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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For Fix Stories, Fern Nigro shares the personal story behind Bring Me Hope, a solo adventure RPG that grew alongside the person making it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
