Factsheet

Developer:
Togglesword Games
Based in Switzerland

Release date:
TBD

Platforms:
Windows
Mac

Website:
playhirt.com

Description

HIRT is a sheep-fueled local multiplayer brawler game with intense, emergent gameplay. HIRT puts the players in the role of competing shepherds. They try to win holy pastures for their antagonized clans, fighting each other with every mean they find on the sheep inhabited islands. A unique systemic brawler gameplayHIRT follows a systemic gameplay approach. This means that the game world is cohesive and built on simple rules and systems. Those lead to a huge amount of possible outcomes and chain reactions. Pushing a dog off an altar with a tornado horn and awakening a stampede? Sure. Sheering wool off your dead Co-Player? Yep. Getting thrown off the island while hooked to a staff? Here you go.

History

David Hunziker and Basil Sutter, the two founders of Togglesword Games, met at Zurich University of Arts in 2016. Both enrolled in the Game Design Curriculum, they worked together on several game-related projects before finally teaming up to design an early prototype of HIRT in the 5th semester of their studies.

Not yet satisfied with the nature of the game at that point, they continued the project as their final Bachelor project and thesis. During this time, the team established the core principles of the brawler HIRT: Sheep as the center of all the game’s design, a systemic gameplay structure that adds surprises, and an archaic setting and story to finish it all off.

Since the summer of 2019, Basil and David have been working on HIRT under the label of Togglesword Games.

Features

• Local Multiplayer
• Systemic / Emergent Gameplay
• Sheep Setting

HIRT Credits

Togglesword
Founder

Contact

Support
toggleswordgames@gmail.com

Homepage
playhirt.com

Indie DB
indiedb.com/games/hirt

Twitter
twitter.com/togglesword