Rose City Games logo

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Based in Portland, OR USA

Founding date:
June 17, 2015

Website:
rosecitygames.com

Business contact:
hello@rosecitygames.com

Games:
Floppy Knights
Garden Story
The World Next Door

Address:
329 NE Couch St. STE 204
Portland, OR 97232

DESCRIPTION

Rose City Games is the developer and publisher of Floppy Knights (2022), developer of The World Next Door (2019), and publisher of Garden Story (2021). Founded by indie game community organizers Will Lewis and Corey Warning in 2015, the Portland-based studio works to develop new IP and partner with other talented makers to tell stories through games. Their mission is to make visually distinctive worlds and heartwarming stories, prioritizing hard work, authenticity, and creativity. 

Rose City Games has produced a game jam event for Cartoon Network, helped launch Headmaster for PlayStation VR, activated the local development scene by organizing the Portland Indie Game Squad. Their first original title was The World Next Door, released in March 2019.

HISTORY

Early History

Founded in 2015, Rose City Games formed from an initial gig organizing a game jam for Cartoon Network. With the studio’s experience in Portland’s indie game community and game jam culture, Corey and Will realized collaborating with passionate local game developers was key to formally introducing themselves and others to the game industry at large.

After working with various projects in VR development, AR development, games marketing, and tabletop production, the studio’s deep knowledge of the games ecosystem and its talented creators prompted a partnership with VIZ Media which resulted in their first title: The World Next Door.

Recent

The studio released Floppy Knights in May 2022 and published Garden Story in 2021, a game by Picogram, a local indie developer.

Rose City Games continues to work with partners to develop new IPs, publish indie games, and further explore ways to create kind communities in the industry, and looks forward to share more news on those projects in the future.

SELECTED ARTICLES

The Oregonian
"Rose City Games Just Signed a Major Deal and Announced Its First Original Title"

Intel Innovators 
“Rose City Games | Intel Innovators Documentary”

PC Gamer
“Super cute town adventure, Garden Story, harvests a publisher”

Cliqist
“Developer-Artist Picogram Talks Community and More in Garden Story”

AWARDS

Floppy Knights

  • Indiecade 2020 - Nominee

Garden Story

  • LudoNarraCon 2020 - Official Selection

  • Wholesome Games Direct 2020 - Featured Title

  • PAX South 2020 - Official Selection

  • PAX East 2020 - Official Selection; Indie Mega Booth

  • The MIX E3 2019 - Official Selection

  • Seattle Indies Expo 2019 - Official Selection

The World Next Door

  • Game Dev World Championships 2019 - 3rd Place

  • PAX East 2019 - Official Selection; Indie Megabooth

  • The MIX 2019 - Official Selection

  • Dreamhack Atlanta 2018 - Best Action/Adventure Game

  • SXSW Gaming 2019 - Gamer’s Voice Awards

  • Terminus, Atlanta - Golden Joystick Finalist

  • PAX West 2018 - Official Selection; Indie Megabooth

LOGOS

CONTACT

Inquiries

hello@rosecitygames.com

Twitter
https://twitter.com/rosecitygames

Web
https://www.rosecitygames.com/

Additional Links

Will Lewis on Twitter - @gamewillpdx
Corey Warning on Twitter -
@coreywarning