SunnySide - Open World Farming JRPG

Created by Lauryn Hammett

Inspired by classics like Harvest Moon with deep social sim aspects of a Persona game. Sunnyside is the next chapter in farming sims.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

SunnySide Console Update
8 months ago – Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 06:08:25 AM

A message from Merge:

"Community feedback from SunnySide’s demo and Kickstarter Backers has been an incredible bounty of information for the development and porting teams, and we’ve been overwhelmed by the community response to this humble farming game! 

We want to ensure that new quality-of-life improvements, polishes and bug fixes to the PC version would be present for console players on Day 1, and so we are giving the game’s console release just a little more time to bake in the oven. 

We’ll now be releasing SunnySide to PlayStation 5 and Xbox X|S on August 16th 2024 to ensure that the latest improvements to the PC version of the game are reflected in the console version from the beginning. 

You can wishlist SunnySide on PlayStation 5 now, and on Xbox in the coming days. 
See you on PC on June 14th, and consoles on August 16th! "

May Update!
9 months ago – Fri, May 24, 2024 at 09:05:03 AM

Hello SunnySide Fam!

A little while back, we announced that today, May 24, was to be the release date for SunnySide on PC. Most of you have seen the news by now that this date has been pushed to June 14, 2024. 

For those of you are a KickStarter Backer or purchased Early Access, you will have, or will be, receiving an email about the final PlayTest for SunnySide today. Please remember that this final PlayTest is still under NDA.

For everyone else, we appreciate your extra patience as we continue to tackle bugs and optimize the game over the next couple weeks!

If you don't have Early Access but would like to play SunnySide now, we are also pushing an update to the Public Demo today. There are some big fixes coming to this version, and it covers the first 10 days of SunnySide. You can play as many times as you want (some people have already put in upwards of 60 hours!) so please have fun and enjoy it!

A note to all Kickstarter and Backerkit Backers:

You will be receiving some emails from us over the next few weeks regarding your copy of SunnySide. It is very important that you receive (and in some cases respond to) these emails, so please be on the lookout. Add [email protected] to your email white list if needed, or email us if you need to make changes to/can't access your account.

We're getting close, everyone! See you at the finish line!

Lots of Love,
RainyGames

P.S. If you're going to be in the Dallas, TX area on May 30 - June 02, we'll have a booth at DreamHack Dallas! Come say hi to Sydney, play the latest version of SunnySide, and maybe even buy some art!

Sparky Makeship Campaign is NOW LIVE!
10 months ago – Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:00:50 PM

It's finally time to order your own Sparky Plushie!

In case you missed it earlier today, we're really excited to announce that the Makeship campaign for Sparky Plushies is now live!

https://www.makeship.com/products/sparky-plush 

If you're not familiar with how Makeship works, it's similar to Kickstarter in that the plushies are only manufactured if the campaign is successful. This means that we're counting on you, our INCREDIBLE community, to help get Sparky plushies into the adoring hands of fans across the globe. 

The campaign will only run for 21 days, and in that time we need to sell at least a few hundred Sparky's. Please spread the news to any friends you have who may be interested! If this campaign goes well, we may make more plushies with Makeship in the future!

Love you all!
-RainyGames

SunnySide Release Date Announcement
10 months ago – Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 06:00:26 AM

Hey SunnySide Fam!

We're so excited to finally share this with everyone!

SunnySide will be releasing on PC (Steam and Epic) on May 24, 2024 and Consoles (PlayStation5 and Xbox X|S) on July 10, 2024.

Check out the new release date trailer below vvv

You may have also noticed that we've been sharing some fun pictures across social media, and we're excited to announce that you'll be able to pre-order your very own Sparky Plushie later today, April 11, at 8pm ET!

We've partnered up with our friends at Makeship to make this Sparky plushie happen, and the campaign will only run for 21 days, so be sure to get your order in fast! If you're not familiar with how Makeship works, it's similar to Kickstarter in that the plushies only get made if the campaign is successful. So we're counting on you, our INCREDIBLE community, to help get Sparky plush into the adoring hands of fans across the globe. 

Pre-Order your Sparky Plushie at the link below vvv
https://www.makeship.com/products/sparky-plush 

That's it for this update! We're working hard to get SunnySide into the best state possible to launch in a little over a month, and we'll also be reaching out to everyone about platform swaps possibly next week. (The email for platform swaps went out last week. If you didn't get it, definitely check your email, and there is still time to make change requests). And don't forget our next live stream this coming Sunday!

Love you all!
-RG

March Wrap Up
10 months ago – Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:54:50 PM

Hey SunnySide Fam!

So much happened in March that we wanted to do a bit of a "wrap up" to get everyone caught up. Honestly struggling to believe that it's already April. 

March Wrap-Up

SunnySide was part of WINGS! The WINGs event was a week long and included two showcases that SunnySide was a part of: the WINGs Women's Day Steam Sale, and the WLG 3 day Women's Month showcase. We were able to launch a new trailer during this showcase, which you can find below!

You'll notice that this trailer also announced the SunnySide Demo that's now available on Steam! If you haven't played it yet, it's the first 10 days of the game, and gives you the ability to interact with most of the important mechanics in game! If you haven't checked it out yet, yooouuuuuu definitely should. ^_^

The demo ended up getting a lot of attention, and we were lucky enough to go a bit viral in Japan after a very kind article from AUTOMATON! 
https://x.com/AUTOMATONJapan/status/1766271849892286931?s=20

SunnySide also took a trip to GDC this year, where fans got the chance to play the demo and chat with our publisher, Merge. Here are some images from the event. 

Also, in case you missed it:

In February, we put out an announcement about Consoles. We confirmed that SunnySide would be coming to PlayStation and Xbox X | S later this year. Nintendo Switch is noticeably missing from this list, and we promised that we would be sending out an email about how anyone who pre-ordered on Switch could fix this order. 

This has taken some time to work out with the publisher (specially with everything else going on) and we wanted to assure everyone that we have not forgotten about you. Emails will definitely be going out in the next few days, and we'll post another update when they do. 

What's new?

We have been sharing some exciting things on Discord over the last couple days, so we wanted to make sure everyone here got to see that as well:

Firstly, SunnySide is now available for Pre-Order on PS5! Most everyone reading this update already has a digital copy of SunnySide coming their way, but if you're interested in a physical copy, you can start pre-ordering them on any trusted website now. This includes Amazon, GameStop, BestBuy, etc... and especially our Publisher's website
-> https://bit.ly/SS-PS5-SigEdGames

peep the new game art ;)

We've also shared these images on Discord:

Something exciting coming your way on April 11!! ^_^

We've also got another live stream on April 14! We'll be playing more SunnySide and answering questions, so come hang out with us if you're available! 

That's it for this update!

March has been far more exciting than what we've been able to share in this update, and there is a lot happening behind the scenes that we're SUPER excited to share soon. 

We'll keep updating here, on Discord, on Socials, on Steam, and anywhere else we can shout about SunnySide, but if you're ever curious about anything or have questions, please email us at [email protected]. Checking messages on Kickstarter is a bit more difficult, so any messages sent here may go unanswered much longer then if they're emailed. 

Thank you all again for your patience over the last year. I know we've said it before, but this time we can say it with confidence: We're nearly to the finish line. It's been a crazy ride, and you all know we couldn't have done it without you. 

Love you all!
-The RainyGames Team