Freebird Games

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Freebird Games
Industry Video games
Founded2007
FounderKan Gao
Headquarters Canada
Website www.freebirdgames.com

Freebird Games is a video game developer based in Canada. [1] They have developed eight games. Their most prominent game, To the Moon, was nominated for Best Writing and Innovation Award for the Canadian Videogame Awards. [2]

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History

Freebird Games' first game developed is Quintessence: The Blighted Venom, an episodic role-playing game, started as a personal project made by Chinese Canadian Kan "Reives" Gao, independently in the RPG Maker community. Later, the team expanded to include help from Jessica M. Vázquez, James Q. Zhang (retired), Gabriela Aprile, Lannie Neely III, and Laura Shigihara. Kan commissions various talents for resources and labor, but the majority of the work is completed by him as the only "official" developer. As a result of production difficulties after only eleven episodes were completed, the game was officially cancelled, leaving the latter three episodes unfinished.

Their second free game Do You Remember My Lullaby? was released on December 21, 2008. On June 20, 2009, they released a free demo of an upcoming release titled Lyra's Melody - The Song She Whispered to Me.

To the Moon and Sigmund Corp. franchise

In 2011, shortly before the release of To The Moon, they released their first full game The Mirror Lied for free. It is described as an abstract short story. Their first commercial release to the first installment of Sigmund Corp Series, To The Moon, was released on November 1, 2011, was a commercial success and received positive reviews. To the Moon 's two minisodes were released on late-2013 and early-2015, and its sequel, Finding Paradise , was released on December 14, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It has also released positive reviews. The third main game in the series, Impostor Factory , released on September 30th, 2021. The most recent game they have released, Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode, released on September 20th, 2024. [3]

Games

Release dateTitlePlatformsRefs
2006-09Quintessence: The Blighted Venom Microsoft Windows [4]
2008Do You Remember My Lullaby?Microsoft Windows [5]
2008The Mirror LiedMicrosoft Windows [6]
2009Lyra's Melody - The Song She Whispered to MeMicrosoft Windows [7]
2011 To the Moon Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS [8]
2013Sigmund Minisode 1: A Holiday SpecialMicrosoft Windows, OS X, Linux [9]
2014 A Bird Story Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux [10]
2015Sigmund Minisode 2Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux [11]
2017 Finding Paradise Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS [12] [13]
2021 Impostor Factory Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux [14] [15]
2023Alternate Universe PlaybookMicrosoft Windows
2024Just a To the Moon Series Beach EpisodeMicrosoft Windows

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References

  1. ↑ Ealey, Michelle (29 February 2012). "Interview With Kan Gao, Creator Of 'To the Moon'". Sciencefiction.com. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Hillier, Brenna (27 March 2012). "Sword & Sworcery, Assassin's Creed top picks for Canadian Videogame Awards". VG24/7 . Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Impostor Factory on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  4. ↑ "Quintessence: The Blighted Venom". Freebird Games. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Do You Remember My Lullaby?". Freebird Games. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Mirror Lied". Freebird Games. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Lyra's Melody - The Song She Whispered to Me Topic". rpgmaker.net. 23 June 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "To the Moon". Freebird Games. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  9. ↑ Gao, Kan (2013-12-31). "(To the Moon) Holiday Special Minisode". Freebird Games. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  10. ↑ "A Bird Story". Freebird Games. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  11. ↑ Gao, Kan (2015-02-18). "Sigmund Minisode 2 released". Freebird Games. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  12. ↑ Chalk, Andy (12 January 2016). "To the Moon sequel Finding Paradise officially revealed". PC Gamer. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  13. ↑ Finding Paradise - Announcement Trailer - Nintendo Switch , retrieved 2021-04-22
  14. ↑ Khan, Imran (12 March 2019). "To The Moon Developer Teases New Murder Thriller Project Impostor Factory". Game Informer . Archived from the original on March 13, 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  15. ↑ "Impostor Factory". Freebird Games. Retrieved 8 August 2020.


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