One founder. A very long list of ideas.

What we make

Battery Powered Bird is an independent game studio based in coastal North Carolina. We make small games: things you can understand in a minute, play for ten, and come back to for a month. A coin you flip. A pair of dice. A boss you built yourself and now regret.

Most of what we make starts as a rule scribbled on paper or a mechanic we could not stop thinking about, and stays close to that. One idea per game, pushed as far as it will go. If a feature does not make that one idea better, it does not go in.

We draw most of our art in code, keep our games free of accounts and ads and tracking, and ship them in the simplest form we can: a single HTML file you can double-click, or an iPhone app that works in airplane mode.

How the games happen

KEO Duel started as a sword-and-dice game Caelum invented with two real dice and something to count health, then designed into an app. I LUV GAMBLING and BOSS FORGE came the same way: an idea he would not let go of, worked out on paper, then built.

What is next

KEO Duel is heading to the App Store. Version 2 of it is already underway. There are a couple of prototypes on the bench that are not ready to talk about yet. If you play something of ours and have an opinion, we would like to hear it.