Tiny Troopers: Global Ops Steam Next Fest Stream #01
Eyes up soldiers!
The Tiny Troopers are BACK and ready to take their bite sized action around the globe!
This week the open beta for Tiny Troopers Global Ops hit the Steam Next Fest, and we dropped a hot new gameplay trailer introducing you the troopers and showing you their unique brand of explosive action!
If you haven't had a chance to play the demo yet - join us at 19:00 BST on Wednesday as 4 of Wired Productions finest take you on a tour of TALON HQ - and cause plenty of chicken fuelled mayhem along the way!
Once you've watched, join forces with up to four players online with full cross platform play! Whether you're PC or console, you can battle solo or go online with 2 to 4 Unit Squads! Featuring global leaderboards, you'll be able to combine your specialist abilities including airstrikes, drones, stim packs and reinforcements to overwhelm the opposition! If you're not ready to deploy online, grab 2 to 4 friends in co-op mode!
The Tiny Troopers are back with a brand new gameplay reveal trailer of the upcoming title, Tiny Troopers: Global Ops.
Join forces with up to four players online with full cross platform play! Whether you're PC or console, you can battle solo or go online with 2 to 4 Unit Squads! Featuring global leaderboards, you'll be able to combine your specialist abilities including airstrikes, drones, stim packs and reinforcements to overwhelm the opposition! If you're not ready to deploy online, grab 2 to 4 friends in co-op mode!
You can play with your squad. Where ever they play.
Tiny Troopers: Global Ops celebrates the return of the multi-million-selling Tiny Troopers franchise, an arcade twin-stick shooter in which you lead an elite squad of battle-hardened specialists on action-packed missions to take down hordes of unscrupulous enemies from all corners of the world!
Head on over to the official Tiny Troopers Discord for the latest intel and feedback đ
Tiny Troopers: Global Ops Joins The Steam Next Fest
Atennnnnshun!
DEPLOY, DEPLOY, DEPLOY đŞ
The #TinyTroopers demo is a LIVE and is marching on to the Steam Next Fest.
The Tiny Troopers are BACK in Global Ops, a fast-paced arcade twin-stick shooter!
Your mission? Lead an elite squad of battle-hardened specialists on action-packed missions to take down hordes of unscrupulous enemies from all corners of the world!
Join forces in couch co-op or cross-platform online play, with 2 to 4 Unit Squads, public/private lobbies and Global leaderboards
Combine your specialist abilities including airstrikes, drones, stim packs and reinforcements to overwhelm the opposition!
Tiny Troopers: Global Ops is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and the Xbox family of devices in 2023.
Catch the live streams at 7 pm Wednesday the 5th and 10 pm Friday the 7th.
The song is the lead track from Arcade Paradise. A Game where the protagonist Ashley feels held back, suffocated, and mentally downtrodden. Arcade Paradise is a story that resonates closely with the message of Safe In Our World. It is an inspirational message of what can be achieved, with help or just with the right motivation⌠how you CAN rise up against the machine, and how you CAN make your life great.
This is where you come in. We need YOU, the Wired Community to make some noise, Kick down the doors and scream that talking about Mental Health is GOOD!
How can YOU do this? There are lots of ways:
- Buy the single on Bandcamp. (Same price as a meal deal) - Stream the song for the next week. Let's see if we can hit the charts. Bring on Top of the Pops. - Share posts, blogs and playlists. The more we share. The more we can diminish the stigma around Mental Health - Talk to someone and listen. a Simple "How's it going?" can make the world of difference. - Make sure to tag us in every post, tweet and video. The more we share, the better.
Watch the Official Music Video below
All proceeds from sales of the Arcade Paradise EP from Bandcamp will be donated to the video games mental health charity Safe In Our World, but why did we choose them? Watch below to find out:
Where can I stream the Arcade Paradise EP?
We have all the best streaming platforms below... Jump on and Stream away!
On August 24th we are going to Cologne with Wired Productions with the first public playable showing of Tiny Troopers: Global Ops, showcasing some brand new gameplay and areas not seen by ANYONE yet (except us, obviously)
Swing on by the Indie Arena Booth to get a MASSIVE helping of bite sized action and get your hands on the rest of Wired's eclectic indie family, with games such as The Last Worker appearing on Switch for the first time, and a brand new demo of Gori: Cuddly Carnage!
