But first, our latest Major Announcement:

We’re thrilled to announce that our demo for Feather’s Edge is live! The team really gave their all these past few months, we’re really proud of the work we’ve done and we’re excited to see all of you get a chance to enjoy the demo.

You can play it on Steam right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5094710/Feathers_Edge_Demo

In the demo, you’ll see a sample of the full game experience. Enjoy a slice of its core gameplay and mechanics within a selection of the environments, powers, enemies, and bosses from the full game. If you’ve had a chance to play and enjoyed it, please consider leaving us a review on Steam!

Bird (and Monkey) Business:

A few months earlier, we got together in-person for our annual company retreat. As a fully remote team this time is important for us to catch-up and hang out, but also to work on new game ideas! This year we focused on creating new bosses for Feather’s Edge. Over the course of a four day jam the team played around with a bunch of boss ideas, and built out the foundations for a few that would end up making their way into the demo

When we weren’t jamming we spent the rest of our time playing games together, keeping warm by fires, walking along the mountain and eating good food. If you happen to find yourself in Cape Town, we loved Izakaya Kúkai and would highly recommend grabbing a bite. A major highlight of the trip was also going to World of Birds (where there were also a lot of monkeys). No hoopoes unfortunately (we think they’re all off on some secret adventure), but there were still many beautiful birds to see!

Rolling Out Playtests:

Leading up to the demo, we gave early access to some of the over 12,000 playtesters who had signed up on Steam! To everyone that playtested and gave us feedback, thank you so much! It really helped us in making the best demo possible. We’ll do more invitation-based playtesting in the future, so if you didn’t get a chance this time round, there will be more opportunities to help us shape the game.

Wrapping Up & What’s Next:

We’ve been featured in a few showcases since announcement, notably Six One Indie, Afro Game Showcase, and Courage Cologne at Gamescom. Katie and Leon headed over to Gamescom to get Feather’s Edge under a different kind of spotlight (the business kind). It was really motivating to see how industry folks resonated with the game and we felt very encouraged from the trip.

Another showcase to look forward to is The MIX on 16 October where we have something cool to show! We will reveal our new trailer, handcrafted by the fine folks at Studio Bo! A massive thank you to Richard, Simon, Kirsten and Jake for all their hard work. Keep an eye out on our socials for The MIX notifications and trailer content!

We’d like to say thank you again to everyone who has playtested, given us feedback, played the demo, or engaged with our social media. Your support means everything to us and we’re excited to keep working towards cool Feather’s Edge content, updates, and more!

Since our last post, we’ve been gearing up to announce Feather’s Edge to the world. Working on the announcement has been just as exciting as locking in a name that people can say without breaking a sweat.

A peek behind the scenes

One of the more prominent things we needed was a trailer, which we decided to make ourselves. The art team made a very cool animatic and the rest of the team helped with video editing, a slamming music track, and many rounds of feedback and iteration.

The team has pulled together to work on a Steam store page, key art, an announcement trailer, and more. We even have a Feather’s Edge landing page now. If you’ve enjoyed the journey of Feather’s Edge thus far, you can wishlist it today on Steam!

Working on capsule art, wordmarks, endslates, has been intense but rewarding and we cannot wait to share our progress with you. We’ll also be ramping up our social media with lots of gameplay and work-in-progress content so join us there if you want to follow along. The last three months have been jam-packed with marketing efforts, and we’re looking forward to finally seeing our community reap the benefits.

Playtesting sign ups!

Speaking of benefits, we’ve got some other exciting things lined up. We’ll be doing playtesting soon which you can sign up for on Steam today. If you’re signing up thanks to this blog post, please pop us a message on Discord so that we can shortlist you! Announcement prep has kept us busy, but we’re still just as busy with making the game.

We’re working on more abilities, juicing up animations (Upu does a mid-air bollemakiesie now), and indulging in new enemies and environments.

We’re hard at work fleshing out the rest of the game, here’s a taste of what we’re building:

Feather’s Edge is an action-packed kinetic metroidvania. Dash and slash through enemies – once you’ve locked in your optimal jump, your blade is out and ready to slice through foes in one satisfying stroke. Play as Upu, the Hoopoe warrior, and slice your way to the top of the Tower of Time to stop time itself from collapsing. Explore the rich handcrafted world within the Tower fractured by time-rifts and conquer rifts in tough-as-talons battles as you perfect skills and chase scores.

It’s a pretty exciting time overall as Feather’s Edge unfurls. A big shoutout and thank you goes to Outersloth, the indie funding initiative from the developers of Among Us. They backed us when Feather’s Edge was just a fledgling and have shown us so much continuous support!. Thank you, everyone (yes, you reading this), for joining us along this journey (and reading this far). You’ll hopefully be seeing a lot of us on the worldwide web over the next couple of months.

Take care!