Episode 4 now available!

Good news this Sunday morning! The final episode of Oozi's Adventure is now available on Xbox Live Indie Games!

And by the way, a friendly reminder to vote for us on Steam Greenlight - www.voteforoozi.com . It's extremely important to us to be able release Oozi on Steam, this will allow us to make even more awesome games. Thanks!

Still alive!

We're sorry for the lack of updates. We've had quite a tough time recently, but things are starting to look good again :).

First of all - we've finished both Episode 4 for XBLIG, as well as final PC version. The bad news is that we don't know where we'll be able to release them, especially since Valve decided Oozi is not a good fit for distribution on Steam.

However, we put a lot of hope in Steam's Greenlight - it's a process where community votes on which games they want to see released on Steam - and this is where we'll need your help. We'll give you more information on that as soon as Greenlight launches. Stay tuned!

Below you can see some new screenshots from Episode 4.

Oozi: Earth Adventure Ep. 3 is released!

The third episode is now available! It is set up in a top secret laboratory full of robots, lasers, mutants. And it's super awesome! You can download it on Xbox LIVE Indie Games for only 80 MSP. And here's a new trailer for you:

Episode 3 coming soon!

We're steadily working on the third episode and now we have it nearly completed! If nothing unexpected happens the third episode will be available for download by the end of January. Here's a couple screenshots for you!

Oozi: Earth Adventure Ep. 2 is released!

You can download it from Xbox Live Indie Games channel right now and it is priced at only 80 Microsoft Points. We really hope you will enjoy it!

Oozi: Earth Adventure - Episode 2

Episode 2's Release Date and Launch Trailer

Great news!
The second episode has passed certification is going to be released on November 25, 2011! We also have a brand new Launch Trailer for you, have fun watching it!

Episode 2 coming really soon!

Remember when we announced that Oozi was awarded Semi-Finalist status in Dream Build Play? We were quite excited and hoped it might allow us to release the game on Xbox LIVE Arcade. However, three months later, we finally know it's not going to happen. The good news is that Episode 2 of Oozi's Adventure is already completed and submitted to Xbox LIVE Indie Games certification process. It means that it will likely be released within a week! We're going to announce the release date as soon as we know it, so stay tuned!

First update for Episode 1

The first update for Episode 1 is now available! We listened to feedback we received both from reviewers and regular gamers and did our best to improve the game. You just need to launch the game on your Xbox 360 and you will be prompted to download the update.

Here's the list of things that we changed:

• Added hardcore difficulty
  
• Better jump height control
  
• Visual improvements for abilities
  
• Right stick view control
  
• Minor bug fixes

Working on Episode 2

Hello there!
We have already started working on the second episode. It's going to showcase much more special abilities than the first episode, including wall jumps you can see on the attached screenshot! We believe that it'll be even more enjoyable than the first one :).

The other news is that we decided to add difficulty levels for story mode. If you found episode one too easy then you might enjoy the game much more with the new hardcore difficulty. We're also going to release an update for the first episode that will include the new difficulty as well as some other minor improvements.

There's also one thing we'd like to ask you to do. There was recently an issue with Xbox Live Indie Games ratings abuse - you can read on it here.

Unfortunately due to low number of ratings Oozi had suffered from automated downrating even more than other games and its average rating dropped pretty significantly. We're hoping to regain our previous position over time, but if you'd like to speed up the process please find the game on the Game Marketplace and rate it. If you have a Gold profile then you can rate it on xbox.com as well.

Thanks!

It's done!

After weeks of strenuous effort we can finally announce that Oozi: Earth Adventure Ep. 1 is now available to Xbox 360 gamers!

You can download the game directly from Xbox Live Indie Games section on your Xbox or using following link: Oozi:Earth Adventure - Episode 1

We also recorded a brand new trailer for Oozi that showcases features we added during last two months.

Please remember to rate the game and click "Like" on our Facebook page. Thanks!

Oozi at Xbox up and running

We've got some good news for everyone who's waiting for the game. We recently managed to launch Oozi on our Xbox 360 and it plays really cool! There are still some issues to be solved, but we should get them fixed soon.

The other good news about Xbox Live Indie Games release is that we decided to split the game and release four episodes, each at $1 price!

We initially wanted to sell the entire game at $3 or $5 price, but there are reasons why have we changed our mind. The first and the most important is that on Xbox Live Indie Games your sales are good as long as you stay on one of in-dashboard lists: Top Downloads, Top Rated or New Releases. We hope to get a spot on Top Rated list, but there are many other nice games on the service too. For Top Downloads, it only matters how many people have purchased the game on the previous day. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if your game is $1 or $5, so anything above $1 stands no chance to compete for #1 spot on the list - it's painfully obvious that people buy cheap games more.

Another reason is that we'll be able to release Episode One much sooner than all four worlds are going to ready. We're hoping to have the first episode available on Xbox 360 Marketplace by the end of February. The other episodes will follow as soon as they are ready.

We'll get back to PC version then and release them all in a single pack since it's much more difficult to release a small game on PC than on XBLIG. So don't forget to check our website for updates next month!

The first pack of screenshots

It is time to present the first screenshots from the game. The screens are shown at the present stage - some thing may still change (however we don’t expect any revolution) the screens come from the first world of the game.

Hello world

We have started this project some time ago. It is the highest time to present it to the public. Let’s start from the beginning.

We started working on our first project "Oozi: Earth Adventure" - classic 2D platform game around a year ago. We have decided for this type of project not only because we love this type of games but also we have some experience in this area. At some point I was strongly involved in a process of creating series of Turtix games (you can Google it if you like).

What is it all about. It is not a revolution, nothing innovative- simply we can’t afford it yet. At the moment we are hoping to deliver a good classic 2D – a game similar in a form to: Super Frog, Rayman, Earthworm Jim.

That’s enough for today. Soon more details about the game, the team and a everything connected to it.