Title: OddBallers
Release year: 2023
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 & Xbox
Input: Controller / Keyboard
Players: 6
Developer Team: Game Swing
Publisher: Ubisoft
Website: oddballersgame.com
Price: 20€ – PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, Playstation & Xbox
Description
OddBallers is the spiritual successor to Stikbold! our first major title. The motivation for making OddBallers was to bring the fun local-multiplayer aspect of Stikbold! online, together with even more crazy hazards levels and mechanics.
The game was published by Ubisoft which meant we were collaborating with their internal teams throughout the latter half of the production of the game. It was quite the challenge for a small company like Game Swing to fulfil the demands of a publisher of this size. They wanted the game to be launched simultaneously on all platforms so we scaled up the team quite a lot in this period and managed to release on schedule. I’m incredibly impressed and thankful for the team we got together in this period who made it all happen.
I am particularly proud of the technological understanding I developed during this project. The optimizations and workflow insights have become core principles in subsequent games.
I wish we could’ve kept developing on the game after the launch, we often talked about how we wanted more world building with all the wacky characters we could create, and have more game modes than just the “tournament mode”.
How to play
Buy and download the game from any of the store pages listed up top. It’s also been released a bunch more places that I’m unaware of.