i have a new game for you!! codes have been sent out by email. (sorry about the mojibake - i tried to send a bandage emoji 🩹 but mail merge killed it...)
edit: sorry i did the thing where i forgot to make the game page public! it should w...
2023-04-21 02:19:26 +0000 UTC View Postthis is the look i'm going for with my next game! it's going to be very minimal assets 👀 i'm having fun playing around with small palettes again... i thought about going with 4 but just having one extra colour gives me a lot of space to play ar...
2023-04-15 13:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post
my game tiny wanderer's being shown at now play this in london right now & some friends who are exhibiting shared these photos with me! so i'm sharing them with you (: from what i hear people are having fun & i'm glad.
2023-04-11 04:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, it's april & that means i officially am only a freelance game dev/translator now with no other job...! your support on patreon helps me a lot with this, so thank you.
i spent this first week of joblessness just dealing with variou...
2023-04-07 00:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post
i made a tiny game for bitsy jam #71 fermentation!
become bread now: https://npckc.itch.io/you-are-dough
2023-04-01 11:05:19 +0000 UTC View Posthello! march postcards have been sent out to your email inboxes. the thanks page on my website has also been updated! https://npckc.site/#thanks
it's been a very busy month for me w...
2023-03-31 14:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
i ended up suddenly making a game for the latest bitsy jam so here it is...!
download codes have been sent out too. (you can play in browser but the download is the .bitsy source code if you want to look at the innards.)
i was feeling ...
2023-03-30 23:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
you can get it on
steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2319470/A_TAVERN_FOR_TEA/
i just sent out codes for A TAVERN FOR TEA itch & steam!!! you can play it right now on itch (look at the nice version code number 2.00 in the screenshot ☺️)
steam codes are also in the email BUT note that i don't think you can use t...
2023-03-21 07:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post
hello A HERO AND A GARDEN is now available on google play pass which means if you have google play pass you can play for free on your phone!!
it was like last week that i was told it'd be released in may but then a day later i was told it wo...
2023-03-21 03:12:03 +0000 UTC View Post
my little photography game, tiny wanderer, will be shown at now play this in london starting april 1!
https://twitter.com/nowplaythese/status/163...
2023-03-19 15:13:59 +0000 UTC View Postfor the first time ever, A TAVERN FOR TEA has a title theme!!
the game actually for the jam version only had one song, so the title screen was silent, but the steam version will have four songs in total (main theme, title theme, title theme ...
2023-03-17 08:23:00 +0000 UTC View Posti can't speak about it in detail yet but just wanted to let you all know...!
something is happening for a hero and a garden on android probably next week so if you don't have the game yet and were thinking about buying, it might be worth wai...
2023-03-16 04:33:00 +0000 UTC View Posttwitter has been kind of on fire for the past few months and while i still post updates there, i've been trying out other places too!
i've decided to use my neocities page more to post about general things not specific to my own games!...
2023-03-15 01:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
my side project douZINE issue 1 is out now!!! it's a zine anthology of five doujin/indie games from japan and they are all fantastic. i translated DON'T SAY YES into english just for the zine too.
i've been very lucky with my games & hav...
2023-03-10 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Posti drew a cover for douzine 1! here's the timelapse. all the games in #1 are reeeally cool so i can't wait for the bundle release 👀
2023-03-07 00:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! it's march, which is also my last month of working at my current job before going freelance/indie...! so it's very very busy with various things.
here's my plans for the month:
february postcards have been sent & the steam page for A TAVERN FOR TEA is out now!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2319470/A_TAVERN_FO...
2023-02-28 00:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
the game is coming along and translations are coming in...! still missing final text for some but everything should go ok for the launch of A TAVERN FOR TEA next month on steam with a total of 11 languages o:
as a note, right now my patreon ...
2023-02-24 23:44:37 +0000 UTC View Postpretty happy with how it turned out! going to make a jp version too if i have time...
now i have to work on getting the rest of the steam page ready - i think i should be ok on schedule to post the steam page at the beginning of march & ...
2023-02-22 06:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
doing a lot of the busy work (making graphics &c.) while also working on the actual game... i think i'm going to post the page as coming soon at the beginning of march! i haven't decided yet though - i want to have the actual game closer to be...
2023-02-16 08:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
so actually yesterday A YEAR OF SPRINGS was on tv (for like a very very short bit, maybe a minute).
the picture's a screenshot from the show!
the experience was actually pretty rough for me though so i don't think i would do it again. ...
2023-02-16 04:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post
working on a post-game tea mode! keen-eyed people might notice also that the visuals have been upgraded from 720p to 1080p... plus the background is a bit neater than before.
the epilogue is pretty much done being written so i just need to a...
2023-02-14 02:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post
i made games for global game jam last weekend! there are a bunch so i'm going to introduce them one by one.
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OKUTAMA STATION 3 (browser & windows .exe):
this one i wasn't actually planning on making but i ...
2023-02-07 11:46:48 +0000 UTC View Posti made some games for global game jam last weekend - here's a timelapse of art i made for one of them!!
mainly i actually was working on a board game with a team but in my extra time i made a very little point and click adventure, and that's...
2023-02-07 05:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! it's a new month so i have a new update for you.
i'm actually going to put the famires game i was working on on the backburner for a bit because i suddenly really wanted to go back to an old game...
so i'm going to be adding a v...
2023-02-03 00:53:13 +0000 UTC View Posthello it's the first postcard of 2023! please check your inboxes for the email postcard.
i actually drew it while stuck at an airport in the end of 2022 so that kind of seeped into the postcard idea. i'm hoping that i will have a less eventf...
2023-01-31 00:17:14 +0000 UTC View Postfamires date is still very much a work in progress (i'm not sure when i'll be finishing it yet either! right now the goal is end of february...?) but i wanted to share the demo of it with you!
this is an updated version of the demo i had at ...
2023-01-23 08:20:39 +0000 UTC View Post
i showed a demo of my new game famires date (plus an old demo of a pet shop after dark) at tokyo game dungeon this weekend! here's my event report.
i was actually very unprepared unfortunately since i was still finishing the gb game demo rig...
2023-01-19 12:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm still putting everything together but i think i should have my demo ready for sunday (for tokyo game dungeon the event i will be showing at)!
here's a screenshot of how it's looking so far - gb studio has changed a lot since i firs...
2023-01-12 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post