UNTIL THE RAIN - PRESS KIT

Hold the fire until the rain comes.

FACT SHEET
Game       Until the Rain
Developer  Whales Don't Fly
Release    Coming soon
Platforms  Windows, macOS
Genre      Real-time strategy with pause
Players    Single-player
Languages  English, German
Price      To be announced
Steam      Coming soon
Contact    see the website, Contact page

AI disclosure: we use AI coding tools to help implement the game. Every design decision is our own.

SHORT DESCRIPTION
A wildfire strategy game on miniature dioramas. Every few seconds the fire spreads with the wind. Place your command post, position your trucks, play your cards in the briefing and hold the line until the rain comes. You can't save everything.

ABOUT THE GAME
Until the Rain is a real-time strategy game about wildfire, played on miniature dioramas of national parks and wild landscapes. Every few seconds the fire spreads. Between those ticks you place trucks, build and play cards. You won't save everything. You only have to hold until the rain comes.

Fire burns in three stages, from embers to full blaze, and spreads with the wind. It runs uphill twice as fast. Pine forest catches quickly, meadows take longer, rock and water stop it. Full blazes throw embers ahead of the front, and every landing spot is marked one tick in advance.

Trucks fight fire on their own, with fixed strength and no dice. You decide where they stand, when they go for water and what they protect. Every fifteen ticks, time stops for the briefing: the wind turns, the next fire is announced, and you pick one of three cards.

Campaigns take you through the parks of a region, one mission after another. Your fleet, your deck and your blueprints carry over. Lost trucks stay lost.

FEATURES
- More than a dozen parks in three regions, inspired by real places from the Bavarian Alps to the calanques of Marseille and the Canadian Rockies, each in three versions
- Landmarks such as the Watzmann and the Bastei rocks
- 9 vehicle types, 20 buildings and 35 cards
- Real-time with pause, with an adjustable tick from 4 to 10 seconds
- A warm miniature look on a white table
- English and German

FILES
logo/         the logo, PNG with a transparent background
screenshots/  16:9, 3840 x 2160 (one 2560 x 1440), taken in the game
vertical/     9:16 stills, 1080 x 1920, taken in the game
clips/        9:16 clips from our channels, with AI voice and music

All pictures and clips come from the game in development. Use them freely when you write or talk about
Until the Rain. Please do not edit them so that they show something the game does not.
