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Northern Oak Games
- Developer
- Northern Oak Games
- Based in
- Canada
- Games
- Long Shot Motors · High-Top Ballistics · Scrapwright
- Technology
- HEARTWOOD, an in-house C++20 engine
- Platforms
- PC (Windows) · Android
- Press contact
- hello@northernoakgames.com
About
Northern Oak Games is an independent game studio from Canada. It makes games with craft and character, and it builds its own technology to make them: HEARTWOOD, a deterministic C++20 engine that runs the same simulation, bit for bit, on Windows, Linux and Android.
The studio's games are Long Shot Motors, a physics-driven car-launch game for PC and Android built on HEARTWOOD; High-Top Ballistics, a one-thumb circus launcher for Android; and Scrapwright, a pixel-art survivors roguelite for PC.
Short description
Northern Oak Games is an independent studio making Long Shot Motors, High-Top Ballistics and Scrapwright, and HEARTWOOD, its own game engine.
Long Shot Motors
- Platforms
- PC (Windows) · Android
- Release
- Coming soon
- Genre
- Physics launch / action
- Engine
- HEARTWOOD
- Levels
- The Gravel Pit · Cottage Lake
Build a junker. Send it over the pit.
You wake up in a quarry trailer and the road out is full of zombies. Fight your way to the car, bolt on whatever the junkyard gives you, and launch yourself over the pit. Land it, drive it out, escape. Then try the lake.
- Physics-driven launches, crashes and landings on a deterministic simulation
- Upgrades you can see on the car: rockets, wings, floats and skis
- The Breakout: fight from the trailer to your car
- Two levels: the Gravel Pit and Cottage Lake
High-Top Ballistics
- Platform
- Android
- Release
- Coming to Google Play
- Genre
- Arcade distance launcher
- Business model
- One price · no ads · no in-app purchases
- Privacy
- Privacy policy
Load the clown. Pull back. Let the big top fly.
A one-thumb circus launcher about distance, timing and very little dignity. Fire a monochrome clown out of the big top, upgrade the act, and see how far the show can go.
Scrapwright
- Platform
- PC (Windows)
- Genre
- Top-down survivors roguelite
- Content
- 84 waves · 6 stages · 35 enemy types · 12 bosses
A junkyard dog against the whole scrapheap.
A top-down survivors roguelite in hand-crafted pixel art: 84 waves across 6 stages, 35 enemy types and 12 bosses, with meta-progression carrying you from run to run.
HEARTWOOD
- Language
- C++20
- Graphics
- SDL3 GPU · D3D12 · Vulkan · Android Vulkan
- Physics
- Jolt 5.6, double precision, cross-platform deterministic, fixed 120 Hz
- Platforms
- Windows · Android · Linux (headless server)
- Status
- In production; early access for developers
Same inputs. Same bits.
HEARTWOOD is Northern Oak Games' own engine, written in C++20 for games that have to be right. Its simulation is deterministic across platforms: one Gravel Pit replay produced 7,200 of 7,200 identical physics step hashes on Windows x64, Linux x64 and Android arm64.
- HDR forward renderer on a frame graph: physical sky, image-based light, PBR clear-coat paint, four-cascade shadows, VAT crowds, water
- 966 unit test cases with 1,425,680 assertions, 93 simulation fixtures, golden-image comparisons and per-device performance budgets
- Own asset cooker (BC7 / ASTC, packs); Windows builds cross-compile on Linux in 86 s
- Designed for AI-assisted development: text-first data, a headless command line and reproducible frames
Logos
The mark is a golden oak triquetra under the north star. Please don't recolour, stretch or crop it. The name is set in Cinzel, in capitals.
