Company:Lazy Bear Games

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Short description: Russian video game developer
Lazy Bear Games
IndustryVideo games
Founded2012; 12 years ago (2012)[1]
Founders
  • Nikita Kulaga
  • Sviatoslav Cherkasov
Headquarters,
Lithuania
Area served
Worldwide
Websitelazybeargames.com

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

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

Releases under "GameJam" label

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

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, PC Management simulation In association with Riot forge

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Reiger, Nick de (31 August 2018). "Indie Corner: Graveyard Keeper". https://www.gamingboulevard.com/2018/08/indiecorner-graveyard-keeper/. "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." 
  2. "Interview: Trading Blows, Remembering The 80s/90s With The VHS Story Creators". 2015-02-07. https://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/06/interview-trading-blows-remembering-the-80s90s-with-the-vhs-story-creators/. 
  3. Stevenson, Leo (2019-03-31). "Graveyard Keeper is coming to Switch" (in en-AU). https://powerup-gaming.com/2019/03/31/graveyard-keeper-is-coming-to-switch/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Wilde, Thomas (19 May 2019). "Review: 'Swag and Sorcery' from tinyBuild is a lot of things, but mostly it's about the grind". https://www.geekwire.com/2019/review-swag-sorcery-tinybuild-lot-things-mostly-grind/. 
  5. "Competitive work (for 1 week) - Rabbit Must Die". http://62806.selcdn.ru/devcup/ea68135c445b5fbf4d9fc9c18fc4bec7/index.html. 
  6. "VHS Story (alpha)". Game Jolt, Inc. https://gamejolt.com/games/vhs-story/27346. 
  7. "VHS Story's About page". WordPress. http://vhs-story.com/en/aboutgame/. 
  8. "Punch Club (ex VHS Story) - forum thread". 9 March 2014. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=39323.0. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 "GameJam's Projects page" (in ru). http://www.gamejam.ru/projects.html. 
  10. Comments: 3, nintendaan |. "Punch Club will be arriving on North American 3DS eShop next week" (in en-US). https://gonintendo.com/stories/271653-punch-club-will-be-arriving-on-north-american-3ds-eshop-next-week. 
  11. "Graveyard Keeper Alpha Launch Trailer and Release Date" (in en). https://www.trueachievements.com/n32779/graveyard-keeper-alpha-launch-trailer-and-release-date. 
  12. Gregson-Wood, Stephen. "Swag and Sorcery is a streamlined RPG from the makers of Punch Club that's heading for iOS in January" (in en). https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/081796/swag-and-sorcery-is-a-streamlined-rpg-from-the-makers-of-punch-club-thats-heading-for-ios-in-january/. 
  13. Nichiporchik, Alex. "Punch Club's guide to Pixel Art" (in en). https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AlexNichiporchik/20161205/286829/Punch_Clubs_guide_to_Pixel_Art.php. 

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