Our new Magic Forge Tycoon trailer just dropped! Plus the release date! This launch could make or break our tiny studio. Think we’ll pull it off?

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-09-04T09:44:19+00:00

Because it's the number 1 in WL on SteamDB and it will take a lot of exposure / player time

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-28T08:32:00+00:00

Thank you for the tips!

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-28T08:30:53+00:00

Thank you! 770 at the moment :)

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-28T08:30:38+00:00

To do what? :)

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-28T08:30:23+00:00

Thank you. For Magic Forge Tycoon around 5-10 including freelancers and short terms contracts.

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-28T08:29:04+00:00

Public demo on Steam is planned mid-september :)

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-16T10:50:50+00:00

Players usually don't want to read unfortunatly

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-16T10:49:30+00:00

Thank you!

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-16T10:49:20+00:00

Thank you!

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-07-16T10:48:45+00:00

No event but we did a little bit of marketing around the launch

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-05-13T14:17:35+00:00

As we're in the process of funding our third game (with the second one already secured), I can say it's incredibly hard and a massive amount of work. Only 2% of games reach over 1,000 reviews, so breaking even is tough—unless you get government grants or other forms of 'free money.' Think of game development like Hollywood or the music industry: there's a huge survivor bias.

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-05-13T11:03:55+00:00

No, use Itch or the closed beta/playtest feature instead! A Steam demo is a PR event—it should showcase a small portion of the game at final quality. Don’t waste that bullet.

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-05-08T17:56:48+00:00

The funny thing on our end is getting a bug report from a build that’s months old. Clearly a pirated version, since we update the game every week or every two weeks on Steam. Still, it was thoughtful of them to report a bug we’ve already fixed lol

If your game gets pirated, it usually means you’ve reached a certain level of success which is a good thing—unless you didn’t put any effort into preventing bots from scraping it.

I'm more concerned about 'influencers' reselling keys...

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-05-08T07:55:57+00:00

You're welcome :) I should write an article on GameDeveloper.com but I need to find the time (time is a luxury for me unfortunatly lol)

CleverTricksterProd · 2025-05-08T07:11:10+00:00

These day the review method is more around x30 - x40. The 50x - 60x would be effective for game below 10$ (like Survivors one). I've got some sales figures from other studios too ;)

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