What’s Le Rado?

Le Rado was created in a context of massive lay-offs in the gaming industry. We are a collective of professionals developers without the limitation of a legal company.

Why don’t we really consider ourselves a studio? Why did we build this?

Most of the team were recently affected by lay-offs. Fortunately most of us are not financially in an urgent need to find a job and can take a bit of their time to create something new. Some of us had a game concept in mind and already started working on it. But doing a prototype alone can take months as you have to work on parts of game dev you don’t master. Knowing this (and because we loved working together), we decided to unite, to use everyone’s strengths and to develop anyone’s idea.

We try to iterate quickly on a game pitch. Once we picked a pitch, we dedicate 2-3 full time weeks to it (as if we were going to the office). We feel it is enough to test core concept ideas. Players’ feedback is key for us to decide if we should go further with a prototype.

Our main goal is to hopefully find a game concept that would help some of us to found a studio. But beside that, we also want to improve our skills and portfolio (it is always better to show an animation on a cool character, gameplay interaction on a beautiful environment, …). Everyone keep legal property on its creations, “Le Rado” doesn’t own it, so they can do whatever they want with it.

We decided to gather up as a collective to keep some liberty at the start of our journey. So far people work for free and they choose how they want to contribute to each project. Someone can be on a core team for a game and just give additional help on the next one. We will never put pressure on team members for fulltime commitment, members offer the help they are able to provide, nothing more. In the end, improving ourselves as a team and having fun is all that matters for now.

We will work on Le Rado as long as possible and do our best to create thrilling and beautiful games. 🚀

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