Grindstone 
Save
Cosmic Grind Update — A new Daily Grind mode!May 22, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsA new daily grind mode has burst into Jjertrude’s shrine - the Cosmic Grind! She needs your help to clear this cosmic infection! There are multiple levels with these Ooze-filled Creeps, so make sure to gear up as you survive! Be ready to encounter… 📈 Multiple levels of Ooze-filled Creeps ⚔️ Gear at your disposal 🥇 Another leaderboard to conquer Stop the cosmic infection in this free update for Grindstone NOW 💎 Let us know if you encounter any issues or have any questions! We are also so grateful for all your support and passion, stonegrinders! We are thrilled to bring you this new update that hopefully gives you some extra motivation on your grind. See you on the leaderboards! ✨ Read more about the new update here! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/9d699da5797bd8620c3c66781f0d28a3c28fb382.pngMystical Mayhem UpdateJul 25, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsExperience… 100 brand new levels 💯 Brain-twisting puzzle challenges 🧩 Rewards with the Mystic’s Prize Wheel ✨ This FREE new update is available NOW! Make sure to update your game, stonegrinders 💎 If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please reach out! We are so thankful for our community’s immeasurable support as we continue to update Grindstone. We hope you enjoy the latest update! You can find more details here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/79ec35e48778c5f3063e1759ea073a82a8443957.pngCelebrating Grindstone’s 4th Anniversary! 💎💙Oct 26, 2023 - Community Announcements🎉 Happy 4 years of Grindstone 🎉 To celebrate this incredible milestone, we have in-game gifts for our beloved stonegrinders! 🎩 Two unFOURgettable hats! 🧶 ComFOURtable thread for Harry’s Hat Stand! Make sure to install this quick update to get all of the above! However, our celebration doesn’t stop there! We are also excited to announce our upcoming collaboration with The Yetee! More details to come 💙 Check out The Yetee’s incredible shop for now! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/87c18dcacc74909ecc1f41827e9253fa093d5fb0.png Thank you so much for your support all these years; we wouldn’t be here without you ✨ Grind 4 Gold UpdateSep 8, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsHere are your grinding orders: 40 new cave levels to conquer! 4 new gold gear to unlock! And to help you on your journey to success: An updated fast travel map with percentages! All of this content is available NOW, FOR FREE! Make sure to update your game! P.S. This update also includes a fix for the hat enchantment bug! We appreciate everyone’s patience and assistance toward this solution. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any further questions or issues. Happy stonegrinding! You can find more details here! Check out the YouTube video here! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/ea8955b6c8a8c9bf9eae9f83626291e2b744310d.pngCosmic Darkside Goo-Pocalypse UpdateApr 14, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsYer To-Do list: Pulverise 50 new remixed levels worth of Creeps! Find the Lucky Suit blueprint ASAP! I heard what sounded like a Rainbow Bomb popping off! Could be useful! Get yer mitts on the Darkside Cleaver! And can we just finally beat the GOO SNOT out of Goo Jjary's nose already? -Bossmin P.S: Call your Moms!Cosmic Darkside 3 UpdateJan 13, 2023 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/54c24a189f0adfa8efe3653909b26023a9681365.png The Cosmic Darkside is… EXPANDING ONCE AGAIN!!! The humongous Cosmic Darkside 3 Update includes: 45 new remix levels! New Broom Sword! Cosmic Dashy Sword! Cosmic Bunny Suit blueprint! All new Harry’s Hat Stand opens on Feb 1st! More snazzy Season 2 hats! Goo Jjarry??!? Bug Fixes! Do you dare venture even deeper into the Darkside, brave Stonegrinder?STEAM AWARDS 2022 NOMINATIONSNov 25, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHey Grindstone Fans! Thanks for all the love & support this year! If you enjoyed Grindstone, we would supremely appreciate your nomination! Here are some other categories for your consideration :) LABOR OF LOVE OUTSTANDING VISUAL STYLE MOST INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY BEST GAME ON THE GO GAME OF THE YEAR {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/cc69552d6835f48cb39bbea9e87f9d2973274231.pngLive Now: The COSMIC DARKSIDE TOO!Oct 21, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsThe Darkside of Grindstone Mountain just got even bigger - Just in time for Spooky Season! 