- The Otterman Empire: Creative mode update - 26 July 2021
Welcome to The Otterman Empire: Creative mode update! We are excited to announce that our action-packed multiplayer party game, The Otterman Empire, which launched on July 2nd 2020 on Steam, Nintendo Switch and Xbox has now got it's own creative mode! Create your own custom arenas for you and your friends! Battle it out across otterspace, now with your own custom levels and game modes Welcome the Spy to the arena! £12.99 for a singleplayer campaign, local and online multiplayer and creative mode all in one!
- THE OTTERMAN EMPIRE: ONLINE UPDATE .... ONE YEAR ON - 8 July 2021
PLAY 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 us as we work to iron out the kinks! WELCOMING TO THE ARENA, ROBOTTER! He is fast, he is nimble and he's made of metal (We think) Armed with the baddest laser beam in otter space, Robotter blasts his way onto the scene with a whole host of new skins! A WORD FROM OUR TEAM Thank you for your on-going support. We know it has been a tough year for everyone and we have definitely felt it! Last year, we couldn't have asked for a better response but we knew we had more to give! We have been working incred…
- Our new update is almost here. - 5 October 2020
Our first quality of life update has been submitted! As you all know we've been hard at work from our COVID bunkers working on getting our first quality of life update fixing and improving on a large count of improvements and issues brought to us by the community from launch and as of last week we have submitted our first official patch to the platform holders for review and are awaiting confirmation once it goes live. As you know this update has taken its time as we have wanted to take our time in making sure that we got this process right, this is our first time as developers creating and uploading an update to all three platforms before and we are still learning a lot and have appreciated how patient you have been with us through this learning curve for us as a studio. We will be releasing a full breakdown of what is going into the update once it is live on all platform's for you all…
- You have art, I have otters!! - 23 September 2020
Hello, all this is your favourite Otter community manager here and I'm here to bring you an exciting new opportunity I have tons of spicey The Otterman Empire game codes to giveaway for those of you willing to battle it out for victory in the arena....the art arena. I want to see all the amazing talent amongst the best community and family in the world and am going to offer all the spicy game codes to see it. Starting from September 21st to 28th Tri-Heart Interactive will be giving away 10 game codes on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Steam for The Otterman Empire to the community who produce the best piece of fan art. Since the launch of The Otterman Empire on July 2nd we have seen some amazing creations made by the community and would like to see more! HOW TO JOIN! Below are the super SUPER easy steps to taking part in our fan art competiton . Join our Discord https://discord.gg/ESC…
- Development Update 16/09/2020 - 16 September 2020
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 three platforms which has been built on the feedback on the community for all platforms, from visual changes, bug fixes, graphics and audio sliders and better Nintendo Switch controls we have been listening and can't wait to show you what is coming. Additionally, we have some good news for you all we have officially started work on something new and exciting that we cannot talk too much about at the moment but we have already started the groundwork for the prototype for our new project and can't w…
- Development Update 28/08/2020 - What have we been up to? - 28 August 2020
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 working on an update for all three platforms improving and adding features highlighted by the community. We've been listening to everything you have to say and whilst we're keeping it mostly hush hush here are some of the things you can expect: . Improved graphic sliders . Improvement to our Nintendo Switch visuals . Adding the sprint function to the tutorial section of the game There's ton more than just that being added to our multi platform update and we will put out an official breakdown of ev…
- Development Update 13/07/2020 - 13 July 2020
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 been listening to your feedback on wanting to see a better enemy variety within the single-player mode of The Otterman Empire and we have been working on three new enemy types already, we have been doing around the clock playtesting for these enemy types getting their pathfinding and profiling fine-tune for when they can be added to the main game for all you lovely otters to blast with your water weapons. Additionally, Dan is also working on more localisation stuff for some new words that will be…
- r/NintendoSwitch Reddit AMA - 9 July 2020
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 PT so be sure to head over and come ask us anything about The Otterman Empire. The game has been out for exactly one week today and we've been hard at work on pumping out updates, and improvements based on the feedback of the community and are hard at work on future content for The Otterman Empire. We're here to talk about the game's development, design, what we eat for breakfast, literally anything you want to hear we’re here to answer. Additionally, we would like to offer a free Switch code to u…
- The Otterman Empire: Steam update 001: Steam functionality update - 8 July 2020
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 used to the mapping for Jumping and Jetpacking. Improved Keyboard Support Player feedback suggested the need for improved keyboard support. The input icons will now show the appropriate icons when using either keyboard or controller. FIXES Bug Fix Bug fixed that required you to click on the game window to have input for other controllers to join the game - you can now boot the game up, press the Join button on controllers 2 - 4 and they will join the game Controller swap fix Bug where the controlle…
