Airstrafe Interactive

Airstrafe Interactive is an independent game developer and self-publisher founded in 2019. The studio creates systems-heavy multiplayer games for PC, with an emphasis on player self-expression, dynamic simulation, and emergent sandbox play.

Its debut title, Saleblazers, is an open-world multiplayer shopkeeping survival action RPG. Players build and customize retail businesses while navigating a hazardous island setting with crafting, exploration, combat, dynamic AI customers, competing factions, and optional online PvP invasions. The project began as the working prototype Please Buy Something before developing into its current form.

Development focus

The studio's work combines several interconnected disciplines:

• Multiplayer networking and real-time synchronization
• Open-world survival systems and action-RPG combat
• Shopkeeping management and dynamic NPC economies
• 3D environment, prop, and character modelling
• Full-cycle PC game development and independent publishing

Airstrafe develops with the Unity Engine and C#, using networking architecture including Mirror to support client-server interactions and synchronized inventories. It self-publishes its work and continues to maintain Saleblazers through content expansions, Steam updates, and feedback from its player community.

Saleblazers entered Steam Early Access on September 29, 2023 and has received recognition including honours from the NYX Game Awards.