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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As you probably noticed, Stonerid is available to buy for several days now, but we’ve not released demo version yet. It’s high time to change that. Right now you can download demo for Windows, just click the button below.

This version contains tutorial and 4 various levels. You have a chance to visit Forest, Winterland and Caverns.
It’s quite enough to show you, how our game looks like. By playing the demo you can also learn how to effectively use 2 parallel worlds – main Stoneird feature.
Do you see that tree, at the image above? It grows at the top of Atronast mountain. Watch Stonerid intro and you’ll find out why this tree is very important. So, what are you waiting for, try out the demo now and enjoy it. Don’t hesitate to send us and e-mail and share your opinion.