Whatever happened to Rainbow Flip & Slide?

Oh hai, friends!

If you've been following Rainbow Rabbits Games for a while, you might have noticed something: I've been quiet about Rainbow Flip & Slide. No updates, no sneak peeks, no tiles. Just... silence. And if you raised your hand to playtest my new tile game last year, first of all, thank you. You are exactly the kind of amazing human who makes independent game publishing worth it. Second of all: I owe you an update.

So here it is.

It started with a sound.

A few years ago I found myself completely obsessed. Not with a game mechanic, not with an art style. With a sound. I cannot get enough of the satisfying clatter of gems in Century Golem or the solid, deliberate click of tiles in Hive. Oooh, that bag shuffle in Azul. And of course, the meditative clack of Mahjong tiles. I kept coming back to these games not just because they were good but because playing them felt good. In your hands. On the table.

It had been a minute since I designed a new game and I started asking myself: what would it feel like to bring my Rainbow Bunnies and their buddies into that kind of experience? Something tactile. Something cozy. Something you could pull out at a coffee table, a picnic, a long train ride and feel that same delight of tiles in your hands.

That question became Rainbow Flip & Slide.

The clover patch comes to life.

The premise is simple and a little bit magical: a clover patch full of hidden color tiles, face down. Flip them. Slide them. Race to build your rainbow (red to violet) before anyone else does.

I knew from the start that the art needed to feel special. I've been working with the incredibly talented Leanne Markle (@leannemarkle on Instagram) to bring the clover patch and its critters to life.

Here's a bit of lore that always makes me smile: I am, and I say this with full sincerity, an expert four-leaf clover finder. I find dozens every year. I have the videos and photos to prove it. When Leanne and I started working together we discovered something that felt like the universe winking at us. She was born on St. Patrick's Day. A four-leaf clover savant and a St. Patrick's Day baby, making a game built around a clover patch. If that isn't serendipity I don't know what is.

Just a sample of the clovers over the last decade.

And yes, there is a solo mode. My friend and game designer Molly from Flatout Games played an early version and told me the game had such cozy vibes that it needed a solo experience. She was right. The solo mode has become one of my favorite ways to play.

What happened next (aka: where I've been on this).

Last year I put out a call for playtesters. I honestly did not know what to expect. Over 50 people raised their hands. Fifty strangers welcomed a prototype of Rainbow Flip & Slide into their homes, sat down with their families and friends, and played. And then they wrote me the most thoughtful, generous, sometimes hilarious feedback.

(One playtester's husband tried to help her win. His suggestion accidentally won him the game instead. She said, and I quote, "now I know I can never trust him." I think about this often.)

I took all of that feedback seriously. I refined. I tweaked. I tested in person at events around Seattle. I listened.

And then I went quiet about this game specifically.

Not because the game was dead. Because I was doing the most important and least glamorous part of bringing an independent game to life: finding the right manufacturing partner to help make Rainbow Flip & Slide real.

That part took time. Way more time than my previous experience with card games. And it turns out I needed to call in extra reinforcements to help me out!

Here's where I am now.

I have a manufacturer. The game is moving forward. And there is something else. Something I am so thrilled about that it has been genuinely difficult to stay quiet. But I can't share quite yetso you will have to stay tuned.

In the meantime: Rainbow Flip & Slide is real, it is coming, and I am building toward a launch later this year.

If you want to be among the first to know when pre-orders open and to lock in the founding backer price, you can join the waitlist. No commitment, just a front row seat.

I am so glad to be back. And I cannot wait to show you what's been growing in the clover patch.

With so much squee,

Becky & the Bunnies

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Rainbow Flip & Slide is a 1-4 player tile game for ages 8 and up. Illustrations by Leanne Markle. Join the waitlist →