A game about koalas is giving back to the koalas itself as Convict Games will be donating 50% of net income from STONE until January 3, 2020, to help save koalas from the Australian bushfires to WWF AU. The trailer below is provided by Gametrailers.
Our Aussie stoner noir, STONE features Aussie nature as a metaphor, but to also highlight Australia’s amazing nature. We’re devastated so much is under threat and damaged today through climate change, and we want to give back with fellow gamers. Please join us and help save koalas.
–Convict Games
STONE is a stoner noir adventure story game
That follows a koala private investigator in his quest to piece together his fragmented memory of the debaucherous night before like an episode of The Hangover movie. The game sets the tone of an interactive adventure game story with many eccentric casts of anthropomorphic characters as players can take a “Hard-Ass” or “Soft Touch” approach while interrogating them.
“STONE is an interactive story I’ve always wanted to tell and play. I wrote, direct, programmed, funded and produced the entire project, and it feels incredibly liberating to break free and to release STONE completely independently.”
-Writer, director and Chief Convict Greg Louden of Convict Games
Side activities may include dancing to brick-in-a-washing machine techno, drinking beer or cocktails, making beats, taking a smoke break and even watching some public domain classic films.
Music is also a huge inspiration for the Convict Games team, and STONE’s heavily-curated soundtrack features licensed tracks from several upcoming indie artists around the world. Each song was chosen to reflect the myriad moods in STONE’s story and explores diverse genres such as hip-hop, stoner metal, techno, house and more.
The game is already released for PC and iOS. While the Xbox version is announced for January release.
Grab a bloody Chrissie bargain ??
Become a handsome koala PI today.
Play today on Steam ? ? https://t.co/KGr26CpH5m
Xbox coming in January!#indiegame #SteamWinterSale #SteamDeals #steam #gamedev#ScreenShotSaturday #Xbox
— STONE (@StoneKoalaPI) December 21, 2019
