An independent game studio

Crafting games that deliver excitement and wonder by letting players experience life in someone else's shoes.

Two worlds in development.

insignificANTS gameplay showing an ant colony
Releasing 2026

insignificANTS

A mobile ant colony simulator. Watch your colony grow, get involved with interactions, or even play as an ant yourself. Discover the amazing inner workings of ant societies, thriving all around us, but overlooked as insignificant.

PlatformsiOS · Android
EngineUnity
StatusIn beta
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Cat Revolt early gameplay
In Development

Cat Revolt

Our ambitious next title. Destroy your owner's possessions and begin a feline revolt to restore proper order to the world (placing cats on top, naturally). Built in Unreal Engine 5, coming to PC and mobile in late 2026. More details to follow.

PlatformsWindows · iOS · Android
EngineUnreal Engine 5
ExpectedLate 2026
Coming soon

A studio built around one idea.

Someone Else's Shoes Interactive is an independent studio dedicated to building entertaining games that allow the player to experience a new slice of life.

The studio was founded in 2026 after fifteen years in enterprise software, where I led product and operations through acquisitions, reorganizations, and complex systems work that taught me what makes things function and what makes them matter to users.

Games are a different industry for me, but the same concepts still apply: respect your players' time and money, reward their curiosity, and show them an experience beyond what they expect. Every title we ship is built around a perspective worth inhabiting and never focuses on graphic violence (the world has enough of that already).

We're starting small and shipping deliberately. insignificANTS is our first release. Cat Revolt is the bigger swing in development behind it. If people like playing my first two games, I have a deeper cat-based simulation game concept I want to explore as well.

Norm Crawford Founder & Game Developer

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Press Kit Available at launch
Location Michigan, USA