About the workshop
Rainlatch is an independent game studio. The arcade games, the cozy simulations, and the lofi films made from their calmest moments all come out of the same workshop.
The rule for the arcade games: you should understand them in ten seconds and want one more round in twenty. The rule for the Lofi Lane: they should be worth watching even when nobody is holding the phone.
Games ship small, work offline, and never interrupt a good run. Nothing on this site needs an account.
What the workshop makes
- Browser games: five quick games that run on this site in a portrait canvas, with touch, mouse and keyboard controls. They store nothing, not even a best score.
- Mobile games for Android: twenty arcade and puzzle games and the five cozy simulations of the Lofi Lane. Four are available on the Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets. The other twenty-one are in closed testing on Google Play and not in public app stores yet.
- Lofi films: five long-form films on YouTube, each recorded inside one of the Lofi Lane games while it runs itself.
- Web apps: five small household ledgers for return deadlines, warranties, pantry dates, the freezer and moving boxes. What you enter stays in your browser.
- Browser extensions: five single-purpose tools for people who build and test web pages, on Firefox Add-ons. Each one acts only on the tab in front of you, and only when you click it.
- PC games with free demos on rainlatch.itch.io, and the word game Lexo Duels.
How the guides are written
Everything the workshop makes comes with a written guide: how to play or use it, how the scoring or the data storage works, what it cannot do, and for the extensions exactly which permissions they request.
A guide is written with the product open: the rule code of a game and its in-game help, the source of a web app, the manifest of an extension. A number in a guide, such as the points for a clean pass or the day count behind a warning color, is the number the product itself uses. Status works the same way. The badge on a game page is read from a single product record, so a game is called available only once its store listing is public.
Found a mistake?
When a guide and a product disagree, the guide is wrong and we want to fix it. Write to support@rainlatch.com with the name of the product and what you saw on your device.
Contact
Feedback, bugs, business: support@rainlatch.com