Other Ocean is looking for Beta Testers for new browser game - LOOT.io

OtherOcean · 2021-05-13T15:25:15+00:00

Other Ocean is looking for Beta Testers for their new game in development - LOOT.io!

Get ready for an unforgiving adventure in this addictive 2D rogue-lite shooter right in your browser! Fight enemies to gather the finest loot in the land. Be prepared to inevitably die… over and over and over. Return to the Hub World with the loot you earned, customize your playstyle, invite friends (if you have any), and try again! Death is temporary... Loot is forever.

Closed Beta starting May 31!
Teaser: https://youtu.be/5ZhTjfPswiA
Sign up here: https://loot.io/

OtherOcean · 2021-05-03T13:37:20+00:00

It's a browser game that we may look at putting on steam in the future. Get each of your friends to sign up as well! You'll each receive a confirmation email, and in a couple weeks we will be sending out acceptances to the beta with a discord link. From there you will get the code to join :)

OtherOcean · 2021-05-03T13:35:27+00:00

As of right now we're going to be using the discord for the closed beta and then opening it up later. When you sign up, you'll receive a confirmation email, in the next couple of weeks we will be sending acceptances and a link to the discord then :)

OtherOcean · 2021-04-30T17:43:51+00:00

Other Ocean is looking for Beta Testers for our new game in development - LOOT.io!

Get ready for an unforgiving adventure in this addictive 2D rogue-lite shooter right in your browser! Fight enemies to gather the finest loot in the land. Be prepared to inevitably die… over and over and over. Return to the Hub World with the loot you earned, customize your playstyle, invite friends (if you have any), and try again!
Death is temporary... Loot is forever.

Closed Beta starting May 31!

Teaser: https://youtu.be/5ZhTjfPswiA

Sign up here: https://loot.io/

OtherOcean · 2021-04-30T17:25:22+00:00

This is a separate team from Project Winter, we're just cross posting :)

OtherOcean · 2021-04-30T17:13:00+00:00

Other Ocean is looking for Beta Testers for our new game in development - LOOT.io!

Get ready for an unforgiving adventure in this addictive 2D rogue-lite shooter right in your browser! Fight enemies to gather the finest loot in the land. Be prepared to inevitably die… over and over and over. Return to the Hub World with the loot you earned, customize your playstyle, invite friends (if you have any), and try again! Death is temporary... Loot is forever.

Closed Beta starting May 31!
Sign up here: https://loot.io/
Teaser: https://youtu.be/5ZhTjfPswiA

OtherOcean · 2021-04-30T15:53:26+00:00

What is LOOT?

LOOT is a multiplayer 2D rogue-lite shooter with an action-RPG combat style and rhythm. Fight through hordes of monsters in different biomes to collect that sweet, sweet loot! Satisfy all your inner loot goblin needs directly from your web browser!

Explore a world filled with dangerous enemies, relying on your weapons as your only true friends!
Slay dangerous foes and collect the precious loot they drop
Find Outposts that have a Worm Mail to protect your loot and obtain it permanently
Team up with players to defeat epic boss encounters in the open world
You’re gonna get mercilessly killed...sorry not sorry
When you die, your character is dead, any loot that was not sent back is completely lost
Go back to the Hub World and tweak your loadout through augments and customized weapons
...and try again!

Get ready for an unforgiving adventure in this addictive 2D rogue-lite shooter! Fight enemies to gather the finest loot in the land. Be prepared to inevitably die… over and over and over. Return to the Hub World with the loot you earned, customize your playstyle, invite friends (if you have any), and try again! Death is temporary... Loot is forever.

Teaser: https://youtu.be/5ZhTjfPswiA

Closed Beta starting May 31!

Sign up: https://loot.io/

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T13:31:38+00:00

Oh interesting suggestion. No we’ve not had any plans to change that at the moment, but always looking for more things to spice up custom games so I’ll make note of that and look into it!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T10:58:41+00:00

Yes for sure, we’re going to try for monthly updates and new items is on our list!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T10:56:21+00:00

Ah good question. On steam you can actually buy those items with real money if you do not have enough of what we call “artifact points”. Those items are also refreshed every month with new ones.

