Rain Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Rain Games
Based in Bergen, Norway

Founding date:
2010

Website:
rain-games.com

Press / Business contact:
andersson@rain-games.com

Social:
twitter.com/rain_games
Our things in Facebook
Skype

Releases:
Viking Chess
Girl Genius
World To The West
Teslagrad
Mesmer

Address:
Rain AS
Veiten 3
5012 Bergen

Phone:
N/A

Description

Rain Games is an independent, employee-owned game development studio based in Norway. Founded in 2010, the creators at Rain Games share a passion for crafting memorable worlds which engage curious players through a sense of exploration and discovery. The studio previously released the critically acclaimed puzzle platformer Teslagrad, as well as the 3D action-adventure World to the West, and revolution-themed social survival game Mesmer. Rain Games recently released its anticipated sequel Teslagrad 2, and the team creating Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne are gearing up for their own release later in 2023. Learn more at rain-games.com.

History

The beginning

The first game we worked on was our yet unreleased Minute Mayhem. The game was rather simple, but we built an entire world for it containing four nations. Each of those countries featured elements of the European nations at different times in their history, and possessed a Steampunk Science unique to them. Working on the project we came to focus on the past of one of these nations in particular: Elektropia. This was the nation that embodied Eastern Europe and the Nordics, and their science comprised Electricity and Magnetism in all its awesomeness. One inspired evening the team sat down and wrote the base concepts for a platformer set in the history of this nation, more concretely on the city of Teslagrad. By this time all we had for a game studio was a part of a desk we rented at an Art collective, on an old and really poorly isolated building (coinciding with the harshest winter in Norway for quite a while). Crows were cracking shells on the frozen seawater outdoors, and we had to buy candles to try and help getting the office to a livable temperature. Working parallel on the new game Teslagrad and Minute Mayhem, we got some funding for Teslagrad in February 2011. This led to us focusing on Teslagrad full time, and move on to a better place where to carry on developing our games.

Projects

Videos

PAX Prime 2013 (Seattle, WA) YouTube

Eurogamer Expo 2013 (London, UK) YouTube

Images

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Selected Articles

"Audio interview with Rain Games team, July 2013."
- John Lindvay, Landon Durnan, BigSushi.fm
"About the team, an interview with Greenlight Gaming by June 2013."
- Alex Coccia, GreenlightGaming.com
"Peter and Marte talk with the Indiestatik crew, June 2013."
- Chris Priestman, Josh Mattingly, Indiestatik.com
"Working on Wii U and more interesting stuff in this interview, August 2013."
- Andy W., Nintendo Enthusiast
"Interview focused on PlayStation platforms, August 2014."
- Rashid Sayed, Gaming Bolt
"Ole Ivar Rudi on World to the West lore and development, July 2016."
- Tony Miller, Nintendo Okie
"How Rain Games designed the four characters in World to the West, May 2017."
- , PlayStation Blog