Design and production of interactive entertainment.
See our studio account @BirdIslandGames for tweets about our games Gerda: a Flame in Winter and Broken Lines
We are looking for a technically skilled art director (full time, On-site position in DK), for our RPG'like games.
Find the job-posting here: https://t.co/qaXbFBWuRg
Application Deadline: 22/06/2026
Starting date: August 2026 (or later)
#CRPG#indiegame#jobposting
Help us out!
Doing a Nordic Game talk: "what NOT to do, to survive as a IndieDev".
Covering topics like: "DON'T create your own engine", "DON'T innovate!" and "DON'T keep you IP".
Would love more ideas for topics to cover!
Will reward with totally unrelated silly talk photos!
DLSS-5’ing Gerda a Flame in Winter destroys the distinct visual style. Resembling our demo art-style experiments (see screenshots).
DLSS5’s biggest potential is trading in any unique styling for increased fidelity…
#GerdaAFlameInWinter#indiegame#narrative#DontNod#birdisland
Working on a new game.
Still very early in the process, but we believe we might be onto something, in regards to the gameplay-audio design combo...
What do you think?
#indiegame#runbased#roguelite#RPG
Holy Moly! We're nominated twice in this year's @SpilprisenDK, with both of our studio brands 🤩 Honored to share the nominations with some amazing #dkgame studios 👋🏽 See you at the show!
https://t.co/EQjLNsMmsZ
#Spilprisen
It's been long enough since Gerda: A Flame in Winter released; time to unleash upon the web all the awful behind-the-scenes glitches and bloopers. Should we make it a weekly thing? Dunno 🤷🏽♀️ But let's start us off easy: with an endless loop of your favorite characters dying 💀😍
New year, new brand!
PortaPlay is moving all commercial game activities to our new brand: Bird Island, an indie game studio from Copenhagen with a fresh identity but with deep roots.
Sign up to our mailing list: https://t.co/WG0pawC2Rf
More details in the thread 🧵
Det er på tide, at DK får en national handlingsplan for spiludvikling foreslår @Producentfor til kulturminister @engelschmidt. Vi skal modernisere kulturpolitikken og sikre høj kvalitet i udbuddet af spil. Den danske spilbranche står klar! #dkgame#dkpol https://t.co/9PDb6xHsqG
For Gerda, the Vestergaard mansion has always been her best friend's house, a place full of good memories. Today she has to put those aside and sneak around to find something that might help free Anders.
#GAFIW
The Gerda: A Flame in Winter War Child Digital Edition is NOW available on Steam: https://t.co/PLpFzy3y0T
Support @WarChildUK in helping girls and young women in warzones around the world! 20% of proceeds will go directly to War Child.
#IDG2022
Thank you for playing Gerda: A Flame in Winter! We love hearing your thoughts so keep ‘em coming! The media liked it too – see what the critics are saying in this new accolades trailer.
Play it now!
Steam: https://t.co/PLpFzykB2T
Switch: https://t.co/FSWTE3WWw6
#GAFIW
Gerda: A Flame in Winter is one of my fav games of the year. Huge thank you to the devs at @PortaPlay for chatting to me about this unique take on depicting war in a video game
https://t.co/3enEzSMlmp
To commemorate #DayoftheGirl, we have partnered with @WarChildUK on a special edition of Gerda: A Flame in Winter, available on Oct. 12 on Steam!
20% of proceeds will go to #WarChild who help support girls and young women in war zones around the world: https://t.co/B55fO0Ct1Q
Here it is friends. You knew this day would come. The first #GAFIW review to quote Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" ✨ Now to patiently wait for a critique of our RPG mechanics through the lens of "The Human Condition"🧘🏽♀️
Last weekend we gathered past and present team members along with our friends to celebrate #GAFIW's launch 🎉🥳 Enjoy this compilation, plus a little bonus in the thread 🧵👇🏽
"One of the most important adventures of our time" - @PocketTactics
"A brilliant adventure game" - @NME
"Absolute pleasure to play" - @EscapistMag
"Shows what RPG-lites are capable of" - @thegamerwebsite
We are FLOORED by the first round of #GAFIW reviews 😍
< Retweet to Invite! > 🔥 LIVE NOW 🔥
playing a new Branching Narrative RPG-Lite "Gerda: A Flame In Winter" on https://t.co/HL4I6w3GxB
#GAFIW by @PortaPlay#sponsored@DONTNOD_Ent
"Despite some nit-picks and minor bugs, 'Gerda: A Flame in Winter' is an exceptional, approachable adventure game drenched in actual history."
Our glowing review finds a lot to love in this impactful tale set in WW2: https://t.co/k8Fy6885XB