- We want you to hear your experience with The Otterman Empire - 6 July 2020
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 Streams and more. Steam feedback helps us very much in terms of metrics and identifying issues we can then sort specifically for the Steam version of the game and reviews are a great way for the algorithm to help us see these issues and bring them to our attention and help us see your suggestions. Your experience If you are enjoying the game and haven't yet left your feedback via a Steam Review, would you consider letting others know about your experience? Reviews are super important for small developer…
- Today has been emotional in the best way - 3 July 2020
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 casual! This was already amazing of itself. Then we discovered we were next to Fornite and Animal Crossing on the discover page and two rows down new releases which was just amazing, Switch was one of our main platforms and then to see ourselves next to two of the biggest names in gaming was truly an honour. But then the good news did not stop there.....we made the front page of the Xbox store and that ladies and gentlemen is when we went from emotional to full-blown tears the response has been tr…
- The Otterman Empire is out today! Thank you this is just the beginning - 2 July 2020
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 this game from nothing but a blank level and a broken character alongside an amazing community, countless Gamers Unite events and more our labour of love The Otterman Empire has finally arrived and is on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam today. The whole team is ludicrously proud of everyone who has been part of this phenomenal project and shared this journey with us, enormous thank you and big love to everyone from family, friends, fellow industry folks and more it’s been a privilege to share thi…
- Come yell at us!!! - 1 July 2020
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 regards to the issues you find through the feedback form on our website as this helps us so much and allows us to be able to categorise all issues with the game regardless of platform much more easily and get to work fixing the issues. FEEDBACK FORM: https://www.theottermanempiregame.com/feedback
- LAUNCHING IN 24 HOURS!! - 1 July 2020
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, development hell, building a game with no money and nothing but a group of friends with a dream. Honestly, it's hard to put into words how we all feel right now, we have received so many wonderful words of encouragement, kind reviews, requests for reviews, phenomenal words, fan art and more it's been truly wonderful seeing you the community who have built this game come together at the end of this journey with us as we get ready to strap on our jetpacks and get ready to head into Otter Space. We're tir…
- Development Update - 29/06/2020 - 29 June 2020
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 future update we will be working on as accessibility and making sure this experience can be played by as many people as possible and is also working on some new combat-related features for a future update as we have said before this is just the start of our journey with The Otterman Empire and have more on the way - Chris is working on as much optimisation and background stuff as possible from a cinematic and VFX perspective he's always trying to get as much of Otterman to use as less memory or k…
- The Otterman Empire Nintendo Switch Codes Giveaway - 26 June 2020
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: https://www.facebook.com/THInteractive/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriHeartInt DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: This is it otters the final week before we launch The Otterman Empire less than 7 days to go and we are scared/excited beyond words. We're doing all we can behind the scenes to prep for the big day. Chris and Dan have been working on as much behind the scenes stuff as possible to make the game as stable as possible i.e. optimisation honestly you could have the most stable product imaginable but there is always stuff you could do to just ma…
- We did a live Q&A for The Otterman Empire - 26 June 2020
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 stream below as we featured new 4 player split-screen gameplay below. Huge love for all the community who came out to support the stream again you were otterly amazing. twitch.tv/triheartint
- Go behind the scenes with the developers of The Otterman Empire! - 24 June 2020
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 otters! We'll be going live at 4pm UK time on our official Twitch channel below where you can come say hi so be sure to pencil us into your otterly amazing diaries. https://www.twitch.tv/triheartint
- The Otterman Empire Astrid Character Design Competition - 23 June 2020
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 Interactive team will select the outfit we like the most and we will create that skin for Astrid and add it into the game within the future plans for the game. Using the Google Drive link below you will gain access to a PNG and PSD file for an outline of Astrid for you to design your chosen outfit design onto using any software of your choice and are then encouraged to share your character design either in our Discord or on social channels. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19_DtQ_OEEmLa08sTjyg1b…
- The Otterman Empire - Official Epic MegaGrants Recipient - 19 June 2020
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 to support indie game developers around the world
