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a pet shop after dark tacos collab ?!

so starting this saturday 6/8 up until the end of the month 6/30 a pet shop after dark will be doing a collab menu with Blaise Tacos in akihabara!!!!!!!!!!!!

you can order the collab menu to get cute hologram stickers!!

this is so cool to me because i can't believe i'm doing a collab with like a real food-serving place. for a bit of background the shop was looking for indie games to collab with so i dmed them & it happened very quickly! like i dmed them two weeks...

may postcard & thanks page

hello! it's the end of may & i have a new postcard for you - it has been sent to your inboxes!

the thanks page on my site has also been updated: https://npckc.net/#thanks

i do have a timelapse video but it's actually not of the postcard but of some fanart i made before i thought 'actually this would be a fun idea for this month's postcard'... i forgot that i'd already turned off timelapse before making the postc...

os ui with buttons

still some wip stuff but i am pretty happy with how this looks so far!

the idea is that it is more of an os for consoles than for pc (hence just buttons and stuff). now to actually make all the buttons work 👀

4koma i made for tokyo indies!

i made 2 4koma for the tokyo indies 10th anniversary & i thought i would share the time lapse here since i don't usually make comics! (you can see how i very quickly gave up on handwriting the whole thing hahaha)

i quite like the format so maybe i will try making more in the future. i always end up quite wordy in these (habit from making visual novels i guess... just want to write a lot of dialogue 😂) so i should practise getting more across from the art instead of text!

(t...

making a sliding puzzle in renpy

playing around with adding minigames & figured i could do it... so i made a sliding puzzle in renpy!

pretty happy with how it turned out so now i'm wondering if i could just make a game that's all sliding puzzles... you finish puzzles & unlock dialogue or something. stuff to think about!

(on this note the 'virtual' port i'm doing of pet shop is coming along very well... just have to make sure the v

tiny update for tavern + it will be on sale tomorrow!

i updated A TAVERN FOR TEA to add...

• apple silicon support for pc

• spanish translation fixes

• english translation fix (there was one typo... it had been there since the jam version five years ago... i only noticed now...)

(as well it will be on sale on steam starting 14:00 pacific time on may 9 which is in a few hours! glad my update made it in time 🍵)

also completely unrelated to that i have added a gif of erika...

may update + one year of full-time indie dev!

to celebrate one year of full-time indie dev (technically since the start of april but i was waiting for some data from gog before making this post), the monthly patreon update is viewable for everyone 💖

it's been a long year for me but i have survived & i can continue doing this full-time, with a big part of it due to everyone supporting me on patreon, so thank you! you can see the revenue split on the graph above, but patreon is 11.2% of my entire yearly income. (steam is just ...

april postcard & thanks page!

hello! april is at an end & so i have this month's postcard for you. i wanted to try something different so this is art drawn on a photo... i think i like this effect quite a bit so i might do it again!

the hungry pet is happy to eat ice cream & waffles 😋

the thanks page has also been updated! https://npckc.net/#thanks

thanks for your support this month 💖

working on something for pet shop

i was planning on doing more stuff on marron this month but i ended up working more on something for pet shop instead.

this is an in-progress gif! it's coming along very nicely.

no-context sketches

don't have more to say about this yet but here are some of the very rough idea sketches i have made recently for something i'm working on!

timelapse for ldjam game along with some unused dialogue!

here's a timelapse of the imp balls made for Butler! Summon the Imps!

also some dialogue didn't make it into the game completely since we ran out of time, so i'm sharing it here so you can take a look 👀

the tutorial file was incorporated more into the first scene + the in-game tutorial instead of as dialogue, while 4 is a level that didn't make it in time for the ldjam release.

Butler! Summon the Imps! out now for ludum dare!

made another game in 72 hours with pals for ludum dare and it's OUT NOW!!!

i think this every time but every time i mean it - this is our best one yet, so check it out!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/butler-summon-the-imps

april update

hello it is april! i am taking it easy for the first half of this month as i visit family (see attached travel photos!) and then i will be working mostly on...

• Marron's Day! i don't have a specific release date in mind but i want to get more of this game done so i can release it within the year 👀

• various translation updates for old games that i haven't got around to try 💦

• a postcard for you all as usual!

i want to focus especia...

you're just imagining it - release & post / 今後の活動について

updating to add that this game will now be coming to steam on november 6!! it'll be free on there as well with a bunch of new languages so please give it a wishlist!