🦇 The new update expands the Darkside (opened after completing the main game) and includes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/87b44e989dc31a31b4ea86c521ead9d8c01d1a56.png 45 Cosmic Levels Venture into three new spooky Darkside Biomes, featuring 45 cosmic-remix levels to battle through against the Osmium infection! 3 New Gear Items! Lighting in a Bottle This new throwable potion chains from your target to adjacent creeps of the same colour, making it a perfect way to clear out swaths of a puzzle board that you can’t reach with a normal chain attack Osmutational Arrow Keep your cosmic house clean with this arrow, capable of transforming a troublesome Osmium chunk into everyone’s favourite shiny ore: a Grindstone! Cosmic Mirror Sword Feel like a little game of cosmic risk-and-reward? Take this high-powered version of the Mirror Sword along to double the number of grindstones you create… but collect them fast, as these stones will be infected with Osmium! Quality of Life Stuff! New Weekly Challenges Every week players will have a fresh new challenge shared across the entire Grindstone community. More Season 2 Hats More challenges means… more hats to unlock! Dottie’s closet will be bursting at the seams with new chapeaus for the stylish Stonegrinder Improved Quick-Heal UI A new icon has been added to the world UI to help you heal up more quickly from the map, saving the time of making a trip to the Inn! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/40fc775bbfbf46a6e626ec40b9b81f39adf2c992.png Grindstone + SCREAM FESTOct 1, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsIT'S SPOOKY SEASON! We're always excited when this time of year rolls around. Jackets, scarves, pumpkin-based-consumerism - Fall brings together two of our favorite vibes: coziness + spookiness. The good folks living in the town of Hjellhole are no different - be sure to swing by this month to see the Howling Wolf Inn denizens and everyone else living at the base of Grindstone Mountain have decorated their spaces to embrace the spooky season. This is just one way we're excited to participate in Steam Scream Fest this year, but it's more than just decorations... OCTOBER COMMUNITY CHALLENGES Don't forget to swing by Döttie's House each week during October for a new set of challenges to take on as part of the Grindstone community. Harry's made a heap of new hats to reward your efforts. Here's a sneak peek of the challenges + hats coming your way during Spooky Season:{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/050a0c4e849bb9b60045d732fd8c5204b3545804.png JERKTOBERFEST: Create 50 Creep sausages by grinding a Creep in a meat grinder! Gives Harry's Monster Hat. Starts 6th October BROKEN BONES: Pop 100 creeps with the Bone Shard Shield. Gives the Classic Skull Hat. Starts 13th October ALL HALLOW'S EVE: Make all 50 Jack-O-Lanterns take fire damage. Jack-O-Lanterns have a chance of spawning into any level. Gives the Creepy Crawler Hat. Starts 20th October FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: Make all 50 Diwali candles take fire damage to light them. Candles have a chance of spawning into any level. Gives the Candlestick Hat (Diwali challenge, you can take this one out of the list if you like). Starts 27th October NO DAY OF THE DEAD: Destroy 50 tombstones. Gives the Mummy Moptop Hat. Starts 3rd November Stay cozy and embrace the spookiness, Stonegrinders! We'll see you on the mountain... unless you see us first! (wait, is that how it goes?) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/83808e260bc1f884cbde8e53b17ff171c28cb816.pngThe COSMIC DARKSIDE Grindstone UpdateJul 29, 2022 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/f0acbbec916192b5f8151af859c5ac8da1698052.gif The Cosmic Darkside is here! Grindstone just received a huge new update, and it's sure to challenge the most hardened stonegrinders. Did you think your journey was over once reaching the summit of Grindstone Mountain? Think again! A meteor from behind the stars will tear open a hole to the Cosmic Darkside - pass through this portal to the Mystic's Realm, where new enemies, new challenges, new items, and 60 cosmic levels await. (version number is v1.1.29-4284041r, for those looking to confirm their update) Oh no, it's Osmium! There's trouble in the Mystic's Cosmic Realm, and it all starts with Osmium! It's nasty stuff! Once Osmium gets into something, it can cause all kinds of problems. The creeps you're used to slashing through, for example, become a bit tougher - and even worse, they'll eventually burst, spreading new osmium infections nearby! Not even grindstones are safe from infection, so be on guard! