Everything We've Built Since We Announced

Hello. We're Little Bird Studios, we make video games, and we've finally reached the stage of development where we're allowed to show you things.

Here's where Carry the Count is at.

The coffin is the whole game

It's heavy. It's awkward. It breaks.

It also has a grapple and a mounted cannon, because we got carried away and then refused to take any of it back out.

We built a country

TWENTY FIVE regions between the Count's castle and Romilda's estate. The Mushroom Caves. The Reeking Bog. The Shivering Summits. The Hot Springs. The Stinking Dick.

Meet the boys

Gob is trying to keep this professional. Scab just wants to do his job. Stink has a blood-lust nobody asked for. Plunk is just Plunk.

They also have hats. The hats took considerably longer than the hats deserved.

Baba Yaga is open for business

Her shop walks around the map on chicken legs. Bring her coins, stolen pretties, anything that glitters.

She may call you a sweet little dumpling. We have tested this extensively and can confirm it never stops being nice.

Or ignore all of that and start a band

Flutes, drums, an accordion. Any Igor, any time, including halfway up a cliff face with the coffin swinging below you.

The Count can hear all of it. That's not a side effect. That's the entire reason we built it.

The boring bits we're proudest of

Full key rebinding. Colourblind modes. Dialogue volume split out from everything else. Subtitles in thirty languages. Online co-op for one to four players, and solo if you'd rather take your time.

None of this makes a trailer. All of it decides whether somebody can play the game at all.

What happens now

We're heads-down on the back half of the journey, and on the one big surprise we're absolutely not talking about yet.

No release date to give you (just yet). The moment we have one, it goes here first.

And if you'd like to help out a very small studio: wishlist it. It matters more than it reasonably should.