Road to EGLX: Oddbird Studios - Arrow Heads

Continuing our Road to EGLX, we're looking at Arrow Heads from Oddbird Studios - a game we've actually talked about for a while now. It launched back in September, after winning Level Up, and now will be at EGLX for all to play.

If you'd rather play before hand to get some skills and dominate one of its Game Designers Brendan (it won't be hard), you can pick the game up on Steam. Check out the trailer below.

Make sure to pick up some tickets to the show!

Now available for purchase on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/580890/Arrow_Heads/ Grab your friends, neighbors, extended family and that handsome cashier from the grocery store and get ready for some sweet, award-winning, couch and online multiplayer. With your trusty bow, shoot, dodge and deflect arrows in this zany isometric archery game.

Arrow Heads Launches On Steam

Our good friends at Oddbird Studios have released their first title, Arrow Heads on Steam. Arrow Heads is a multiplayer arrow shooting game, where you can play locally or online - and right now it's enjoying a 20% launch discount. So check it out on Steam.

Now available for purchase on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/580890/Arrow_Heads/ Grab your friends, neighbors, extended family and that handsome cashier from the grocery store and get ready for some sweet, award-winning, couch and online multiplayer. With your trusty bow, shoot, dodge and deflect arrows in this zany isometric archery game.

Arrow Heads Coming to Steam on September 21st

Arrow Heads by OddBird Studio will be released on Steam on September 21.  Arrow Heads is a local and online multiplayer archery game that includes a single and co-op mode.  OddBird showed this game at LevelUp! 2016, winning Best Overall Game and Best Artistic Achievement, as well as winning at the ESAC Student Game Competition.

Coming to Steam September 21st! Get ready to join in on the zany battle royale archery game known as Arrow Heads! For more information visit our steam page below. We will be releasing to Xbox and Playstation later on as well! Stay tuned on our social media for updates of when the game will be available.

ARROW HEADS IS COMING STEAM SEPTEMBER 21ST!

Announcement Trailer: https://t.co/SVUUXDBklh
Steam Page: https://t.co/xwRf8YeS11#indiedev pic.twitter.com/TVfJwiKQOz

— OddBird (@OddBirdStudio) August 8, 2017

Oddbird Studio Looking For Beta Testers For 'Arrow Heads'

Interested in playing some Arrow Heads ahead of its release? You're in luck! Oddbird Studios is looking for Beta testers, which you can sign up for here.

Itching to play Arrow Heads? Sign up for our online beta weekend here! https://t.co/3J2CYBU38R

Retweet so we can jam pack the servers! pic.twitter.com/iy8lOJffHz

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) August 3, 2017

Release Date For Arrow Heads Coming Soon?

Our friends over at Oddbird Studios tweeted recently that we'll have a Steam store announcement soon - looks like we'll be getting a release date for Arrow Heads in the coming days. We'll make sure to post when it's official.

Shameless promotional plug Friday! Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming Steam store announcement! #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/YJaVuy4gf8

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) July 21, 2017

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Mario Kart 8 on Switch is out! Oddbird Studios has been tweeting a lot about Arrow Heads - and ZeMind Studios have been doing some Let's Plays. Arrow Heads: http://www.torontogamedevs.com/blog/oddbird-studios-tweets-more-footage-for-arrowheads Mario Kart 8: http://mariokart8.nintendo.com/?mkwid=[uniq_id]_dc[distribution]%7cpcrid%7c[creative_id]%7cpmt%7cb%7cpkw%7c[keyword_text]&pid=SEM_[group]&gclid=COGhxL-oyNMCFSOgMgod7cMAHA&gclsrc=ds ZeMind Studios Let's Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzBT9l0y16c

Oddbird Studios Tweets More Footage For Arrowheads

I've noticed that friend of the site Oddbird Studios have been tweeting a lot about their upcoming game Arrow Heads.  Winner of Level up 2016, Arrow Heads is a multiplayer archery game that pits 2-4 players against each other in deathmatch. I've gathered some of their recent tweets below - we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out a release date for Arrow Heads - you can however download an early build of the game right here.

We added some VFX to our Summit level. Now it feels like a snow level. =) #gaming #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/tS9XCNEPKQ

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) April 26, 2017

We can't always work on fun things. But we are pretty excited with how our settings menu came out. =) #gaming #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/5ffU3qQqmK

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) April 25, 2017

Sneak peek at how to unlock the achievement, "What is this tennis?" Deflection battles incoming. =) #gaming #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/imunu07I5s

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) April 12, 2017

Guess whooo is ready to fight?! The Owl is officially ready to battle. =) #gaming #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/2rVtj0sEX2

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) April 10, 2017

Arrow Heads Gets An Audio Guy - Releases Small Teaser

Arrow Heads, the multiplayer game from Oddbird Studio now has an audio guy. PJ Tremblay, a producer out of Oakville will be composing music for the game, as announced via Twitter.