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/aff04553fe73f05babd9e55219bd3e230dc79342.gif Destroying an infected enemy will release a loose chunk of Osmium. Be sure to grab it quickly, before it has a chance to explode and spread even more infection. Luckily, you can also use Osmium as a resource to craft powerful new gear - you're gonna need it! Cosmic Features New Game+ mode called the Cosmic Darkside (obvs) New enemy types New hazard: new "Osmium" hazard New level objective: clear all osmium infection from Cosmic Darkside levels. New category of gear: new Osmium-based weapons New outfit with ability: New Hazmat suit. New cutscene animation: New Intro cutscene for the Cosmic Darkside. New Cosmic Darkside background music and ambience Various Gameplay + bug fixes How to access The Cosmic Darkside unlocks after defeating level 200, at the end of the Lost Lair. Shortly after you've done this, a meteor will strike near the town of Hjellhole, at the base of the Mountain. This meteor opens up a portal into the Mystic's Realm. Simply pass through this portal to access the new levels - good luck! The Cosmos are Growing... This is just the beginning of your journey into the Cosmic Darkside! Stay tuned for future updates, as the cosmic infection spreads beyond these initial levels and into new biomes.... Thanks, Stonegrinders of Steam! Thanks for helping make our recent Steam launch a success, stonegrinders! We're thrilled to bring you this free update, alongside all the other great content packed into the game. Enjoy your puzzle-battles, tell a friend, and we'll see you on the Mountain!Hotfix v1.0.28-baa0907rJul 8, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTo: Stonegrinders From: Bossmin Difficulties wearing this week's hat should now be fixed. Hop to it! -BossminHotfix v1.0.28.128541arJul 7, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTo: Stonegrinders From: Bossmin We found the missing mini map in the creep hideouts. All positions of OBJECT_SPACE have been fixed. That's all, get back to work! -Bossmin🔴💎Grindstone - Steam Deck broadcast!Jun 27, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsUPDATE - TROUBLE VIEWING STREAM? Hey, folks! Some users are having trouble watching the stream via steam. If that's you, feel free to pop over to the Capy YouTube channel, where we're broadcasting as well. ---- From the moment we heard about the Steam Deck, we were excited to play Grindstone on it. With our game's bright graphic style and support of both touch and traditional controls, we knew right away that it was going to be a great home for Jorj, Jorja, and all the jerks on Grindstone Mountain. Join the team this week as we check out the game running on Steam Deck hardware. See you on Wednesday, June 29th, at 3:30 eastern (19.30 GMT) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/cee79bf10ac9c625733fa81b4703541e67b1a544.jpgThe Daily Grind Dev DiaryJun 24, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsWith the launch of Grindstone on Steam, we wanted to take some time to write up a bit of the process and design intent behind all three Daily Grind modes, with a special focus on the Fortune Grind! CAPY’s Kaitlin Tremblay sat down with lead programmer Ken Yeung and artist Vic Nguyen to talk game design, programming, art, writing, and the special anxiety around shipping a leaderboard. The Daily Grind https://miro.medium.com/max/700/1*MpoOu1M4XOvbMEY3HuE2wA.jpeg The initial idea for Daily Grind happened pretty early on. According to programmer and lead designer on Daily Grind, Ken Yeung, the idea for it came about right after Grindstone was initially launched in the fall of 2019. Ken explained that everyone on the team always wanted a horde or endless mode for the game (and, to be fair, talk of a “true” endless mode is still a common topic of conversation amongst the Grindstone team). The desire for an endless mode was focused around a simple idea: a way for folks to jump in and play, and jump out, without worrying about level progression. So for this new mode, there were two main approaches the team considered: 1) grind for