Free-to-play Lil’ Birds Brings Colorful, Cuddly Virtual Pets to the App Store
Villain™, an independent publisher of fiendishly fun mobile titles, today launched the compelling free-to-play virtual pet adventure, Lil’ Birds, in which players can breed, raise, and care for a flock of lively animated birds in their aviary. In the socially connected game, players start their own menagerie with an expandable tree aviary, taming new birds from the mysterious Lost Forest to add to their collection, mating birds to create over 5,000 varieties of cute, colorful birds, and sharing birds and treats with friends from Facebook and Game Center. Lil’ Birds is now available in the App Store as a free universal app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Players begin the game with a pair of birds and a simple tree aviary presented with the look and feel of a classic animated cartoon. Following clear and entertaining clues in the form of quests, players begin breeding, petting, naming, buying, and cloning birds to expand their aviary and menagerie and fulfill special orders from customers for custom birds. The offspring of any two birds combine the genetic characteristics of the parents, with the characteristics of the baby bird revealed when it hatches from the egg in the player’s birdhouse nest. Once birds are hatched, they begin to fly about the open tree aviary, pecking for food, napping, and singing in glorious song when petted.
“Lil’ Birds is a wonderful virtual pet adventure that’s free to play for players of all ages,” said Dane Baker, CEO of Villain. “Players can name, pet, and give treats to their lil’ birds in a lovely environment of hand-painted graphics, lilting music, and magical atmosphere that brings to mind a colorful animated film filled with fun game activities.”
Forming friendships can help players grow more quickly, as players can give treats to each other’s birds to increase their happiness and value while earning Magic Feathers that help them expand their aviaries. Players can also gift any bird to their friends, allowing players to help each other achieve quests and expand their flock. There are hundreds of goals to complete and achievements to unlock in Lil’ Birds. Players can earn XP, Coins, and Magic Feathers to buy new bird species and colors.
The magical Lost Forest adventure allows players to take any current bird to an animated forest to search for new mates. After discovering and freeing birds, the player must tame five birds in a fun minigame of hide and seek to complete their quest, after which they can breed their bird with any of the newly tamed birds to create new color and species combinations back in their birdhouse nests. Through gameplay, players will learn the right bird combinations to hatch special birds to fulfill customer orders. But players need never sell their favorite birds they have hatched, named, and raised, as once any type of bird is created it appears in the player’s Log, allowing a new baby bird of that type to be hatched for sale or gifting.
For more information on Lil’ Birds, visit villainhq.com/games/lilbirds.
