A remake of the Google Play built-in Whirlybird game, which has appeares to have disappeared from many Android devices for an unknown reason.
This app is designed to work on multiple platforms, though it works much better on some devices than others. I am limited in the number of platforms I can compile for, so binary distributions do not cover everything, and you may need to consider building it yourself.
This project's license permits you to build it yourself from this source code (or a modified version), and distribute that as well, under the conditions of the MIT License. This also allows you to get it to work on a platform I have not provided an official build for.
You can build it with whatever works, but I have provided spec files for Buildozer and PyInstaller. You can use these to get started.
If available, you can also download my official binaries right here on GitHub. As I mentioned earlier, these are not available on all platforms. Make sure you download the correct version for your device.
For those who are new to Whirlybird, welcome! The game's pretty straightforward - move left and right, using the A/D keys on the keyboard or tilting the device - to bounce off platforms and avoid the spikes. If controlling by tilting the device, the player sprite will move in the direction you tilt downward. The device must have a gravity sensor for tilting controls to work.
I am also exploring additional ways to control the game on a wider range of devices.
This is a project I'm working on in my spare time, and as such, development might be a bit slow. In saying that, development is progressing much faster than I expected, but there are some notable features of the original game still absent:
- Sounds
- Animations
- High score display - currently as I develop it, the difficulty changes a lot, so this will not be added until I have finished balancing everything out.
This project makes use of the Kivy framework (Copyright (c) 2010-2025 Kivy Team and other contributors) and its dependencies (each with their respective copyright holder). Both this code and Kivy are distributed under the MIT License. Please see here for license information for Kivy's dependencies.