resources or 2) a ranked mode. Part of the decision that led to a ranked mode was that a resource grind mode would have a big effect on the economy of the game, and Grindstone really wasn’t designed with major resource sinks. That led the team to deciding on a ranked mode: a mode that didn’t have an inherent ceiling and could continually grow and expand as the game’s brand new live update cycle progressed. This also gave the added benefit of providing players with more ways to choose what they wanted to do in any given session. Grindstone was a linear game up until this point, so the inclusion of daily modes helped break that linearity up. Okay, so the team had a pitch: a ranked mode with a daily leaderboard. Now the question was: how do we communicate this to the player? Specifically, the team made the decision to not let players keep the resources they obtain during their Daily Grind runs. The reasoning for this is two-fold: 1) there isn’t a huge resource sink in the game, and 2) players don’t use their own gear in Daily Grind. So keeping resources from the ranked competitive mode would unnecessarily impact the balance of the main game progression. And not to say that we didn’t want to encourage the difficult competitive mode as the place to spend your time grinding. In order to explain this to players, the idea that players were making an offering of their resources was suggested, and ultimately, agreed upon. Since the Daily Grind would, by definition, sit outside of the core progression up the Mountain, it needed a separate home. It didn’t make sense to put it on the Mountain itself or in the Howling Wolf Inn, since both of those areas are strictly bound up with the main progression and resource loop of the game, and the Daily Grind was explicitly different and apart from this. Not putting it on the Mountain also directly h...v1.0.28-4ae23ddr Quick Fix Patch NotesJun 23, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTo: Stonegrinders From: Bossmin Controller disconnect issues should now be fixed. What are ya waiting for? Go have fun! Now! -BossminTieTuesday plays Grindstone!Jun 21, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTuesday...a fine time to stream! Step right up, Stonegrinders! Capy is happy to invite TieTuesday to stream a bit of Grindstone with us to round out a lovely afternoon. Stream starts at 5pm EST - Stop by and cheer on a big Jorja chain! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/98945246e0d48d00c3af030fde9dd5d4bbbb6b67.pngGrindstone is OUT NOW and 40% off!Jun 21, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsOut Now! After sharing our game with Steam players during Next Fest, we’re now very excited to share that Grindstone is now officially available on Steam, with a launch discount of 40%! Better than Ever for Steam! Since Grindstone’s original launch in 2019, the team has continued to provide free content updates to keep the stonegrinding going. The Steam version is the most complete version of Grindstone yet, with over two years worth of content updates! Some highlights include: Our 2nd playable character, Jorja! The Slophouse w/Snacks & Bestiary! New endgame boss + "Lost Lair" Biome Ivor's Boss Blitz The Carnival of Creeps The Fortune Grind Daily Mode The Quick Grind Daily Mode The Greed Grind Daily Mode Several new "Hideout" side biomes Seasonal gear, challenges, and decorations celebrating Valentine’s Day, Easter, Ramadan, Christmas, and Hanukkah Leaderboards for the daily + boss modes Updated Final cinematic Whew! There's a lot of stuff in the game for you to discover is what we're saying! One of our favorite things about all these updates? It gives us an excuse to create new artwork celebrating this ever-growing game. We recently gathered a bunch of this artwork in a gallery to showcase the awesome work done by Capy's artists and collaborators. More like Groovestone, right? Fan of a great game soundtrack? Don't miss out on Sam Webster's acclaimed soundtrack for Grindstone - volume 1 and volume 2 are also now available on Steam. Even better, you can get 10% off the bundle when you get them with the game, or complete your collection. Tell a Friend! On top of it all, one of the greatest things about our work on Grindstone has been the amazing feedback we've gotten from fans of the games, and Steam players encouraging us to make the game available here. With that in mind, your recommendation of the game is one of the highest compliments