Overview

Studio site · Independent game studio

Reasons Games

The website for Reasons Games, an independent game studio, and its first title, Ironfall: a top-down survival game in early alpha.

Reasons Games is David Hayden's independent game studio; Ironfall is its first game.

Reasons Games, homepage · reasons.games

Challenge

Give a new studio a distinct identity, and present a game in early development honestly: what is playable now, what is still in the works, and how it is being made.

Approach

  • An arcade-cabinet identity throughout: pixel type, a score bar, an attract-mode trailer and a cartridge shelf with the first slot filled
  • An Ironfall page with the story, a move list of features marked playable or in the works, and a weather selector showing one camp under each sky
  • A playable early alpha that runs in the browser
  • A dev log written up as each update ships, and a press kit with logos, art and a fact sheet

Key screens

The Ironfall page: the story and the move list of playable features
The Ironfall page: story and move list
The Reasons Games home page on a phone: the marquee and the Ironfall attract-mode screen
The home page at phone size

Result

A live studio site at reasons.games, with the game page, the browser alpha, the dev log and the press kit in one place.

Live site

reasons.games