Hi everyone. Today I have a good news for you. Our game – Stonerid, finally got greenlit! After 218 days on Greenlight it get a chance to appear on Steam, cool isn’t it? I know it’s 7 months after release, but
better late than never.

Now we have to wait until our tax information will be verified, it can take even a few weeks. After that we’ll concentrate on implementing all necessary things (like achievements or trading cards) into the game. I hope it won’t be difficult.

However now our priority is Razenroth. There is still a lot of things to do. If you would like to track our progress, don’t hesitate to visit our Facebook or Twitter profile. You can also check devlog at TIG source forum.

Quite recently we’ve started a new greenlight campaign. Now Razenroth fights for his place on Steam. At this moment games, that appear on Greenlight, don’t need so many votes to be accepted, as it was one, or two years ago. However, it’s still difficult to get on Steam, so if you would like to help us, don’t hesitate to click the image below and vote for Razenroth.

Stonerid – our first game, is on greenlight for a few month, but it’s really close to get greenlit. Probably it will appear on Steam this summer.

A few months ago we’ve finished our first game – Stonerid. After that, we decided to do something new, a game which will be completely different than Stonerid. So we leave platformers and try to create top-down perspective game. This game is untitled for now, however we did just enough to show you a few screenshots.

What is this game about? A main hero – Charles Carter, is a young man, who decide to remove a curse from his family. The curse causes that all people of the family have nightmares, but nobody knows who is responsible for that. Charles is going to find out the way to stop the curse. To do it, he must fight against terrible creatures from nightmares. But he’s not unarmed. With a power of magic he has a chance to complete his quest.

All levels in the game are randomly generated. We are going to create over 200 items, and several dozen types of monsters. Each time the game will look differently.

As you know or not, Stonerid was created in XNA Game Studio. Microsoft resigned from the development of XNA, so we decided to switch into Unity Engine. Another reason is a fact, that from a few months Unity supports 2D games.

The game still needs a lot of work before it will be finished, but we really want to complete it in this year, so stay tunned.

LazyGuysStudio have just started their next games bundle – ‘Moon Landing’ bundle. If you would like to buy 8 really cool games, for only 3.99$, visit now: www.lazyguysstudio.com/bundle. Our game – Stonerid, is also in this bundle, so if you have not tried it out so far, now there is a chance to buy it at great price. Take a look at the full list of games included in this bundle:

BEEP (Steam & Desura)
Hero of the Kingdom (Steam)
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood (Steam)
Orborun (Desura & Greenlight)
Stonerid (Desura & Greenlight)
Inside The Gear (Desura & Greenlight)
Snake Blocks (Desura & Greenlight)
Astro Emporia (Desura & Greenlight)

This promotion won’t last forever, so don’t forget to check www.lazyguysstudio.com/bundle.

We decided to drop price of Stonerid to just 4.99$. It’s not a weekly sale or something like that. This is new, regular price. In our opinion, a really fair price, even for the game made by unknown team. Try a demo version, especially if you aren’t convinced yet.

Some people, who played Stonerid, complained about too high difficulty. When someone can’t finish a few first levels without dying tens of times, it probably means, that we made a mistake. It’s a serious problem and we decided to resolve it.

If you played a demo or full version, you probably know that it was very easy to die in this game. However we’ve changed a few things. Now player has 3 health points, instead of 1. No matter what difficulty level you chose, you always start with 3 health points (of course each death recover missing hp). Take a look at the main differencens between particular modes.

Easy mode – It’s a special game mode, for inexperianced players.
You can regenerate your hp, by collecting colorfull stones, 2 stones give you 1 hp. Additionally each new chcekpoint automatically regenerates your hp. In this mode you won’t receive any awards at the end of level.
If you are not familiar with difficult platform games, I recommend to select this mode.

Normal mode – make sure that easy mode and hard mode are not selected. You can’t regenerate missing hp in this mode. If you die you’ll get your 3 hp back, and the main hero will be transported to the last checkpoint.

Hard mode – the only difference between hard and normal is a fact that there is no checkpoints in this mode. It’s just enough to make the game much more difficult.

Sometimes (quite rarely) you will notice that some of the objects are red. These objects kill main hero immediately if you touch them, no matter how much health points he has. It was necessary to avoid some weird situations that could occurs because of implementing additional hp. Don’t worry, there are not a lot of these dangerous objects in the game.

The last important improvement is a notification, which player receives when finds a secret area. It also gives you an information, how many secret places is hidden in each level.

As I wrote before, you won’t receive any prizes at the end of a level if you play at easy mode. It shouldn’t be
a problem for someone who don’t need to collect additional rewards in games, especially that the game is much easier at this mode. So if you play at easy mode you’ll see something like in the image below.

That’s it for today. Don’t forget to check demo version, just click the button “Download now” on the right column.
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