We all know that June is where the hottest gaming action happens with conventions, E3 (or this year technically 'NotE3') announcements, launches and SO MANY SALES! This year Wired are ensuring that the indie scene parties just as hard with the announcement of the Wired #SummerOfIndieGaming!
A month long celebration of brand new trailers, competitions, sales, a game launch and a couple of announcements along the way! We aren't cruel enough to just tease you like that though, so let's get a quick run down of everything included in the #SummerOfIndieGaming, what we've already done, and what you can look forward to!
Wiredâs Summer of Indie Gaming Schedule Includes:Â
3rd - 10th June - Steam Publisher Sale (This has been and gone, we hope you picked up something nice!)a
Gori took part in the OTK festival where it showcased by Top streamer Asmongold and friends amongst a whole host of other fantastic indies for the community to discover!
- 10th June - IGN Summer of Gaming [Gori: Cuddy Carnage and The Last Worker]
We released TWO brand new trailers during the IGN Summer Of Gaming (TOTALLY not related to our indie summer - honest!) that you can now catch directly on #WiredLive! Catch them here if you missed out!
- 11th June - Guerrilla Collective [The Last Worker]
If that wasn't enough Last Worker content for you, we also dropped a deep dive walkthrough into the world of The Last Worker exclusively during the Guerrilla Collectives GC3 show!
Keep your eyes peeled to #WiredLive for that very soon!
- 13th June - Steam Next Fest Debut Demos for The Last Worker and Tin Hearts
#SteamNextFest starts TODAY and we are celebrating with some brand new demos for The Last Worker and Tin Hearts, developer livestreams on Tuesday and Friday - these can be found on their respective steam pages at:
The Last Worker: Stream 1: Tue 14th June, 6pm BST Stream 2: Fri 17th June, 4pm BST
There's also a competition on our Steam Publisher Page you'll be interested in!
GO PLAY OUR DEMOS! TAKE SCREENSHOTS AND SHARE WITH OUR SOCIALS! WISHLIST! LEAVE FEEDBACK IN OUR DISCORD!
- 13th June - New Socials
Speaking of socials - now the cat is out the bag with our new games, we should introduce you to the social accounts for each of our titles, go drop them a follow to stay up to date with your upcoming favourite indies in a undiluted form!
Our double vinyl release of The Falconeer Vinyl has taken to the skies and is now nesting away in people homes! We're feeling a bit generous, so for the duration of our indie gaming celebration if you order the Vinyl, you save 50% on a physical copy of the game!
Win some mouth watering Steam credit to spend on any games you desire during the Steam Summer summer sale and beyond! For entry details - visit GLEAM!
- 15th June - Something new for Tin Hearts
This one IS a little bit secret, but if you've been paying attention you might be able to puzzle it out! Keep your eyes peeled to the game socials and our very own for some new Tin Hearts C O N T E N T
- 23rd June - Deliver Us The Moon Next-Gen Launch Day
We are T-minus 10 DAYS away from Deliver Us The Moon launching with a physical Next Gen release for PlayStation 5 and FREE upgrade for current PlayStation 4 and Xbox one owners! Space has never looked better! Get ready to join us for the countdown!
- 29th June - Something special for Arcade Paradise
And finishing off our celebrations we have something VERY special for Arcade Paradise that is sure to make your quarters jingle in anticipation...
PHEW, ALRIGHT! HOW'S THAT FOR A SCORCHER?!
Be sure to note all the days above in your diary - follow ALL those socials, go play our demos on Steam TODAY! Prepare for the Steam Summer Sale next week, and as a particular Baz Luhrmann once said - Wear Sunscreen
No, it's not Jerry Maguire talking, but Bob here from the Wired Community team! We're back! Our annual Steam Publisher is back, stronger than ever with up to a massive 90% off some of the best (if we do say so ourselves!) indie games available on Steam! The Sale heads up a busy period, with The Last Worker and Tin Hearts featuring demo debuts in the Steam Next Fest, from June 13th to 20th along with developer play sessions and live Q&As. The full list of discounts for the Publisher Sale are below we promise more news and reveals throughout June as we celebrate our diverse and original indie games!.... and... if that's not good enough, to celebrate our Sale we're giving away $200 in steam credit! ENTER HERE
We've got a brand new intel drop for you today - but it's a little bit different from those past! Today is Australia Day! And as the devs behind Global Ops (Epiphany) hail from there, we decided to put the spotlight on the developers themselves and give you a quick rundown as to who they are, and their working history with Tiny Troopers as a franchise!
