How it all began…

It started on a November afternoon in 2021 when two friends — Bartosz Borusiewicz and Paweł Sobotkowski — met over a beer and decided to finally chase their long-standing dream of making games. With a blank page, a pen, and shared values , they laid the foundation for what would become Fornixa Games.

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Bartosz

CEO

With a background in IT, e-commerce, and gaming, he worked on product, marketing, and business strategy and management.
Now, he channels that experience into guiding the studio’s business growth and creative direction.

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Paweł

CMO

Experienced in IT, FinTech, and gaming, he has led marketing, analytics, and business growth across indie and tech sectors.
He now drives the studio’s visibility, strategic partnerships, and community growth.

What is Fornixa Games?

We’re an independent game studio and publisher. Our backgrounds span IT, product management, marketing, and content creation — experience we now bring into game development. Based on that we laid our core values, which are close collaboration with player communities and fellow developers, and product-first thinking.

We began by exploring casual mobile games but quickly realized our true passion lies in games we’d play ourselves. That’s when Zbyszek, a friend of ours, joined. He had in mind a promising turn-based RPG prototype, which became the basis for God Machines, our first major title.

Building the team with no budget

Fornixa is fully bootstrapped. We’re a team of over a dozen people, working part-time, treating our projects as a shared investment into products we believe in and a studio we want to build long-term. We operate with full transparency, shared ownership, and open communication — our entire business plan is visible to the team.

First steps into publishing

We fancy full creative control, so we chose to self-publish.

Along the way, we realized we could use our skills to help other indie teams. Utilizing our prior experience in marketing and the people we have on board, we made our first steps towards becoming an indie game publisher. This led to our first co-publishing collaboration — a free2play visual novel titled Aker Fern 2.
We’re actively expanding, with two more publishing deals already in the works and others in early-stage discussion.

Additional activities

We regularly attend industry events to learn and share our journey.

CD-Action Expo

Since 2024, we’ve been co-organizing CD-Action Expo — one of Poland’s biggest consumer gaming events — enlisting exhibitors, managing the gaming zone, and working closely with the legendary CD-Action, Poland’s iconic video game magazine and media portal.

This year’s Expo will take place on September 6-7 at the Atlas Arena in Łódź, Poland.
Recruitment for exhibitors is still ongoing.

Want to learn more?

Check out the event’s presentation and the application form below.
If you have any questions, we are at your disposal at: fornixa.games@gmail.com

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Quo Vadis, Fornixa?

We believe that project diversity is the key to our success — that’s why we’re working across three in-house projects simultaneously. We aim to release our first fully developed game in early 2026 while continuing to support and promote other indie titles. Our goal is to publish four games developed by other indie studios by the end of Q1 2027.

But what does Fornixa’s name stand for?

Fornix (“arch” in Latin) is a C-shaped bundle of nerve fibers inside the brain, a crucial tool for memory encoding. Our mission is to utilize the fornix by creating memorable experiences that people will love and never forget.