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!
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?
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 š
Stay tuned for more game updates!
Penny Webbās World Comes Swinging Into Ours!
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 strikerās 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
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
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 š¤ we hope it's soon!
Swing Striker Stream Recap
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!
Itās Spooky Season!
Itās Spooky Season and everyone at Giant Fox Studios is excited for what is to come! Itās 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!
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 back in next week when we talk about one of our super popular past projects you can play right now! The spectacular experience: Toadled.
Happy Fall!
Giant Fox Studios and Swing Striker: An Introspective Look
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 PewDiePieā¦
ā¦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 favorite Swing Striker, learn their story, and master their special abilities.
Swing Striker has a robust multiplayer experience. Dozens of unique stadiums with their own challenges await you and your friends. Prove your superiority with precision and timing in our Swing Striker mode while showing your ferocity in our Deathmatch stadiums. Donāt have friends? Donāt worry! We will have matchmaking available!
Giant Fox Studios has made many quality games and Swing Striker may be our most ambitious project yet. Because of this we are spending the time to make sure that when we bring this game to you it will be polished, tested, and at its fullest potential.
Thank you for supporting us and wishlisting this game. All of us at Giant Fox Studios really appreciate you, our fans, for keeping an eye on our posts and looking forward to our future releases. We would be nothing without you! Come hang out with us on Discord: Giant Fox Discord Channel
Giant Fox Studios Gives a Sneak Peek At Our Most Powerful Playable Character Yet
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 didnāt intend it.
Slick is done with that life, however, and now practices his āfine artā 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.
The team over at Giant Fox Studios always gets a bit nervous when someone chooses Slick as their Striker. Time and time again his rocket ability keeps everyone playing against him in check. We have spent quite a bit of time tweaking and balancing his special ability but one thing has remained true, itās an explosion of fun!
While you are waiting to try out Slickās awesome rocket for yourself, why donāt you spend the time playing one of our other titles? Did you know we donāt only make PC games? In fact, most of our team has worked on some of your favorite mobile games! One of our most successful is Toadled, a game we are still getting rave reviews about to this day. Check out Toadled here: Toadled on Steam
The Swing Striker Team Plays!
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 doesnāt mean that we arenāt still working hard to make Swing Striker great! This week, we have put the finishing touches on some of our newest levels. There are many steps to getting a level from concept to in-game. Check out this early concept sketch for a sneak peak into the future of Swing Striker!
