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As some of you might already know, our 10th anniversary free2play, point-and-click puzzle adventure, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, will not only delight you with puzzling magic acts and surprises, but it also promises to be a true celebration of Rusty Lake through, among many things, a true display of our stylized minimalistic art style - a core part of the Rusty Lake dna!
As such, we hope you'll consider nominating The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show for the Outstanding Visual Style category of the Steam Awards 2025!
Thank you for this fantastic anniversary gift and for your ongoing support! 🙏
Hey everyone! 👋
Today, we are excited to give you an inside look at the making of The Intern, the short film we released shortly before the launch of The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, as part of our 10-year anniversary celebration. If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check it out first! 👇
Over half a million people have already watched the film across different platforms, witnessing how The Intern, by finding and collecting all the playing cards, was able to publish the Mr. Rabbit Magic Show just in time for you to play it! And now we’re excited to share how it all came together just in time for our 10-year anniversary celebrations!
The Idea
When we first conceived the idea of creating The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show to celebrate our 10th anniversary, we knew right away that we didn’t want it to be just a game. We wanted it to be something bigger, an experience. And that experience shouldn’t be as simple as a shadow game drop; it needed to be hidden inside a special announcement video, one that would fit well with the in-game content. That’s when the idea of pairing the game with a short film was born.
As most of you know by now (and if not, play the game before reading any spoilers), The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show takes a rather unexpected turn. What starts as a magic show glitches into something else entirely. Suddenly, you end up as The Intern in our office, completing all kinds of strange tasks to help prepare for our 10th anniversary celebration. This twist: dropping you as a fan or player directly in our workspace, was something we were excited about when designing this project. Our office feels like a museum full of Rusty Lake artefacts and has all the ingredients to be a full Cube Escape room, which nicely balances the smaller mini-games from the acts in the magic show. So when the game takes a turn to our office, we realised it would be a perfect fit to have the short film take place there as well. That way, viewers could already get a sneak peek into the place you later experience as a player.
Filming The Intern began less than three weeks before the official April 30th launch, so we were under quite some pressure! Luckily, we had a great team to pull this off. Marcos Lornes, whom we previously worked with on our Christmas teaser (and funny enough, also once applied for an internship at Rusty Lake), immediately said yes to becoming the director and editor of the short. During a chat about other ideas, we pitched this concept to him, and it just clicked. He quickly wrote a script that matched our vision for the project. We teamed up again with our main film crew: Juun Hoyng from Hoyng Images, who did all the filming at our actual office in A Lab. For the role of The Intern, Sem Roolvink was recommended to us through Emma Koveleva, one of our former UI/UX interns. Sem was a long-time fan of the series and was absolutely the perfect fit for this role. His energy, familiarity with the universe, and performance helped bring the whole Intern experience to life. The amazing soundtrack and audio atmosphere were crafted by Victor Butzelaar and Driftwood Audio, helping the film with the right mood and atmosphere.
Our few filming locations made it extra special:
Our very own Rusty Lake office in A Lab - as you have seen, it was rather empty that day, but here is where we create all the games and projects!
The Study Room scene was filmed by artist Britta Möller’s workspace in A Lab. It was the perfect setting for the start of the film. A big thank you to Britta for letting us borrow her space.
We also shot some exciting footage in the Metro and on the ferry as part of The Intern’s journey to the office.
The film was shot in just two days thanks to a small but incredibly talented crew – thank you all again! A Special thanks also to Bob Rafferty, who created three amazing merchandise advertisement videos that appear in the film when the in-game TV switches on. Bob did an incredible job to incorporate our merch collab with Lost in Cult: the remake of the Comic, the playing cards and the vinyl. Check out our behind-the-scenes video here!
The End?
After The Intern finally published the game, the film ends with a big surprise: the official trailer for The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, shown live to thousands of fans on YouTube and Bilibili. At that exact moment, Mr. Rabbit Magic Show was released and ready to play on PC and mobile, on both iOS and Android!
We had a great time putting this 10th anniversary gift together, and we are incredibly grateful for the support and love from our amazing community.
So what’s next? Our upcoming title, Servant of the Lake, is now in full production, and yes, next to our secret teaser (which you can see after unlocking the secret safe in our in-game office), there will be more teasers coming out very soon. Don’t forget to wishlist the game if you haven’t already, and please stay tuned for Servant of the Lake updates on our Steam page or official blog
P.S. We’ll be at Gamescom with the very first demo of Servant of the Lake together with a very special object! We hope to see (some of) you there!
