Pontus Rundqvist, Senior Brand Manager at Raw Fury, says indie publishers can be great if they know what their vision is, storefronts can do more for self-publishing indies and indie publishers, and has thoughts about a 'European' games industry. We interviewed him at Nordic Game 2026.
GamesMarket: Let me start out with a little anecdote: Kingdom, made by Thomas van den Berg and later published by Raw Fury, was one of the first games I reviewed professionally, long before I interviewed Raw Fury founder Gordon van Dyke at gamescom 2023 about Kingdom: Eighties (article in German). How much is that game series embedded into the Raw Fury DNA?
Rundqvist: Raw Fury was created to publish that game. It was a collaboration just for that in the beginning. Everything you see of Raw Fury today is built on the success of Kingdom.
You are a prolific Swedish publisher, so let tap your local knowledge: How is the current situation of indie game publishing in Northern Europe?
