Hey Reader - Simon here 👋

Building a game alone sounds great in theory.

No meetings.
No dependencies.
No compromises.

Just you building exactly what you want.

But after working on Tiny Harvest for a while now, I realized:

It’s not just building a game.

It’s building everything around it.

🎥 New Video: How Hard Is It To Run a Mobile Game Alone?

In this week’s video I talk about what it’s actually like to run a mobile game solo.

Not just the fun parts - but everything that comes with it.

In this video I break down:

• the biggest challenges of doing everything alone
• what surprised me the most along the way
• and why I still think it’s worth it

👉 Watch the full video​

💭 A few thoughts this week

The hardest part about running a game (or any app) solo isn’t coding.

It’s context switching.

In a single day I find myself

• fixing bugs
• designing features
• answering player feedback
• thinking about monetization
• working on marketing

And every area matters.

You can’t really ignore one without it affecting everything else.

At the same time, there’s also something really powerful about it:

You get very fast feedback loops.

You try something → you see what happens → you adjust.

No waiting. No guessing.

Just building and learning.

🛠 What I’m building

While I'm waiting for Apple to review a new app version of Tiny Harvest, I'm actually working on new videos and a new personal website 👀

More on that soon...

But after some challenging weeks, I'm slowly making my way back into work & content - and I start to enjoy the process again!

That’s it for this week - back to building.

See you next week,
Simon