Since back when we were working on The Past Within, around the time we first collaborated with Jorick and Giliam of Driftwood Audio, we developed a deep appreciation of the magic of bringing the surreal world of Rusty Lake to life through sound design. For our anniversary game, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, we knew we wanted every detail to create immersion and pull players deeper into the mystery of the magic show, as well as the celebration of 10 years of Rusty Lake in the second part of the game. That’s why we once more teamed up with the audio wizards at Driftwood Audio to craft an experience that feels surreal, magical and festive - a true celebration of a decade of Rusty Lake!
Driftwood Audio began by conjuring the sounds of the show itself in their usual clever manner: by using all kinds of miscellaneous household items like balloons, water boilers, sizzling pans, cassette players and more! They carefully created an immersive magic show experience by creating the perfect ambiance for the game through the applause of an invisible audience, menacing tiger sounds (with the help of a cat), the muffled gasps, or the boos of a trick gone wrong. Every cue had to feel tangible, as if the magic could spill beyond the screen, which we hope you’ll agree with us in saying that they more than delivered. Check out here how Jorick created the splat of the small bunny in Act 9! (No bunnies were harmed in the making of The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show…)
Next, they visited our Amsterdam studio to capture the sounds of our own workspace, because yes, as part of our anniversary celebrations, you do get to step into a virtual representation of our Rusty Lake office as a surprise twist when playing The Mr Rabbit Magic Show. The clatter of keyboards, the hum of an old VHR player, the creak of a chair, coughing and groans, each noise was carefully recorded to blur the line between game and reality. You can see how they even recorded our exact water boiler and office coffee machine in this video here!
And since players get to step inside our office, we had to make it even more believable! For the first time, the Rusty Lake team stepped into the recording booth to voice our in-game characters. With basically no voice acting experience, we placed ourselves in the capable hands of the team at Driftwood Audio, whose patience and expertise made this one of the most fun experiences of our careers. They coached us through takes, helped us find the right tone and turned our awkward readings into something we were all very proud of.
And then there was the birthday song…
As an extra touch of authenticity, we wanted to record ourselves singing the birthday song at the end of the game! And with clever layering of the different takes, the off-key chaos as we sang in exaggerated voices, Driftwood Audio spliced it all together in post to create a perfectly awkward yet hilariously heartwarming rendition of 'Happy Birthday'. We hope you’ll enjoy the visuals of the whole process here!
Thank you for joining us down the rabbit hole of crafting the sounds of The Mr Rabbit Magic Show! Check back in soon for some behind-the-scenes of how we recorded our latest short film, Rusty Lake - The Intern!
Going to Gamescom 2025 🎊
As you might have discovered from playing The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, we’ve been hard at work on a brand new Rusty Lake title! 👀 If you look closely while playing The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, you can discover the teaser to our upcoming premium game, Servant of the Lake! 👀
And now we can finally share that we’ll be showcasing our upcoming premium Rusty Lake game, Servant of the Lake, at Gamescom 2025 as part of the Indie Arena Booth line-up! 🎊
Make sure to ✨ Wishlist Servant of the Lake ✨to stay up to date with our development progress and any news regarding our next Rusty Lake game! 👇
All our premium games are 40% OFF in the Steam Summer Sale! 🌅
☀️The Steam Summer Sale begins with a hot 40% OFF on all Rusty Lake premium games! Escape the heat wave with a relaxing stay at Rusty Lake!
And while you're browsing our premium Rusty Lake titles featured in the Steam Summer Sale, make sure to check out and play our 10-year free-to-play anniversary release, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show! 🪄 Plus, our The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show Supporter pack is also 40% OFF!! 👇
Pre-order our anniversary Rusty Lake merch collab with Lost in Cult ✨
Don't miss out on the chance to pre-order our exclusive anniversary merch in collaboration with the amazing Lost in Cult 🃏 You can pre-order our Premium Card Deck, also featured in The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, our first ever vinyl Rusty Lake: Sounds of the Lake, a very special re-release of our Paradox Comic Book or a bundle of all 3 anniversary items! 🃏💿📘Ps. Stay tuned for an exciting The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show sound design devlog coming tomorrow! In the meantime, we just pushed a small game update today in which we added our lovely French translator as a character present during the end-game cake celebration! 🎂
Thank you for catching up on the latest news from The Lake! We hope we'll see you tomorrow for our sound design devlog! 👋
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