【更新】11月6日にスチームでもリリースすることになりました！itchと同じく無料配信になります。
スチームリリースに向けて新しい翻訳も用意しているので、ウィッシュリスト登録をお願いします～

2024-03-31 02:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post

march postcard

march's postcard has been sent out!

for this month i used art that i drew for you're just imagining it but didn't end up using! the method i used to create the art from the scan & then tile the background is the same as i used for the game. (clip studio is very nice for this kind of thing!)

i plan on releasing the game publicly at the end of the month.

download: you're just imagining it - early access

here's my new game, you're just imagining it, in early access! download links have been sent out to your inboxes.

i plan on releasing the full game at the end of the month before the jam is over. i'm a bit nervous since this game is rather personal but i hope i can share my experiences with you through this game!

i'm going to make a public post about it with the full release too, but as a note, i plan on focussing a bit more on my bigger projects for the next while & going at...

onhs sound selection bandcamp codes

i wanted to add one night hot springs to my own bandcamp (personal) account so i could listen to it on the app, but you can only make codes in units of 100 apparently... so i have 99 extra codes for it now 💦 so i figured i'd share them with anybody who wants one!

the selection is already free and you can download the music files here: https://npckc.bandcamp.com/album/one-night-h...

wip menu ui

working on the menu for my nanoreno game!! happy with how it's coming together so far (the background is temporary - just a sprite i didn't resize properly yet)

scan of art for nanoreno

for the game i'm working on this month i'm doing art by hand and instead of doing it digitally - here's a scan! i'm not sure how i want to implement it in game exactly yet (cleaning up lineart digitally or just kind of cutting it and leaving it as-is for a more scrapbook look?) but i'm leaning towards a more scrappy look for now.

march update!

hello it is now march so here is my march update! my hand is still recovering so things are going slowly. (check out my handwritten notes for 2/29 in the photo!)

this is what i'm planning on for this month:

• tiny game for nanoreno! since i don't want to strain my hand too much i'm going to see if i can do sketches by hand for first bit of the month and then put them together in a small visual novel for nanoreno after (giving my hand more time to rest before doing all the codi...
  2024-03-01 03:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post

2/29 is out now!

i made a game in one day especially for 2/29! you can only play on 2/29 so play now!!! (well you can play on other days too but it will not be as good haha.)

i've wanted to do an irasutoya-only game for a while and since my right hand has been hurt for the past couple of weeks (thumb's been numb and general nerve pain) i figured now would be a good time to try (: 

play this very short & silly game here → http...

download: 2/29 - early access

this is going to be a very short early access because i need to release this game today, but i made a game in one day for february 29 because i wanted to make something!

note that if you start playing the game (i.e., press GO) before it is february 29 in your time zone you won't be able to get the good ending since it's only available on feb 29

download codes have been sent to your emails!!!

the public release will probably be in a couple of hours...! (also i'm going to make...

february postcard & thanks page & also some news!

hello! i just sent out the postcard for this month so it should be in your inboxes now (: there's no timelapse because it's hand-drawn.

it's hand-drawn because i injured my hand earlier this month (i'm typing this one-handed because my right hand feels shooting nerve pain whenever i try to type haha), and long story short when i went to get my hand checked i ended up going to a different specialist clinic who diagnosed me with a genetic disorder which is the reason behind my easily inju...

lunar new year phone wallpaper

新年快樂🐲恭喜發財🐲龍馬精神 

happy lunar new year! ✨

wishing you good health & fortune in the year of the dragon 🐉 

here is a red pocket for you 🧧 with a phone wallpaper you can download from this post!

A TAVERN FOR TEA on google play pass!

as per title!! A TAVERN FOR TEA is now available on google play pass which means you can play it all for free with your google play pass subscription if you have it. (also the main story is free as usual on google play.) check it out!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.npckc.tavern

february update!

hello! it's february and it's cold...... (lots of snow today where i am which is unusual!) 

here is what i am up to this month 👀

• releasing A TAVERN FOR TEA for google play pass - this should happen later this week! google doesn't actually say like... the exact day it comes out....... just 'the week of' so it will be out when it's out
• updating a pet shop after dark translations. some typos & other errors apparently so i'm going to get these done!
2024-02-05 07:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post

january postcard & thanks page!

january postcards have been sent out to your inbox! 

i forgot to set up the timelapse in aseprite while i was making the postcard base so the timelapse is only from clipstudio which is where i overlayed the text 💦 you do get to see me use the new font i bought which i really like! this postcard was just an excuse to show it off, really. i've been wanting to use more different fonts lately for flavour in stuff even if i don't use it in my games themselves (like on posters & t...

marron's day demo is out now!

the demo for marron's day has been released for the storyteller's festival on steam! (also it has secretly also been released on itch in browser version if you want to play on web hehe)

the steam release supports windows, linux, and mac (but only intel........ for some reason i can't seem to get it working with apple silicon even though i feel like it should work through rosetta? but when a friend tried to test it for me on their m1 mac it couldn't boot from steam at all.......)

t...

download: marron's day demo - early access

i have prepared a story+minigame demo for marron's day and you get to play it first!

this will be released publicly for the storyteller's festival on the 29th on steam in an emulator but that emulator is still in progress... windows works but mac & linux have been causing issues... hoping this can be fixed by the festival first day 💦 we will see...

for now though i have a browser-playable demo for you as well as a rom you can download for playing on your gameboy or emulator...

january update

happy 2024! i hope the new year is doing you well. here's what i'll be working on this month!

• marron's day!!! this is my main project until it's finished. i just got the windows emulator working through steam so next i'm going to try mac & linux...! i really want to support all three platforms since that's what i've been doing up until now, but it's a bit more annoying with mac & linux so it's taking me some time
• exhibiting at tokyo game dungeon on 1/20-21!!! i'll...
  2024-01-09 09:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post