm setting up a "migration route" for us to make the most of the festival together. Want in? Sign up here: tally.so/r/mDrvGR

Pepperhead got the hang of our game in record time. A pleasure to watch a pro at work. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A joy to watch PepperHead playing Sparrow Warfare for the first time as part of his "finding the next big roguelike" series & immediately dominating the leaderboard! This was Playtest #1... Playtest #2 will fly in on November 10th, if you want to try it out too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNz...

Our first playtest ended after hundreds of people played the game. While we're preparing for the second playtest, and you're eagerly waiting, it's totally ok if you wishlist Sparrow Warfare. In fact it would be very nice of you if you do! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

100%! We're a team of two with no artist working on our game Sparrow Warfare at the moment & I'm having the BEST fun remixing, collaging, recolouring & vectorising public domain art to make our bird tiles! It also feels like bringing little fragments of the past into the future.