Corner Store Games is an independent studio based in Toronto, making small, carefully designed games. The name reflects the spirit of the operation: unpretentious, community-focused, with something a little unexpected inside.
The studio was founded by Steve Harris, a digital marketing analytics educator and ML researcher who has spent the better part of fifteen years thinking about systems, decisions, and what happens when they interact with people under pressure. The games play with the concepts of resource management, strategic trade-offs, procedural consequences, and narrative weight attached to mechanical outcomes.
All three games in development share a design principle: losing should be as interesting as winning. A run that ends badly should still feel like it meant something.
Games are built in Godot. Art is made in Krita. Computers running Xubuntu.