Draft:Rhinotales Gamedev Studio

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by David notMD (talk | contribs) 0 seconds ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

Rhinotales is an independent video game development studio founded in 2017 in Kazakhstan by Artyom Slessarenko, Daniil Kodubenko, and Dmitriy Savchenko.

Origin

The company headquarters is located in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The studio gained recognition for its debut title, She Sees Red, an interactive thriller that allowed players to influence the outcome of a cinematic story. Originally intended as a free demo, the project evolved into a minimal-budget commercial release during development. In just ten months, Rhinotales assembled a team of over 130 people across Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, the United States, and Russia, and released the game in 22 languages on multiple platforms.^[1]^[2]

Game development

Since 2019, Rhinotales has been developing Critical Shift, a turn-based tactical role-playing game (RPG) with science-mystic setting.

Rhinotales is actively involved in the development of Kazakhstan's gamedev ecosystem. In 2023, the studio represented Kazakhstanat the TechCrunch^[3] conference in the United States.

The team also serves as mentors at the Gamedev Center of Astana Hub, Kazakhstan's leading IT innovation HUB.

The studio is considered a pioneer^[4] in the regional interactive storytelling genre and was the first in the CIS region to release an interactive thriller.

Games

Year	Title	Platforms	Notes
2019	She Sees Red	PC, PlayStation, Xbox, iOS, Nintendo	Interactive thriller
2025 (TBA)	Critical Shift	PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X	Turn-based tactical RPG in science mystic setting

References

^ "Schlocky 'Night Trap' to absurdly fun 'Kimmy Schmidt': 8 defining interactive TV games". Los Angeles Times. 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
^ Walker, John (2019-08-02). "Buried treasure: Unearthing the hidden indie gems from beneath the sea of games". Polygon. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
^ "Казахстанские стартапы выставили в павильоне для инвесторов из Кремниевой долины". Forbes.kz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
^ "Кино и деньги. Как казахстанский бизнесмен инвестировал в съёмку триллера, где всё решает зритель". Forbes.kz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

External Links

Official Website
Social media: Instagram official, YouTube official, TikTok official, Facebook official https://www.facebook.com/rhinotales
Critical Shift Discord Server

[1] "Schlocky 'Night Trap' to absurdly fun 'Kimmy Schmidt': 8 defining interactive TV games". Los Angeles Times. 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

[2] Walker, John (2019-08-02). "Buried treasure: Unearthing the hidden indie gems from beneath the sea of games". Polygon. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

[3] "Казахстанские стартапы выставили в павильоне для инвесторов из Кремниевой долины". Forbes.kz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

[4] "Кино и деньги. Как казахстанский бизнесмен инвестировал в съёмку триллера, где всё решает зритель". Forbes.kz (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]