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: 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.
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Archor Games at 100 Steam releases: the meme era, the ARG clues, and a soundtrack collab
Fix Stories follows Archor Games’ milestone of 100 Steam releases, covering the solo developer’s meme-game reputation, kitbashing approach, long-running ARG clues, collaborations, and soundtrack work.
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Fix Stories: From hobby dev to full release — Droplet: States of Matter after seven years
Seven years in spare time — and the moment Droplet finally hit 1.0 This is part of Fix Stories — dev-authored journeys published on Fix Gaming Channel. For another long-form creator journey, read This May Be Anti-Inspirational. It Worked Anyway. Story My name is Karl “Krayfishkarl” Ast. I am a hobbyist solo developer, and I…
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Killing Momentum: Umbral Moon (Fix Stories) — The Feedback That Changed Everything
Fix Stories follows how blunt feedback pushed Killing Momentum: Umbral Moon through an ‘Oil revolution,’ replacing mismatched visuals with a more cohesive art direction while preserving its tactical core.
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Golel — A Tick-Based First-Person RPG Built Through Persistence and Hard Lessons
Fix Stories follows solo developer Ofer Rubinstein’s long path to Golel, a tick-based first-person RPG shaped by years of failed projects, hard lessons, persistence, and a stronger understanding of game design.
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Cubuleto: From a rough Unity prototype to a Steam PC launch (Fix Stories)
A Unity puzzle concept from a decade ago comes back stronger: Cubuleto’s rebuilt PC version adds a full in-game level editor, community sharing, and 250 handcrafted levels — straight from the developer in Fix Stories.
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Logistics in an accessible management game: a story of compromise.
This developer story looks at the compromises behind making logistics systems more accessible without stripping away the depth that makes management games satisfying.