Hello, everybody!
As you might know, Tunche Arena was a slice of what Tunche, the full game would become. Now, that our dream of releasing Tunche is getting closer and closer, we are finally closing doors on Tunche Arena as it has become an outdated version of what the game actually is both in quality and visually!

Thank you for your patience!


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We’re delighted to take part in the Steam Game Festival (June 16 - June 22), which is already live now! Throughout the event we've brought demos for each of the 8 games we are currently working on.

All of them are in different genres, settings and styles. You will surely find something that piques your interest! All the content available for Steam Summer Festival is free, some demos are long, some allow infinite play. Here is a little sneak peek of every title available.


Voidtrain is a first-person action/survival game where you become a crew member of an interdimensional express. Build your own train, upgrade it, craft weapons and travel across different mysterious worlds full of outlandish creatures, Nazis and other dangers.

https://youtu.be/o0bIODWSX5Y

Voidtrain’s demo features a base loop of the game, where you’ll be able to travel between biomes on your train, gather resources to upgrade it and stop by interdimensional train depots filled with Nazis ought to be defeated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159690/Voidtrain/


Tunche is a charming, hand-drawn beat'em up hack and slash game with roguelike elements, co-op and a pinch of shaman witchcraft. Visit the amazonian jungle alone or together with your friends, choose one of the 5 unique characters and hack through hordes of enemies!

And if you like A Hat in Time, we got a big surprise for you — Hat Kid will be the 5th Playable Character in the game. Moreover, you’ll be able to test her in the demo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/


Do you miss the golden era of Game Boy? Linked Mask is a 2D platformer that will make you reminiscent of the good old days, where a player has to overcome six towers, collect six masks containing elemental powers and ultimately conquer the Castle of the Primals. And there’s a chillingly cool soundtrack that will make your head bop as you traverse the deadly Towers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111590/Linked_Mask/


Plunge into a VHS-era cyberpunk world of Jack Move, an RPG featuring japanese style turn based battles and gorgeous Hi-Bit pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOLVvhsJFw

There’s a brand new demo of Jack Move available that features a new slums area, a new dungeon and a whole bunch of new enemies for you to tangle with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099640/Jack_Move/


Black Book is a dark RPG Adventure based on Slavic mythology and featuring card-based combat. You will take on the role of Vasilisa, a young sorceress on a quest to revive her beloved one. In order to do so, she has to uncover all the 7 seals of Black Book — a demonic artefact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish.

The demo features an essential part of the story — the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. You’ll be able to test test the core game mechanics, battle regular demons and even test your strength in a fight against a boss.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138660/Black_Book/


There Is No Light is a pixel-art action adventure in a dark post-apocalyptic setting, which tells a story of a protagonist fighting against a fallen underground civilization and its appalling religious rituals.

In this demo you’ll be able to explore a small part of the game world. Visit a village, the existence of which remained unknown for a long time. Find out how people live in the underground world ruled by the Church of the Great Hand. Find your own playstyle by combining 3 available weapon types, so that eventually you can fight a giant boss Behemoth that gets in your way to freedom.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/


Tower Princess is a 3D roguelike action platformer where you'll have to beat a dungeon, defeat a dragon, rescue a princess/prince and manage a perfect date with them! There’s a wide variety of royalty members you can hit on — you’ll be able to find someone you like even if you’re not into humans.

The demo is a linear and brief sample of a run in one of the Castle's areas. It shows the visuals and the core gameplay of Tower Princess, but it's focused on the princess aid in combat, as without her help, you wouldn't stand a chance against the Evil Dragon. Are you ready to test yourself as a knight in shining armour?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138650/Tower_Princess/


SuchArt is a painting sim game featuring you being such an amazing artist. Really you rock, your latest DNA test is very positive about it. Now please paint, sell and expose your art from your new studio aboard the Space City. And don’t forget — the only limit is the size of your brush (or a flamethrower).

SuchArt demo features a separate room (a virtual studio instead of a real one you’ll get in the full game) with a limited amount of tools and an introductory part of the story. However, you’ll be able to test the core game mechanics and take a couple of commissions from virtual clients, which is already fun!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293180/SuchArt/

Greetings fellow mercenaries!

Ink Stain Games and HypeTrain Digital are thrilled to announce that you’re invited to the relic hunt in the world of “Stoneshard” - a challenging turn-based RPG set in an open world with procedurally generated dungeons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwPAr4V3oK0

Stoneshard is a blend of a traditional turn-based RPG combat with brutal roguelike challenge, featuring an unrestricted character development and a complex injury treatment system.

