a little bit late but the soundtrack for 💌 a letter of challenge has been released! you can get it for free below.
https://sdhizumi.bandcamp.com/album/a-letter-of-challenge-original-soundtrack
2020-06-29 12:49:54 +0000 UTC View Post
the game i made for summer slow jams is out now on itch.io! play as a magical girl investigating a mysterious letter she received...
get it here on itch.io: https://npckc.itch.io/a-letter-of-challenge
2020-06-22 04:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
i finished it early (i was expecting to do this on monday...) so here is the art collection for a letter of challenge!
one problem (?) with the art collection is that a lot of the stuff i'm proud of in the game is actually the little animated bits, and i don't have a good way to show that off in still images... i hope you'll all appreciate the little animations in the game though! (they probably took the longest time for me to do so please look at them to make me happy, haha.)
... 2020-06-21 07:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
somehow i managed to finish this game in two weeks for summer slow jams so here is a letter of challenge, a little battle game (?) & visual novel where you play as a magical girl who receives a mysterious letter...
the game is pretty short but i've played around with a bunch of little animation stuff that i don't usually do so i think the look of it is very cool! i plan on releasing this publicly on monday afternoon to meet the jam deadline.
(version 0.9 as i'm still fixing up...
2020-06-21 01:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm still working on the summer slow jams game (having some trouble with where i want to take it though). here are some screenshots of what i did for the dialogue boxes! (the first two are gifs so they SHOULD be animated.)
screenshot 1 is how it looks now - variable sized windows, with dialogue boxes on left/right depending on who's talking. there's also a little animation for the dialogue windows when they appear, and the characters bob when they first start speaking.
screenshot ...
2020-06-16 00:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
some wip art for my summer slow jams game! the idea is that you're playing as the girl on the right. you're a magical girl and suddenly you get a LETTER OF CHALLENGE from another magical girl (in the middle, she doesn't have arms yet), so you have to BATTLE... on the right is a mascot character that i drew but it might not actually end up in the game... we'll see.
so far i've only been working on art, so i will need to step it up and put everything else together next week to make ...
2020-06-13 01:46:45 +0000 UTC View Postit's june, making it summer in the northern hemisphere & also pride month! happy pride to all of you.
i spent pretty much all of spring inside, but i hope you have all been doing ok. a lot of stuff has been happening recently all around the world, so please make sure to take care of yourself physically & mentally.
my plans for this month:
hello! i've sent out may postcards so they should be in your email - please let me know if they don't reach you.
as well, patreon is apparently changing the way they do sales tax starting july 1. this should not change how much you pay, but on your receipt, it might show sales tax, where it didn't before. whether there's sales tax/how much sales tax there is will depend on where you live, and not all pledges are taxable either, but this is just a heads up!
hoping you all had...
2020-05-31 13:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
update post to say that deskspace is out now for everyone! the screenshot is in japanese because i spent a lot more effort than usual making translations work... i had a lot of trouble making different languages store user input.
features:
- week-long mood log
- reminder timer
- daily task list
- break time for tea or coffee (or whatever helps you relax!)
i hope that this little app can accompany you when you're working at your computer and need a...
2020-05-12 12:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! i posted some screenshots before but the app is finally ready - here is deskspace, a small self-care app (:
it's a very simple app which lets you do the following:
this was a lesson in coding for me since it's still something i'm not very good at... i wanted to try to do things i'd never done before in my games & i think i was pretty success...
2020-05-09 04:46:36 +0000 UTC View Posthello! it's may (golden week here in japan but i'm just staying inside for the whole holiday). here are my plans for the month!
hello! i hope april treated you better than it did me 😅 april postcards have been sent out, so you should see them in your mailbox! please let me know if they don't reach you.
also, i've finished putting together the patron thanks page i mentioned before! ☕ coffee set patrons & above will have their names listed on this page: https://npckc.site/#thanks (you can also jump to it from 2020-04-30 09:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post
the tomato clinic original soundtrack is up on bandcamp now so i'm sharing the link here!
as well, i'm going to post links to soundtracks for other games since i realised i hadn't done that yet for some of my other games. they're all pwyw so please feel free to check them out!
SOUNDTRACK LINKS:
tomato clinic: https://sdhizumi.bandcamp.com/album/tomato-clinic-...
