Hey everyone,

I recently published my HTML5 web game on GamePix and have been keeping an eye on the dashboard. At first, the stats looked decent—it was getting plays, and the "estimated revenue" seemed promising.

However, when I looked at the actual payable amount, there is a huge difference. The final payout number is just a fraction of what the dashboard estimated.

Has anyone else published on GamePix and experienced this? Is it normal to see such a massive drop-off between estimated and actual earnings? I’m trying to figure out if this is due to invalid traffic deductions, low ad fill rates, hidden fees, or if their dashboard estimations are just completely off.

Also, what are the best alternative platforms for hosting and monetizing web games right now? I know the big ones are Poki and CrazyGames, but I’d love to hear your personal experiences on which platforms actually pay out fairly and are worth the effort.

Thanks in advance!

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There’s an unwritten rule in game development that your first game should be something small and simple, and for many very good reasons.

I decided to do the exact opposite.

After spending around seven months writing my book, **Horns**, I decided I wanted to turn that story into a game: a narrative-focused, cinematic RPG that carries the spirit of old-school RPGs while also embracing elements of modern ones.

I wanted to pour everything I had into one serious, large-scale open-world game, my imagination, around **35 years of gaming experience**, and **16 years of programming experience**.

At first, I also wanted to make absolutely everything by myself.

Eventually, I realized that if I wanted to maintain the level of quality I had in mind, I needed to bring a few talented people into the project. I'm simply not talented in every single field required to create a game of this scale.

I still kept the biggest part of the workload on myself: programming, animations, acting, body and facial performance, world design, gameplay, sound editing, cinematics, and many other parts of development.

But a few people have made significant contributions to areas such as voice acting, the game's soundtrack, and some of its visual and graphical details.

I also didn't want **Horns** to feel like “just another RPG.”

The core of the game is still a dark epic fantasy RPG, but I've mixed in elements inspired by several genres and games I grew up loving.

There are recognizable influences from **Souls-like games**, action games such as **Max Payne 1** and **Death Stranding**, and horror classics such as **Resident Evil 1** and **Silent Hill 1,** while keeping RPG systems, exploration, narrative, and character progression at the heart of the experience.

After almost **two full years of development**, Horns now has a playable demo on Steam.

The demo itself went through many different iterations before reaching the version I'm finally comfortable calling properly polished.

My goal now is to maintain that level of quality throughout the full game: a world that feels rich rather than empty, an engaging story, meaningful exploration, and around **25–30 hours of quality gameplay**.

I'm also trying to keep the final price very accessible, somewhere around **$10–15**.

For a project like this, every comment, piece of feedback, and bit of support genuinely helps, and wishlists are especially important for the game's visibility and future launch.

The demo is completely free, so if any of this sounds interesting to you, give it a try.

I hope you enjoy **Horns**.

And if you do, please consider wishlisting it on Steam.

**HORNS DEMO ON STEAM**

About a month in. This is the progress me and my team has made so far.

yo whats up, so i started working on my own remake of the chronicles of narnia prince caspian completely from scratch using ttgames assets but most of them are gonna get reworked along with a bunch of other changes, so the game wont look like somebody just converted a lego game into a narnia game or anything like that cuz im gonna redesign basically everything from the missions to how the whole game feels. plus theres a chance ill add new locations but no promises since im not like a professional or anything when it comes to game dev. but if you got any feedback about what doesnt work in the game or any bugs youve run into just drop them in the comments down below and ill definitely take them into consideration and try to fix them as much as i can. and if you check out the images here youll see the first two screenshots from the alpha test where i just started building out the controls and adding different characters, so yeah keep an eye out for updates thanks, ps foxel

https://preview.redd.it/4oy0f8w8akih1.png?width=1135&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc0292a59dfc9507b460d104d93fca0b3c8032a4

https://preview.redd.it/03pdj839akih1.png?width=1913&format=png&auto=webp&s=7bb7159b8181baa8130f1af0bf8d3e26065a91d7