Punch Club (ex. VHS Story) [strategy/tycoon/streetfighter manager]

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Punch Club (ex. VHS Story) is going to be an epic story for PC, MAC, Linux.

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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.
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• • 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.

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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!

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Our site/blog: www.vhs-story.com
Twitter: @LazyBearGames
Facebook: facebook.com/VHSStory

 

Haven't played it for long (I'm at work ^^') but it sure looks really nice I also hear "Jazz Jackrabbit - Tubelectric" playing in your house! Recognized it immediately

 

That was a remix by DaVince. This track was taken just for an alpha version. We plan to change it in future. But still love it

 

Looks amazing, love the graphics : D
Sounds like an interesting game for sure.

 

Meanwhile we are working on a cool animation for our hero.

 

This looks amazing Really good work. I am loving the animation ^^ Good luck with this.

 

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

 

It looks great, I love the style!

Good luck!

 

Awesome pixel work!

 

VHS Story Teenage Mutant Ninja Alligator send Irish luck and lots of hugs to wish a happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here is our version of TMNT

 

This looks really cool, I like how training seems to be a big part of the game. Good luck to ya!

 

Okay after playing the alpha I love this game. Sucks I couldn't buy food but I played enough of it to get hooked. Its like I am playing a rocky movie.

 

Yeah, limiting the food was the only way not to make this game endless at the current point.

 

Do you recognize this guy?

 

Our prototype got a Grand Prize in GamesJamKanobu, a festival that lasted for the whole month with more than 400 projects.

You can read more here: http://red-buzz.com/2014/03/and-the-winners-are-in-for-gamesjamkanobu/

 

Congrats guys, any sort of ETA when you plan to release?

 

Current plans are - greenlight in the summer and release somewhere in the autumn.

 

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.

 

Just started sketching our first female character.

 

All day long we're trying to make her more sexy
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.

 

Do you know how to combine these things?

 

Dude,..I'm trying to work.

stop distracting me with this game,..lol,..

just one more,.....fight,.....

 

Lol! That's actually a great feedback

 

What movie/video games references do you recognize here?

 

By the way, we've published our pre-alpha game at GameJolt and got featured there

 

Looks amazingly cool I will definitely check this out

 

Awesome! Love the music, graphics and the concept. Will fights be always automatic? or you be able to use some special skills or change the strategy?

 

I looooove this game. Please let me know when you launch it!

 

The hero of VHS Story is watching WorldCup2014. What is your favourite team?

 

Holland and everyone England plays

This looks F***ing amazing. Any ideas of a rough release date?

 

Work in progress! VHS Story team.

 

VHS Story hero earns his first money.

 

Combat looks too static, would need some side steps and back steps to bring more strategy.
Game idea seems very similar to Karaté Master 2
http://www.indiedb.com/games/karate-master-2-knock-down-blow

 

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

 

It snows. There are bears everywhere. Game scene in VHS Story game

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

 

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.

 

I'm still trying to work here

btw,..on my browser( Chrome) the toolTip for Energy in the top left is getting cropped.

Loving it!

oh,..also,..If I click on a place, like Barbells to work out,..but try to click on the door midway to exit,..he freaked out and simply walked off of screen! actually I cannot replicate it now,..hrmm

I made him upset!


ok,.I'm out of food. I can't do anything
I wanna be depressed and just sleep,..but I'm too hungry to,..lol..

 

Wishing you a Halloween full of moonlight and magic! ... Happy Halloween!!!



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

 

Working on the new GUI for our game VHS Story. That is the 3rd time we redraw the GUI from the scratch. We hope that is the final version.

 

Testing character skin system.





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

 

Combat is too limited and static, some moves like Kickboxing game or Punch Out would make it more appeal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrcP6tixGME

 

Looks fun, my only concern is that I believe the "S" in "VHS" stands for story, which means that the full title would be "Video Hero Story Story".

 

Playing with script engine for mini-cutscenes in VHS Story.

 

Hi! We renamed our game. From “Video Hero Story” we become “VHS Story“. And in this case, the letters “VHS” no longer stand for “video hero story”. This is VHS as relating to the retro videotape format.

 

Hah this looks so cool.

 

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

 

Here's how our VHS Story looks like in Unity editor.

 

Here's a map of our city. Work still in progress. A lot of content coming...

 

Street fight scene from our fighter sim/tycoon VHS Story.

 

Scripting cut-scenes in VHS Story using uScript engine.