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Rap Life / Skate Life

A skate-and-music career game for young artists. You skate, travel, book shows, and sign contracts — and the real lesson is reading every line before you sign. Built around Skater Island, given a second life on our terms.

Concept: Kristen HallInspired by: the career of her brotherStatus: Playable prototype

Companion to: Whiteboard

Play career mode3D Skater IslandContract lessons

The premise

A screen kids actually grow on.

Real talk about what it takes to be a professional skater and have a working music career. You're skating, traveling, booking shows, making records, hiring a team, signing contracts, and managing money. Skating is the joy. The career mechanics are the school.

The world

Skater Island, on our terms.

The anchor location is Skater Island in Middletown, Rhode Island — the indoor park the Flynn, Hall, and O'Neil families opened in 1998. Rebuilt from family photos and photogrammetry. Not nostalgia bait. Home base.

Atlanta for recording sessions. Hollywood for showcases. Street mode between flights and meetings. The world is connected. Choices compound.

How it works

New here? Start in three steps.

  1. Open Career mode and skate Skater Island in 3D. Move with the arrow keys or the on-screen pad; tap a control to start.
  2. Travel and build the career — fly to Atlanta sessions and Hollywood showcases, book shows, and earn your status by what you make.
  3. Read every contract the game hands you. Sign or walk away. That choice is the whole point — and the Learn hub explains why.

Explore

Every part of the game.

Career

Play the full loop

3D career mode — skate, travel, book sessions, sign or walk on contracts.

Skate

Skater Island (2D)

Halfpipe, bowls, street, pirate ship — the family park.

3D

Free skate in 3D

Experimental park — arrows, ollies, boardslides.

Learn

Lyrics, contracts, Pro Tools

Write it yourself. Read every line before you sign.

Map

Skate spots nationwide

Community hotspots — drop pins, share photos.

Map

Studios people trust

Fair rooms, keep your files, no scary remake games.

Bright lines

What this game refuses to be.

  1. A skate sim with a rapper skin. Both careers are real.
  2. A nostalgia park with no stakes. Skater Island is home base.
  3. A morality lecture. The lesson lives in the contracts.
  4. Pay-to-win celebrity cameos. Status comes from what you build.

Skating is the joy. The career is the school. Skater Island gets a second life.

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