Tiny Brains is the first game coming from a new Montreal-based developer called Spearhead Games, made up of developers from popular franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Dead Space, and Army of Two.

Developers Simon Darveau (who served as design director on Assassin’s Creed 3), Malik Boukhira, and Atul Mehra are starting their company together with this co-op puzzle game in which four players, in the guise of test animals, escape a lab and defeat the scientists who have captured you.

Multiplayer has always been important to games, and with the increase in online access, gamers have been more connected than ever before. However, these social interactions are often over the internet with each individual alone in their own home. Spearhead Games, a new developer from Montreal, is looking to change that and put personal interaction back into social interactions.

Players will be able to play through the game alone, using a unique character that will be able to wield all of the other animals powers. The game can also be played with less than 4 people, allowing players to switch between the different characters to use the abilities required for each puzzle.

Development for the game started in September and is currently planned to be released sometime this summer. A game developed this quickly might make some weary, but it shouldn’t. Every member of the team left their jobs at big name developers like Ubisoft and EA to form Spearhead Games and to develop in the way they saw best.