VHS Story streetfighter manager for PC, MAC, Linux. GREENLIGHT



ABOUT THE GAME

Punch Club (ex. VHS Story) is a strategy / tycoon / streetfighter-manager game with 80-90s atmosphere, nostalgia and lots of games/movies references.

You have to manage your time and money to improve your fighter skills on one side and your training equipment on the other. You will start as an unknown fighter in the underground club and must work your way to the top and solve the mystery from your past.

Improve your characteristics, learn new fight moves and unlock new abilities in the skill tree. Make your setup for every fight to suit the particular situation and opponent.

Choose your way wisely. Every decision matters. You can be a super-hero, a criminal or waste your life watching TV, or even run your own gym.

The game is a mix of a non-linear storyline, a tycoon-like gameplay, RPG elements and a tactical fight.



Take a look to our image gallery.


FEATURES

Nostalgia of the 80s and 90s.

Lots of references to movies and games 80 – 90s. (i.e. if you get a job as pizza guy – it’s a chance to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Alligators).

A lot of irony.

Leveling up and character progression.

Perks: Some are partly gained at birth and others after quests have been completed and come to a decision. (Perks during the game are very important).

Nonlinear story line. You have an opportunity to prepare for every fight, to study and analyze the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.

Don’t manage to beat an opponent, try to buy information about his weaknesses in advance, or for example poison his beloved hamster.


ABOUT US

We are "Lazy Bear Games"- a small indie game studio based Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Studio was founded 6 years ago by two friends as "Game Jam Studio" and changed its name to "Lazy Bear Games" in April 2015.

We started game development as a hobby and now it is our full-time job. We are about 30 years old, so we spent our childhood in the era of NES/Sega consoles, TMNT cartoon series and movies with S.Stallone, A.Schwarzenegger, J.K.Vandam spread on VHS cassettes.

We love that era and want to make a game full of nostalgia and different references to the culture of that time. We are big fans of strategic games of all kinds. So, we decided to mix these 2 things and the idea of Punch Club (ex. VHS Story) came out.

We have been working on Punch Club (ex. VHS Story) for 1 year now. We’ve been greenlit on Steam, and we’ve made it just in 5 days! We ended up with 70% yes votes!






Follow us on  @LazyBearGames

Edited by Dartius - 06 July 2015 at 2:42am

This is how our artist makes our cool pixelart. From sketch to final look.




Edited by Dartius - 14 April 2014 at 6:55am

The art and animations so far in this game look great. The only thing that doesn't look right to me yet, is the leaves on the tree, but only the darkest colour. I almost feel like, either it should be changed to something a bit more desaturated, or have another shade of a desaturated green introduced in there.

Btw, love the process shown above, thanks for sharing.

Edited by Damian - 16 March 2014 at 2:25pm

Do you recognize this guy?



Edited by Dartius - 14 April 2014 at 6:59am

Here's a small part of a shop with many interesting stuff ;)



More information in our blog.
Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.

Further progress:

Here is the whole progress:



More information in our blog.
Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.
Try VHS Story alpha version here.

Edited by Dartius - 23 May 2014 at 7:37am

Do you know how to combine these things?


Edited by Dartius - 30 May 2014 at 7:55am

Recently we've published our pre-alpha build at GameJolt and several days later it became No.1 in "top rated games":

http://gamejolt.com/games/best/




Edited by Dartius - 05 June 2014 at 4:34am

What movie/video games references do you recognize here?

Work in progress! VHS Story team.

Do you remember Rocky 4 and winter? We've got it in our VHS_Story game!

Hey guys!  :)

Take a look at our blog post. VHS Story project news is here.

Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.

This whole thing looks really great.

Indiana Jones, TMNT (twice), Mortal Kombat (twice). Hmmm... Nothing else. I guess I'm not really good at reference spotting.

Testing character skin system.  



Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.



Edited by Dartius - 27 November 2014 at 8:21am

Here's our new kitchen. Our hero has got a cat! :)  meow :3



Edited by Dartius - 01 December 2014 at 2:06am

Is all the scribbliness part of the overall look for the game? I find it very unappealing myself, but I suspect I'm not part of the target audience for this game. If it's an intentional thing that adds to the atmosphere you're going for, then stick with it!

Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.



Edited by Dartius - 04 December 2014 at 4:39am

Scripting cut-scenes in VHS Story using uScript engine.

The year 2014 overview and upcoming plans. Read here. ;)

One screen from the VHS Story intro.

We've been Greenlit! It took exactly 5 days! Thank you for your support!  :)

Hello and welcome to the #FCOVilnius (podcast): Steam Greenlight — experience of Train Valley & VHS Story. We participated as guest speakers. :)
You can listen to us by clicking  here.

Playing with character constructor for VHS Story. Made exchangable heads/body/pants.



Keep up with VHS Story news on the official Twitter and Facebook pages.

Trying to make all 11 opponents recognizable. We want you to remember the guy that beat you.   :)
Actually, if somebody has a "suitable" names for our fighters in his mind, feel free to share!