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Stonerid now on Steam Greenlight.

Stoneird now on Steam Greenlight

We have posted our game on Steam Greenlight. As you know, or not, each unknown developers team, who wants to sell game on Steam platform, needs to get accepted through greenlight. Greenlight allows Steam users to vote for games, that they would like to buy on Steam. If game collects sufficient amount of votes, it gets a chance to be available on Steam.

So now, Stonerid is on Greenlight. If you would like to see our game on Steam in future, give us a chance, click on the image above and vote, it’s very important for us.

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Stonerid finally completed!

Stoneird finally released

We’ve started to develop the Stonerid really long time ago. However, after many month of work, we finally came to the end. But in this moment, a very important question appears: What now?

Now Stonerid is available to buy at official website: stonerid.com. You should definitly visit that site.

Buy Stonerid now

Do you know Desura platform? It’s a cool place, where you can find many interesting games. Of course Stonerid will is also available there.

Desura Digital Distribution

Many people say that game trailer is very important. It is difficult to disagree with that statement. There is no better way to quickly show how your game looks like. That’s why I highly recommend you to watch the latest Stonerid trailer.

Ok, that’s all for today. Your mission objectives are quite simple:
1. visit stonerid.com
2. buy Stonerid 🙂
3. play the game and enjoy it

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube to recieve the newest infomation about Stonerid and our future projects.

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The first trailer, Independent Games Festival…

Stoneird Winter

Stonerid is almost done, so we decided to submit it to the 16th Annual Independent Games Festival (more details at: igf.com). We have nothing to loose (except 95$ – entry fee cost), but the winners will receive decent money prizes and get a chance to put their games on Steam platform. In my opinion, it’s definitely worth to try.

Lately we created first trailer of Stonerid. It shows many important information about the game (but not everything), so if you don’t know Stonerid, just watch the trailer.
 

 
If you have any comments or suggestion, don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Swamps – last land in Stonerid.

stonerid_swamp

Swamp is a dark and rainy place. It contains a lot of various plants and monsters. We’ve completed 2 swamp levels so far, if everything will be ok, Stonerid will be finished in next few weeks.

However that will happen in future, now it’s time to show you a few screenshots.

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Closer look at major modification that we’ve implemented to Stonerid.

two_worlds_stonerid

In the previous post I’ve written a little about new functions and modifications that we did, to make Stonerid a better game. Today I’ll write more about the main modification – two parallel worlds.

At the beginning (over one year ago) Stonerid was a really simple game, and it’s mechanics was very simillar to other platform games, like Super Mario Brothers. However we decided to improve something, because our game had not any really good features (except quite good graphic, in my opinion of course).

That is why we wanted to implement two parrallel worlds in Stonerid. This is not a typical feature, but we had to ask ourselves: Is it really worth to do that? Will this mechanism significantly improve our game? Right now, I can tell that was worth to spent a lot of time and add “two worlds” feature, but there is no rose without spikes. To create a good level, with two parallel worlds I need to spent a lot of time, much more than I needed previously.
 
Place your cursor over the images to see the change.
 

 

 
Main advantages of “two parallel worlds” system.

  1. Game offers 2 playable characters: stone character and demon. Each of them has his own world. These worlds aren’t the same. There is a lot of differences between them (you can see that at our last gameplay video). We can easily switch between worlds (just by pressing “R” key).
  1. Player can freely change world, but it is impossible to use this ability in all places. It works this way because these parallel worlds aren’t identical, so when you can’t perform the change, it can means that there is some obstacle (for example wall) in this place, in the alternative world. Additionaly, if you can’t switch, there is a small, red cross, appears over main hero’s head.
  1. Freely changes can cause some problem for the player, like unexpected death. That’s why you have to be carefull when you switch between two worlds. You never know what kind of dangerous thing can be hidden in the alternative world.
  1. Sometimes you can feel a little lost. When you do something in the first world it can affects on the things in the second world. You have to remember about that. If you don’t know what should you do next, maybe you have to look for an explanation somewhere in the parallel world. What will you do, if locked doors blocks your way? Where is the key? It can be hidden in one of two worlds. This feature gives really a lot of interesting possibilities.
  1. There is many situations in our game when you have to decide quickly and there is no time to think if you want to stay alive. Stonerid very often requires quick reflex and players shouldn’t forget about that.
  1. Each level is bigger and looks more open, when you have an option to switch between two worlds.
  1. Now Stonerid is a quite difficult game. It’s not easy if you want to complete all levels, especially if you want to collect most of availabe items. We are not sure if the fact that game is difficult is an advantage, but we don’t prefer easy games, so we don’t want to make our game too easy.
  1. Time doesn’t affects on an alternative world, it passes only in a world, in which you currently are. Each object, like a monster or trap, just stops when you leave the current world and switch to the parallel area. It’s a very usefull feature if you know how to use it properly.

As you can see “two worlds system” can be really interesting, because it provides many different possibilites and makes gameplay more complicated. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page, or subscribe our Twitter channel if you want to recive the newest information about our game.

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