Hi, I'm Eran Küçük.
I help indie studios launch on Steam. As Publishing Manager at GameDev.ist, I've worked on the marketing and launch of 13 indie games and counting. IndieDevTool is the toolset I build to make my own work easier on the games we work on, then share with other devs, and the things I kept wishing existed when we sit down to plan a launch.
How I got here
My path into games started in video arts; back then I hadn't met a spreadsheet yet. The first time the two clicked for me was when I shot a short film in Turkey for This War of Mine, 11 bit studios' game about civilians surviving a war. Bringing a game and video together like that moved the dev team, and it moved me too. That was the first turning point.
A few years later I chased that same feeling with Türk Oyun Sektörü (Turkish Gaming Industry), a documentary series I worked on as a joint project between SaveButonu and Disket Kutusu. Sitting down with studio after studio, the relationships I built there were what made me want to turn this into my actual job. My years in Turkish games press at SaveButonu gave me the other half: an ear for what lands and what doesn't.
Then came Hacked: The Streamer, an interactive FMV thriller I made with my own team, directed by Burak Özkan. After years on the marketing side, helping build and ship something of our own pulled both worlds together in a way that still feels right. These days I do that work at scale on the publishing side, and IndieDevTool is where I put the math and tools that come out of it.
Selected work
At GameDev.ist I work across the launch and marketing of our catalog. A few recent titles: Pawsome Resort, Anomaly Agent, Sodaman, Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith, and Inn Tycoon.
Today's Game
One indie game in the spotlight each day, the same one featured on the home page. Here's who's up right now.
Say hello
If you're an indie dev planning a launch, or you just want to compare notes on Steam, I'm easy to reach.
About AI usage at IndieDevTool
The parameters and calculations behind these tools are ones I believe in and stand behind personally. I built them into a website, rather than leaving them buried in spreadsheets, with the help of Claude. AI assists only on the software and translation side; the logic, the numbers, and the calls behind them are "human".
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