Real Gaming Stories From Developers, Players, and Creators
Fix Stories is where developers, gamers, creators, modders, and gaming communities share the personal stories behind the screen. These are stories about games, lessons, setbacks, creative work, and the moments that usually never make it into a press release.
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Recent Stories
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Fix Stories: Hound Riders and the Fight to Stay Original
Morgan of Morganic Games shares the story behind Hound Riders, from a rapid Godot prototype and guerrilla demos on a Steam Deck to GameBCN, Gamescom, and the challenge of keeping its mechanics distinctive.
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Burned Out From Game Development, I Made Tiny Tape Store
Morras of Slakkedis Studio shares how burnout and childhood memories of VHS rental stores led him to create Tiny Tape Store, a cozy desktop companion built to quietly live alongside your work.
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Fix Stories: How I Turned Mobile Gaming Into a Growing Creator Career
Blood Strike creator MOVVS33 shares how experimenting with mobile gaming content, viral videos and community building helped turn a hobby into a growing creator career.
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Fix Stories: The Game Existed Before the Interface — How AI Helped Me Bring Hoop Dynasty to Life
Solo developer Giulio began building Hoop Dynasty: Rise of a Legend in 2014. In this Fix Stories feature, he explains how years of simulation work came before the interface, and how AI-assisted workflows now help accelerate UX, selected visuals and QA without replacing creative ownership.
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Fix Stories: Oops! You’re the Hero! and the Thief Who Never Wanted to Be One
Kit of Artificium Games explains how his own relationship with responsibility shaped the Thief in Oops! You’re the Hero! and one of the game’s hardest design decisions.
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This May Be Anti-Inspirational. It Worked Anyway.
After forty years of unfinished projects, Chris Reynolds found a way to ship Ominomicon: stop writing the code and move his obsession somewhere that could not delay the finish line.
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Fix Stories: The Day I Stopped Calling Work Rush Finished
Jaehoon Lee of Songi Store reflects on the moment he stopped treating “everything works” as the same thing as “the game is finished,” and how mobile design, pacing, interface clarity, and fair failure reshaped Work Rush after launch.
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Fix Stories: Where Spears & Spirits Came From
Go North Studio explains how a shamanic legend, seventeenth-century Siberia, and a tactical combat system built around Health and Spirit became the foundation of Spears & Spirits.
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Fix Stories: I Always Wanted to Run a Band, So I Built One
Solo developer Michal Kralovic shares how he spent a year of weekends building Road to Headliner, a completely free browser MMO about managing a band, and explains where AI helped and where the human work remained essential.
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Fix Stories: Bring Me Hope and the Game That Was Too Big for Years
For Fix Stories, Fern Nigro shares the personal story behind Bring Me Hope, a solo adventure RPG that grew alongside the person making it.
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Little Devil, Big Lessons: Michael Armstrong-Ingram on Indie Development and Not Giving Up
In this Fix Stories feature, Michael “MI Pixel” Armstrong-Ingram shares how health setbacks, missed marketing lessons, NHS work, and a free webcomic helped shape Little Devil into more than a single indie game.
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From Ghana to Google Play: The Solo Developer Story Behind Tenlands
Originally released as Skiptrace, Evans Kofi’s solo-developed Android platformer has been renamed Tenlands: Run, Jump, Survive after the former title became difficult to find through Google Play searches. His original Fix Stories account explains how he built and released the game alone in Ghana.
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Instant Estresso Fix Stories: Music, Coffee, and Solo Mobile Game Development
Redd Kaiman of Kaiman Isles LLC shares how Instant Estresso began as a lo-fi café soundtrack and became a solo-developed barista game for iOS and Android.
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Building HueFold in Kyiv: Finding Calm Through Color and Chaos
HueFold creator Maksym Skrypka reflects on building a color-mixing puzzle game in Kyiv during wartime, learning hard lessons from launch, and finding meaning in the quiet impact games can have on players.
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How Verice Bay Came to Life in Whirlight – No Time To Trip
Ciro Camera shares how Verice Bay grew from a visual concept into a city shaped by time, continuity, and worldbuilding in Whirlight – No Time To Trip.