Players who are well-acquainted with the traditional roguelike games will certainly find similarities between a classic dungeon crawler and Stoneshard - however, our game puts a larger emphasis on strategy and resource management. The game is set in a world rich with lore, which helps players immerse themselves in this setting while they explore the dangerous lands of Stoneshard.

Explore the open world of Aldor, a kingdom in ruin where danger lurks around every corner...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/625960/Stoneshard/

Hello, everyone!

First of all we want to say how much we’ve missed our beloved players! Hope you guys missed us too <3

Since we last updated you on the development progress we’ve managed to get a ton of things done. Among all the things we have fully finished the third playable character, Nayra and started working on Hat Kid.

While developing Tunche we always wanted it to run smoothly and look like a playable cartoon. It wasn’t an easy task to say the least but we humbly hope we managed to achieve that. However, working in full 2D was limiting us when it came to a lot of things, such as using SFX or making the enemy attack patterns more complex.

We experimented a lot with what we had and came up with an idea. What if we take our hand-drawn sprites and backgrounds and sprinkle them with some 3D magic?..

The whole team was fascinated by how gorgeous our game came to be with this simple yet fresh idea. Of course, it requires extra work, but hey, we want our dream game to look as stunning and play as smooth as possible. Making the visuals more complex we managed to add dynamic lighting, shadows and work on that day and night cycle a little more.

Speaking of extra work, we want to shed a little light on the details of what we had to change.

Obviously we had to rework all of our foreground and background assets so they would work with the new 3D depth correctly. Same goes for all the player and enemy sprites - as they used to stick to the floor, we had to change all of them accordingly. Even more than that, honestly, we had to rework the speed and timing of everything related to air combat.

Aside from working on that, we have worked on the story to give more depth to our characters.This also includes the alternative ending stretch goal we’ve reached with your help. We can’t thank you enough for giving us so much love and making “Dark Heroes” expansion a part of Tunche. We hope you’ll enjoy learning more about the crew of heroes that embarked on an adventure into the unforgiving wilderness. All of them are driven by their own goals and there’s something they might not be ready to face just yet.

Well… we don’t want to spoil too much of it, so you guys would wait a little longer to enjoy all the twists yourself. Speaking of the wait, we have some news regarding the release date. Unfortunately, with all the new additions and features we will have to develop Tunche a little longer. But trust us, it’s all for the best!

We plan to release Tunche Q3 2020 and we surely will make it worth the wait.

We want to break the radio silence once and for all and starting today we will be posting interesting stories, development secrets and many more things that usually stay hidden from you, our players. We deeply care about the message our development teams want to deliver to their audience. That's why we are willing to take another step forward and start this series of blog entries.

Final note to our beloved backers. We will be sending out our surveys really soon as we’ve planned to proceed with the player-created content in the beginning of 2020. We hope you already have tons of ideas and we can’t wait to hear all of them!

See you in the jungle!

Don't forget to add Tunche to your Wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/

If you want to stay in touch with the developers, please join our Discord channel. You can ask devs about interesting trivia or share a picture of your dog.

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Here’s a message from our partners at HypeTrain Digital - their top-selling survival title, The Wild Eight, is coming out of Early Access later today!

To celebrate, The Wild Eight 1.0 will be sold with a -15% discount for a week, until Oct 10th.

Act now, while the offer lasts!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/526160/The_Wild_Eight/

Here’s what’s awaits both new and old players in the The Wild Eight 1.0:

• The conclusion to The Wild Eight's story - continue the main questline to uncover the mystery of the Dark Matter
  
  
• Discover new side-quests and locations in an all-new biome, filled with exciting creatures and resources
  
  
• Find and make use of the new ranged weapons and equipment;
  
  
• Stability improvements & optimization fixes

Want to give some extra love to the creators of The Wild Eight - and get some awesome stuff in return? We've got just the option!

The Wild Eight Supporter Pack is reserved for the biggest fans of The Wild Eight, and includes:

• The Wild Eight Digital Artbook
  
  
• The WIld Eight Original Soundtrack
  
  
• The Wild Eight Exclusive In-Game Content: Animal Hat Pack

Message from the HypeTrain team!
We’d like to thank each and every one of our fans and Kickstarter backers - without them, this journey wouldn’t be possible! You helped us shape our game along every step of the way - providing valuable feedback on bugs and errors in Early Access, sharing your thoughts on the game’s balance and content, and just giving our team enough motivation for us to pull ourselves towards Version 1.0!

