Sandcastle Siege creator Aydın Polat explains how a three-person team turned a memory of a beach shooter into a toy-filled mobile defense game, rethinking its camera, bosses, artwork and ads.
Hidenori Kawamura, the developer behind KEEPYBOO, shares the thinking behind a ghost-themed logic puzzle where every board can be solved without guessing.
Adrien Friggeri shares how 20 years of origami inspired Orisuji, a folding-phone puzzle game he built in four weeks without ever holding an iPhone Duo.
Jim of Honest Little Apps shares the decisions behind RushOrb: Storm Atlas, from its three-state Weather Dial and 36 hand-built stages to speed, readability, and monetization.
Tony of LNDRS Studio shares the story of making Don’t Tap Red alone, from Android testing trouble and months away to releasing his first game on iPhone and Android.
After repeated setbacks on Roblox, Crazy Pilots creator Bohdan Verteletskyi shares how changing his approach led to a viral breakthrough.
Gustavo Galembeck of Flat Voxel explains why he spent years building A Simple Expurriment as a combat-free metroidvania, and what the journey taught him about playtesting, music, and his next projects.
PhD candidate Matteo Angeloni shares how an experiment with generative AI became NO AI ACT, an independent browser game about investigating the consequences of AI decisions.
Twenty years after his summer school experience in Cambridge, Konstantin Kosolapov explains how it inspired It Was That Summer, a visual novel about identity, memory, and young love.
Nicholas Jacob shares why he began building Luminids as a calm colony game where players can create a home, step inside it, and simply spend time somewhere kind.
Travis shares what it means to build software, game-development tools, and AI-assisted projects while living and working from a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder.
Solo developer Mert Eker shares what AI-assisted coding genuinely enabled while building Futbolle, and how the same workflow introduced failures that looked finished but were wrong.
Seonyeop Jang of Mongma Studio shares how player feedback reshaped boss rewards, progression, readability, and build choices in Revenant Survivors.
Aevryn Studios developer Ricardo Tavares Santos shares how removing ads from Aevryn Candy became more than a business decision and began shaping the game’s pacing, difficulty, scope, and identity.
Solo developer Colin Teberg shares why he built Iron Dice around shorter campaigns, readable systems, meaningful provinces, and the goal of letting grand strategy players reach the end.
