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Rusty Lake: That was also an important starting point for our games. What was it like reaching that audience, and then weirding them the hell out? RPS: Obviously at the time of the first releases in 2015 you were tapping into the enormously popular room escape genre in mobile gaming. However a few months, after the PAX gaming show in Seattle we did go see all the original filming sites, that's how fanboy we are!

So we weren't really influenced by that, and we haven't noticed the new show changing the way people look at Rusty lake. I guess we were too busy making Paradise. But we have to admit we still haven't seen all the episodes of the new Twin Peaks.

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Rusty Lake: It was a really fun coincidence that while we were creating the first Cube Escape games, David Lynch announced the series was coming back after 25 years. How were you affected by The Return airing, and suddenly the references being so present and updated?

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Although of course for all the previous games you were remembering a 25 year old TV show. RPS: You certainly don't hide those Lynch inspirations. Creating a universe like Rusty Lake allowed us to make a series of games and build a very involved community. That was also the most important Twin Peaks inspiration, which is also a place that looks like our real world, but is different. Rusty Lake: When we started Rusty Lake, we wanted it to be not just a series of games, but an imaginary place. RPS: So what were the origins of the Lake itself? Is this an idea you'd been living with for years, or did it sort of build itself out of the Cube Escape games as you created them? For Hotel, Roots and Paradise we came up with unique main storylines, which we would then try to fit into the overall Rusty Lake universe. The Cube Escape stories follow a main storyline with the detective and the woman, whereas the premium ones have more their own main plot and some connections with the Cube Escape series plot.

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There is also an important difference between our free Cube Escape series and the Rusty Lake premium ones. And we have to admit, sometimes we just put stuff in the games because they are fun weird ideas and we love that we can. But the most important themes and 'rules of the lake' are still the same as they where in those first games. When we launched the first two Cube Escape games - Seasons and The Lake - we never knew for how long we could keep making these games, so there was no chance of planning the whole story back then. But of course we don't know in detail what the next story will be.

Rusty Lake: Yes we know what this all means, there are some main themes and storylines in the Rusty Lake universe that we want to tell using all the different games and characters.

RPS: If there's one main question in my mind when I play Rusty Lake games - and there are dozens - it is: Do these guys actually know what this all means, or is it a bunch of weird ideas that they're running with to see where they go? So I wanted to know where it was all heading. They don't rely on BOO! type scares, but rather a nagging sense that something's deeply wrong, and some very peculiar animal-headed figures and scratchy-edged shadowy figures. If you've played any, and you really should, you'll know there's a strong Twin Peaks influence, though Rusty Lake is set in its own independently weird and unnerving world. Rusty Lake, the developer name as well as the title of the gaming universe, have been making these games since 2014, so it's fair to say that while short, they're extremely prolific.

With the recent release of the superb Rusty Lake Paradise, I wanted to speak to the two-man development team to find out how it got started, where it's going, and how they've managed to keep going while making so many properly free games. Consisting of nine free room escape oddities, and three longer premium puzzling adventures, each adds clues and confusion to a deeply creepy and unsettling mystery surrounding the eponymous lake. The Rusty Lake universe absolutely fascinates me.

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