It did, so now we are working full time on Rusty Lake and probably will continue working on it for the next years. We started with a few Cube Escape games to see if people would like it.

With Rusty Lake, we took a next step in our collaboration by creating a mysterious world around which we would be able create several games. Via internet we met each other, and together we made small news based games like: Snowden Leak’s The Game or Save Harry, which went viral all over the world. I was creating gaming portals with small flash games and Maarten made flash games as a hobby. So it’s funny that we both ending up in gaming from a hobby. I studied Law (masters in ICT Law) and Maarten Landscape Architecture (also masters). We’re based in Amsterdam, in a co-working space. Rusty Lake: Let’s quickly introduce ourselves. Steph: Thank you for doing this interview! First, let’s meet the Rusty Lake team! What’s each of your backgrounds with game design? How did you get to this point? To avoid spoilers, it’s recommended that you go play these games at Rusty Lake’s website before reading this article, or at least watch a “Let’s Play” or two. Now that Rusty Lake Roots has been out for a couple of months, we spoke with Robin and Maarten, the two-person team behind Rusty Lake. Crow, and Harvey, players get to explore this dream world by finding and creating cubes, captured memories preserved by Mr.

Starring human and not-so-human characters like the dead-or-not-dead unnamed “woman,” perpetually put upon Detective Dale Vandermeer, and a staff of humanoid birds of dubious ethics named Mr. There are now thousands of room escape flash games available, and few are as admired as Rusty Lake’s.įirst debuting with the free to play puzzle game “ Samsara Room” in 2013, the Rusty Lake team has since released eight free flash games in their Cube Escape series and two longer pay-to-play games called Rusty Lake Hotel and, most recently, Rusty Lake Roots.Įntering the world of Rusty Lake, which specializes in mental health, fishing, and murder, means leaving conventional logic behind and entering into a stunning and unsettling world not unlike that nightmare you had after drinking absinthe. Semi-casual gamers, on the other hand, know that the room escape genre originated long before the live action version became popular in the late 2000s, with the earliest computer escape game being released as early as 1988. These days, the majority of the world associates the “room escape” genre with tourists and coworkers spending $20-60 dollars each to pretend to be locked in a room together for an hour, solving puzzles of various complexities to get let out.

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