april update!

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 various boring but necessary government things like switching over my health insurance & pension... i'm still waiting on confirmation that all the paperwork is finished but i've done all i can on my end right now, so i can properly start my new dev life (:

to start it off, here's what i'll be doing this april.

• trying to make a small game with limitations called plastic tape (tentative) about bandaids (or well, the non brand name for whatever you call bandaids) from your mum - originally thought of submitting this for a jam but i think i'll just make it and put it up on itch! 
• updating all my android apps on google play because apparently there's some new data safety form i have to fill out & i may or may not have to update a bunch of apps to a newer target api, still need to read through the email from google properly... google play stuff is a pain 😢
• porting marron helps a friend from gb studio 1.0 to 3.0!! i want to update this game so i can make a .pocket version & also release it in japanese (right now it's only english) - i plan on showing this game at a small event in tokyo in may but for that i need to update it
• a postcard for you as usual!

i'm also kind of thinking about maybe doing some more physical game stuff... in the photo is an actual printed-on-tile version of the game i worked on in a team for ggj earlier in the year. i've been polishing the art for this (see the new smooth lines on the tiles here).

we're still discussing but we might make an actual physical version of this to sell!! if this happens i'll let you all know as soon as i have details.

i don't know how it's happened but so far i've been at a pace of releasing one game per month (or well, actually more!) - we'll see how this pace keeps up (: i may or may not be doing another game jam in may too with a friend.

anyway, that's my update for this month! thanks again for all your support though, seriously. it's still kind of unreal to me that i really quit my job & am doing this full-time... i'm really happy to be able to do this & it's thanks to you! hope you will continue to enjoy the games i make 💜