We partnered with PJ from @audio4n6 to create the music for Arrow Heads! We have a short tease here! https://t.co/FPaIBH9lZo #indiedev

— OddBird Studio (@OddBirdStudio) November 5, 2016

I'm so pumped to #compose for #ArrowHeads! It's been a blast w/ #Oddbirdstudio. The #game kicks ass! Can't wait till it's out! #gameaudio https://t.co/oLyQW9UcWe

— Audio 4n6 🎮🎤🎬 (@audio4n6) November 5, 2016

They also released a teaser for the score, which you can check out on Youtube. Make sure to subscribe to their channel!

We have partnered with an amazing individual named PJ from Audio4n6 to compose the various songs for Arrow Heads. He has done an absolutely outstanding job, and we wanted to give a brief sneak peek of the upcoming music!

Sounds awesome! Make sure to follow Oddbird, and PJ Tremblay on Twitter.

Preview - Thoughts On Cuphead, Below, and Arrowheads from E3

Hey everyone! So as I've been tweeting, I got to go to E3, and got to play a lot of great games. Some of those great games were developed in our own back yard. Here are some general thoughts I've had on them:

Cuphead from Studio MDHR

We've discussed this a few times on the podcast, but this game is beautiful. It's fluid and smooth, and it was great to confirm this in person. Platforming sections have just been announced and I got to play the section from the video we posted earlier.  The game is certainly difficult, but the controls are easy to grasp and similar to Megaman games of the past. I think once you get the level design down, and the placement of enemies you'll be flying - it will be interesting to see how long this takes. Sadly I didn't get a chance to try out a boss, but the 10 minutes I played left a great impression.

Below from Capybara Games

E3 probably isn't the best place to play test a game like Below, especially if it's the first time you've ever played it.  It deserves to be played in a dark room, with nothing else to get in the way with headphones on. You start the demo on a beach with your boat and before long you're going "below" in a mountain, fighting creatures and collecting items.  The atmospheric and creepy music matched my actions perfectly, and there appears to be some sort of crafting system, but I didn't get a chance to try it out.  Battling was similar to Legend of Zelda games of old, having a sword, shield, bow and arrow at your disposal, but with other weapons to pick up like a spear.  Below is planned for this summer, and I would turn off the lights when you play.

Arrowheads from OddBird Studio

You don't have to travel to Los Angles to play OddBird Studios multiplayer shooter.  You can download Arrowheads from their site right here, and when you do I recommend getting some friends to play along with. Think of it as a 3D Towerfall. The gang has added some extra levels since the last time I played it, and it's just as fun as ever.  The art and animations are colourful, the gameplay is solid, and the game is just straight up a lot of fun to play. If you want to hear some further discussion on it, make sure to listen to Episode 22 of our podcast, but keep this one on your radar.

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Our E3 Predictions - Toronto GameDevs

Yesterday on the podcast, Bret, Dan, Shae, Brendan, and myself gave some predictions on what we think we'll see at E3.  Given that the press conferences are about to start, I thought I'd make a post about it. I'll leave out the non-Toronto predictions out, but make sure to check out the full podcast for all the predictions:

Shae:

• 13AM Games will be announcing a new game

Dan:

• We'll see a demo for Below from Capybara Games
• (from last week) 13AM Games movie (probably joking)

Brendan:

• Didn't make a specific Toronto game developer prediction, so I'm taking this chance to shame him. Shhhhhaaammmeeee.

We made a lot of predictions on Runbow/13AM Games, let's see who's right.

Bret:

• We'll see a Guacamelee 2 from DrinkBox Studios
• Single player game from 13AM Games feature Satura from Runbow 

Steve:

• Ubisoft Toronto is the lead developer behind the next Splinter Cell game
• Runbow amiibo / Nintendo costume in Runbow
• Arrowheads NX launch title (I was joking)

Time will tell, happy E3 everyone! Make sure to check out the podcast for all the predictions.

OddBird Studios Wins ESAC’s Student Video Game Competition - Going To E3

Good friends of the site, Oddbird Studio has won the annual Student Video Game Competition from The Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC), which means they'll be at E3 next week.  You can check out the quote from Cody below:

"We are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase our game Arrow Heads at E3 this year” said Cody Romphf. “Everyone on our team has their own expertise, whether that’s gameplay programming, stylizing characters, animation, or level design. We can’t wait to show the talent and skills that come from Canada”, he added."

To celebrate, Oddbird Studio also released a teaser trailer for their multiplayer game, which we throughly enjoyed when we talked about it on the podcast a few weeks back.

Arrows Heads is a zany battle royale archery game being developed by a group of students from Sheridan's Bachelor of Game Design program! Arrow Heads was the winner of Best Overall Game and Artistic Achievement from the Toronto Level Up Student Showcase in 2016.

Huge congrats to everyone at Oddbird Studio, and Sheridan College. You can read the full press release here. Make sure to give everyone lots of love on Twitter and FaceBook.

Play The Latest Build Of Arrow Heads From Odd Bird Studio

This is a solid reminder that the winner for Artistic Achievement, and Best Overall Game at Level Up this month can be played right now by anyone.  Arrows Heads can be downloaded for free on the teams official page (it's near the bottom), and all the team asks for is your feedback:

Remember to also tweet and follow the gang on Twitter, and FaceBook.  We got to play an earlier version of the game a few weeks back and discussed it on our podcast, we were huge fans! Congrats to Odd Bird Studios, and keep on crushing it!