- Summer's End - 17 September 2025
You know it belongs on your Steam wishlist! ☝️☝️☝️☝️ Hey there, Strikers! Summer's almost gone 🚪, but it was full of events and kept us occupied for sure. We traveled a lot and took the Swing Striker with us! One such travel led us to Dallas for DreamHack back in May! Various folks visited, including esports stars both established and emerging. Their appreciation was humbling! We also got some vital feedback that will help us improve the game further. So what's been going on in the project? We're still deep in development — sanding off the rough edges, testing new mechanics 🛠️, and occasionally asking ourselves “What if the ball had feelings?” 🤔 We don’t know where that thread leads, but we’re not ruling anything out. Right now, we're exploring ways to complete the project and secure funding (translation: we’re juggling design docs and pitch decks like hot potatoes). But rest assured…
- Spring Cleaning - 20 March 2025
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280850/Swing_Striker/ Did you remember to add it to your Steam wishlist? Long time no see, Strikers! 🤸⚽️🦈🫡 You might have been wondering where did we go since the last announcement! The truth is, we did not go anywhere, we were just busy like bees, working on Swing Striker and our other projects. Right now we are on GDC working towards opportunities that will allow us to take the game to the next level... as well as presenting Swing Striker to new fans. They seem to like it! Seriously though, what has been in the making? Lots and lots, after all we worked on things like: 🎨 Perfecting the singleplayer levels 🛠️ Polishing networking for online matchmaking and PvP games 💯 Designing rewards system 👹 Working on existing characters and brewing new ones 🖱️ Improving UI and controls 🪚 Numerous bug fixes and optimizations 😵💫 And more, more, more! O…
- Introducing the RoboSharkQueen! - 5 April 2023
Squid Kicks' story has our biggest boss yet! We're giving you a backstage pass to some of the concept art and a sneak peak at a new sunken ship stage and our golden girl herself, the RoboSharkQueen. Get ready for a subnautical slapfest, and make sure to watch out for that charge attack! https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNjEwZGY3MDEyNzNhYTNlMmY4YzVkZTBiMDE0NzBjZDRiNTc0ZTRkZSZjdD1n/dhkmgowjlFM9xuzxmO/giphy.gif But we've got to ask - are you really fighting HER, or is it the fish behind the curtain...?
- A New Direction for the Game? - 1 April 2023
Well, after talking with the team and considering all of our options, we've decided to go in a different direction for Swing Striker and the character designs to really make them "come alive". Meet the new Penny Webb! What do you think? .... April Fools! We love all of the art our artists have created for the game, and, while Dusty the spider would make for a fierce striker competitor, we think Penny Webb and her illustrations suit the game just fine as they are 😉 Stay tuned for more game updates!
- Penny Webb’s World Comes Swinging Into Ours! - 7 March 2023
Every planet in the Swing Striker universe is bursting with life, and it's up to our art team to develop the environment, characters, and enemies which inhabit it! Our current spotlight is on Penny Webb and the vibrant, techno jungles of Deltronopolis, the place she calls home. Meet the friends and family who have shaped this punchy, fist-flinging spider into the WebSwimming champion she is today! Check out these early sneak peeks into the first steps taken to begin fleshing out our spider striker’s wonderful world. Here are some concepts for Penny Webb's friends and family And here are some sketches for the environment and level designs in her world We look forward to sharing more behind-the-scenes work with you in the future! Stay tuned in, Strikers!
- Intro to Evercoral - 22 February 2023
How long does it take to create the awesome visuals you see in video games? Quite a bit longer than you might think! Our dedicated art team goes through a multistep process to create many of our designs, even the deceptively simple-seeming ones. That process includes: Concepting, prototyping, then finalizing and integration - all while reporting back to the rest of the team for feedback throughout the process. Check out some of the stuff we've been working on for Squid Kicks! Squid Kicks hails from Evercoral, a mostly ocean world that is home to a population of tough competitors and their favorite brutal sport, Battle Coral! Here we have an overhead view of some of the many coral clusters dotting the surface of the planet. You'll be able to see this art and more in the new animated intro for Squid Kicks' story mode!
- Squid Kicks DevBlog - 30 January 2023
Our Swing Striker team has been hard at work adding a full story mode for our beloved character, Squid Kicks! Social Media influencer by day, swing striker by night, she can kick anyone's butt with the giant boot attached to her robot suit that she built herself and named after her grandma, Susan. We've been hard at work making new levels, environmental art, boss fights, and new fans that will cheer you on from the stands! Swing Striker Demo You can find out more about Squid Kicks, her fans, and the challenges she'll face when Swing Striker is released. The demo version will only have Basic B's story, but don't worry! We're only 2 characters away from releasing to Steam. There's no official date yet, but 🤞 we hope it's soon!
