Tunche News

Hello, everyone!
Starting today we will be posting interesting stories, development secrets and many more things that usually stay hidden from you, our players. As an indie game publisher we deeply care about the message our developent teams want to deliver to their audience. That's why we are willing to take another step forward and start this series of blog entries.

In this DevBlog entry we will tell you about Tunche's second boss — Mapinguari.His sprites are still a work in progress, so we’ve decided to share with you how he is portrayed in legends. Hopefully this entry will give you a better understanding of how scary and gruesome he is!




Many cryptozoologists believe that Mapinguari is based off of a prehistoric creature named Megatherium. It essentially was a grandfather to a present day sloth, but was much larger in size. Actually, it was one of the largest mammals to roam the Earth! The fossilized remains of Megatheriums were found all over South America. Including Peru, the homeland of Leap Game Studios!

Skeleton of Megatherium.

But being only a giant sloth isn’t enough to become a scary monster. As described in folklore, Mapinguari has one eye, a huge mouth with sharp teeth on his belly, and incredibly long claws. He also exudes a stench so putrid, it can make you dizzy and knock you out, and can even change day into night!

One of many traditional depictions of Mapinguari.


Traditional depictions of Mapinguari can somewhat resemble a North American Bigfoot. But unlike him, Mapinguari doesn’t flee from humans on sight. It’s very much the opposite — he actively tries to hunt down humans, who hurt the rainforest and its inhabitants, or break the jungle’s unspoken rules.


Mapinguari in Tunche.


Artists of Tunche had to refrain from closely following monster’s traditional looks, to fit Mapinguari into the game’s design. But they are working their hardest to make him as fearsome as in Amazonian legends and be worthy of his real counterpart!




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Hello everyone!

We're still unbelievably happy that Tunche got 158% funded. Moreover, we're also absolutely stocked by all the art we had received during these couple of weeks. You guys are the best!

We were so grateful that so many of you have taken their time to create something honoring our beloved heroes that we just HAD to increase the amount of prizes we will send out once the game is released!

Diamond prize ($500 tier)

@linkaimane

We had so many amazing artworks so it was really hard to choose the best one. But this piece by Lin an absolute winner!



Emerald Prize ($200 tier)

@Haruoro1 @jayceeroxas @Miccetyan
Action-filled art by Haruoro, beautifully put together piece by Jayceeroxas and peaceful artwork by Miccetyan - fanart comes in different forms! We adored different approaches the artists took to capture our heroes.



Platinum prize ($120 tier)

Nayra seems to be fan's second favorite! Well, that's no wonder, with her adorable looks and confident personality it's really hard not to fall in love with her!


Gold Prize (Digital copy of Tunche for any platform)


We will contact our winners soon! All the prizes will be shipped alongside with the backers rewards!

Thank you so much for participating! We will make sure to post all the artworks that you guys have sent us in the upcoming updates!

Hello everyone!

We are 158% FUNDED!

More than 1.000 people united to help us with funding and we can't thank you enough! We didn't just secure the game being funded, but we have also reached some of the stretch goals:

During the campaign we have announced that Hat Kid from A Hat in Time will be joining our heroes on their jungle adventure as a 5th playable character.

We still can't believe that we’ve collected 158% from the 35.000 of our initial goal.

So time for us to start making the final game! We will be back with more updates shortly but right now we need to rest from this overwhelming experience!

Thank you SO MUCH for your overwhelming support! We wouldn't be able to do that without you
If you want to support us some more and help us to reach the next stretch goals, you can do that with our late backing service. Available through PayPal or credit card directly on our website:

And also will be available as a part of Indiegogo InDemand program soon:

Hello, fellow Shamans!

We have a very special announcement to make!
Tunche Arena is finally available for everyone on Steam for free. Join our little tea party and climb your way up to the top of the Leaderboards to see what you're made of! Try the challenging Horde mode to beat the big bad Boss or see how far can you make it in the Endless mode.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/906200/Tunche_Arena/


We have 20+ achievements to unlock, lots of enemies to beat and of course a little bit of witchcraft.
We can't thank you enough for your patience and hope you will like the game!

See you on the Arena!

Hello, fellow Shamans!

We are excited to announce that the long-awaited Kickstarter for Tunche is finally live!
We worked very hard to make this campaign possible and prepared valuable rewards for our supportive backers *wink wink*

You can watch the Launch trailer, download Tunche: Arena for FREE, read about the characters and more.



We would be eternally grateful if you could spread the word about the campaign among your friends, parents, cousins and mothers-in-law :)

See you in the jungle!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/906200/Tunche_Arena/
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