The White Door News

The White Door is finally ready to release officially! Are you ready to bring back color to Robert’s life?

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145960/The_White_Door/

We are beyond excited to share this new title with the world!

Let’s start off by saying that The White Door is different than anything we made so far, not only in style but also in gameplay. But we were ready to make a big change after creating 12 games with almost the same mechanics, interface and style. After combining the new black and white style with the split-screen gameplay, we really wanted to focus on telling a personal story, the story of Robert Hill.

It was a big challenge for us to change the gameplay and puzzle mechanics we used to know, and also trying to create the most narrative based game we made so far. But after a year of hard work we can say that we are extremely proud we achieved this and that we can make something out of the ordinary, while remaining the Rusty Lake touch.

Since our start we have been lucky to have people helping us out. A lot of those people are listed in our new, almost movie worthy credits, so please take a look at them when finishing the game. The credits are accompanied by the beautiful theme song from Victor Butzelaar. His enthusiasm for this project kept us going and we couldn’t have made this story without his emotional, atmospheric and beautiful soundtrack. Bob Rafferty almost became Bob Hill with his amazing voiceovers, his work made the game so much more special. Also a big thanks to all the extra voiceovers, Sara Hill, Iris Muller, David Bowles and a cameo from John & Kimmy! The White Door probably contains the most text of all our games, so a big hands down to all our translators who did a terrific job as always, making this worldwide release possible. Thank you so much everyone - also the people in the special thanks section!

Most of all we want thank you all for your ongoing support! Our community of players is growing bigger and bigger and it is sometimes difficult to satisfy everyone and keep innovating at the same time - but we are happy you allow us to take the time to make something different like The White Door. We have a very exciting year ahead for both Rusty Lake and our new publishing label Second Maze. More of the old is coming and more exciting new projects are still in the pipeline! And if you think you completed The White Door?… This is not it…there is more to solve: stay tuned!

Thank you for your awesome support,

Robin & Maarten

Ps. We are thrilled to hear what you think. So feel free to leave a rating or review when you have played, this will help us a lot!
Ps2. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any issue or glitch, remember you can always reset the level and try again.

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After the amazing release of Cube Escape: Paradox we wanted to make something completely new and different, and after many prototypes it resulted in The White Door. Now after a year of development, with lots of ups and downs, we can finally say we became very proud of it. Expect a very different style, gameplay and way of storytelling than any of our previous games, but with the same Rusty Lake touch.⁣ Also might have noticed we will release it under Second Maze: our new publishing label :)
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There are only 7 days left now and that means we get a lot of help from our amazing translators and testers. We will work long nights to make this game happen and we cannot wait to hear what you think. Thanks for all your support so far! ⁣
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Ps. We will share our exciting plans for 2020 after the release of The White Door!

Things begin to look brighter with only one month left for The White Door. And we hope you are as excited as we are!

The game is completely different than anything we have made so far and we had to overcome a lot struggles with the development of the game: the new style, the topdown view, the puzzle mechanics, the absence of an inventory and the way of telling a story.

But the last couple of months we are becoming very proud of what we achieved and we cannot wait to let you enter The White Door. But first there are still a lot of bugs that needs to be fixed...

Thanks for all your support so far!

Dear fans,

unfortunately due personal circumstances we have to postpone the release date of The White Door to January 9. The past weeks we were unable to work as we are used too, leaving no other option to take a bit more time.

We strongly believe delaying the game will be better for our wellbeing but also the quality of the game, as we would normally crunch the last 4 weeks to the release date (and the weeks after). Not releasing any game this year makes us sad, but knowing what awesome projects we have in the pipeline, we are sure we will not let you down next year.

Thanks for your support and all your wishlists so far!

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A friend asked us if we could make special test version, in which he could propose to his girlfriend on their 10 year anniversary. His girlfriend (Laura!) is big fan of the RL series and that night she could testplay the game for the first time..... Luckily she said yes!

We are now planning to release the game on November 26. There is still a lot to do, so we hope we can make it :)