Lazy Bear Games
 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. (April 2024) |
| Industry | Video games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012[1] |
| Founders |
|
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | lazybeargames |
Lazy Bear Games is a video game development company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, founded by Russian video game developers Nikita Kulaga and Svyatoslav Cherkasov in St.Petersburg, Russia.[2][3] The company frequently collaborates with tinyBuild and Uroboros Games.[4]
History
[edit]Lazy Bear Games was founded as GameJam (Or "Game Jam Studio") in 2010 and produced games under that name from 2010 till the studio was renamed Lazy Bear Games in April 2015.[1] Although, their first three games developed in 2010 to 2012 were either cancelled or transferred to another company. They co-developed the story-driven city builder Fairy Kingdom HD for mobile platforms with the company Game Garden in 2012–2013. In 2013, they entered a "Next Castle Party 2013" contest where they worked on an arcade 2D MOBA/platformer called Rabbit Must Die for one week, and won two awards in two categories - best eSports game and audience award. It ran on the Web browser plugin, Unity Web Player.[5] They were working on a management sim with a fighter/brawler theme and mechanism called VHS Story in 2014. However, it was only available in an alpha, online version at GameJolt.[6] Then when they were renamed to "Lazy Bear Games", they also renamed the game VHS Story to Punch Club while continuing work on it and released it later in 2016.[7][8]
Games
[edit]Releases under "GameJam" label
[edit]| Title | Year | Platform(s) | Developer(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairy Kingdom HD[9] | 2012-2013 | iOS, Android, Amazon | Game Garden, GameJam (Co-dev) | City builder City-building game |
| Rabbit Must Die[9] | 2014 | Unity Web Player (Browser) | GameJam | MOBA, Platformer Platform game |
Releases as Lazy Bear Games
[edit]| Title | Year | Platform(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punch Club[10] | 2016 | Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4 | Boxing match sporting management simulation |
| Graveyard Keeper[11] | 2018 | Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Linux, PlayStation 4 | Graveyard-themed management simulation video game |
| Swag and Sorcery[4] | 2019 | PC, iOS[12] | Self-parody role-playing simulation |
| Punch Club 2: Fast Forward[13] | 2023 | Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One | MMA match sporting management simulation |
| Bandle Tale: A League Of Legends Story | 2024 | Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows | Crafting role-playing game in association with Riot Forge |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Reiger, Nick de (31 August 2018). "Indie Corner: Graveyard Keeper". GamingBoulevard. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
The studio was founded six years ago by two friends as Game Jam Studio and changed its name to Lazy Bear Games in April 2015.
- ^ "Interview: Trading Blows, Remembering The 80s/90s With The VHS Story Creators". Siliconera. 2015-02-07. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Stevenson, Leo (2019-03-31). "Graveyard Keeper is coming to Switch". PowerUp!. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ a b Wilde, Thomas (19 May 2019). "Review: 'Swag and Sorcery' from tinyBuild is a lot of things, but mostly it's about the grind". GeekWire. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "Competitive work (for 1 week) - Rabbit Must Die". 62806.selcdn.ru. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Lazy Bear Games @Dartius. "VHS Story (alpha)". Game Jolt. Game Jolt, Inc. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "VHS Story's About page". VHS Story's official website. WordPress. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Dartius (9 March 2014). "Punch Club (ex VHS Story) - forum thread". TIGSource. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ a b "GameJam's Projects page". Game Jam Studio (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
- ^ Comments: 3, nintendaan | (12 January 2017). "Punch Club will be arriving on North American 3DS eShop next week". GoNintendo. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Graveyard Keeper Alpha Launch Trailer and Release Date". TrueAchievements. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Gregson-Wood, Stephen (20 December 2019). "Swag and Sorcery is a streamlined RPG from the makers of Punch Club that's heading for iOS in January". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ Nichiporchik, Alex. "Punch Club's guide to Pixel Art". Gamasutra. Retrieved 27 July 2021.