Major update8 Jul 2021THE OTTERMAN EMPIRE: ONLINE UPDATE .... ONE YEAR ONPLAY WITH UP TO 16 OTTERS ONLINE Yes we listened, launching a local only game during a pandemic was not the best circumstances! But after a year of development, we are excited to get everyone playing online! Host your own games, open it up or keep it between your friends, customise your characters and customise your match then take to the skies! There will be a bug or two, so please bare with u…
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Hello otters! It's the Tri-Heart Interactive here we know it's been a while because there's been some super exciting stuff happening in the studio that we can't wait to share with you all. So Tri-Heart Interactive are happy to say we have finalised our first major update for The Otterman Empire and are now just speaking to the platform holders about getting our latest patch uploaded across all…
What have we been up to? It's been over a month since we launched The Otterman Empire and we have been listening to all your feedback, reviews, streams, Tweets and more and have been hard at work from our COVID bunkers working as a team on new content and updates that is coming for the game. As you may have been seeing from our social media, Discrord and other social channels that we have been…
Development Update 13/07/2020 Hey otter gang! Hope everyone had an amazing weekend, TH here bringing you all the latest updates from what we are working on from our bunkers at the moment for The Otterman Empire and what we have planned this week. Dan the Man (lead programmer): Dan is working on the AI profiling and pathways of a new enemy type we will be adding into The Otterman Empire, we have…
Join us for our first ever Reddit AMA What happens when a studio get together and create a split-screen game party game? You get Otters in space with jetpacks! We are Tri-Heart Interactive and we are here to talk about our recent Nintendo Switch game The Otterman Empire in our first AMA! Myself Simran and our creative director Kieran Rogers will be taking your questions at 4PM GMT/ 12PM ET/9AM…
Hello Otters! Thanks for your feedback and support. We're always listening. As always, please feel free to join us on our social channels or Discord if you have any questions about the game! ADDED . New Jetpack Input From players feedback we have added a new input for Jump and Jetpack - this is on the left trigger - we have not removed the old mapping so not to confuse players who are already u…
Hello Otters, It's been a few days since we launched The Otterman Empire on Steam and it's been a wild ride to say the least between reviews coming in and receiving feedback and already working on updates on the game and have our first Steam patch coming out today. Guys we just want to say we really appreciate all the feedback you guys have given us through YouTube videos, Tweets, Twitch Stream…
Yesterday we launched The Otterman Empire on Steam, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One and the last 24 hours have been so incredible. This morning we woke up to find ourselves on the storefronts of both Steam and Nintendo Switch, for Steam we awoke to find ourselves standing amongst legends like Star Wars, Mass Effect, Movie Or Die, Plants Vs Zombies on top of new and trending on steam for indie and…
3 years ago some friends sat down at Crazy Pedro’s whilst eating a chicken, waffle and syrup pizza and said “let’s build a business making video games and make a game like Splatoon mixed with Mario Kart but it be split-screen and will have otters with jetpacks that makes people sit down and play together like the old days”. After three years of hard work, endless amount of grinding, building th…
Hey guys, gals, otters, crocs, turtles, dogs, or whatever you fancy really. With the launch of The Otterman Empire upon us tomorrow we have created an online feedback for you to submit bugs glitches, complaints, praise, love, hate, tales about your day pretty much anything you find on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Steam version we would like you to submit any feedback you may have in regard…
Hello otters this is the big day we have all been waiting for, we are heading into Otter Space in less than 24 hours. Three years of building this game from nothing but a blank level and a broken character alongside our community, everything from building the original game, rebuilding it all over again, our office collapsing, working from Star Bucks for 4 months, moving into a new office, devel…
Hey everyone Simran here bringing you all the latest news from inside the Tri-Heart Interactive studio as we're ONLY 3 DAYS FROM LAUNCH!! Exciting and scary times for us as we're approaching the big day we have been working 3 years towards is almost here and I can't even express how excited I am for the big day. - Dan Williams our lead programmer is working on some accessibility functions for a…