- Swing Striker Stream Recap - 3 November 2022
Every week or two, the Swing Striker team gets on Discord and Twitch to playtest some of the new features in the game. It's a great way for you to see a behind the scenes look at how we test, evaluate, and iterate on our games, along with an opportunity to see hilarious physics bugs that come up. During this past week's test, we tried out the new character abilities, death match mode, and a few new levels for Squid Kick's single player mode! Check out this silly clip: Make sure to follow us on Twitch and join our Discord to stay up to date on all your Swing Striker news! Feel free to always give us feedback as a comment or even just message us on Discord, we're here and ready to listen to what you have to say. Thank you and we hope you enjoy our next streams!
- It’s Spooky Season! - 3 October 2022
It’s Spooky Season and everyone at Giant Fox Studios is excited for what is to come! It’s a beautiful time of year in which the mornings get chilly, the leaves turn yellow, and the spiders start to build their last webs of the year. Not all spiders are created equal however, and our Swing Striker, Penny Web, is a great example of that. Her speed and wicked spinning punch make her an extraordinary choice as you battle your friends for Swing Striker dominance! To honor the season and one of our favorite Strikers, our art team has assembled some concepts of Penny Web: Penny Web is now a full-functioning member of the Swing Striker team. Check out these gifs of her in action! https://media.giphy.com/media/M6fMiZ4VDxC9PZ0gGK/giphy.gif Giant Fox Studios is continuing our work on Swing Striker and our other projects, building a big game with a compelling story for our fans to explore. Check ba…
- Giant Fox Studios and Swing Striker: An Introspective Look - 26 September 2022
Hello to everyone from the team at Giant Fox Studios! (Big Wavey Wave) If you have been following our posts over the past few months you can see that our upcoming game, Swing Striker, has received a ton of updates. Swing Striker has been in development for a little while now but GIant Fox Studios is still crafting new quality content for it everyday! We are very proud of how far we have come. This game started as a simple flash game on Bored.com and was streamed by PewDiePie… …and has risen to become a fully fleshed-out modern game with advanced physics and compelling graphics! Swing Striker is being developed to include game modes for every type of player. The Giant Fox Studios team has been working on crafting a single-player campaign that will provide many hours of universe spanning puzzles, monster bashing, and mystery solving entertainment. You will get a chance to play with your f…
- Giant Fox Studios Gives a Sneak Peek At Our Most Powerful Playable Character Yet - 27 August 2022
The universe is a big place full of scary and dangerous people. Those dangerous people all fear Slick, the universe's top assassin. Slick is quick and nimble with plenty of tricks up his sleeve. Slick is a big part of why Swing Striker is the universe-wide phenomenon that it is now, even if he didn’t intend it. Slick is done with that life, however, and now practices his “fine art” on his Swing Striker opponents. Since joining the Swing Striker league he has made a different type of name for himself by proving to be the strongest challenger in the game. A big reason for his success seems to be that, despite it being against Swing Striker regulations, he carries his rocket launcher into the stadium, blasting his fellow Strikers to bits whenever the urge hits him. https://media.giphy.com/media/qFxo3wHx8wX8Ku9qe4/giphy.gif The team over at Giant Fox Studios always gets a bit nervous when s…
- The Swing Striker Team Plays! - 19 August 2022
With so much QA and bug fixing, who has time to play games?? Well, we do! Every week, the Giant Fox team hops online to play our game together. This is an important thing for us! We work remotely nowadays and it's nice to be able to spend some time as a team with something fun. And, with that in mind, what could be more fun than playing Swing Striker?? During our playtest sessions silly things happen all the time and bugs show themselves. This was certainly a big one: Whelp, looks like our development team has some more work to do! Of course, this is all part of the process of building and creating games. The development team spends a lot of time making sure the playing process is smooth and bug free. They do that while keeping up with requests for new mechanics and abilities from the design team. Now, just because we are playing games this week doesn’t mean that we aren’t still working…
- New Levels, Power-Ups and Character Abilities Offer Endless Possibilities! - 10 August 2022
The unbelievably talented, compellingly unique and incredibly handsome Giant Fox team is working hard to bring Swing Striker’s new abilities and power-ups to life. We are going to be highlighting a few of these over the next few weeks so check back in for regular updates. These new abilities we are going to highlight take time to develop in order to ensure they are the best for future players. We have grown as a team and through that have a new QA process to develop new ideas. Finding and knocking out bugs is a part of this process. Our development team has done a great job of clearing out the backlog and gearing towards the future with a new Demo version to be released soon! This week we want to show you “The Golden Boot!” This giant golden clodhopper plows through your opponents and kicks the ball right where you want it. We love to consider mechanics for players that are easy to pick…
