It took too much time, but we’ve just released a new game – Razenroth 2. It’s a sequel of previous Razenroth, issued in 2015. The new one is available to buy on Steam. Visit the store page: store.steampowered.com

The game is set a few years after the events of the first part. Razenroth, although defeated earlier, is still a huge threat. This time Charles Carter, the main character, has to get rid of him once and for all.

If you would like to see how the new Razenroth looks like in action, please take a look at the trailer.

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Our newest game – Trash Squad, was just released and is available to buy on Steam platform. Visit the store page: store.steampowered.com

If you don’t know anything about Trash Squad yet, let me explain in a few words. Generally, it’s a dynamic shooter with RPG/roguelike elements. The game allows you to fight against hordes of monsters in many randomly generated levels. There are multiple weapons at your disposal, like rifles, shotguns, lasers, swords, rocket launchers, bombs, grenades and much more. You can unlock up to 10 playable characters, each of them is completely different.

To see Trash Squad in action, just watch the official trailer below.

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Quite a lot of time has passed since the last post, so it’s high time to write something. For last months we’ve been working on our next game – Trash Squad. It’s not ready yet, but we’ve decided to submit it to Steam Greenlight. Before you go to the Steam and vote, let me tell you a few things about this game.

Trash Squad is a randomly generated shooter, enriched with many RPG elements (stats, talents, lot of items
and much more). There are many different characters, every one its own unique skills and look. The game offers multiple individual weapons at your disposal. No matter what you preffer – bow, shotgun, flamethrower, sword, sniper rifle, or even crayon machine gun, all can be found here. In this game you play as one of the members
of an elite team – TrashSquad, waste disposal specialists. Your main mission is to stop an army of waste from
a nearby dump, who have started to threaten residents of the city.

Before you leave take a look a the first Trash Squad trailer. It contains gameplay footage from the alpha version
of the game.

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Our second game – Razenroth, is finally available to buy. Just visit Steam store page: Store.steampowered.com The first game we’ve made was Stonerid, 2d platform game, made in XNA. Instead of making its sequel or other platformer, we decided to create something completely different.

One of the most important thing about Razenroth is a fact that many elements are randomly generated. All the levels, weather conditions, distribution and quantity of key elements are completely randomly generated. So even if you’ll play Razenroth a few times, you won’t discover everything.

You can also watch the official trailer, where we would like to show you some of key features, available in Razenroth.

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When we started to develop Stonerid in Autumn 2011, we were quite unexperienced in game development. That’s probably why we chose platformer as our first game. Many people who start their adventure with game dev, often choose platformers, maybe just because it’s one of the easiest game genre to do. In this post I would like to show you how Stonerid evolved during the development process.

Recently, when I was looking for the first level in Stonerid, that we’ve ever created, I found something what you can see below.

It looks quite different than levels in current version of the game, because it was only test level. Anyway, most of the key mechanisms worked correctly, so I started to design a few normal levels.

As you can see, they look rather good (however still significantly worse than the newest levels), much better than the previous one. We also add parallax background, which offered 3 independent layers to use. These levels were created at the beginning of 2012, a lot of time before the official release in december 2013. To design these levels I used a very cool editor, written by our programmer (my elder brother). By pressing one key I could switch to the level and immediately test it. It really speeded up the whole process. Take a look at the first version of our level editor.

This editor was constantly improved. It became a very powerfull tool, with a huge number of useful features. Below a screenshot from the current version.

One of the first screen, which you can see after you run Stonerid, is a game menu, located in fiery cave. This one below, from the first version of Stoneird, doesn’t look so bad, but in final version we significantly improved it.

As you can see we also changed a main character’s design, for both forms. Now they are also much better animated.

Atronast Mountain – main places in the game, also significantly changed. We completely rebuilded it and added more details. The Great Tree is now much greater and it’s covered with toxic substances.

During the development process we many times redesigned other important screens, like „options”, „loading” or „level summary” screen. It’s quite difficult to create something that looks good on the first attempt, that’s why we created so many versions.

At the beginning „loading” screen was a just black with a small centered caption „Loading”. I know this screen is not important for most of the players, especially that loading times in Stonerid are relatively short. However, in my opinion that simple thing improves a little the game’s mood.

We’ve worked on Stonerid for about 2 years, it’s quite long period of time. Why it took so much time? One of the reason are parallel worlds. The first version was a just simple platformer without that feature. But after half year of development we decided, that it’s not enough if we want to get players attention. That’s why we implemented parallel worlds. Because of that, all levels required much more time to create and were more difficult to design.

When I look at these screenshots today I wonder how come we made Stonerid. We didn’t make any „normal” game before, and so many obstacles appeared on our way. Main goal was to get on Steam and we also did it. I know that Stonerid was for almost 7 months on Greenlight, it’s quite long, but who cares about it now.

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In default XNA Game Studio technology supports only X360 controller. It’s definitely a great gamepad, but what if somebody doesn’t have it and a game (e.g. Stonerid) doesn’t support other gamepads?
Normally I prefer keyboard than gamepad, but many people like to use them in platform games. In this short tutorial I will show you how to use other controllers (I used Logitech RumblePad 2) in Stonerid.

1. First visit this link: this link and download “x360ce vibmod 3.1.4.1.zip” file.

2. Unzip downloaded file.

3. Open “Device Manager” in your Windows. How to get into Windows device manager? – Visit this tutorial.

4. Make sure that your gamepad is connected to a PC. Find it on the list and open its properties.

5. Go to “Details” tab and select “Hardware Ids”.

6. Find your Vid and Pid numbers. My Vid: 046d, Pid: c218.

7. Edit “x360ce.ini” file, which you downloaded earlier and type there your Vid and Pid.

8. Run “XInputTest.exe” to see if every button works correctly. If you are not happy with default settings you can edit “x360ce.ini” to make some updates.

9. Go to the folder where you installed Steam. Then go to steamapps -> common -> Stonerid and paste there “xinput1_3.dll” and “x360ce.ini” files.

10. Your gamepad is ready to use, run the game.

I tested it on Win XP and Win 7,and I didn’t encounter any problems. And one more thing, don’t unplug the controller during the game because it can completely freeze it. If you have any questions regarding this post, don’t hesitate to contact us, I’ll try to help.

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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.

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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.

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Hi everyone, today I have a good news for you. After long discussion we finally agreed on the title of next game – Razenroth. What does the title mean? It’s the name of the main villain, however I’m not going to write more about him today.

All levels in the game will be randomly generated, that’s why we still polish a first level. We want to make sure that everything will work really well, so it takes a little time. However, if we complete work on the first level, the next will be much easier to create.

The main hero (his name is Charles Carter) is able to use various spells, skills and equipment. Our goal is to create over 200 of different items, to make game more unpredictable, but we don’t want to make Razenroth a long game. We would like to create the game that you can play a few times, and each time it will be a little different experience.

Don’t forget to check screnshots and 2 short videos. If you would like to receive the newest information about Razenroth, just subscribe our blog, visit Twitter, or Facebook profile.
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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.

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