Joel has played independent games for the past seven years on several websites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine and more, and has written books on Undertale and P.T. over the past seven years. We explore the independent gaming market for what makes it really great: fresh, unusual and meaningful ideas and teams that can share our “quality first” approach. We feel this magic in Digital Sun Games and Dead Mage Studios, and it has been a pleasure to work with them from the very beginning. As developers, we started with small games like the Anomaly series, but our goal was to make a difference. We’re an independent gaming company specializing in developing and launching key games that can shape a widespread pop culture. Rufus Kubica from 11-bit studios told the editor’s profile this week about how to find the connection between the editor and the development team and how important it is to have an effective collaboration. We don’t want to take all the independent games with us and push them out. But most people probably know 11-bit studios, like the creators of The War of Mine, where you control a group of citizens trying to survive in a besieged city, and Frostpunk, a survival game for a society that plays in a frozen desert. Even the Councillor has created “his” own independent games unit! There are more and more people here, but we think we have a special place in this crowd. We demand it, but that’s because we select projects that we fully understand and that we can fully promote. Don’t believe all the legends of the city, which say that when working with 11-digit studios you should have a good command of drinks.