2020-04-13 12:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! TOMATO CLINIC is now released for everyone on pc and android!
it was my first time making a game with a customisable protagonist, so i hope you all enjoy it.
pc: https://npckc.itch.io/tomato-clinic
android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.npckc.tomato
2020-04-13 12:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! the game will be officially released tomorrow, but first... here is the TOMATO CLINIC art collection for you all 🍅
this time i have a lot of scrapped art that didn't make it into the game, so i hope at least that you will enjoy seeing it in the artbook... it took me a while to decide on the 'look' for this game so i had to redraw all the characters 😅
2020-04-12 08:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
my nanoreno game is READY for you so here is 🍅 TOMATO CLINIC! check out a vampire blood donation clinic.
i tried a lot of different new things in this game (a lot of time went into making the minigames) so i really hope you'll enjoy!
still working on the artbook but it will be ready for the official release which should be sometime next week! (this will depend on android - if google play passes my build earlier, i may release it earlier, but if it doesn't, i'l...
2020-04-07 10:30:15 +0000 UTC View Posthello,
first off: if you need to cancel/reduce your pledge, i completely understand. please take care of yourself first and foremost. i hope that my games can give you some respite in this difficult situation, & i'll see you all on the flip side once this is over.
i've decided to make a change to how i do tiers on patreon - this is something i've been thinking about since before, but the past couple of weeks have helped me make my decision.
w...
2020-04-05 10:35:07 +0000 UTC View Posthello, it's april 1 and march postcards have been sent out!
please let me know if you don't get it in your email.
i hope you have all been doing well since it's been a weird time lately.
2020-03-31 22:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
i wanted to try something a bit different for nanoreno so here's a little peek at the character screen from the beginning of the game.
i've never done a customisable main character before so i'm learning a lot (and it's also taking me a long time... going to have to do a lot of work to get this game ready for the end of the month 💦)
i like the way this screen turned out a lot though!
2020-03-11 13:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! it's been exactly one year since i started patreon - i remembered yesterday that i'd started patreon around the beginning of nanoreno last year, and lo & behold i'd started on the 3rd of march, 2019.
i thought i'd take this opportunity to thank everyone who's supported me so far on patreon, but also on ko-fi, twitter, itch.io, &c.
i'm always so happy to read comments from people who've played my games & i'm still constantly surprised but delighted kn...
2020-03-03 07:35:51 +0000 UTC View Posthello! it's march now so i have a new update for you. this is what i'm working on this month:
also, here's a little update just to show off the deskspace ui! (deskspace is the name i'm going with i think.)
pretty much all features are finalised now but music/sound effects are not in yet so i'm just waiting on those.
it's not going to be a game/story sort of thing - just a little app that you can play around with - but i really like the way it's turned out so far.
2020-02-29 02:32:12 +0000 UTC View Posthello! it's feb 29 (leap day!) so the february postcards have been sent out.
they should be in your email inboxes now but please let me know if you don't receive it!
2020-02-29 01:11:26 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm still working on my little app (i've tentatively changed the working name from 'plantgame' to 'deskgame') but i don't think i'll have it finished for the end of february... instead (?) i have some photos from sketches i haven't shared before though.
i finished a sketchbook recently-ish - i've never been big on drawing actually (as a kid i was much more into writing stories &c.) so making art for games still does not come naturally to me and it takes me a very long time... so i'm...
2020-02-27 12:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
this is the little thing i'm working on for february. i'm not sure 'game' is actually the right word for it, but it's what i'll call it for now!
what i want to check for this though is whether the two items on the left are easily identifiable...
what do you think the two items on the left look like? (i'm assuming the two items are the right are easily identifiable, but if they aren't feel free to tell me what you think they look like too.)
also, right now i'm going wit...
2020-02-11 11:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! this is what i'm going to be up to this february. the month is short but i have a lot of little things planned.
january postcards have been sent out a little early since i will be away this weekend. they should be arriving in your inboxes now!
please let me know if you don't receive it.
the first month of 2020 has been a bit rough for me so i'm hoping the rest of 2020 will go more smoothly - i'm excited to share the rest of it with all of you though!
2020-01-30 11:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
hello! the past few days i've actually been working on accessibility updates for A HERO AND A GARDEN.
this is something i've wanted to do much earlier, but unfortunately i didn't have the means to do it before. (i'm honestly not very good at programming and it's something i'm still working hard to learn more about.)
in the current game, you have to click the berries to collect them, and the multiple clicking is not very user-friendly, because the berries are small on the screen an...
2020-01-19 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
i've been thinking about the bushfires in australia and what i as an individual can do to help out more (besides donating - i donated through a link listed in this article), so i made these koala emojis. i don't know exactly what i want to do with them yet - maybe share the files with anybody who shows me a screensh...
2020-01-13 14:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post
i've released the print-and-play version of SCAREDY CAT DUNGEON! ✨
https://npckc.itch.io/scaredy-cat-dungeon
i've done so many iterations of this game to try to make it simple to teach/learn but also fun to play, and i'm really happy with the result.
i hope that you will all enjoy playing it as much as i enjoyed putting it together.
the physical game is also available here if y...
2020-01-09 10:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post