you can give us! Have a friend who might be interested? See if they'd like to try the free Demo featured during Next Fest We can’t wait to see you on the Mountain, Steam community! Grindstone Broadcast from CAPY devs!Jun 17, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsJoin Grindstone devs from CAPY as we don our fuzzy hats* and go stonegrinding during our ongoing Next Fest celebration. *No fuzzy toques will be worn. It's hot in Toronto this week, y'all. At 1:00 (eastern) Christian will check out Grindstone running on Deck hardware, joined by programmer-design Ken. Then, around 2:30, Joel will settle in with a steaming mug of coffee for his afternoon run through one of the Daily Grind modes. When 3:00 rolls around, we'll tee up a re-broadcast of our recent stream with Capy artist and all-around swell one, Ben! Show up, Stonegrinders! We're heading into the weekend! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42462248/4c7b3fad2a3559454f0f5186b1790c2473103c66.pngLive Stream with Artist Ben Thomas!Jun 15, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHang out while the devs play Grindstone! Tune in for a special broadcast Christian is joined by Capy artist Ben Thomas to play a few rounds of Grindstone. Broadcast starts today at 5pm GMT / 1pm EST / 10am Pacific!Behind the Scenes: Creeps, Jerks, Slobs, Oh MyJun 15, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsAs a hulking papa StoneGrinder, Jorj, you’ll have to work your way up Grindstone Mountain by smashing creeps, grabbing treasure, and taking down bosses. But before you clock in, learn about how the team at Capy created some of the mountain dwellers that you’ll come up against. Grindstone: Of Creeps and Slobs “Hi! We’re Kelly Smith and Ben Thomas, animators at Capy. Grindstone is about creating attack chains through colorful creeps and jerks, so we thought it’d be fun to talk about our process designing two of those enemies.” Creeps https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*imcDXvXyQdnctr0L Kelly: This game went through many revisions and was touched by many hands. Vic Nguyen, Mike Nguyen and Ben Thomas all had a role in the final look and feel of Grindstone. In the very infant stages of this prototype, we played around with a lot of very weird monster styles. There were a lot of disparate ideas but eventually we found a through line with the lips and mouth designs on every creep. At this stage we put the prototype on the backburner for a while. When we picked it up again we tried it as a free roaming brawler style game. I felt that the earlier looks were too heavy on shadows, and the line-less style would be too difficult to animate by hand. So I focused on a line based style with simplified shadows. At this point there were 3 classes of creep types, so it was important that all creeps of the same class had very similar body types and sizes. Again it was put on the backburner. This time we came back to the grid-based puzzle game. Now that every creep had to fit within a square it was necessary to pare them down again, simplifying all their features and changing their proportions to read at a smaller scale. Can you believe we put it on the backburner? In this last iteration, artist Vic Nguyen took over and gave the creeps their final look, giving them adorable half-moon eyes and finalizing their colours. Jerkameleon https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*crvELC1UURLryphh Kelly: The original design for this jerk was a mosquito creep that would drain the juice from a creep to change colour. I started with making a creep version of a mosquito, so instead of his whole body changing colour, I thought the torso could fill up the same way a mosquito fills up with blood. From there, I pushed the two states farther apart, so that the transformation would be more extreme so I played with the starting state being smaller, weaker and shriveled up. I gave him big sleepy eyes because he’s so anemic without this life-giving creep juice. At the time this enemy behaviour wasn’t completely figured out so he was put on hold and revisited in a later update when we had more time to figure out his design.The new behaviour type changed to killing 8 creeps in one turn. Because we were dropping the mosquito aspect, I focused the design around ‘eating’. This guy’s entire head is a big mouth; I loved the visual of its whole head opening up, but it needed to be able to attack in 8 dire...
Show Comments
