Stonejaw Games

Stonejaw Games is an independent studio making action games the way they used to feel: heavy hits, real stakes, and heroes who stand their ground.

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Free playtest (an older build, before this system): https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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DEVLOG #7 — every fight leaves a mark

Faces break now, both ways: broken nose, cut brow, an eye that swells shut.
Take enough leg kicks and you limp. Blood stays on fists, clothes and floor.

Gore setting: OFF / LOW / NORMAL / BRUTAL. Which would you play on?

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Free playtest: https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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Launch them, keep them up, put them down.

Air juggles in my 3D brawler. Should a launcher feel floaty or heavy?

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Free playtest (an older build, before this system): https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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DEVLOG #6 — stay clean, get dangerous

New: HEAT. Clean hits, parries and perfect dodges push you up: COLD, WARM, HOT, MONSTER. Each level hits harder and faster.

Each hit you take drops a level.

At MONSTER, enemies flinch and keep hesitating for 12 seconds.

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Free playtest: https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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Grab. Slam. Stomp.

There are no weapons in my 3D brawler, so the floor does the work.

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@RyanPondBuilds Exactly. A limping man's step-in gets shorter, so work the legs and he can't close the gap as fast. Keep at it and the leg gives out completely. Then he's on the floor, and that's your opening.

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DEVLOG #5 — hit where it hurts

Every blow lands somewhere now:
Head shots rock them
Body shots wind them, then fold them
Leg kicks make them limp

Counter right after a parry and you break his arm. He fights one-handed after that.

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Mostly layering. The hit itself plays a reaction clip, then the injury sits on top of his normal animations as additive layers: a limp in the legs, a broken arm held across his chest, a hunch when he's badly hurt. His move set filters too: break his arm and every move that needs it drops out or swaps for a one-handed version.

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Free playtest (an older build, before this system): https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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@tamamogram Yeah worked lot on contact and damage

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The flying knee punch, at half speed.

My favourite move in my 3D brawler.

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Free playtest: https://t.co/Uwq1SAEvCJ

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@PokeIndie No enemy health bars. Sounds like I forgot to finish the UI.
In play, you watch his guard drop, his breathing go ragged and his knees start to go. You know exactly when one more punch puts him down.

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@GamesRadar We make a bare-knuckle brawler. Asking for research purposes: are bar fights included, or extra?

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DEVLOG #4 — what next?

The chapter is playable but nothing is locked:

More enemy types
A proper tutorial
Better camera
More moves
Something I haven't thought of

Play it and tell me which. That's honestly how I'm deciding.

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@0xDanielAI Stealing "scale is half the hitbox". The animations were made for a normal-sized fighter, so at 1.23x he punched the air above your head. He's back to normal size now. The new puzzle is making him feel huge without actually being huge.

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DEVLOG #3 — I made my boss too big

He was 1.23x the player's height, so every punch sailed over his head. The animations were captured against a man his own size.

Normal height now, and his blows land.

Too hard? Too easy?

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