Launch Trailer (1:00)
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Factsheet
- Title
- ODDADA
- Genre
- Cozy musical toybox
- Platforms
- Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck)
- Release date
- August 15, 2024
- Players
- Single-player
- Developer
- Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann and Bastian Clausdorff
- Publisher
- Self-published
- Website
- oddada.com
- Press contact
- sven.ahlg@gmail.com
Description
ODDADA is an award-winning musical toybox that lets everyone make music. Landscapes become your canvas, machines become your instruments and little buildings and birds become your notes.
Features
Collect melodies and loops!
Take your train through various levels and watch it grow with each melody you create. Explore and tinker with a range of instruments from Ostinato Crabs and Jellyfish Synths to Arpeggio Caterpillars.
Unlock gadgets and upgrades!
Expand your musical range by unlocking machines that can change the tempo, notes, sounds and functionality of the levels.
Customize and collect your cassettes!
Print your song onto a virtual cassette, decorate it with colors and stickers and build an ever-growing cassette collection. Your cassette player lets you listen to your songs over and over again. But don’t forget to rewind after playing!
Download and share your songs!
Save your songs as audio or video files and share them with your friends!
What ODDADA is NOT
- a professional music software
- a tool to recreate or cover existing songs
- a city builder
- a puzzle or competitive game
Instead, ODDADA is meant to be a playful and relaxing experience for everyone, no matter what skill level or age. Create free from pressure and perfectionism. We hope you enjoy your time making music!
Obladi-Oblada-ODDADA!
Videos
Gameplay Overview (2:56)
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Screenshots
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Previewed as silent looping videos.
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Keyart & Logo
Selected Quotes
Oddada is the best kind of video game toybox
A toybox full of musical charm
One of the most creative, beautiful, and relaxing games to grace 2024
Super charming and adorable music toy with sound-good guarantee
Awards & Recognition
Won
- Best Art Tokyo Game Show, 2023
- Best Audio Design Deutscher Computerspielepreis (German Computer Game Awards), 2025
- Excellence in Audio DevGAMM Awards, 2024
- Winner Pädagogischer Medienpreis (Educational Media Award), 2025
- Most Creative Game PLAY, 2024
- Creators' Choice Award Indie Cup Europe, 2024
- 1st Place Devcom Indie Awards, 2022
Nominations & Selections
- Finalist: Excellence in Audio Independent Games Festival (IGF), 2025
- PC TOMMI (German Children's Software Prize), 2025
- Innovation The Indie Game Awards, 2024
- 4 Nominations: Best Indie Game, Best Casual Game, Best Graphics, Innovation Deutscher Entwicklerpreis (German Developer Awards), 2024
- 5 Nominations: Rising Star, Gameplay Excellence, Most Experimental Game, WINGS, Critics' Choice Indie Cup Europe, 2024
- Official Selection Indie Game Contest Strasbourg, 2024
History
ODDADA began as an accident. In early 2020, artist and programmer Sven Ahlgrimm, who originally had no musical background, built a small wave system over a minimalist tile landscape. As the waves rolled across the tiles, they triggered the little houses in their path, and the result looked suspiciously like the piano roll from music production software. Sven had never planned to make a music game. Now he was making one.
A few months later, sound designer Mathilde Hoffmann joined the project, bringing the musical expertise the game needed. Patiently explaining concepts Sven had never heard of, his artistic interpretations of her explanations became ODDADA's otherworldly instruments: Arpeggio Caterpillars, Ostinato Crabs, Synth Jellyfish and many more.
Supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg games funding program, the two steadily grew ODDADA into a musical toy world full of loop- and step-based contraptions, where all the music theory hides inside the toys.
In late 2023, Bastian Clausdorff completed the team as a developer, polishing the game, keeping it in tune across platforms and guiding the project to the finish line.
ODDADA released on Steam on August 15, 2024 for Windows, macOS and Steam Deck.
Team
We're Sven, Mathilde and Bastian - a three-person team from Germany making ODDADA together. Sven is the inventor of ODDADA's curious machines, bringing the world to life with his art and code. Mathilde is the sound designer, in charge of making houses sing and machines drum. And Bastian is our seasoned developer, who makes sure everything is polished and in tune on every platform.