It’s been a long, tough road - but it’s just a single step in the game’s history. The PS4 and Xbox One versions are currently in the works, and we’ll be able to share more info about them very soon.
But after that - what awaits The Wild Eight in the future? Only time will tell.

Greetings dear knights!

HypeTrain Digital is happy to announce their partnership with the talented guys from AweKTeam. We're excited to say that “Tower Princess”, a unique take on platforming and dating simulators, is joining HypeTrain Digital's lineup, and will be released in 2020.

https://youtu.be/v6KdX1o7ClA

“Tower Princess” evokes the memories of the classic 3D action-platformers, with puzzles and a roguelite component sprinkled in for that extra oomph! Rescuing the princess won't be enough anymore - you'll have to date her, while facing off against big bosses and other dangers of the dungeon!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138650/Tower_Princess/


Follow our socials to stay updated on the development and be the first to see development updates, as well as art pieces (much like this cute one!) and other cool stuff from AweKTeam and other great development studios.


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Every hero needs a good story. It helps us connect with them and see that anybody can become a hero. They can weild magical powers, have tremendous strength or be extremely agile — but in the end they, too, have favorite foods, animals or places they would like to visit.
To deepen the characters of heroes of Tunche, we will be sharing their bios with you! Starting with Rumi — the young shaman with great responsibilities and big aspirations.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/

We’re unveiling more interesting stuff soon - so please be sure to add Tunche to your Wishlist and Follow the game to see every new update as soon as it drops.

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Hello, everyone!
Starting today we will be posting interesting stories, development secrets and many more things that usually stay hidden from you, our players. As an indie game publisher we deeply care about the message our developent teams want to deliver to their audience. That's why we are willing to take another step forward and start this series of blog entries.

In this DevBlog entry we will tell you about Tunche's second boss — Mapinguari.His sprites are still a work in progress, so we’ve decided to share with you how he is portrayed in legends. Hopefully this entry will give you a better understanding of how scary and gruesome he is!


Many cryptozoologists believe that Mapinguari is based off of a prehistoric creature named Megatherium. It essentially was a grandfather to a present day sloth, but was much larger in size. Actually, it was one of the largest mammals to roam the Earth! The fossilized remains of Megatheriums were found all over South America. Including Peru, the homeland of Leap Game Studios!

Skeleton of Megatherium.

But being only a giant sloth isn’t enough to become a scary monster. As described in folklore, Mapinguari has one eye, a huge mouth with sharp teeth on his belly, and incredibly long claws. He also exudes a stench so putrid, it can make you dizzy and knock you out, and can even change day into night!

One of many traditional depictions of Mapinguari.


Traditional depictions of Mapinguari can somewhat resemble a North American Bigfoot. But unlike him, Mapinguari doesn’t flee from humans on sight. It’s very much the opposite — he actively tries to hunt down humans, who hurt the rainforest and its inhabitants, or break the jungle’s unspoken rules.


Mapinguari in Tunche.

Artists of Tunche had to refrain from closely following monster’s traditional looks, to fit Mapinguari into the game’s design. But they are working their hardest to make him as fearsome as in Amazonian legends and be worthy of his real counterpart!

Don't forget to add Tunche to your wishlist!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/

Thank you for your interest in our games! Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated.

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Hello everyone!

We're still unbelievably happy that Tunche got 158% funded. Moreover, we're also absolutely stocked by all the art we had received during these couple of weeks. You guys are the best!

We were so grateful that so many of you have taken their time to create something honoring our beloved heroes that we just HAD to increase the amount of prizes we will send out once the game is released!

Diamond prize ($500 tier)

@linkaimane

We had so many amazing artworks so it was really hard to choose the best one. But this piece by Lin an absolute winner!

Emerald Prize ($200 tier)

@Haruoro1
@jayceeroxas
@Miccetyan
Action-filled art by Haruoro, beautifully put together piece by Jayceeroxas and peaceful artwork by Miccetyan - fanart comes in different forms! We adored different approaches the artists took to capture our heroes.

Platinum prize ($120 tier)

Nayra seems to be fan's second favorite! Well, that's no wonder, with her adorable looks and confident personality it's really hard not to fall in love with her!
Gold Prize (Digital copy of Tunche for any platform)
We will contact our winners soon! All the prizes will be shipped alongside with the backers rewards!

Don't forget to add Tunche to your wishlists
https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/

Thank you so much for participating! We will make sure to post all the artworks that you guys have sent us in the upcoming updates!

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