lauflauf

Factsheet

Developer:
lauflauf
Based in Zurich, Switzerland

Founding date:
May 1, 2022

Website:
lauflauf.games

Press / Business contact:
run@lauflauf.games

Social:
Twitter

Releases:
Castle Come

Address:
Swiss Game Hub
Hohlstrasse 176,
8004 Zürich, Switzerland

Description

We're a studio exploring systemic games and emergent gameplay out of Zurich. Partnering with people on the fringes of the swiss game development scene, lauflauf explores punchy visual worlds.

History

Run forward

Basil Sutter began studying game design at the Zurich University of Arts in 2016. Coming from a visual and illustrative background, he quickly became interested in systemic games and started experimenting with emergent gameplay behaviours and functionalities. After graduating and pursuing his interest in emergent gameplay and visually rich games, Basil founded lauflauf to explore one of his newer experiments further, a game prototype called “Untited Mecha Game". Out of a mentorship program initiated with Pro Helvetia the young studio gained the possibility to attend multiple events in Summer 21. Additionally the mecha game, now titled "Castle Come", entered the mentorship program at the Swiss Game Hub.

Forging lauflauf

Through that program Sam joined first as a mentor and then in spring 2022 joined as a co-founder of lauflauf LLC. Coming in with a load of experience working in the European and Swiss Game Industry, Sam brings the eye of a strategist into the studio, setting up strong processes and enhancing the studios creative potential. Together, Sam and Basil run lauflauf studio in the heart of Zurich, partnering with people inside and on the fringes of the swiss game development scene. They strive to build punchy visual worlds alongside vivid game mechanics.

Oh it’s still early

Inspired and forged by local themes and art scenes, from the alpine landscapes to Zurich nightlife, lauflauf builds projects with ludo-narrative focus, emergent storytelling and highest degree of interactivity. The project Castle Come is the first game by the two artists, channeling their joint interest in interactive worlds, growth and decay, unconventional game mechanics and visual themes of science fiction and Naturromantik.

Projects

• Castle Come

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Basil Sutter
Co-Founder, Game Design

Samuel Vonäsch
Co-Founder, Production

Contact

Inquiries
run@lauflauf.games

Discord
https://x.com/lauflaufgames

Instagram
https://x.com/lauflaufgames

X / Twitter
https://x.com/lauflaufgames

Web
https://lauflauf.games