This ain't their first rodeo!
Read on for a history briefing, then standby for further development updates!
About Epiphany
So, Epiphany is a small indie dev studio, based in Sydney, Australia. Weâve been around for a while, and made a few games, cutting our teeth on a broad range of games. From RTS games to text-based RPGs, to puzzle games, platformers, game-ports, apps, middleware, and more. Weâve made these both for ourselves and for a massive range of partners ranging from Sony and eBay to kids TV shows, to tiny start-ups⌠and right now weâre working on the next instalments in the fantastic Tiny Troopers series of games!
As I mentioned, Epiphany is a fairly small team, including myself, Sam as Lead Design and Producer, Anitta our Lead Artist and general amazing magical art unicorn who is able to do pretty much everything ever, Morgan as our CEO and general tech wizard, Matt our QA lead and admin genius who does all of the horrible tasks and we love him for it, and of course our unstoppable programming super squad of Sam C, Josh, Richard, and Nikita. This is of course our âcoreâ team, and we couldnât get any of it done without our other amazing team members of animators, level designers, icon artists, sound design/engineers, and many other incredible, knowledgeable, and gifted developers we get the pleasure of working alongside.
Previous Missions
Now, of course itâs not the first time weâve worked on Tiny Troopers. We first made contact with the wonderful publisher of Tiny Troopers, Wired Productions, over in GDC in San Francisco many years ago, over a few beers (and maybe a few more) with Leo from Wired. Out of that, Wired invited us to help out on a port of Tiny Troopers: Joint Ops, and we even got to contribute some content, adding in the âZombie Editionâ content pack.
That experience was so much fun, as was working with Wired, we immediately wanted to make more Tiny Troopers content, and we continued on helping out with a few more ports over several more years until they (and the also-wonderful Kim at Kukouri, creators of Tiny Troopers) were ready to make the sequel we had been super keen to make as soon as weâd initially worked on Joint Ops.
Having an ongoing working relationship with Wired is super important for us as developers. Of course, publishers bring their marketing and publishing expertise to the table, and there are few as good at it as Wired are, but getting access to a publisher, and in particular getting dev funding help, can be very difficult to achieve and the paths to that can be very limited. Relationships are always key and having collaborated with one another for a number of years, and on some *very* challenging other projects was definitely vital in helping everyone involved to have the confidence to build a game that would do justice to this much-loved franchise. Itâs one thing to want to make a game, itâs entirely another thing to have the confidence and the ability to execute, and weâll never not be thankful for Wiredâs confidence in us to deliver a game that we know will kick copious amounts of butt.
To Be Continued
Weâve worked hard on this game, and of course all the Covid shenanigans has thrown up some hurdles in addition to all the hurdles that always get thrown up in any and every gameâs development, and we just canât wait to get it to the people whoâve played and loved the previous instalments of Tiny Troopers as much as we do.
There you go, consider yourself briefed on the wonderfully talented team bringing the Tiny Troopers their biggest mission yet! Be sure to sound off in the comments and tell them how good a job they are doing - and if you haven't already - wishlist the game - there'll be plenty of exciting intel coming for you very soon!
What self-respecting combat game would be complete without some form of Boss?
Bigger, badder, tougher, with more guns and weird abilities; with implausible backstories and insane plans. A boss-fight can be a light and breezy end to a series of missions tying a neat bow around a plot, or they can be nightmare inducing exercises requiring painstaking repetition and player-perfection - that induce crippling bouts of RSI.
