Spacerails app for iPhone and iPad

Race along the rail in space at dazzling speeds and avoid the holes by steering or jumping. Easy to pick up, hard to put down.

Spacerails is a game with a retro-feel of the old C64 or Amiga. You steer by tilting your device and jump by tapping. Avoid the black holes in the grid and try to get further than your friends. The grid will tighten during the game and it will also speed up. You could call this a retrogame, where we invoke nostalgia, but at the same time it is a very modern game with all the design of a modern arcade game.

Spacerails was produced by the hippie collective Baudelaire’s Horse, consisting of Niklas Derouche and Mikael Pawlo. We are serious about very few things but our games. Derouche and Pawlo started out doing a encryption software called LOLsecurity during the entrepreneurial challenge 24 hour business camp (#24hbc) in Sweden. Using that software you could put encrypted messages in pictures of LOLcats using steganography, hence avoiding having to email encrypted messages thus avoiding creating sociograms. Following a so-called pivot, we decided to instead go for a more casual approach and went on to design games for the iPhone. Some of the games are Gridhacker, Spacerails, Unavoidable and Epitaph.

We do this for fun and enjoyment, our own primarily. If the world at the same time becomes a better place, it was never our intention.