You didn't think the competitions ended this week right? We're giving away three Nintendo Switch codes for The Otterman Empire to you our otterly amazing community. The rules are simple. To take part please do the following: Like our FB page and follow us on Twitter Retweet/share Tag a friend Simple as that!! Drawing 11:59pm GMT July 2nd Facebook Page: Twitter: DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: This is it ot…
Yesterday on June 25th myself Simran and Kieran sat down with you our community and did a live questions and answers about The Otterman Empire. This was our first time as a studio doing a Livestream and taking questions live from our community and we loved it so much and got a lot of amazing questions and response from the community. For those who missed it you can find the whole one hour strea…
Hey otters it's your favourite community manager here bringing you some exciting news for tomorrow we'll be hosting a meet the team behind The Otterman Empire dev stream on Twitch tomorrow where we'll be doing a live QA with you our community as we talk about game and our journey of how we got here building a game alongside you and publishing it on three platforms. Can't wait to see you all ott…
Brief: Hello otters we have an exciting competition for you all and another chance for you to have one of your creations get added to The Otterman Empire game. As part of a pre-launch week competition for The Otterman Empire we will be allowing you our otterly amazing community to design a character skin/outfit for our main heroine Astrid for 1 week and at the end of the week the Tri-Heart Inte…
The announcements don't stop this week! The team at Tri-Heart Interactive are delighted to announce, The Otterman Empire has become an official Epic MegaGrant recipient! An enormous thank you to Epic Games and Unreal Engine in their support in helping our team manage to help make this project a reality. A huge thank you to the Epic Megagrants team for supporting not only us but for continuing t…
Hey everyone Simran here just bringing you all the latest news on what the team are up to from our COVID bunkers as we grow closer to launch. Team community aka me, Caroline and Dan Sheridan have been working our butts off spreading the word of the Otter to communities, press and influencers and anyone who will hear the word of the Otter and help increase our reach so that more people can enjoy…
Who knew making a game was hard? 3 years of development, building a community from nothing, two studio spaces that literally collapsed on top of us, development hell and more. As part of a two-part documentary series, the team at Tri-Heart Interactive wanted to share our journey with you. The amazing filmmaker Ashley Yarwood joined us behind the scenes to capture our team throughout development…
After 3 years of countless hours of development, 2 roof collapsed studios, and a global pandemic we are happy to officially announce that as of July 2nd The Otterman Empire will be coming to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. The whole Tri-Heart Interactive team is so happy to finally be bringing split-screen and the game we’ve built alongside our community into the big wide world. We wanted…
Hey, community so a bit of mini good news statement to end the week on for you all. DEV UPDATES: Firstly here's an overview of what the team has been up to today. - Dan our lead programmer has been working on some accessibility updates for future Otterman updates looking into more ways we can improve the game for the physically disabled, colour blind and many more as making a game that everyone…
Hey, everyone, it's Simran here bringing you the latest news from inside Tri-Heart Interactive. Today was another great productive day, myself, Caroline and Dan have been working on getting some community stuff, planning and assets underway for an amazing announcement we have coming very soon and yh we've only just stopped right now for me to be able to inform you all haha, honestly I'm so happ…
Hello otters! It's been a great week at Tri-Heart Interactive so I'll get straight into the good news. We passed Nintendo LOT check which is amazing and because of this, we have an AMAZING announcement dropping very soon not long now. As of late myself (Simran), Caroline and Dan the best community team ever have been working away building up our press list and influencer outreach and getting st…
Yesterday was World Otter Day and we decided to celebrate in style by letting The Otterman Empire be heard by the whole games industry by taking part in the Twitter wide Pitch Ya Game where hundreds of indie developers and studios around the world showed off their amazing games and there were so many amazing games out there and amongst all those hundreds The Otterman Empire was selected to be i…
Hey everyone Simran Whitham one of the directors and community manager here at Tri-Heart Interactive I was just to give you all an update on what has happened over the last few months and where things currently stand with the team. Around the beginning of the quarantine within the United Kingdom, we began exiting final additions and development on Otterman and began entering the polishing and Q…
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