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title: "Bird Zap"
subtitle: "Zap the birds as they fly across the screen, avoiding the big eagles and chaining lots together for maximum points!"
date: 2017-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
category: game
url: https://phaser.io/news/2017/01/bird-zap
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Bird Zap

*Zap the birds as they fly across the screen, avoiding the big eagles and chaining lots together for maximum points!*

![image](bird-zap.png)

Scheff Games posted this fun and unique game to the Phaser Forum: "My second Phaser game - I was quite tired after the first one so I decided to have a bit of fun and started playing with electrocution mechanics. I also polished my GUI a bit and added some transitions, button movement, etc. Finished it quickly enough since I was already familiar with Phaser and had some art assets leftovers from my previous game.

This was the time that I started taking an interest in particle creation - it's quite hard to make it frame by frame in Photoshop so  I ended up learning 2 complex 2d particle editors (Timeline Fx and Particle Illusion).

Feedback and criticism is welcome and much appreciated."

[Play Game](http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/27991-phaser-bird-zap/)

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