In Tiny Troopers Global Ops, each of the chapters culminates into a battle with a unique and powerful Boss who is central to the plot of their chapter. Here is a backstory for each of them:
Chapter 1: The Arabian Prince
A relatively minor royal of a wealthy Gulf State, the Princeâs life has been one of extreme ease, privilege, and comfort. This hasnât prevented him from having ambitions though, so he dreams of one day sitting upon the throne which many of his older siblings are closer to in line than he. Using his fabulous wealth to procure a sizeable force of black-ops forces, he stages a series of events to destabilize a neighboring war-torn nation. All so that he can make a political play back home and move closer to the throneâŚ
The Prince is extremely vain and has an obsession with gold, at most public events he wears a golden âGhutrahâ headdress with a black headband. He generally wears a flowing Thawb, a robe typically worn in his homeland, though he often chooses military-style camouflage print to try and accentuate his tough-guy appearance. In line with his vanity, the robe has no sleeves in order for him to display his impressively sculpted arms which âappearâ to be oiled-up at all times. The prince often likes to parade around with a variety of weapons on his person, and often has a bandolier of large-calibre bullets strapped diagonally across his chest for guns much larger than he can carry. A traditional âShamshirâ sword almost always dangles from his hip; while the other is strapped with a large pistol. In many of his multitude of social media posts, he poses with each hand carrying a large, custom-made automatic rifle in a similar design to an AK-47, but each âobviouslyâ, made from gold.
Chapter 2: Major Tunde
Major Abacha Tunde was a decorated Nigerian pilot and astronaut, who secretly flew on Soviet space missions and lived on a top-secret Soviet space station. Well... at least thatâs what the emails say. What really happened isnât clear, but somewhere in the jungles of Central Africa an enterprising young woman discovered a crashed Soviet space station. She looted it of its contents and took up the name âTundeâ, thus becoming a figure of local myth and legend.
Looking to establish herself at the top of the local food chain of warlords and despots, Tunde has taken on the identity of the mysterious African astronaut. She sets about turning everyone around her against one another the best way she knows how: by using their greed.
She is a powerful and incredibly formidable enemy, cased in almost impossibly-durable amour she looted from the nearby crashed space station, which, not only makes her very resistant to any incoming damage, but also augments her strength. This allows her to carry the fearsome multi-launching rocket launcher which fires volleys of deadly rockets, even enabling her to send out devastating area attacks of artillery-like volleys of rockets with incredible accuracy.
Chapter 3: Dmitry Poutine
Dmitry Poutine once had a very important job for a number of years: look very much like a very important world leader and pretend to be that person at public events. Unfortunately, Poutine grew bored of that comfortable role and has gone on to take things a little too much to heart. He started to really believe his own (imaginary) hype. Dmitry chooses to undertake in cosmetic procedures after perilous cosmetic procedures, even to the point of obtaining highly dangerous (and illegal) cybernetic enhancements. This is so that he not only could emulate the VIP even more, but even surpass him and become not just the man; but become the myth that has been carefully shaped around him.
Imagine if Street Fighter 2âs Zangief and a certain president had a baby, and that baby grew up to be an increasingly insane man in his early 50s. Someone who wanders around shirtless in blisteringly cold Eastern European winters and wearing only worn leather pants and heavy boots. His chest and back are laced with heavy scars. He wears no helmet or hat and his dense, bushy blonde hair cut into a broad, low Mohawk. His wide, round face bristles with a broad, rounded beard and one eye is covered with an eyepatch (that he doesnât actually need â he has 2 perfectly good eyes) which has a large red gemstone on it. His belt is a bandolier of grenades. Poutine carries a large Light Machine Gun, like an M240 or similar, in one arm because he thinks Rambo looks cool.
A totally unhinged mini-megalomaniac wannabe military strongman, he is however an incredibly dangerous opponent and what he lacks in strategic nous, he very much makes up for in raw physical power. Plus, rumour has it that he has gotten his hands on some pieces of experimental, proprietary tech he keeps in his private sanctuary.
Alright, At ease everyone - that's gonna do it for this weeks update, go get some R and R and keep your eyes peeled for the next intel drop.
If you want to catch more Global Ops content across the internet, then hit the links at the bottom of the blog! And as always, make sure Global Ops is on your wishlists - and tell your friends!
