Hi,
This is a great start and will be very helpful for a game I wanted to make for my son. Thanks. By the way I added a slight time delay at the "touchEnd=true" statement (0.25) and changed the world gravity for the bird to 0 just before the delay and back to 10 just after the delay. This seemed to stop the intermittent problem of the bird not launching all the time (I know there is probably a better way to do it but it works for now).
Thanks again.