How Space Drilling Station’s logistics system evolved with players in mind Moving resources in a management game is very important. Depending on the target and the desired experience, several possibilities arise. At the beginning of the design process, the game was very small. We had to manage about twenty employees and moved resources by ordering…
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Creating Tiny Worlds – A Q&A with Outside the Blocks Developer Michał Kubas Outside the Blocks is the work of solo developer Michał Kubas, who has been quietly building a detailed medieval diorama sandbox where every wall, rooftop, and tiny prop can be placed, tweaked, and lit just so. After featuring the game as our…
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How an Indie Gained 650,000 Wishlists in 10 Months Consistency, social media content, and showcase momentum helped drive consumer interest, with the game “over the Hill” reaching 650,000 wishlists. In a market where thousands of new games fight for visibility every year, hitting 650,000 Steam wishlists in just ten months sounds almost unreal. Yet that’s…
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Part 2 of our playtest series is up—this time for devs. Clear goals, the right slice of your game, and feedback you can use.
Space Revolver — rotating-map Sokoban puzzles from MKstudio (Gamescom mini-interview) We caught up with developer Shin Min-gi (신민기) of MKstudio at Gamescom to talk Space Revolver — a Sokoban-inspired puzzle adventure where you rotate the entire map, flip gravity, and solve clever ice/laser/switch/portal challenges. Answers below are presented exactly as spoken. Teaser Rumble may require…
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What mock reviews are, what you get, and when indie devs should use them.
Hands-on at gamescom asia × Thailand Game Show 2025 (Bangkok): ‘RAD — Repeat After Death’ turns your past runs into your worst enemy Fix Gaming Channel spoke with Derric about RAD — Repeat After Death, a 2D action-roguelike where your previous runs return as hostile echoes that mirror your moves. A free demo is live…
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New on Steam: ‘Scenes from the Heart – Part 1’ is a character-first Visual Novel about friendship, improv, and making a VN Finnish solo developer Zamius has released Scenes from the Heart – Part 1 on Steam. It’s a grounded, two-ending Visual Novel that focuses on connection, creativity, and the small frictions of building something…
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A floor chat with Facepunch on Rust’s monthly cadence and the road to s&box Fix Gaming Channel sat down with Grant Smith (Chief Business Officer) and Ash Cook (Marketing Manager) of Facepunch Studios at Gamescom Asia × Thailand Game Show (QSNCC, Bangkok) to talk about Rust’s monthly updates, the evolving roadmap for s&box, and why…
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Mist Survival entered Steam Early Access on August 15, 2018. By October 2, 2025, the survival sandbox had spent more than seven years in Early Access, while version 1.0 still had no confirmed release date. Here’s the status of the game at the time and what the developer had said about completing it.
Indie PR that works: combine streamers and press. Timing, targeting, press kits, and outreach so your game isn’t drowned out by today’s release volume.
New Steam devlog focuses on core loop, infection spread, dungeons, and breakable gear Blight: Survival, the medieval-set PvE survival game developed by Haenir Studio and published by Behaviour Interactive, recently revealed the latest insights into development with its newest devlog on Steam. Since its dramatic and much-talked-about debut back in November 2022, Blight: Survival made…
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Some days this feels like 10 years. Other days, 10 days. Here’s the truth. When I started Fix Gaming Channel, I told myself I’d post honest updates about what it really takes to run an indie outlet. I’ve kept that up—inside FGC circles and out in public. Still, most of the work sits underwater: writing,…
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Co-op sci-fi heist FPS with a techno-thriller twist from 10 Chambers Truth be told, there just aren’t enough decent heist games, or at least not enough decent ones where ‘tooling up’ with your friends in co-op to pull off a daring raid on someone’s hard-earned wealth is concerned. It wasn’t until the Payday trilogy of…
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Retro-futuristic noir adventure invites players to help shape its branching narrative and design before release MEDIA ALERT — September 8, 2025 — Indie developer Tetrarchy Studios is inviting playtesters for Mandated Fate, a story-driven, retro-sci-fi adventure set in an alternate 1985 under a technocratic empire. Join the Mandated Fate playtest and immerse yourself in the…
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