History
Rarebyte is a young and ambitious game development company from Austria,
mainly focused on creating games that are highly entertaining, well-designed
and outstanding due to their smart gameplay.
The people behind the company originally met as a team of enthusiastic game programmers and artists back in 1999, officially forming the company in 2006, after having gained a lot of experience from both contract work and realization of their own ideas.
The first game, Waterstorm, a submarine multiplayer shooter, was released in early 2008. Additionally, Rarebyte was contracted to lead the Macintosh port of the backcountry snowboarding game Drop Point: Alaska, which was released in February 2008.
Furthermore, the company has also been developing games for coin-operated touchscreen entertainment machines as well as technology for recent video game consoles.
From late 2008 on, Rarebyte has focused on developing games and software for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices, with Black Sheep, White Mouse and iPentris being the first ones.
Besides game projects, Rarebyte also develops application software on demand.