- INKredible Swing Striker: Squid Kicks - 2 August 2022
All of us at Giant Fox Studios are excited about the progress we’ve made on our game Swing Striker this past month! Our development team has made great strides in crafting the new character abilities and testing new game modes for our players. QA has been a focus this month and the team has been combing through our game to make sure it is polished and ready for our fans. You have seen many of our wacky characters, but where do they come from? Many of our Swing Strikers had to overcome great obstacles to get to where they are today. This past month we have spent a lot of time on a very INKredible Swing Striker, Squid Kicks. Her journey will lead you to places you won't expect and provide challenges you can’t resist! ^ Mr. Leggy ^ How does a squid go into battle? Well armed. ^ Bob Calamarley ^ We are bringing many of our new ideas to light with our excellent art department and are excited…
- Swing Striker is Getting Bigger and Better! - 6 June 2022
Impatient to play? We hear you! Swing Striker’s development team has expanded in order to provide quality content at an even quicker pace. With this new approach, our team has been able to implement some new features which should create hours of exciting content for you all to play! Some of our new features: - A longer single-player mode with awesome platforming levels and an intricate story - A DeathMatch Mode which is pure, glorious carnage and fun - Unique special character abilities - For example, Squidkicks can now #ShootDaBoot! We really appreciate the feedback we’ve received from our Beta Testers and have released a brand new demo version that addresses many of the issues you brought to our attention! We will have more updates coming soon. We hope that you continue to play and tell us what you think during this exciting time in our development! Join our Discord for the latest inf…
- Who's the best at Swing Striker? - 17 February 2022
Hey G.Rounders! How's your week been? We've been busy squashing more bugs than we can count thanks to your help, keep 'em coming! Btw, did you see us getting owned at our own game on Bram's stream last week? 😂 It was awesome to play against pro gamers. Just because we made the game it doesn't mean we're the best at it.. 😛 Check it out here if you missed it- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1294554559?t=00h15m00s But who is the best? Our team has been debating which of our devs is the best at Swing Striker? Who would win- engineers that built the game QA that's done hundreds of hours of testing, the designers that thought it up, or the artists that created the characters? There's only one way to find out! A live-streamed developer tournament! It starts later today at 6 pm MST. Come on by our Twitch or Steam page to see it go all down live! https://www.twitch.tv/giantfoxstudios See you ther…
- New Costumes and Some Bug Squashing - 11 February 2022
WOW, what an awesome week this has been! We've been reading through every review and watching all of the videos. Thank you so much for all of the amazing feedback given. We're already making improvements to the game based on what you've said! A new build of Swing Striker just went live a few moments ago. Here's what's new! - Fixed most critical issues (there are still some issues if you play multiple matches in a row - Made it easier to unlock skins/costumes and they sync online now! Here's what we're working on next: - Fixing remaining major bugs - Adding a rematch button for private online matches - Adding an option to play against a bot in competitive mode If you run into any bugs while playing, please press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B to report a bug to us right in-game and put it in your review over at the website. It's a HUGE help for us! Also, there's a Swing Striker community game night on…
- The Beta Test is Finally Here! - 3 February 2022
Have you heard? We're running a beta test for Swing Striker! You can play a demo of the game for free and leave us some feedback so we can improve it before launch. If we use your feedback to change the game, we'll include you in the credits! Win/win/win! Sign up here- https://www.gameround.co/detail/223/comments-list/EN We are BEYOND excited to hear what you think about the demo. Be sure to leave us feedback! Happy swingin'!
- Fox Box, Whaaat?! - 13 November 2021
Too busy to write a lot, but check out how sick our new Fox Box looks! We've heard some feedback so far- "Looks cool but does it work?" PFFT. What is this, amateur hour? Of course it'll work! We literally just fixed the last critical issue an hour ago. We also added a whole bunch of awesome new features to Swing Striker! A new update should be available on Steam for anyone that's gotten an early key. But TBH, it's best on the Fox Box :p Here's a little peak inside... Come check it out at Whaaat?! this weekend. Hope to see you there! - Giant Foxers
- Live-drawing of a new character! - 16 June 2020
New characters don't just poof into existence you know! Watch our talented artist, Bryant LaMare, draw a new character from concept through completion. To the left is a video of him working on our first character, Basic B. Swing Striker is a game all about intergalactic grappling-hook soccer, so we have no idea what Bryant will come up with for the next character! Wishlist Swing Striker here if you haven't yet! Happy swingin'!