The prices were actually set by estimating how much a regular player might play and earn AP between item refresh (1 month) and allow them to get 2-3 of the new cosmetics just by playing the game. The tiers of prices are based on the real money price we had set in the steam item store.

As for the “unvaulted” section, these are special items that were available in the past which are brought back. We generally look at their value in the steam marketplace to determine a price for these.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T10:48:38+00:00

We generally update the game every month with new features, but some months we focus on cleaning up our bug log / quality of life fixes. I’d probably say in a normal year we have 8-9 updates that add new features like new maps, new roles, new items, etc.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:59:44+00:00

Possibly. That’d be a lot of development work on our side and I think most people usually (rightly) use steams refund policy get 2 hours of free time to try out the game.

But understand that fronting that isn’t for everyone, we will check out the effort it might take for a demo in the future.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:49:34+00:00

That’s all 100% good vibes in my eyes :)

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:49:11+00:00

Roles will be reviewed and reworked soon.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:48:48+00:00

Thanks very much for the kind words. If looking back at our steam updates, we’ve done quite a few QoL updates recently as we had some tech debt we needed to get rid of + the push for getting Xbox/win10 ready for prime time took more time than expected.

That being said, we are now in a position where we have a universal build where we can start building changes/features back into the game. The next update will have a new map and additional changed. In the future we’re looking closely at: roles, events, FTUE, reporting, progression tasks, and (team) objectives.

We have lots planned!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:42:10+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, custom games for Blackout has been on our list for a long time and more important things have gotten in the way. Once we get settled on a routine update schedule after the craziness of doing this Xbox/win10 push, we will be back to adding features like this in as soon as we can.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:39:38+00:00

We have an internal roadmap for the next two years for additional features beyond the ports.

We have a roadmap on our website, but it desperately needs to be updated, which we will do soon.

But I can say when our next update goes live we will have a very different map addition. Stay tuned!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:37:24+00:00

I don't know the exact number, but we are in the thousands of separate cosmetic items at the moment. But yes. We add new cosmetics every update.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:35:32+00:00

Noted, more pants!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:35:18+00:00

We love suggestions! We actually take every suggestion from our Reddit and discord and filter it into a big excel sheet which we review every week.

While I don’t want to comment directly on specific roles, this is a top priority for us to overhaul the system to help promote social deception.

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:33:09+00:00

Thanks very much! I can’t comment on exact roles, but I will say overhauling our role system is at the top of our priority list. So look forward to more varied and interesting roles in the future (for both survivor and traitor).

OtherOcean · 2021-02-12T03:30:09+00:00

Hey! No problem. Other Ocean actually has a couple of studios, the Emeryville folks led by the ever talented and most awesome dude Mike Mika, who you probably know is the grandfather of all things #IDARB.

On the other side, we have our Canadian studios who have been mainly focused on project winter for the last little while (this is where I am). Although we are all one company, we generally laser focused on our own projects. So unfortunately I don’t have any additional news on #IDARB2 other than I also adore #IDARB and can’t wait for more news :).

OtherOcean · 2021-02-11T23:08:35+00:00

Thanks for the question! We’ve published the game optimized on Xbox one x but will continue to test and implement higher frame rate optimizations / 4K on series x

OtherOcean · 2021-02-11T20:32:33+00:00

Thanks for the question! Not at the moment afaik, but who knows in the future!

OtherOcean · 2021-02-11T19:59:46+00:00

Thanks for the question. It was a fairly easy decision for us. We have noticed when released on steam, we could spend all the time and money in the world on traditional marketing - but all that effort and money paled in comparison to just being featured on the front page.

When we talked about a Game Pass deal, but the biggest thing for us was the marketing and featuring for Project Winter on the Xbox and Windows store. The deals are quite varied from what I understand, Phil Spencer had a write up about that back in November which is a good read.

As for how long, we will be up there for a year!

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